Today's topic is about the history and benefits of traditions practiced at the Dragon Boat Festival.  It is a popular holiday celebrated by most Chinese all over the world to honor a minister named Qu Yu in Chinese history for his patriotism.  On this holiday, Chinese people eat Zongzi (sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves), eggs, drink realgar wine,  hang mugwort leaves and calamus leaves on the doors of houses,  and wear herbal sachets with mugwort leaves, calamus leaves, and realgar as bug repellents.  Modern Chinese simply practice these traditions on this holiday without knowing the healing benefits behind these traditions. In today's episode,  I'd like to share the history and benefits of these traditions. So we could apply these during the summer season to improve our quality of life during the hot and humid summer season. If you like my podcast, please subscribe. There will be a new episode released every Wednesday. If you have any  questions or recommendations, please contact  me via my website: www.benevolentacupuncture.com 

According to  Chinese Medicine, At different times of the day, energy and blood circulate to different organs in our body. To optimize energy and blood circulation and overall well-being, ideally, we should live our lives in accordance with our body clock. In today's podcast, I will go over what happens in our bodies at different times during the day. If you like my podcast, please subscript and share it with your friends and loved ones. If you have any questions or any interesting topics, please contact me via my website:www.benevolentacupuncture.comWish you all safe, healthy, and happy! 

How do self-care in the summer according to Chinese Medicine? In Chinese Medicine, it is highly recommended to live in accordance with nature.  So it is important to understand the nature of the summer season. Have you asked yourself what is the energy characteristics of a summer season? HOT, HEAT!! It is true heat is the first thing that comes to our mind.  However, many of us actually live in an air conditioning environment rather than enjoying this summer heat. We are actually living against nature.  What else we are doing against nature? Check out today's podcast to find out how to live in accordance with the nature of the summer season. If you like my podcast, please subscribe to it, and share it with your family and friends. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me at www.benevolentacupuncture.com. Thank you for listening to the "You are your best healer" podcast! 

Many people ask me what they could do to be healthier. It is actually simply four things:  eating well, sleeping well, regular exercise, and de-stress/being happy.  But what do I mean by eating well, sleeping well, exercising, and de-stress?  Listen to my podcast to find out. I will be covering more details about diet, food therapy, a healthier lifestyle, weight management, and emotional management in future podcast episodes. If you are interested,  please subscribe to my podcast and share it with your loved friends and families. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at www.benevolentacupuncture.com.  

Welcome to "You Are Your Best Healer Podcast"! Today I'd like to do an energy healing for insomnia.  You could play this while you are getting ready to sleep. Lay on your back, and watch your breath to relax your body first.  Let me know how you like this episode and your feedback is important. Let me know any other topics that you are interested in. 

 According to the book of Nei Jing, the ancient teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on living in accordance with nature. March is the beginning of spring, and all living beings in the universe are revitalizing.  The energy of the spring season is represented by the energy of wood and is associated with the organ Liver in our body. It is recommended that we go to bed late (no later than 11 PM) at night, and get up early in the morning. Go out to take a walk with some fresh air. Let down your hair being loose, relax your mind, and let go of any limiting thoughts.  let go of any suppressed emotions.  Treat every living being with a compassionate and benevolent loving heart, and be willing to co-exist with all beings equally, harmoniously, and happily.  Learn to surrender, knowing things happen in life for reasons,  and go with the flow of life. If there are people or things that stress you out or upset you,  let them go with your compassion and benevolent loving heart. Going easy and being happy will encourage the free flow of your liver energy.  It will allow you to be healthy and happy in Spring and prepare you for the growing energy of fire, the energy of summer. This is the Dao of the spring season,  the essence of the spring season. Spring is the season to go easy and be happy. In the end, I’d like to share a “Poem”  ‘Loveliest of Trees’ by A.E. Housman published in 1896 when he was in his 20s.Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough [b@k],And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.Now, of my threescore years and ten,Twenty will not come again,And take from seventy springs a score,It only leaves me fifty more.And since to look at things in bloomFifty springs are little room,About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.I wish you enjoy the spring season and be free, lively, and vital!  Go easy and be happy!!! 

If you are at a crossroads of your life path, take a pause, breath some fresh air, look around, and enjoy the people and scenarios around you. Take a moment to listen to your heart, what is it speaking to you? what is it calling you?  Regardless of what you choose to do, be courageous to follow your heart, and do what you love and are passionate about. In this episode, I shared a paragraph from the opening chapter of Tina Zion's book "Reiki and Your Intuition -  A Union of Healing and Wisdom". Wish you all the best!  A friendly reminder everything in life is temporary. Whatever you are experiencing now,  it will pass. Look forward to the beautiful rainbow after a storm.  Be well! 

