All right, thank you guys so much for being here. That's very special. We got the big room. This is such a perfect day to, to delve deep into such topic right? It's raining outside, more internal and, and talking about emotional emotional energies really, really nice to do it today. So who's excited about learning?

Easy ways to get more calm, more relaxed, more healthy, more vital. Yes. Okay, awesome. So welcome to transform emotional like a master or we call it ci Gong for emotional transformation or emotional imbalance. And what we're going to do is we're going to look at this. Well, first of all, let me introduce myself, who've been to my classes before or who actually who hasn't been Raise your hand if you haven't never been to my class.

Okay, awesome. So I teach regularly classes here in the JCC. So I really invite you to join one of the classes, this is where it really where the tire meets the road, so to speak. And I've been practicing, I've been teaching now for over eight years and studying for about the same amount of time before that. And I've been teaching workshops probably taught thousands of classes by now and when I'm here on stage, I still feel talking about emotion, anxious, afraid, or, you know, nervousness and also excited. So, so knowing you're, we're going to talk about how to work, emotions are not going to go away.

They're always coming into us and housing our body. So we're going to kind of talk about how, how, what, how to deal with it and how to dissolve it. So I've got came into this practice through my own personal healing. And it was I was very kind of was surprised to see how how processing emotions, how my way of processing emotions was part of my physical healing. Because, you know, I tell I have a lot of students I tell a lot of students Hey, come to this workshop, and they told me Well, I have this pain here. I don't I emotions are fine, I'm fine.

I'm feeling good. But I might my my stuff is more physical. So it's all connected. And so I did really putting this workshop together. I didn't know how many people would come because a lot of us kind of tend to not put a lot of attention into it, maybe some do. But this is very powerful topic.

And I always wanted to teach it and this is the first workshop I'm doing teaching emotions in kind of like Qigong and traditional Chinese medicine. So Let's see what we gonna do today. So who never felt emotional distress? Never just want to make sure that everybody's human here. So so we look at it look at emotions from different lenses from modern science from traditional Chinese medicine she gone and maybe some radical psychology we're going to share some key principles in what we call energy, emotional energy transformation in Chica. We're going to learn to cheap energy mapping, energy mapping of different emotions and the Qigong practices to transform it.

And I'll talk a little bit about to conquer there's a lot of people that are new to it, right who's never heard about or never practiced Qigong or don't know much about it. Okay, so we're gonna explain a little bit Okay, good. And we're going to explore how sound vibration and transform all the past rooted emotional traumas and blockages in the body. And then we're going to also if we have time we're going to discover how to out to elicit the future you want using emotions emotional energy. That's cool. Isn't it?

Awesome. All right, so so if we are ready let's close the door behind us if we can close the door behind. Yeah. All right. So let's let's talk a little bit about you know, actually before we're going to talk about this before we're going to talk about this let's do a little practice. So everybody process emotion differently and everybody has inclination to different emotional distress.

You know, some feeling more angry going into anger, some people feeling more depressed and caved in some people have all kinds of difficulties with emotional just stress and I everybody has their own way of, of how we deal with emotional distress. And what is the challenges, right? Yes, everybody has their own. Everybody's a unique person and we deal with it differently. And it affects us differently. So what I wanted to do is there's just a little partner practice, if you can grab somebody close to like a partner, you can get a partner and then let's, let's everybody, raise your hand if you don't have a partner.

Or if you Okay, find your find. Everybody has a partner. Everybody has a partner. Okay? Who doesn't have a partner, okay. Ryan, Mason.

All right, and choose an A and a B, who's gonna be a raise your hand. Hey, raise your hand who's in a A will go first. So if you don't want to go first you have to be be. Okay, B Raise your hand. All right. So a You have one minute to tell B what, and be as truthful as you as you can.

What? During an emotional distress, what is it that is your challenge? What's your challenges during emotional distress? and really try to feel it. You don't have to feel it, but just talk about like, What do you know? But if you can feel it and get into it, that'd be better.

Sounds good. And one minute. And for the guys that are watching us live, do it with a notepad and just write to yourself. What What is, what is your challenge is when you experience an emotional distress, so if you're watching us at home, just sit down and do a duck duck. All right, and let's switch it back to a And a tell B, where or how would you like to process these emotions or how do you want to be in six months from now? Like how would you see yourself graduating from this stressful reaction and how would you like to see yourself six months from now?

All right 30 seconds 30 seconds 30 seconds All right, so let's let's get the attention back into the room. All right. So if we if we look so so just for this workshop, I want you to also kind of open yourself up to receive new information and some information will be maybe you know it already but just come come to it with a kind of have an open mind and a clear view and you know, if any of you wants to go little deeper into these practices that we're gonna explore together. We can talk a little bit before the break how we can do that. If you look at the dictionary, emotional distress is, this is how it's, it's being defined, it's a body reaction to receive threat threat for situation. So it's, it's, so I just marked the body it's a body reaction.

