Discover a Greater Power than Willpower -- Part Two -- Qigong

This is part two of “Discover a Greater Power than Willpower,” where we show you how to use a greater power than will to get what you want, to be the immortal you.

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The Overuse of Will

The overuse of will can cut us off from life, from the most powerful part of who we are.

The overuse of will can limit our possibilities and diminish our personal competence. When we’re so focused on using our willpower, and getting our way, we obstruct a greater power that lies within ourselves.

Using our will too much and too intensely can take us out of sync with life and put us at odds with the world. Self-will, too much self-will, can create mistakes.

The overuse of will can cut us off from life, from the most powerful part of who we are — from our bliss, happiness and joy that’s deep inside us.

Too much will can hurt us by restricting our view and confining our perspective. Too much will can narrow our mind where we miss so much.

How Self-Will Hurts Us

Too much will can sabotage opportunities.

Too much will can hurt us by diminishing our overall awareness of ourselves and the life around us.

When we’re in our willpower too much, we can’t really understand where other people are coming from. We can’t feel our immortal core of joy, happiness and freedom.

Too much will can hurt us by sabotaging opportunities in our life. Excess will can hurt us by creating errors and mistakes, by limiting life’s flow and vibrancy.

A Better Way than Willpower

There’s a better way to get things done.

Willpower works well in limited situations. Overuse of will can cut us off from our soul, from our eternal self and the source of life.

We suggest that there’s a better way to do things than using willpower alone. We suggest that all of us have a greater will and consciousness to find that’s beyond willpower, beyond self determined behavior.

There’s a better way to think and get things done than using self-will all the time. There’s a greater will and consciousness within us that can outdo self well every time.

There’s a greater world and consciousness within us, within the world … deeper than the world that can outdo self will every time.

Stop the Fight

Sometimes we need to react quickly with a fight or flight response. But too often, in the modern world, we tend to use that fight or flight all the time, an egoistic response of unconscious panic.

Just being in traffic will get us into this mindset. But we need to get out of it. In traffic, we need to relax a bit and be more self aware. In our daily lives, we need to kind of let go of self-will … getting calm and looking for a greater consciousness within ourselves that really has more power, more ability than will.

A Greater World of Power

Finding that greater world, that greater consciousness beyond daily strife … well, it’s really all about relaxing, and becoming aware of feeling yourself: the deep and eternal you of joy, happiness and bliss. I promise you, it’s there.

And one way to get to that deep, powerful you that’s connected to the universe and to your Higher Power is Qigong, an ancient Chinese healing art, a moving meditative practice.

One way to get to the eternal you that I have found incredibly helpful for myself and others over the years is Qigong. I’m a Qigong master of many years, of decades.

How I Found Qigong and Health

I first found Qigong in Seattle. Almost by accident, I discovered a Qigong Grandmaster from Beijing who was also a traditional Chinese physician. He helped me as I was having a problem with anxiety and panic attacks that resulted from a bad drug experience in my teens.

Much later in my life, I was still having a problem with anxiety. So I found this doctor in a local paper, didn’t know him, and it wasn’t a referral.

I went to an appointment; it was nondescript and unassuming, the office and the doctor himself. So without ego or pretense, I thought maybe I had made a bad choice. But I didn’t. I thought maybe the doctor could not help me; but he did!

Acupuncture and Herbs Were a Cure

The acupuncture and medicinal herbs, from China, helped me right away. But this Qigong Grandmaster said, if I really wanted long term recovery, and personal growth, I should come to his Qigong class.

I had no idea what Qigong was at that time, 25 years ago, but I went to the class. Immediately, I felt better.

I bought a video of Qigong from the teacher, and I practiced two times a day with him in that video. You can do the same, but practice with me, in the course we offer on our website, ImmortalNow.com.

A Qigong Course for Power, Ease and Immortality

I found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower.

We have a Qigong course called “Introduction to Immortality” you can find at the top of our website in the menu. The course has Qigong exercises and lectures that will take you on a deep dive into the work I’m now presenting.

I have found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower. You may be thinking, what? How is Qigong more powerful than willpower, and what exactly is Qigong?

Go to our website; there’s information on Qigong there. It’s an ancient Chinese healing art. Qigong was also used for fighting. I use Medical Qigong; but more specifically, I give you types of Qigong to address your physical immortality, health and happiness.

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More Powerful than Willpower

Again, I’ve found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower, so how does that happen? Well, Qigong, there’s something about it, and I can’t really tell you what it is. It takes practice; if you do it, you will know. When you find a peace that “passeth understanding,” words do not suffice.

