Discover Qigong, an ancient Chinese healing art for happiness, strength and physical immortality.
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About this Episode
Welcome to the Secret to Immortality Podcast where we discuss how to be joyous, happy, free … and physically immortal.
In this episode, we’ll talk about Qigong for Lasting Life, an ancient chinese healing art for strength, wellness and eternal life.
In last week’s podcast we reviewed the three-fold process of the Secret to Immortality: 1. Mindfulness for Immortality, 2. Qigong for Lasting Life and 3. Immortality Coaching
We then took a deep dive into Part One, “Mindfulness for Immortality,” discussing exactly what it is, how and why it works.
“Part Two” of the Secret to Immortality
This week we’ll cover Part Two of the Secret to Immortality, “Qigong for Lasting Life.”
But first, let’s quickly review the three-fold process of the Secret to Immortality:
- Mindfulness for Immortality is where you learn to harness the power of your thoughts, words and actions to create the life you want.
- Qigong for Lasting Life is an ancient Chinese meditative art to make you strong, calm and physically immortal.
- Immortality Coaching is where you work with an expert farther upon the path to energize, strengthen and empower your development.
In the next podcast, we’ll dive deep into Immortality Coaching, discussing exactly how and why it can be a powerful help.
Qigong for Lasting Life
Let’s talk about Qi Gong for Lasting Life.
Qigong is an ancient Chinese healing art for personal development and physical immortality.
The earliest records of Qigong go back thousands of years, and perhaps even before this time.
Qigong is the original martial art, from which all others forms evolved.
You may have heard of Tai Chi? Tai Chi is often described as 50% Qigong and 50% exercise.
Qigong does have a fighting and self defense aspect. It’s other more powerful and important part for us is Qigong for healing, personal development and physical immortality.
Early Days of Qigong
In the early days of Qigong, it was used as a martial art for soldiers in battle.
Medical Qigong developed as surviving but injured fighters returned from battle. These soldiers had physical and psychological traumas that needed healing; Qigong helped.
Today, Medical Qigong could be described as the “Third Pillar” of Chinese Traditional Medicine, where acupuncture and medicinal herbs are the other two pillars.
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Welcome to episode number three of the secret to immortality podcast where we discuss how to be joyous, happy, free, and physically immortal in this life. In this episode, we’ll discuss Qigong for lasting life, an ancient Chinese healing art for strength, recovery and physical immortality that you can do.
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I’m John Harrigan: author, Qigong Master and founder of the website, immortalnow.com. That’s immortalnow.com.
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In last week’s podcast, we reviewed the three fold process of the secret to immortality: one, mindfulness for immortality; two, Qi Gong for lasting life, and three, immortality coaching. We then took a deep dive into Part One mindfulness for immortality, discussing what
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It is how and why it works. This week we’ll cover part two of the secret to immortality Qigong for lasting life. But first, let’s quickly review the three fold process of the secret to immortality. One, mindfulness for immortality is where we learn to harness the power of our thoughts, words and actions to create the life we want of eternal physicality to Qigong for lasting life is an ancient Chinese healing art we’ll discuss at length in today’s podcast. Three immortality coaching is where we work with an expert farther upon the path to energize, strengthen and empower our own immortality development.
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In the next podcast after this one, we’ll dive deep into immortality coaching, how and why it
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can be a powerful assist in your immortality work. The earliest records of Qigong go back thousands of years and perhaps even before this time, she Gong is the original martial art from which all other forms evolved and develop. You may have heard of Tai Chi. tachi is often described as 50%, Qigong and 50% exercise. She Gong does have a fighting and self defense aspect. However, its other more powerful and important part is Chi Gong for healing, personal development and physical immortality. In the early days of Qigong, it was used as a martial art for soldiers in battle, healing or medical Qigong probably developed as surviving but injured fighters returned from battle. There were physical and psychological traumas from battle that needs
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To heal, she Gong was the solution. Today medical Qigong is what I describe as the third pillar of Chinese traditional medicine, where acupuncture and medicinal herbs are the other two pillars.