So it happens in your body and it's a perceived threat. So it's a perception. So stress is a perception. So what triggers me doesn't have to trigger another person, right? So I can see something is very trigger while another person is not. So it's a it's a perception.

It's how we see things based on our past experience. Or, you know, who knows there's a lot there's, there's a lot to the there's a lot of mystery right in the human and how we build and how we process things. So, so it's but but it It is a perception. And if we look at what happens to the body when we feeling and we're feeling emotional distress, and this goes for anything from anxiety, to depression, to fear, trauma, overwhelm all these all these different categories. It's pretty much in Chinese medicine, we'll talk about it later, it's being seen all of these emotions is inflammation, inflammation in the body, but we'll talk about it later. But for now, just wanted to go over what happens in the body.

So the breath pattern changes, this is the first thing that happens, and you get less oxygen whenever we you RNs, an emotional distress situation, blood pressure increases. Yeah, the hormone balance changes in the body. So there's a little release of cortisol and that shuts down the immune system a little bit. So there's a temporary shutdown of your immune system. There's certain muscle tension in different parts of the body. There's less enzyme being released from the pancreas to digest food, not interesting and and also the ability to extract nutrients out of Food is lowered so there's less enzyme and the small intestine doesn't work as efficiently.

Additionally, also the brain function changes. So we go in kind of into a survival mode. Yeah, so the creative brain or the social brain is, is not light up so much. And we know that from research, but it goes back into the kind of fight or flight response to the root of the brain. So that that's kind of like what happened in the body. And there's a lot of research on stress and on emotional tension on depression.

Depression is a big topic now. It's very hot topic and anxiety and all these all these different emotions. And if you look at chronic chronic emotional distress, you're looking at vascular cardiovascular disease, you're looking at insomnia, you're looking at sexual dysfunction, you're looking at weight gain, muscle loss, premature aging, you're looking dementia. So there's a list of a list of diseases associated with it. So it's a big topic. And one of the most the research that kind of caught my eye the most was they did a research on people that just fall in love.

And what they found out that people that fall in love have an increase in their immune system by 20 to 30%. And people that suffer from depression has a lower immune immune function by 20 and 30%. So, so So we know that it takes a big toll on our body. Yes. So and what interesting is that in western medicine, we really the way you feel emotionally doesn't reflect on your physicality. So if you cannot see thing under a microscope, it doesn't exist, you know, you cannot open the body and take out the anger.

So we have kind of a separation of of what we Body and Mind, right? So if you go, you can go to the doctor, if you're getting calls all the time of flus, he's not gonna ask you, Hey, how are you doing? So there's, you have the psychologists and you have the doctor and they don't talk to each other, really. So there's a separation in western medicine. And so all these things, all these resources become very interesting to the Western medical community, because there is a separation between body and mind. And of course, that there's like medicine for depression and all that.

And it's not to say that I'm not saying that it shouldn't be used it all. But this workshop is like, how can we get in charge over our own mind and body and how we can work with our own system to improve it. And not to rely on drugs? That's a lot of the prescription drugs have side effects, right. And some of them are, you know, take this depression medication, it'll make you depressed or insomnia, right? So there's, there's a lot of so we just kind of have to think about that before we do something like that.

So and I wanted to introduce the idea of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine, been around for thousands of years and we what we talk about it's a, it's a different paradigm. So the paradigm in Chinese medicine is that everything influences everything is being seen as in relationship to another. So your mind is not separate from your emotional body and from your energy body from your physical physical strength, physical energy, so everything has we say there's a two way traffic between the way we think the way we feel emotionally and and our our energy levels. Yeah. So if you have and, and also there's the idea.

There's the idea of the what we called in Western culture we called the good and the bad In Chinese medicine, you talk about Yin and Yang, as opposed to, there's a good emotion and bad emotion and a fight. You know, there's always this idea of the cultural idea of like a fight between the good and the bad and who's gonna win. Well, here we're talking about harmony between Yin and Yang. So we're not here in Chinese medicine, we're not really talking about hey, let's kill the cancer cell. It's like how can we find balance? It's not allopathic.

We're not trying to kill the bacteria the bacteria is always in your body, but what can we do to have it in back in check? So health is being seen as a state of balance. Yeah, everybody has cancer cell into your body all the time, right? When it's getting out of balance, the system's getting out of balance. So a state of health in Chinese medicine is seen as, as as a state of balance and and for for understanding the flow between Our perception we said that stress is a perception, our perceptions, our emotions and our physical body is really where, how we work in Qigong, which is the formal practice of the Taoist philosophy. This is the most famous symbol in the world and this is a Taoist symbol of the ying and yang of a state of harmony.

