THE MYSTICAL CHI CYCLE & THE MAP TO DESTINY Part 3 – 7am to 9am
The Daoists believe that your ‘destiny hangs by a thread’ several times a day, and breakfast
is definitely one of these times. If you eat the right foods, the right way with the right attitude, the inner organ processes can continue smoothly. You could describe breakfast as a cosmic dance of chi.
by Jost Sauer
THE SECOND PHASE OF THE mystical chi cycle is ‘breakfast’. You’re probably wondering how I’m going to write a whole article about breakfast, but I could run a three-day seminar on breakfast; I could write a really big book, and I mean War and Peace size, about breakfast. I’m not sure how many copies I’d sell, given our poor relationship with this meal but, mystically, it’s the most important meal of the day and, as such, it deserves some serious attention. Metaphysically, the orbs, the divine consciousness of your organs, are now ready to take the abstract idea of the cosmic self – gained during your prior breathing and chi practice – to your heart, the seat of knowledge, so that you will know your cosmic self. It will no longer be a concept – you will feel it, you will be it, you will have ‘arrived’. This is the mystical purpose of breakfast. The Daoists believe that your ‘destiny
hangs by a thread’ several times a day, and breakfast is definitely one of these times. The breathing and chi practice activated intestine energies, set a mystical internal process in train
and allowed access to the first destiny gateway of the day. The next gateway now lies before you. If you eat the right foods, the right way with the right attitude, the inner organ processes can continue smoothly. The chi you have generated in your practice can merge with the chi from your food and be taken to your heart. You will be further guided towards destiny and happiness. You could describe breakfast as a cosmic dance of chi. Behind the scenes, this dance is happening via your acupuncture points and meridians; the conduits by which chi (energy, consciousness and information) flows between the divine consciousness in your organs and the cosmic chi matrix. The perfect breakfast would be
one in which you acknowledge this metaphysical aspect of the meal. It would begin with your sitting contemplatively in front of a bowl of delicious steaming porridge (that you have pre-soaked overnight) prior to eating. A certain amount of the chi of food is in the steam, and taking a moment here prior to eating, allows the chi to enter your meridians via an acupuncture point in
the nose, Colon 20 (CO 20). This point is the end of your large intestine channel and you could say it is where the mystical baton is handed over to the orb of the next organ, your stomach. Colon 20 is ying xian, or ‘welcome fragrance’, and its metaphysical role is to welcome your food. The plan is for the ‘chi scouts’ in the steam to go ahead and do the preparation for this, so that when food reaches your stomach the ‘gates are open’ and nutrients can be fully absorbed. This might sound all lyrical and
poetic yet Chinese medicine is highly practical. Letting your awareness expand to acknowledge this invisible, magical process, and consciously make ‘welcoming’ your attitude to breakfast, works wonders for your digestion and health. I’ve treated plenty of people who have good healthy diets, yet they always feel tired, lethargic and listless because they are nutrient and chi deficient. This is because eating is not just a mechanistic action; how, when and even why you eat is equally important. If you are preoccupied by simultaneously being on the phone, emailing or reading the paper, it prevents you from sinking
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