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My own very positive experience with medical Qigong began in my adult years as a consequence of an injury that happened to me when I was 15. Let me explain. From an early age, I was a seeker, a spiritual seeker, perhaps I wanted to know what life was all about the truth to life. I felt I had lived about maybe 1500 years. I remember when I was about six years of age looking in the mirror, and I could simply see all the lifetimes that I have lived at one moment, it was kind of interesting. The time it was the most natural experience you could possibly have. I was looking into my past
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lives at my past lives, all at once I could see them all at once all the lives as they had happened from beginning to end, and what I had got from them. And the fact is all these lives were interesting, deep and full. I was poor, I was wealthy, I was mostly in between happy, sad, disabled and gifted. All of these lifetimes during all of them. I never really looked for discovered and found the secret to life. Why are we alive what underlies reality?
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And when I was born into this life, I had an incredible motivation, plan and impetus to discover this secret to do something good, give it to the world to understand what life was all about. Even at that young age, I could see that however well meaning successful and good the adults around me were
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There were a lot of adults around me in a good neighborhood, I could see that none of them really knew the secret to life. Why we were here what was really possible what the full potential of human living was. So I progressed with this impetus with this motivation with a sense of life purpose. I wanted to know the secret I wanted to be all a human could possibly be not just me, I wanted humanity to be the best that it could be. I was fortunate enough to have a good father who provided security and intelligence and a creative mind. And a mother that was also a spiritual seeker. She read a lot of good books, metaphysical books, books on Eastern religion, metaphysics, metaphysical Christianity, anything you could imagine about spiritual and personal growth. At a young age. She shared these books with me, we would discuss them together as I read them, and I
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very eager and very interested in what she shared in disgust with me. When I was about the age of 12, my mother got a record on meditation. This was before
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any recorded thing was possible beyond the record and one day I put that record on and I started going through a meditative process learning meditation. Immediately it was powerful for me and I started practicing every day. Also, my mother was heavily into yoga, hatha yoga and other forms of yoga that she practiced. With this in mind, personal development, spiritual development was of major importance to me as I lived my life as I got into my early teen years, I started reading more and more books practicing meditation. And when I was about 15, I started to hear about LSD, a hallucinogenic and this was being used by metal
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called doctors. It was also extolled by PhD psychologists from Harvard University. And I thought, Wow, well, this might be an answer. I’d read that you could experience God on this. Even though I did experience the presence of God, usually in my life. I thought maybe this would give me a greater spiritual experience. Maybe this would accelerate my development. Because this is exactly as a young teen. This is exactly what I was reading in the major press of America. Sadly, I didn’t. Sadly, I didn’t take note that what it said in the major press was also that it could destroy your mind. And I had no earthly idea what that meant. And destroy your mind. What did that mean? Well, I was very athletic, very involved in competitive swimming, diving, football, and tennis. So I thought, well, what’s important to me
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is my ability to do sport
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And I really didn’t understand at that young age, what the warning was, and it was a wise and strong warning to everyone I would say. So I got a little bit of this. Well, it was a street drug. You never know exactly what you’re buying. But the young man who’s sold it to me said it was LSD. And I tried it. It was nothing really special. It was certainly a hallucinogenic. Kind of a toxic neurological experience. That was somewhat interesting. I didn’t think I could really see God on it, but I thought I’d give it another try. I didn’t think it was going to progress, my spiritual development.
But I thought I’d give it another try. So I bought some more. And then when I saw the young man at school, sold it to me, he said, john, did you have any? Did you have any problems with what I sold to you? And I said, Yes, I certainly did. And he said, Well, I think there was too much strychnine and methamphetamine and that LSD and I just at the age of 15, I just said, wow, you know how and why is that possible? He explained to me that, you know, sometimes these people that make these things at home, mix other things with it to give it some type of effect, but the experience that I had with that street drug was a very bad one. It was a terrifically horrible experience. It did really harsh and permanent damage to my nervous system.
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The experience left me with severe anxiety, a type of PTSD, where if I wasn’t back in the experience where, gosh,
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rosebush came alive, rip my skin off, it was painful, horrible. Mind you. I’m tripping on the strychnine pain at the same time, but my skin was ripped off bats descended on me and ripped off and ate my muscle then worms
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Insects came up through the ground, etc, etc. It was a terrifying experience traumatize me deeply damaged my nervous system. I came down from that drug experience what I was left with extraordinary anxiety and really very severe PTSD. My what my life was like, day after day was just terror. I was afraid of being alive in the world. I didn’t know what element just a bird a little, a beautiful little bird chirping and flying would trigger me back into the terror and the anxiety of the experience can’t really tell you exactly what that fear and awful experience was. I hope you never have anything close to it. But it left me with a really bad situation. The next day, I was down from the experience down from the so called trip but as I got outside and heard the birds and the crickets chirping
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Quickly I could feel this agony rush through my entire nervous system. And I could see I could see and feel how badly my nerves and brain had been damaged from this experience. So I stumbled and fell metaphorically speaking day by day after this horrible and damaging experience. I tried to share it with people I tried to find some help some hope. But at the time, medically speaking, my accident my problem which is commonplace today, sadly, at that time, doctors hadn’t heard of it and didn’t know how to treat it and how to deal with it. It just got worse and worse by day I was terrified and incredibly anxious all day long. in agony and pain. I’m not sure how I lived with it. But an incredible thing happened at the end of about a year or when I was 16.