Also state of infinity and a state of movement. Yeah, so they represent movement, infinity and transformation into each other. So, so if you think about it, if we look at this, like our physical, our physical body is nourished by what food right What else? Water, he said, Love. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, air, breaths, right breath, movement and movements.

Very important. When you're sitting all day yeah you sit all day on the flight 12 hours do you Where do you go out to refreshed now but you sit all day rest. So our body designed to move some movement. So physical, physical nourishing the physical body would nourish these two energy center. So movement breath, good food. Yeah, good water source, good environment.

This is how we nourish the lower dunk tn we call it the lor Alexia reservoir, which is connecting to the your, your physical body. So you can think about, Hey, I didn't sleep good enough tonight. And then I had an argument with my spouse or something, and then somebody cuts you off the road and you're getting so pissed, right? So if you don't have enough energy, you don't have enough energy, you know what I mean? So there's the energy level and so we always have to be full of energy. So when this when this depletes When your energy level when you didn't breathe good when you didn't do a lot of movement or in eat well you know that will reflect on this reservoir is not charged enough and you're going to be more triggered right?

So I'm just wanna just kind of share with you then the kind of the philosophy of how things transform each other things that are physical can feel good like a like a good meal, right so you have a good food and emotionally you feel good. Or what else what another example for physical something physical that feels good. sex, sex right. What else working out? Yeah, he gone class, right. I didn't hear that.

A good Gong session. Oh, yeah, exactly. That would make you feel good and make you more be clear your mind. Yeah, you're gonna start having better you know, better, better thoughts. So, so we can nourish each one of these. So these, this, this, this is a little bit just a little tip of the, what we call the three treasures in Chinese medicine.

And I just wanted to share with you because it's it's very important for for how to how to fill your tank all the time because it's very important. So the how we fill the tank in this reservoir is good relationship. So this is movement, breath, good food, good air, and good water. And this is good, good communication with people who have relationship and this good perception. Yeah, we can fill up this reservoir by what? meditation is very good to clear the mind.

Yeah, very good. Meditation is very good or positive thinking, right? We have our kind of habitual pattern how we always go to the negative and there's a reason for that. Yeah, we kind of build on our service. Our survival instincts from ancestor to always focus on what's what can kill us. So we putting it gives like a full say a sense of safety basically.

So, so good positive or changing our perception can be very beneficial. So really this is how we how we kind of so and there's okay let's go into this this is this transform into each other so we say this is ice matter, physical matter, water, just emotions. Emotions are formless energy we say emotional like a wind blowing through a tree. Yeah your tree being the body. So it's not you don't know where it is exactly right change your hormones and your blood pressure. It's not in one place.

It's just kind of all over. And so emotions we see it as ci as energy moving to the body. This is why the, the practice of Qigong is so good. Being more sensitive to energy, you can transform And shift your energy to so this is the same kind of language we talked about you going we can explore it together so so this is water and then water into vapor so we have the all the ice turns into water water vapor and then one vapor turns back into ice like good good thoughts or perception that he's good can bring it back to the body and since like if you tend if you if you have a physical perception or a thought that is you know and we all get very caught up and in our or not caught up, I guess I could say, attached to what we believe in our thoughts and belief to how we feel and to our physical body and to physical pain.

We have a lot either liking it or version from it. thoughts and beliefs can be like a political party, right? If our political party want When we're going to be depressed, yeah, so this, these are all affecting, and the more we attach to our thoughts and beliefs, our emotional feeling in the physical, we're going to experience it more. Yeah. So, so this is kind of very important to understand. If you think about emotional distress, it's really what happens is that the body we say that the body and the emotions are constantly communicated with your Shen, with your spirit, with your consciousness.

Yeah, so that we are constantly being so what is the consciousness is kind of like a big topic of your soul, your spirit, your thoughts, your beliefs. Yes. So if you feel triggered, and this has all these reaction we talked about, that feeds on to the brain and the brain kind of goes in, in circles. And in a very fast kind of thought process that is very on a lower level. bration so to speak so, so it feels like being in a in a room closed down, right? It's It's so the question comes to, it's almost like emotional stress feel like you're in a room cramped with a bunch of people you don't like.

Right? So so the question comes is how can we make space between who we are and what we experiencing? This is really what the question is how can we make more space? Yeah, cuz pays feel good. Your space feels really good. This is when you're feeling happy when you're feeling open, feeling spacious.