I teach exercises that my Grandmaster learned and taught me, and I’m still connected to him and his lineage and people that are practicing with him.

I have practiced every weekend with my teacher for decades. You can practice too, with me, at “Immortality LAB” that’s on our website, ImmortalNow.com.

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Qigong and Immortality LAB

Immortality LAB is where I teach new Qigong classes every 10 days and give more in depth lectures than what you’re getting here. We go to a deeper level with Immortality LAB. You can find LAB on our website, ImmortalNow.com.

I found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower. It’s using a little bit of willpower to do the Qigong techniques, but what they did for me is they took me to a deep, calm, inner place that already existed, that was already me, just a deeper me — my soul, my eternal self; if you will, my core being.

Our Core of Peace

You don’t have to find happiness in the world; you already have it.

With Qigong, getting to my core being, I found peace and serenity — really unlimited peace and serenity beyond understanding, beyond belief before you find it, but all of you have it — I promise you, as part of the living you that’s here right now

But we’re distracted. We’re distracted almost from birth, and Qigong takes you back to who you are. So you find yourself; your happiness, joy; your peace, your relaxation and your bliss, a natural bliss that you can take into the world, into everything you do.

You don’t really have to find happiness in the world; you already have it.

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0:05
Hello, This is the Secret to Immortality Podcast with John Harrigan, Qigong Master and founder of the website, ImmortalNow.com.

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This episode is part two of “Discover a Greater Power than Willpower,” where we show you how to use a greater power than will, to get where you want to be with your life, to be the immortal you.

0:31
Now let’s review Part One, which is the podcast episode before this.

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In part one, we referenced a blog post, which we’ll also use in this podcast episode. The name of that blog post is, “Discover a Greater Power than Willpower.”

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You can find that on our blog, on our website, ImmortalNow.com. Just go to our website, find the tab for our blog, and put in the words, “discover a greater power than willpower,” in the search box in the blog section.

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To review just a little bit, that article which we’re referencing for this podcast episode, begins with this quote to describe it — the sparing use of will is essential, but the overuse of will can harm us. Find a greater power than willpower; discover an easier way to get what you want with this new and essential podcast.

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And if you go to that article, it’ll have the podcast before this one. You can also find our Secret to Immortality Podcast on iTunes podcasts,

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Reading a little of that blog post right now, we talked about the overuse of will, the fact that yes, we need to use will a little bit gently, but overusing will can wear us out and defeat our purpose of physical immortality … of bliss, happiness and spiritual freedom.

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The overuse of will, the over use of will can limit our possibilities and diminish our personal competence.

2:24
When we’re so focused on using our willpower, and getting our way, we can kind of lose a greater power that lies within ourselves.

2:34
Using our will too much and too intensely, can take us out of sync with life and put us at odds with the world. Self will … too much self well can create mistakes. And I’m reading from the blog post at immortalnow.com: Self will creates mistakes; the overuse of will can cut us off from life, from the most powerful part of who we are, from our bliss, from our happiness, from our joy deep inside us. And eventually, in all of us physically, happiness, joy and freedom.

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Too much will can hurt us by restricting our view, restricting our perspective. Too much will can narrow our mind where we miss so much.

3:26
Too much will can hurt us by diminishing our overall awareness of ourselves and the life around us, and other people.

3:35
When we’re in our willpower too much, we can’t really understand where other people are coming from. We can’t really feel our immortal core of joy, happiness and bliss.

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Too much will can hurt us by sabotaging the opportunities in our life. Too much will can hurt us by creating errors and mistakes, by limiting life’s flow and vibrancy.

4:01
Willpower works well in limited situations. Overuse of will can cut us off from our soul from our eternal self and the source of life.

4:13
We suggest that there’s a better way to do things than using willpower alone. We suggest that all of us have a greater will and consciousness to find that’s beyond willpower, beyond self determined behavior.

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there’s a better way to think and get things done than using self will all the time. Then using our willpower. There’s a greater well in consciousness within us that can outdo self well every time. There’s a greater world and consciousness within us within the world. Deeper than the world that can outdo self will every time.

4:57
So much we think self will is The way and we really get stuck in self well, where sometimes we need to react quickly with a fight or flight response. But too often in the modern world, we tend to use that fight or flight all the time. And that self will that unconscious panic.