After living about a year with this, I was in bed at night now was really the most horrible time there are no distractions and you’re just stuck with who and what you’ve done to yourself. And after about a year, I knew I really couldn’t live any longer with it. It’s like sitting on a hot burner, everyone is going to jump off or find a way to end the experience at some point. So literally from the desperation of my soul from really a place I never even knew existed beforehand. And that desperate moment a year after that injury, I set a prayer and remember exactly what was I said, a prayer, God do something.
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God do something or I’m cashing in my chips. And the moment I made that prayer, the moment I made that prayer, something beautiful happen. I didn’t leave my body, but I was simply with a pure and beautiful higher power. To me. I would call it God to you can be Nirvana, it can be your own description, but I was next to literally my Creator in my body on earth. And next to my Creator.
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I was just as this creator was, as his son say, and as all of us are children of an incredible higher power, and this higher power really had all the power, all the knowledge, all the bliss, wisdom and love in the universe. And I shared that with him. He wasn’t a separate individual from me, I was a separate individual, John Harrigan, but when we were together, there was no division in the beauty of this powerful, powerful love. And when I was with this being, that I’ll call my father, that was my father and that experience when I was with this, father of who I am, the origin of me.
I was exactly who I am, I was more who I was more fully than here on Earth. It was more real than any moment, second or day on this planet had ever been. I was fully myself and in this place in this really heaven or Nirvana, there was no time or space there is only the immortal now and that’s why I named my website immortal now.com there was only the immortal now perfect bliss, unity, oneness and belonging. I’ve no idea how long I was in this place. Because remember, in this place, there was no time. I could have been an infinite amount of time, or it could have been a fraction of a second. But eventually I started to focus back into the present where I was in my body in my bed in my bedroom after that prayer, eventually, from this beautiful Nirvana, this bliss and wonderful place.
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This God presents my father my origin. I focused back into the world and as I focus back into my body into my room, all the God consciousness, all the power of the love of the being of this heaven experience, came back with me it flowed through my body, my mind, my every cell of my being. And everything I thought of on Earth, this unending passionate, compassionate power of love flowed to. And at a time when my sisters was having some problems, there are other problems in the world and in my life, and as I thought of them, all this God energy, God, consciousness of God being flowed through my own being as my own self and into the world. And I thought, Wow, well, this is probably what
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Jesus Christ and other saints and Buddha and whomever just all the famous people we can write about well known people and lesser known
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I’m sure this was their experience, I’m sure this is what they were trying to share that this was the true human being. This was the secret to life the secret to being alive that should be no secret at all. I understood that this full love this full presence of, of love of compassion of God being of God. So I understood that this is who we are, this is what we were all meant to be. I was I was having this experience, I noticed that I was about one third healed. You know, I had that horrible, horrible injured condition. It really was tragic, and I couldn’t live with it and I I could feel and see that in my body back to fully who I was on Earth as a 16 year old boy, I could feel and see that I was healed about a third. And I instantly understood Okay, this is my life mission. My life mission is to slowly
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With this higher power, learn how to heal the other two thirds of myself. And in that healing process, I would become this fully empowered man, fully spiritual man, nothing special, just simply who we all really are. And I realized this work this becoming well alive and able, would probably take a few decades and it did of struggle, work, hardship, and success. I knew it probably take a few decades, I could see the future in front of me. And I knew that eventually I would be ready to teach this experience to teach this reality to everyone on Earth to the masses across the planet, so that everyone understood their full potential and everyone understood the possibility of human development. I wouldn’t even call it possibility. It’s just how we’re designed to be joyous, happy, free and physically immortal, with no suffering death in a home
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hardship. Yes, people we can learn through suffering, death and hardship. But I think the best lesson in my mind after 1500 incarnations, the best lesson I’ve learned is
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there is no lesson other than to be fully who we are fully joyful, fully blissful, fully, well, fully happy, physically immortal. In an immortal physicality, you might say, well, that is just ridiculous, impossible look at the horrible world. Yeah. And who made the world as it is, I would suggest, life itself the decisions made by forms of life that decided to kill and take other forms of life, warped creation, and made a pretty horrendous situation, and place to live for everything and everyone in my message in.