And this can go and into the brain and creative thoughts comes from spaciousness. So we're looking at how can we how can we make more space between who we are and the emotion that's that wind that's come in and shift us and this is gonna be the work. This is gonna be the work we're gonna do. There's emotional Pain in the past like sad and anger, there's emotional pain in the future like worry, fear, anxiety. There's no emotional pain in the present moment we say in Eastern philosophy, the present moment is if you really in the present moment there's when we experiences bliss is being present. Our emotional state in the present is always projected from either the future or the past.

That makes sense. It's always built on on either past or future. So, so talking about being and younger, just just a little further, what we're going to say is that there's no bad guys and good guys, there's no bad emotions, nothing is bad, nothing is bad in a bad emotion. And the key for transformation, in that sense, is to lean into the emotions and we can talk about because emotion seen in traditional Chinese medicine as like food, so you digest emotion calm like you digest food, so that nutritious, the nutrients you get out of the food and then there's thing that needs to go to the ground right? Yes or no? So when you soak up the energy from the food, there's the nutrient and there's the thing that you don't need Yeah.

So So are when you learn from emotional experience Yeah, you it transform. So learning is transforming so there's no bad emotions. It's it's really bad emotion or negative emotion or really a good context for what is for what's good. Yeah, we want to know how is it to feel good if we don't feel bad. So then the reason in Chinese medicine was the reason of emotion, either positive or negative, is to experience life more fully. Like to engage in life more and, and transform.

It comes from leaning into it, experiencing it and getting the nutrients and releasing the waste. so to speak, and we're going to see and so do you want to know how to do it? Yes. All right. So we gave a little bit of hint here. But let's, let's, I created a whole template for it.

And a lot of more handouts. So who wants to get the hand up? Yes. All right. So, so we'll give you the handle and we go over it together, and we're going to start practice. Sounds good.

All right. Yes, so the idea is that there's nothing there's nothing wrong with bad emotions with negative emotion and we're going to learn how to transform it. And this stuff works. I'll tell you more about it when we get to transform emotion like a master. Yes. All right.

So let's, I'm just gonna read the first paragraph, and we're gonna talk a little bit about so Let's read the first paragraph emotion are like music and of life and your body, the instrument in which they play, they play. So different emotions are like different songs being played. Like songs, they have a beginning, middle, and an end. Yeah. And that's very, very important to understand. that emotion exists in in time but not in space.

Emotion exists in time and not in space. The purpose of emotion is to integrate you more fully into life. Emotions impact the whole body and the mind in a very substantial way. Yet they are elusive and intangible like wind blowing through a tree. The key to transform an emotion is to lean into them with Kind attention and by creating space between who we are. So we talked about our intention and what we experiencing.

So the first step I wrote down is, is to go to the body and not to the mind. So that's a very simple Point. Because, you know, I have one story about this. So, if we try to grasp emotions from a cerebral place, it's it's very problematic, right? You know, if you're trying to figure out depression or anxiety, you know, like you go to your past or what can you access with your conscious mind is very limited. You know, I have a story about this.

We're not really aware fully of our of our emotional energy A lot of times, right. I recently, just six months ago, I worked with a person that had a anxiety attacks. Yeah. And he said, I don't know where it comes from. Yeah, it's a nice, pretty cheerful person. So and he'd been in therapy for two years and it couldn't figure it out.

And so we started giving him some of the, you know, prescribe some of these practices we're gonna do together later. And things. I mean, currently, he's not experiencing them anymore. I don't know, it's still kind of early, it was six months ago, but But what I'm trying to say is that we, when we try to think about things, we don't really grasp it a lot of time from a cerebral place, or we don't know how to deal with it. But what we can do is start with the body, release the energy from the body that all these all this stuff that we experiencing. So the first thing is to go into the body.

And the first thing is to feel it. So let's, let's just go over this template. So feel it tuned into your body, your breath, your posture, where in the body you you feel it, where's it acumen? Where's the energy accumulating happening, and where is the muscle tension come with curiosity and openness. So this is very important to start being embodied. Now this is very important because this is how you also not take other people energy.

So a lot of times we take other people anger, right? Yes or no? I don't know if you know, but a lot of time it's not yours. Energy and he asked us is my energy? Oh no, I took it from somewhere. So the way to not take other people energy is always to be in contact with your body with how you feel the energy and also for you to.

And then if you look at the color photo here, the first one that says the inner alchemy of the five organs cycles and emotional distribution, you'll see that every emotion has a certain ci distribution so that the energy goes in a certain way. For instance, the lung, which are housing, sadness and depression and grief. The ci is sinking. Yeah. So if you think about it, people that are depressed, how do they stand? Yeah, with the sunken chest, the energy went out of the chest out of the lung.