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Just being in traffic will get us into that mindset. But we need to get out of it. In traffic, we need to relax a bit and be more self aware. In our daily lives, we need to kind of let go of self well or not even let go have it but just get calm and look for a greater consciousness within ourselves that really has more power, more ability, and finding that greater world that greater consciousness beyond stuff well, it’s really all about relaxing, and becoming aware of feeling yourself the deep, eternal you of joy, happiness and bliss. I promise you, it’s there. And one way to get to that deep, powerful you that’s connected to the universe and, and to your Higher Power View your understanding.

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One way to get that that I have found incredibly helpful for myself and others over the years Is she gone. I’m a Qigong master of many years of decades. And I first found Qigong in Seattle and almost by accident found a Qigong master from Beijing that was also a traditional Chinese physician. He helped me I was having a problem with anxiety and panic attacks and panic attacks that resulted from a bad drug experience in my teens. And even much later in my life, I was still having a problem with this. So I found this doctor simply in a local paper, didn’t know him and it wasn’t a referral and I went to an appointment and I thought it was so nondescript and so unpretentious the office and the doctor himself. So without ego or pretense, I thought maybe I made a bad choice. But I didn’t. The acupuncture and the medicinal herbs from China helped me right away. But this Qigong Grandmaster said, If I really wanted long term recovery, and personal growth, I should come to his Qigong class, I had no idea what she Gong was at that time over 20 years ago, but I went to the class. And I immediately felt better.

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During an after the class, I bought a video that he sold, and I practice two times a day with that video. You can do the same with the course that’s offered on the website, on my website, immortal now.com. We have a Qigong course you can find it at the top and the tabs. And that course has several Qigong exercises and a lot of lectures that will really help you take a deep and effective dive into this work that I’m presenting right now. So I have found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower. It’s like, What? How is chicken more powerful than willpower and what is Qigong? Go to my website, there’s information on Qigong there. It’s an ancient Chinese healing art. It was also used for fighting. But I use the medical Qigong but more specifically, types of Qigong with the intent of activating our physical immortality, wellness, health and happiness. I’ve found again, Qigong to be more powerful than willpower, and how does that happen? Well, Chico, there’s something about it and I can’t really tell you what it is. It’s just a practice. I teach exercises that my Grandmaster learned, and I’m still connected to him and his lineage and people that are practicing with him and I practice every weekend with my teacher of over decades, and you can practice to with me at immortality lab that’s in on our website, immortal now.com. And mortality lab is where

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I teach new Qigong classes every 10 days and give much more in depth lectures than what you’re getting here. I’m not holding anything back from you in my podcast. It’s just there’s more of this at a deeper level in in mortality lab that you can find on our website and mortal now.com. I found Qigong to be more powerful than willpower. It’s really it’s not working. Power, it’s using a little bit of willpower to do the Qigong techniques, but what they did for me is they took me to a deep, calm, inner place that already existed, that it was already me just a deeper me, my soul, my eternal self, if you will, my core being. And at this core being I found peace, serenity, really unlimited peace and serenity, beyond understanding beyond belief before you find it, but all of you have it. I promise you as part of the living you that’s here right now, but we’re distracted, we’re distracted almost from birth, and Qigong takes you back to who you are. So you find yourself your happiness, joy, your peace, your relaxation and, and your bliss, a natural bliss that you can take into the world into everything you do. So you don’t really have to find happiness in the world you already have it.

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You don’t really have to find bliss sex satisfaction and peace. It’s already in you, but she Gong takes you to that helps you access it in a gentle way. It just takes you to that bliss peace and happiness within you again you can find immortality lab where you learn Qigong and listen to lectures that take you deeply into this work the secret to immortality also there’s a course that you can access anytime and you can find that course and the top tabs of our website immortal now.com she Gong helped me discover a more useful state of mind than the use of will alone she Gong helped me find out and discover both in myself and in life that things kind of take care of themselves if I just set sail in the right direction, the direction of the authentic me the authentic you so with Qigong and listening to these podcasts and listening to lectures at immortality lab and the separate course a great course that took decades in the making that is offered on our website quote she Gong has taken me to a steady state of being where all things arise all good things arise where everything is possible I could not she Gong has taken me in can take you to a steady state of being a start a calm, serene and eternal place of you and me together we’re all things arise we’re all things exist where everything is possible and that may not make sense to you right now but it will make sense as you listen to more podcasts as you come back again and again to our website and mortal now.com and make you use of what’s there. We have a lot of articles there on our blog that are free we have a tab about Qigong will tell you all about it and offer you a wonderful Free Exercise five organ breathing and that will eventually there will be a much more in depth course on five organ breathing down the road for you Qigong can change your life it did me the first thing it did for me is just get me calm, strong, stable and diminishing and eventually extinguishing panic attacks and Generalized Anxiety I had from a bad drug experience in my teens. And now I’m reading from the blog posts I’m reading from the blog posts on our website immortal now calm, you can go into the search section on the blog site and the blog page of our website and just type in discover a greater power than willpower. That’ll take it to this article. In addition to this podcast, there’s the podcast preceding this which is part one on discover a power greater than willpower. I’m sourcing I’m reading from and I’m going more in depth extrapolating from advancing from this pre existing article.