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The secret to immortality, especially in mindfulness for immortality is that we can change all of that pretty quickly. We can change
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All of it as unmasked together, individually and across the planet, we simply become aware of this possibility. We simply become aware of who we are, what our development is, with this injury, this bad injury to my nervous system. Yes, I was healed in that miracle moment about 3%. But really, I kind of stumbled and fell through the rest of my life just
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wounded and not fully able to live to understand now, this wounded condition really motivated me to get some help. I had some great spiritual experiences of development with organizations and practices, but the most powerful thing that happened to me, I was in Seattle in my early 40s. And for the first time, as I told you, this condition, I was healed but it also just didn’t get that much better. And Seattle.
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I started for the first time to have panic attacks. I want to tell you, if you’ve never had any, they’re just like bad, bad hallucinogenic trips, I started having bad panic attacks one after another, driving my car through Seattle. And I just thought, wow, I don’t think I can get through my daily life and take care of myself with these panic attacks. So
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I had had a good experience a few years earlier in a clinic for traditional Chinese medicine in Florida for my condition, and that helped me quite a bit. And they said, well, john, you need to come to our weakened she Gong class and I thought, Oh, I don’t know what you’re doing is I’m not going to go too bad blah, blah, blah, because this has maybe helped me enough but it didn’t really. So I just one day desperate, sitting down at lunch saw in a newspaper at the time, a small advert, a small advertisement for a traditional Chinese physician in the university district in Seattle, so I made an appointment and went to him
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Just a very humble, you know, nothing.
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You couldn’t tell by looking at this humble physician that he was this mighty powerhouse. And I got an acupuncture treatment from him that really helped and medicinal herbs from China. And these were real herbs from China that some of them take 200 years of continual growth even even to become ready as medicinal medicinal herbs to treat people. So I got some very powerful herbs from this man I later found out he’s from Beijing, China. I later found out that he is in Tibet considered to be the reincarnation of the healing medicine, Buddha a pretty big deal from that area of the country. And he was discovered by Lamas from Tibet in Beijing when he was about six trained and cared for by them
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Ironically in China as I kind of understand it a little bit, and then when he was 12 or 13, he met and trained with Dallas Immortals in some mountains of China. And this is where he really learned this specific form of Qigong for immortality for health for recovery, but specifically for immortality that I label and called Qigong for lasting life. My teacher, a grandmaster, she gone Grandmaster and traditional Chinese physician from China, taught me and I still work with him from a distance. But I’ve been at this for 23 years studying and practicing with this Grandmaster in Qigong from Beijing. And many years ago, I’ve been at this about 23 years, many years ago, I became a Qigong Master, and I teach you that she Gong that I’m taught and that I practice every day.
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The day pretty much. Now it’s a natural way of responding to life in the world.
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So even after that wonderful healing of my teenage years, it literally saved my life. I couldn’t, I could not possibly have continued to live in that horrible condition. If I hadn’t been healed that one third that I shared with you, but I kind of stumbled and fell through the following years. And that was okay. Because in that continued hardship, it motivated and focused me on my mission and helped me pursue what I needed to fully express that Nirvana, that God that wonderful love in human form that we all are. And eventually, as I shared in my early 40s, I was living in Seattle, Washington and I started to have terrible anxiety attacks.
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And I found almost instant healing from this traditional physician this grand this checkup
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Grandmaster that it study who had studied with da was Immortals in the mountains of Pudong.
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I received almost immediate help from the acupuncture and tea but he said john, you know far more powerful is ci Gong is spelled QIG Oh Angie, you would think why not something like ch e but the powers that be and associations in America have insisted it’s spelled QGON G. He said john for powerful and long lasting recovery of this difficult health condition. Acupuncture and herbs simply aren’t near enough. She Gong is what’s required and he had a weekend she gone class, unbelievably priced at about $12. You can still go Saturday.