And you don't see people depressing like this like, right. So and there's a heaviness for the CI. So every Oregon houses a different energy. We're going to go over it quickly. But But what we say and she goes tune into the energy, how it manifests in your body, and then shift it. Yeah.

So if you think about the emotion, like a wind going through a tree through a tree, that depression is changing your physical body, a physical posture, a physical breath to match that, that when that goes through, so first you want to feel that energy inside of you and how it feels in order to shift it. Does that make sense? Yes. Then the breath, if you look at the charts of the different emotions, yeah, every every emotion has a different breath pattern. So so the lungs, yeah, if we talk about the depression or sadness, it's a depletion of the CI. And if you think about the lung and what is it is an organ of what?

Yeah, elimination. Yeah, that's mostly what The lung and the large intestine, the team organs is about elimination, the lung eliminates 70% of the body toxins 70%. So if you don't breathe good enough, or in a stressful situation, you basically build up toxins in your body. So the lung is the first step. The breath is the first step. To release emotional tension.

We talked about what is the best way to breathe through release emotional tension. But the lung yeah is the sinking of the lung. We have a problem with exhalation. So sadness is problem exhaling. Right? Why is that?

Yeah, you don't want to let go. You holding on to the past and you don't want to let go. So if you think about people that are crying, right and grasping the air doesn't want to let go, right. So it's, it's a it's the exhale is compromised. So the first purple depression is exhale all the way Yeah. So there's different we're not going to go we're going to kind of teach in this workshop, the kind of like the basics, there's a little bit more.

You know, when I do one on one, we're going a little deeper into into an energy and we've shifted, but this is a little bit of a synopsis of all the energy if you look at anger, which is the opposite, is the problem is to inhale is the problem, right? Because what if people get angry? What do we say? Hey, take a deep breath. Right? Take a deep breath.

Why we don't want to exhale? What do we don't want to inhale? Because we want our and our opinion to stick? Yeah, so we don't want to take when you inhale, what do you do? You take in other people that you take energy. So you have to understand and she Gong and chambers, how do we see the breath?

Yeah, you take air in. You take energy, and you take other people opinion. And if you're angry, you don't want to do that. Right. Right. Yes or no?

Yes. So you, you you, you don't want to take an inhale so the inhale is compromised so you exhale exhale. And how do you look like very stiff right? We say the liver is related to the anger and then stiffness could deliver governs the tendons and ligaments so being stiff physically and emotionally is the energy of access liver ci so if you look now at the circle here the this five colors is how the energy transforming to each other how anger transform how things yeah that we have two different cycles we're not going to go too deeply on this because it's not I want to move into some practice. But basically from this from this chart from this circles how energy transforming to each other, and what energy control each other. We can change our emotional energy to Yes, we have the liver is the green and we have the kidney which is the blue.

Yeah, so the kidney is fear. Or inner peace? Yeah, there's the negative and positive emotion of each organ. And then we have the perspective and kindness and anger these two emotions of the liver. So they they harmonize each other Yeah, they circle so so if you go across the board across from the liver, you see the lungs Yeah. So the lung control that's the controlling cycle the lung control the anger.

So we say breath can control anger, right. And then you can see depression is the lung. What is the controlling organ? control organ is the heart Love. Yes. self love.

Yeah, we said depression is pain emotional pain directed into self Yeah, so a lot of depression is about self low self worth. Yeah, so it's it's the love self love will heal depression that make sense? A little bit. Yes. So we can just just to emotion we're going to go through it. But But this This is how we kind of treat.

Basically, let's go back into the transfer motion like a master template. And then let's see the breath is the second one. So first feel it. And then the second one is breathing. And and then there's some. There's some, you know, so we're talking about what is the best, best way to breathe.

Yeah, and we're talking about the best way to breathe is to get more first more oxygen and a very calm breath. So long, deep breath. Deep breath into the lower abdomen. If you think of the lower abdomen is the farthest place from where to breathe into from your head. Right? Yes or no?

So, and if you breathe through here, this is anxiety. Right? Short breath here. This area so strong here you feel so much emotional. So breathing into the lower abdomen, would take tension out of the muscles of the shoulders and neck. Yeah, and bring and massage to internal organs.

And if you think about the lungs, the bottom boundary of the lung, what is it? The diaphragm, right? The diaphragm is the place where you want to increase lung capacity. So ci Gong practitioners there's we have practices to increase lung capacity. And most of it is working with a diaphragm. Yeah, because the diaphragm you can really, really get much more oxygen.

