It’s the 4th of July and it’s going to be hot and
steamy. If there is a water hole around there are
going to be crowded trying to stay cool. This
year the holiday falls on a Wednesday messing up
the long weekend, at least it will break things up
for a bit. If your lucky you maybe able to take
off the entire week and relax. But not me I’ll be
at the office Thursday and Friday.
Holiday or not I spend my early morning hours
training on the beach or building Qi in my own
back yard. The morning is the best time to train,
around 6:30; it’s still cool and a great time to
gather Qi. I miss the crowds, as there are only a
handful of people who get up to see daybreak.
That’s when I like to start my day. Daybreak
“Daybreak,’ he said, looking out at it. ‘I always
thought it was funny that dawn should be called
daybreak. This is when the day is made – it’s the
beginning. It’s the best part: you’ve got all the
potential of the day to come, and you haven’t
wasted yet. When it gets dark, that should be
daybreak. When the day is broken. When it turns
into night time, that’s when it all start’s to go
wrong.” ― Erin Kelly
I’ll get up around 5:00 AM and start off with a
hot cup of tea and sit and meditate everything is
still at that time. The birds haven’t even woken
up yet. There is usually a cool breeze in the
morning in the low 70s until and around 8:00, then
the thermometer steadily goes up to the high 80s
or low 90s, and the humidity seems to stay around
90% all summer.
The two best times to train are just before
daybreak and around sunset, the beginning of the
day and the end when there is less noise and air
pollution. Most people are still sleeping and
there is very little traffic. This is the best
time to do your Shen Gong practice (meditation).
As the day opens up, I do more Qi Gong and
internal power exercises. I find that the Yin Set
is a great way to begin the day no matter if you
are in the woods, on a mountain, in the desert or
by the sea. The Yin set cools and cleans all the
organs and works alchemically to transform
negative emotions to power positive energy. Check
it out at
http://rechargingqigong.com/yin-set.html.
I wish you a very happy 4th of July and a great
summer!
Dr. Wu Dhi