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In Seattle. He’s still teaching at
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about two hours for $12 and I went and immediately just started practicing the Shi Gong that he taught
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And immediately, it affected me and I bought one of his tapes and I watched it in a price practice with him morning and night. And more and more better and better results. It really was the thing. But the most powerful and important thing is, my early mission was immortality. I met a woman and American master working on her own physical immortality when I was also about 15 or 16. And that difficult time of my life. She called it translation. In from her I would say I got something and knowledge and awareness. There was something passed on to me of immortality. And I knew when I had that miraculous healing with that, in that Nirvana, that heaven with that higher power consciousness that healed me about a third. That experience happened about the same time as working with that American master working on her own immortality consciousness.
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Her own immortality process she called translation, translating the mortal the mortal body, the body that suffers gets six gets sick and dies. translating that mortal body into the immortal body, which I would say, the real human body that’s already here and ready to love the real human body without suffering, death and hardship.
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Both of these happened at about the same time, the miraculous healing with that God consciousness that higher power consciousness and meeting this woman working on her own immortality process. So when I met this, she Gong Grandmaster that helped me so much in Seattle, Washington, and he’s teaching these exercises and more than a half of them have the word immortality in them. And I’m understanding Yeah, these exercises, these Qigong exercises that I’m learning are
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For a wellness and physical recovery of problems and personal development, but they’re also as my teacher would quietly explained that most people I don’t think really heard, therefore developing physical immortality, our full potential and remember one day, my teacher is still taught by Taoist Immortals in the mountains of China. And he would go back periodically, through the years, when they were all silently and called together a group of them to meet the immortals in the mountains who would come back and he mentioned that his teacher there was 189 years old, and I don’t think anybody really heard the 100 part and they just thought, Oh, it’s a pretty old teacher up there. And then, after one trip, he came back and he was pretty sad. And we asked him what happened and he said, his, his teacher was gone. And we said, well, the hundred 89 year old we said, well, did he die? And he said, No, he just went poof.
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And I would say we’re all able to have a
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A wonderful glorious life of health, happiness, wellness, physical immortality to do whatever we want. Perhaps we can go poof or not. By the way, my my teacher after he recovered from his sadness, he of course had another immortal in the mountains. But he brought all this energy, all this spectacular ability and power are my Qigong teacher in Seattle with him. And to be honest, I don’t know if many or any students really noticed what he was actually teaching, but he was very upfront about it.
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The good thing is I knew my mission was physical immortality to teach that immortality consciousness as I’m doing now, this moment to you and as I’m doing with my website, immortal now calm. I knew that was my mission in my teens. I knew that was my mission, my early 40s but I thought, How do I get from a place of having multiple panic attacks in a car driving through Seattle to
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Being to being able to teach immortality to the masses, as I’m doing today, and when I started to interact with this Qigong Grandmaster from China, I could feel his physical immortality. It’s a, it’s a presence, it’s a power. It’s not just a superpower super presence. There is a very palpable immortality to it. And it was affecting me. And so I spent my time with him as doing those exercises. And as I have done over the years, even after moving away from Seattle, I still connect with this teacher, I still mentally pause and join his Saturday class as he teaches it. And I still participate with the immortals in the mountains of China transforming my life, myself, my body, to the best of our ability, and giving you all this information and this teaching that’s Qigong Q I G O N G, Qigong which is the second part of the threefold secret to immortality that I teach the first part and you can find this on the second podcast the one before this. There are three parts to the secret to immortality, one mindfulness for immortality to Qigong for lasting life in three immortality coaching. Qigong for lasting life is what I’m talking about in this podcast. And you can start immediately, go to my website, and I’ll put a link to the part of my website. Underneath this article. I’ll have an article underneath this podcast. Go to my website to do Qigong immediately or simply to explore it and read more about it.
Go to my website and on the link at the top of the page. In the menus, you’ll find Qigong videos, go to that page read a little bit more about Qigong and start immediately practicing five organ breathing. Now this exercise will eventually be in $97 course, as I talk about it and teach it but right now just go to it. And at least watch it. You don’t even have to do the actual exercise, you can just watch me go through it and it will affect you for having a hard time sleeping at night just to the very first part of the exercise and see if it will help you go to sleep. Qigong, the secret to immortality.
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Qigong. The secret to immortality is three steps one mindfulness for immortality to Qigong for lasting life and three immortality coaching, where you work with me or some other person at an advanced stage in their own immortality were to be positively influenced and to have a customized program that works for you in mortality coaching. I found it really funny.
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Important to work with other people farther upon the path that is all today be joyous, happy, free and physically immortal and stay tuned for next week’s podcast. Bless you all.