So training this muscle training this muscle, the diaphragm can really get your alarm oxygen, and we go into you know, I went into training where you do it for a while until subconsciously, your mind always go there. So you feel much better. I can tell you when I started after this breathing techniques that I studied, I didn't get cold so much. Yes. So because you're always nourishing your ci we say you're nourishing your energy and deep breaths into the lower abdomen. Breath between inhalation and exhalation.

And this is we do right at this time of stressful situation, we start nourishing our body, we start nourishing here. So you get because we get less oxygen, all this stuff, high blood pressure, we want to start nourish, nourishing this and take the energy down from the brain from the heart. And the last thing you want to do when you are in a stressful situation and emotional distress is to think to make a reason out of it, right? Because what we say is just the fight or flight it's the monkey brain. It's not it's not a high quality thoughts right now. So you really don't want it this way.

We starting with a body. We don't want to go into the brain we actually just want to nourish the body. We just want to get out of the we don't want the emotion to take root in the body this all this so we want to lower and then the last one is that makes sense to everybody that Okay, and then the last one is what we call the inner smile, and then the inner smile Powerful practice in Dallas is central practicing Qi Gong. And there's a lot of research on on smile on smiling actually. And there's a lot in then I looked up more just before the workshop to see which one there's a lot of. So what happened when you smile, a genuine smile has a strong effect on your physiology.

First of all, lower blood pressure lower down. That's the first thing when you smile, this ad muscles that in the face when you have a genuine smile, lower blood pressure, and endorphin release. There's some research that says that a smile a genuine smile equivalent to 200 chocolate bars. I don't know how they found out or they discovered it but but smiling is is like a very best method and then smile direct into self is really powerful. They did one study about the relation between the smile And life expectancy. Yeah, it was published in the Time magazine about 10 years ago.

And they took baseball cards, these from the 50s. And they check who in the picture were smiling a genuine smile and who did not. And they found and they did it for not only that they did for high school for all kinds of pictures, they took pictures. And they saw that people that were genuine smiling, their photo lived eight years more, eight years more. So if you want to know the secret for longevity All right. So so the inner smile is a very powerful meditation and practice.

And that's what we do in a stressful situation it for me, this is the most transform. This is the strongest practice of ever practice myself is the inner smile and we were going to practice it together. So we're going to go over these into practice. Now I say later in the day, incorporate the healing sounds we're gonna do it after the break and, and and do the acupressure, acupressure very, very powerful too. And then let's go just briefly into the mind. So, again, we access the mind over after the heat of the emotion went down.

Some people if it's not too triggering, you can still access and ask yourself these questions. This is very powerful. So one if, if it's an emotion projected from the past, like sadness or anger, ask yourself what is the good intention behind a negative emotion? So we say every negative emotion has a good intention behind it. So what you want to do is to connect into that good intention and amplify it. And if it's a emotion projected into the future, like anxiety, fear.

Ask the four question of Byron, Katie, everybody knows Byron Katie and her work the work. Yeah, beautiful work. And this is this is great. This is you know, because we're projecting there's another story, a Dallas story I'll tell you about, about about worry and anxiety. But the first question is, is it true? what I'm thinking because what is worry?

We say war is like praying for the things you don't want to happen. Yeah, worrying is like praying for the for the for the future. You don't want to see because we have we afraid from some outcome? Yeah, and we keep thinking about it. And you feeding that energy, right. So this is going into how to change your future.

And the power of manifestation is a whole practicing Qigong. But basically, you ask these four questions, Is this true? Can I absolutely know it is true, and how do you react and what happened? If you believe that thoughts, and would you be, well, who would you be without that thought? Yes. So remember the story of the farmer and the horse?

Okay, I'll tell you the story of the farmer and the horse who knows that story. Now, okay, so, so a farmer in China very poor farmer saved. Oops, I think my good. A year of saving, yeah, it's a very, doesn't do a lot of money and then you buy a horse to help him with a farm so he can produce more. So he bought the horse and everybody in the village Oh my god, congratulations, you got a horse Your life is gonna be so much better now. You can put more products out of the market do more money.

And he said, Maybe yes, maybe no. And then the next day and next day he bought it the horse ran away. Everybody Oh man, you're so unlucky what happens the horses gone now you're gonna miserable. What are all your savings are gone? And he's like Maybe yes, maybe not. And then a day after the horse came back with two wild horses, and everybody's in the village Oh my god, this is an amazing outcome.

Now you have three horses gonna work out the farm, you're gonna be so rich. And he said Maybe yes, maybe not. And then the next morning the sun was trying to you know, train one of the wild horses and he fell off the horse and broke his leg. And then Oh, man, look what happened to your son. Oh, he's so sorry. Who's gonna work up your farm?