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A better way to do things I found for me was Qigong and that’s what I teach. I’m a CI Gong Master, and I give you ci Gong, but this Qi Gong isn’t just for happiness, health and peace of mind. It’s to activate the real, thorough authentic you which I suggest is eternal, timeless and It’s more immediate when you get to that timeless, you. It’s much more real and immediate than the you that is tied to space to the future and the past. It’s a beautiful, blissful Nirvana.

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Our

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human superpower, the most powerful part of our being you and me does not employ will at all. It’s that eternal you the soul, I think is what it’s called. And Christianity, I was raised in an actually very nice Christian church, an Episcopal Church, my mother taught me how to meditate when I was 12, and do yoga. And I’ve read a lot of books on yoga, metaphysical Christianity, many, many things my mother was my first mentor, our human superpower is simply our core, our soul who we really are, it’s the most powerful part of our being. And that part of ourselves doesn’t really use willpower. willpower is kind of the fight of life, that we all engage in the predatory behavior, conscious or unconscious, that we’re involved in, we’re doing, and we teach you how to undo that. And we teach you how to not be victimized by other people, and other forces in the world that are acting from predation, quote, self will can short circuit the full use of our brain, I suggest to you that we have a beautiful, wonderful brain and body that is designed to live forever and to advance grow and mature into immortality to evolve, we don’t need to evolve by killing and dying and dying and killing and being reborn. We don’t need to be part of this chaos of life and death, and killing.

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All of life can live together progress and evolve together without killing each other. It’s really kind of a mistake. And I think it’s probably what the Garden of Eden idea is all about that, that when we, you know, took that Apple or whatever and took a bite of it, we turned away from our core self, and started looking for things in the world, instead of understanding that we have everything within ourselves, and that we live and exist to give of that infinite self, when we connect to it, quote, will power us briefly can save our lives. Yet, the overuse of will, when we’re not in crisis can shorten our lives and fill us and our lives by cutting us off from the flow that animates our flesh. I’m suggesting to you that when we use willpower too much, we really cut ourselves off from the source of life, and that does lead to accident calamity and death.

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So we’re learning a different way of being that’s much easier, this much more pleasurable, relaxed and eternal, than this continual dependence on willpower and the overuse of willpower, light willpower is essential for getting through the day. But we don’t want to overuse the world, just a gentle yen approach. willpower use briefly can save our lives. If the overuse of well, when we’re not in crisis, can shorten our lives by cutting us off from the flow of life of goodness of God, of whatever is your higher power that animates your flesh, my flesh, together and the world, the most powerful part of our being does not employ will at all. I suggest you as you find that eternal you that eternal, blissful, wonderful self that is connected with everything. It’s really not about willpower at all. It’s it’s, it’s a force more powerful than force. But it’s actually not a power. It’s a presence that is much more powerful, serene and stable. But that presence doesn’t do anything, or make any decisions.

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We lightly use at our best at our eternal selves on Earth. We lightly use our will to access and move in this eternal consciousness, quote, our true human superpower that I’m talking about that I just began talking about. The eternal you is calm, accepting and bright, a perfect love and peace. We’ll stop right there. That’s the end of Part Two on this three part series on willpower. Stay tuned for the next podcast and we’ll finish this up. Using this blog post. We’ll make another podcast finishing up willpower, how to not use too much just use willpower lightly will we find that eternal core of our being with the help of Qigong, again, go to our website and mortal now.com a lot of free stuff there on Qigong that explains Qigong on ECT, wonderful exercise free exercise. When you’re ready to go more deeply into this secret to immortality work, we have a course for you that you can find at the top of the website. And we have immortality lab, a monthly membership, where three times a month approximately, we have a brand new Qigong class, and brand new lectures that take you into a deep dive with this way of life. Activating the eternal you the bliss, happiness and peace of your being. bless you and keep you. That’s the finish of this podcast for now.