Are You Too Busy?

I got a letter from Marvin this morning. He told
me he is far too busy with work, family and social
obligations to practice Qi Gong, to take a
leisurely walk on the beach, or to go to the gym.
Marvin isn’t alone. Most people these days are
stressed, overworked and not in the best moods.
Now their health is failing, and conventional
medicine is pumping them up with pills to try to
keep the workhorse afloat. However, it’s not doing
the trick. He asked me if I had a solution that
wouldn’t interfere with his busy schedule. Here’s
what I wrote in a blog a few years ago and I sent
it along to him.

“We work and save our money and, eventually,
invest it to get a return on it. We want our money
to work for us, not always having to work for our
money. If we are wise, the investments we make
will give us a nice income, and we can live on the
interest and never touch the principal. Our
investment can actually take care of our needs,
pay our bills, and even give us financial security
for years to come. Maybe, you’re a business person
and invest in real estate, stocks or bonds to
insure your financial freedom. This is what we
strive for, our financial freedom. But, when it
comes to your health, you may forget to invest,
and you end up spending the principal. When that’s
gone, so are you. Are you investing in your own
health? Do you watch what you eat? Do you
exercise? What about your headspace? Are you
putting positive energy into your health bank? The
investment you make in your health will keep on
paying you interest for years. But if you spend
the principal, you will age faster than a Jack
Rabbit. Maybe, you never put too much attention
into your health when you were younger, or you
thought you were doing everything right. It turned
out that your exercise of running, weight-lifting,
and sports turned out to cause more harm than
good. Now, you are getting problems like back pain
and shoulder pain, shin splints, joint problems or
even worse.

Last week, a patient stopped by my office. He is a
healthy guy in his early fifties. I have known him
for years and he only eats organic foods. He runs
three to six miles a few times a week, swims a few
miles a week, and likes to go to the gym and throw
weights around a few times a week. If you saw him,
you would say that he is as fit as a fiddle. He
looked a little worried when I saw him. He wasn’t
his usual self. He told me that his heart was
giving him some difficulty. Although he hasn’t
felt anything different and the tests came back
negative, there was something wrong as his heart
skipped a beat now and then, and it seemed to be
getting worse. I told him I’d come over to his
house this weekend, and talk to him and his wife
about the program I have been doing for the last
35 years. I showed up around noon and told him
about the internal exercises that I do daily. They
work on keeping your organs healthy. I explained
that when we do the common Western exercises, we
can build muscle and create a lot of internal
heat. Too much heat can cause an imbalance in the
Fire and Water elements which are your heart and
kidneys, respectively. They also put excessive
strain on our joints. The internal exercises are
an expression of the art of self -healing. This
means that these exercises will revitalize the
organs and keep them healthy. Don’t think that you
are bulletproof and won’t get hit by some illness
sooner or later. But, by doing the internal
exercises like the Flying Crane Qi Gong
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you can protect your health and well-being. If you
don’t practice, you are training yourself to fail.
But if you are training, you are training yourself
to be the best that you can be.”