You are old and you don't have any strength left. It's It's such a bad break. So unfortunate. And then he said Maybe yes, maybe not. Next morning, the Chinese army drafted all the young people into the war. And they couldn't draft the son because he hasn't broken leg.

And that people can Oh my God, you're so lucky. You're your son didn't have to go to the war. And he says, Maybe yes, maybe. Anyway, the story continues. But what seems to be like a, like a grim future turned out to be a good future. And we really don't know the outcome.

And there's a Yeah, there's a this one lady, I think she wrote the book, dying to be me. I don't know, who knows, knows Anita. And she's always talking about this always. The outcome is always positive, the outcome would be always positive. And if it's not positive, you haven't reached the end yet. This is very, very and she talking from her own experience of near death experience.

So so this is the story of the farmer, the horse that I tell myself whenever things go bad and and when Never worry or things that are negative coming to the mind and and how you could, you could change it to so. So this is kind of like how to work with with our conscious mind. not make sense with our, with change the perception. Maybe not good at the heat of the moment, but a little bit after can really transform the emotion. So let's do some work with that sounds good. And then we'll do some movements to and I'll show you some different methods in Qigong and movements, you're going to release different emotions.

So let's take a partner if you want the same partner, that's fine. If you want another partner, choose another partner and choose an A and a B. And yes, I'm gonna partner. Okay, who's a? Alright, who's B is your head. All right.

Now, we want to work with this for a second. So what else wants you to do is to really talk about a time when you're emotionally distressed, how it feels in you, I want you to get into the emotion. So again, we release it afterwards. You can try it in the real world after but we'll try all these techniques right here. So just just gonna tell your partner choose a story that you really kind of could be sad or anxious, whatever emotion, whatever story you think is very vivid in you and and maybe anger or how have you felt and tell it to the other person. Now the other person to be but I want you to do is to check in with your body the entire time he talks to you.

So you are always in your body. And you're not projecting on you're not saying yes or no you're not kind of empathize but you just more listening and feeling your body and seeing how it feels in your body. And this is a good practice of how not to take other people energy. Yeah. So just feel your body as long as you can maintain that focus and Then he's gonna tell you his story and the heat of that story. All right, let's take one minute and do it.

Go ahead. I'll tell you. Alright, so Time's up. Let's both close our eyes. A and B. Just Just going to come to a close and close your eyes and feel your body, both A and B.

Just feel how you feel in your body. And where See if you can feel where's the emotion resides in the body. Is it more on the heart center? Is it more? How's your breath? Is there tension?

And we notice if you got any of it or how's your body feels? Just kind of a quick self inventory. And notice where the energy accumulates, does it accumulate in the brain and the hips? Where does it accumulate? Where does the accumulation of tea happens? How do you feel in your body?

So we're closing our eyes, everybody. Yeah, and just notice So both A and B. And after you feel it, let's breathe a little deeper. So let's take it. Let's just notice where your breath is first before you actually take a breath, it's a little deeper. Just notice where your breath is.

And what we're gonna do, just gonna acknowledge where the breath is. And then on the exhale, exhale a little further from the mouth this time and on the inhale, go all the way to the lower abdomen and lift up your chest a little bit. And then the exhale, just relax the chest and exit from the mouth. and cultivate a little longer breath and inhale and start with the lower abdomen. And at the top it just gonna push up the chest up and rise up and just Stand a little taller. Exhale all the way out.

And now when you inhale, inflate the belly, inflate the ribcage, and then the chest. Really make a pressure from the inside. And then as you exhale, soften the shoulders lead the whole body relaxed to the ground into the earth. And now feel the earth beneath you feel the legs field. So as you inhale, we know from the nose, we inflate the lower abdomen, then inflate the ribcage in the chest. And then when we exhale, we sink down slowly and feel the earth and release your energy into the Earth, cold grounding.

So we ground the energy. And as you when you exhale, you know, remember where you felt the energy accumulate is it in the chest or the brain. When you inhale this wave breathing, inhale, you can inhale all the way to the brain up, chest and then brain. And then exhale, release the energy from the brain, down to the chest, down to the ribcage, lower abdomen and all the way to the earth and compost it. Compost the garbage of that negativity into the earth. So now we are connecting with what we call the earth energy, which is the energy of Yeah, we compost into the earth.

So inhale, lift the energy from the earth, of the chest of the brain, and then exhale, and release from the brain, chest, legs, and literally release that energy. Not wind, we said the blowing into a tree and inhale a new wind. Inhale, the wind of love from the earth. And an exhale back down and release and kind of set up your mind to clear that energy and not thinking about it. And we're not wanting to engage with the thinking process, but just work with the energy. Just work with the energy, emotions and energy and we deal with it as energy.

