Get Healthy Cravings with Help from Ancient China’s Sage Wisdom
by Raven Cohan
craving for many nutritives that you require. Your own cells begin to ‘demand’ a healthy input of enzyme-filled food. More often you are able to let go of cravings for foods that deplete you. It doesn’t happen overnight, but my teacher, Mantak Chia, says, “If you do it, you get it! If you don’t do it, you don’t get it!” “Alright,” you might ask after reading
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the above statements, “so what is it exactly that I have to do to crave healthier foods that Qigong can help me with?” One thing is that you had best get yourself a teacher or at least some DVDs of any kind of Qigong, whether or not they focus upon weight loss and nutritional suggestions or just ordinary health improvement. It doesn’t matter if you cannot find a specialist. ‘Qigong’, which means ‘to cultivate life force internal energy’, (also spelled as ‘Chi Kung’), works. It works because it is an ancient system which can offer many interesting pieces of a puzzle. The puzzle doesn’t get ‘solved’ all at once. How can thousands of exercises be learned at once? Maybe, in this lifetime, you will only learn a few fundamentals. That’s okay. You will begin with a teacher who trains you to relax, no matter what is going on around you in your life. This teacher will train you to look inwardly at yourself. Do the following after your first couple of classes:
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With the contents of this article stirring you on, you might keep enhancing the intention of changing your cravings
ith a well developing practice of Qigong that is internal, one begins making inside their own body a
from unhealthy food choices to food which you know is health- ier than your worst choices. Cut out some photos of healthy foods from magazines or the Internet to inspire you. Make a pretty collage out of them on a big poster board.
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Write YOUR intentions in positive language on your col- lage somewhere and make certain to read them every
day. When you read the suggestions you have written, smile and say, “I can do this!” whether you have taken hold of that realization or you still need to keep convincing yourself. Put a photo of your head on the body of a slimmer actor or actress whose body you admire into your collage. Make sure you are smiling in the photo!
Do your best to be gentle and loving with yourself and tell yourself that you do love yourself, even if you have struck out in the past. Today, look at the statement of your intention and smile and say the positive statement you have put in your own words. Say it a few times.
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