Today I will answer questions from audiences on Metatronic healing and meditation episodes.  I will prepare Q & A sessions here periodically. Please feel free to send me your questions or any specific healing topics that you'd like me to share on this podcast via my website. 1. Does a recorded energy healing on a podcast work? yes, but a private session will be more effective. 2. What are chakras? chakras are energy focal points along the middle line of our body. 3. What is Namaste?Namaste is a Hindu customary, non-contact form of respectfully greeting and honoring the opposite person or group, it means my heart to your heart. 4. What distance healing services do I provide?      - Metatronic healing      - Health consultation, the assessment is based on the intakes, your tongue analysis, facial analysis, and your blood work analysis from a Chinese medicine perspective     - Customized herbal supplements,  the assessment is based on the intakes, your tongue analysis, facial analysis, and your blood work analysis from a Chinese medicine perspective 

Some people have expressed safety concerns about meditation. They are afraid of their soul/spirit leaving their body and not being able to return during the meditation.  I would like to clarify that there are many different kinds of meditations. The type of meditation I am sharing with you is very safe which is referencing vipassana meditation. I highly recommend you all to attend their ten days retreat to learn their meditation technique. Vipassana meditation doesn’t allow visualization. It is all about going inward, self-observation, and letting go of anything we notice on our body without judgment. This kind of meditation helps us learn to live in the moment, be less influenced by what’s going on around us; helps us to become more detached from worldly matters, and learn to treat everything equally. I personally love vipassana meditation, which has helped me tremendously. I signed up for their 10 days retreat six months before the actual event. However, my father passed away suddenly right before the retreat. There was just so much I had to take care of at that time. I wasn’t sure if it was a good time for me to go into a ten days retreat. But I had waited for a few years for this retreat opportunity. I finally decided to go because I thought it might help me to heal since I am in an emotional mess at the time. I went to the retreat. When I arrived, they took away my car keys, my electronics,  my notebooks, and pens. No communication was allowed. Only breakfast and lunch are served. All you do is meditate, sleep and eat. I was in an emotional mess, and there were so many things in my mind. After the first three days, all I could think of was the things on my to-do list, and my mother. Also, my whole body hurt. I finally gathered my courage and asked the teacher if I could leave. She asked me to sit and meditate with her in a smaller room for one more day. She taught me a few techniques to clear my mind. Something magically happened.  After that day, all of a sudden, I was surrounded. I was able to focus on my breath. All pain in my body disappeared. All worries and distractive thoughts disappeared. I suddenly realized life is simply in one breath. What I really have is the moment that I am breathing. The past is gone, the future is an unknown. There was no point in holding on to things and people from the past. There was no point in worrying about the future because I don't know my future after this breath. All I have is this moment of breath. At the end of the ten days, I had never felt so good physically and emotionally. Ever since it becomes my favorite meditation. When I don’t feel well physically or emotionally, I sit and meditate.  Usually at the end of the meditation, somehow most discomfort would disappear. If not, I should seek professional treatments. I highly recommend morning and evening meditation. In the guided meditation that I share on this podcast, I started with grounding, so you could be grounded on earth, then clear your energy space to prepare a sacred space for the meditation. If you don’t have much time in the morning, you could simply do the grounding and clearing energy space to start your day. You will find yourself being more present and more focused on whatever you need to do that day. In the evening, you could do the full meditation to reset your body, so you could have a good night's sleep. It is not recommended to do meditation after 11 pm. I truly hope you all could be benefit from a daily meditation routine. Thank you for listening to the "You Are Your Best Healer" podcast. 

This is a 30 minutes guided meditation for physical and emotional healing.  I incorporated the Vipassana meditation technique. I highly recommend Vipassana meditation.  Vipassana meditation doesn't recommend any kind of visualization. In this guided meditation, I did include some visualization guidance in the beginning (the preparation part) to help you ground yourself, clear your energy space and create sacred space first before starting the vipassana meditation (scanning of your body). The key to meditation is to develop detachment and non-judgment. Learn to accept ourselves without judgment.  It is the meditation I do to relieve any physical pain, tension, or emotional disturbance.  I hope you could use this meditation for your self-healing as well. The background music is Pu An Zou (Buddhism chanting to calm our mind and spirit) played in Qin, an ancient Chinese instrument.