Now remember where Yes, so you in her love you inhale, bring pull in love from the earth up your sit bones and then exhale, clear that she just you just connecting with the body. There's no thinking about the story that you just told. And that's been Very important in it in a time of stressful situation to go into the body. And now what we're gonna do, we're gonna do the inner smile. So think about where in the body you felt that energy. That stressful response.

Was it in the chest was it in the heart was in the brain. And now just have a it's almost like the corner of the eyes kind of lift a little bit. It's almost like a little smile. Maybe the corner of the mouth. It's almost like you sitting. Just imagine yourself sitting in front of beautiful sunset, and the sun is shining radiant on your face.

And there's the smiling energy from the sun that penetrates your face and kind of lifts it's almost like a facelift. Yeah, and then direct that sun light energy, the love energy into this area that you feel congested in You felt congested and you sending compassion and inner smile. Now the inner smile can be done. Regardless, no matter what you feeling, you can feel angry or sad or whatever it is, you can always connect with this internal goodness inside of you. And the smiling energy. So it's like you smiling to the area.

And you visualize in that area, almost like a kid has like a kid crying and you What do you say with a kid crying, sending love. So you look and you send a love and you attend the child. So whether it's the heart, or the lung, or the hips, or wherever it is. And you just feel your love into this child and you literally smile to the child. I can no intimates good smile. And as you breathe into it, you breathe into this child and exhale from the mouth.

If there if you feel any more negativity resides there into the earth, so composted and we absorb the nutrient of love. And we compost, let down. Let the energy and negativity goes down to the ground. Sometimes it really helps to also open your peripheral vision to the sky above you to the earth to the horizon. And as you inhale, you inhale the love of the universe, because the loving of yours love, it's kind of like from the sunset we talked, we inhale that love from all around us. You open the peripheral vision, that physical space that you feeling is also giving you emotional space or mental space.

We talked about emotional stress being in a small box. And here we are opening ourselves into mount Tam or the forest or whatever it is, and breathe in the energy of this amazing power, the amazing power of the ocean, the amazing power of a redwood forest, into your body and all the love that it has in it and exhale that energy to the earth. And after that, let's let's think what is the what was in that story of yours? What was the good intention behind that negative emotion? What was your good intention? connect to that good intention.

Behind every negative emotion, there is good intention and feel it connect with that good intention and amplified in your body. Why did you want to do? What was your good intention? Yeah. And we can also ask, what have we learned from that experience? Nice.

So let's open the eyes. Can anybody give an example of bad intent, bad emotion negative emotion and good intention yes yeah. So what So, your good intention? So, your good intention feeling left out right is that right or or not feeling loved. So, let me let me thank you, thank you. So, let me just reflect if I may, yes.

So, so the so the good intention would be wanting to belong to a group of people that use celebrate Christmas in a very our sorry, thanksgiving right, in a very inclusive way. Being connected feel connected to each other feeling loved loving it, right. But, but the idea of connecting with the good intention is like You ask yourself, what what is my intention that is not being met? What my intention what what my desire that is not being met right now. And then and then it could be a close group of friends that and that, that I would that I would feel embrace with in and feel connected to, so that could drive into an action. You know what I mean?

That could be like, Hey, I'm going to create my own family, you know, I mean, that's what I did here in the US coming here from Israel. You know, I was like, I came from a really big family loving family, you know, this hugging, sometimes they hug you too much. So, but, but how can I How can I establish here, like this is how, so this question really kind of propels you into an action and when it propels into an action But then it transformed because a lot of emotions have and depression and anger goes side by side too, by the way, and and in Chinese medicine but but also you can think about Yeah, it goes it goes together. And there's a lot of energy behind negative emotions and and how do we take it that energy and transform it is like, Oh, this is this is not being met.

I'm gonna make something to do to me to have it met. You know what I mean? Yeah, these questions are just are just designed to kind of build that transformation build an action that that is taking the energy of the of the emotion and to see okay, well, where can I go from here? I think emotions are great grounds for spiritual growth and development. I mean, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing. I i've did a career out of it out of this lesson, right.

I had a lot of pain. I have suffered for years. You know, I was An architect before and, and she Gong, I mean, this is why all of us are here, right that she Gong is it came from a bad experience that it was not pleasant and emotion that was, you know, it's about. So growth growth comes from a lot of times it's a growth come from challenges, right? We transform through challenges, if we can take the lessons and make the transformation. If we can, if we can get the energy from that emotion and see how we can kind of transform it basically.

And as a lot of growth comes from from more than the positive, right? There's more nutrient in the negative to like transform us into the positive. And these are some of this question that that that goes in that direction. That makes sense. Yes or no? Okay.

I just want to understand okay.