River's Chi House

Happy Saint Patty's Day to you and yours. Let the Irish inspire us. Look how long they fought for their political freedom. Let their political struggle inspire us to fight just as hard for our Internal Freedom. The above pictures can be found at the following link; http://healing.ireland.anglican.org/Sueologies.html The young women and men of our world need love and guidance. Above all they need to be inspired by the older men and women in their lives. They need to see their parents walking our talk. These young warriors need to have religious and political leaders that are worthy of them and the best ideals of humanity. If they do not have this kind of leadership and inspiration shame on us. If you are not that kind of adult than become that kind of adult. What if a young Malcolm had been helped to understand himself and the nature of his society before he became a man? I say to the young women and men, it is your time now. If you do not have good role models, become a good r...

The above picture is a good illustration of the Inner Smile. Mantak Chia is doing so much to help so many. The picture and and more information on the Inner Smile and so much more can be found at the following site; http://www.tao-garden.com/universal/detail.php?pro_id=CD2&cat_id=9 Inner Organ Smile chi kung is very important to understand and practice. First, remember that all things, including YOU exist between Heaven and Earth. Before any chi kung practice it is important to root yourself in context of existence. Which means consciously experiencing yourself as existing as a part of the Unified Field that is Heaven and Earth. Use your imagination to see the whole of existence like seeing the stars in the desert far from man made lights in the middle of the night. That is Heaven. Now imagine that all the stars are one BIG SMILE. Smile back to the SMILE of the Heaven. Now imagine the Earth. See her in all her colorful glory. Imagine she is one BIG Smile and She is smili...

The above picture can be found at the following link; http://www.niamh.co.uk/dispfactsheet.php?parent=:%20&submenu=Self%20Help&id=29 I am currently working with a fourteen year old young man in Pittsburgh PA who cannot keep food down. I am running chi for him using Master Points Spleen-4 and Pericardium-6. I am also treating the Bladder points I mentioned in the Bad Hair section of this blog. I am treating other points as well but I will not go into that here. He is a very brave and determined young warrior. He is also a good and committed student and is learning and practicing internal chi kung. That includes Sky Nourishes Earth and particularly the inner organ smiles, whole body breathing and inhaling through bai hui (see Swimming In The Ocean Of Chi section of this blog) down the center channel to dan tien and exhale from dan tien sending healing chi through his whole body. The young man was in pain the first time I came to him in Children's Hospital. The first thing I ...

The picture above comes from a German website. The good thing is that the picture can be seen by your eyes and does not need a translator. This site might be even more helpful for our German friends. (smile) http://www.iocob.nl/Acupunctuur/Koreaanse_Handacupunctuur.html Remember to touch or rub or press the places on the hand that correspond to the problem in the body. I recommend touching or staying above the area as you induce chi for about five or ten minutes. Counter-clockwise movements ease pain and counter-clockwise movements strengthens the area being treated. There is A Goddess!!! I have been looking for a site that has good charts on the Koryo hand therapy meridians and I FOUND IT! You can see all the meridian charts when you click the following link. http://www.soojichim.com/new/eng/fu-02.htm I feel so HAPPY.

The above photo illustrates ways to touch BL-42 and BL-13. Click the photo to get a better view. The good thing is that this treatment not only calms the mind it also treats pain and discomfort in the scapula area of the upper back. The above photo illustrates how to touch BL-47 and BL-18. The points are so close here that while touching BL-47 and BL-18 with the top fingers the middle finger is touching BL-49 and BL-20. The bottom finger is touching BL-52 and BL-23. The space between the Bladder Meridian points on the hand are so small compared to the Bladder meridian points on the back of the body. That is why I recommend using the hand meridian points instead of the body meridian for most treatments. I usually touch these points for five to ten minutes. Click the photo to get a better view. This area also treats pain and discomfort in the middle area of the back. The above photo can be found at the following link; http://www.acupunctureproducts.com/acupuncture_meridian_bl.html Th...

The above photo is Ian. His website is on my link section. My friend and brother Ian Lazarus sent this to me and I am passing on the information to you. I signed the petition. From: Paul Dutton [mailto:pd@musicworks.ca] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:27 PMTo: ME (Ian) before he sent it to me (River)Subject: Petition for action on climate change This week, the environment ministers from the G8, the world's biggest contributors to climate change will be meeting in Germany. The outcome of this meeting will play a critical role in determining the world's response to global warming. AVAAZ (the name means "Voice" or "Song" in several languages including Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian) has been invited to attend this meeting to present their climate change petition to the chair of this meeting, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel at 4pm on Thursday 15 March in Potsdam. To have maximum impact they need to get as many signatures as po...

Mahatma Gandhi is one of my favorite Internal freedom fighters. He struggled with his own bad habits as well as against the oppression of his people. Can we do any less? The photo above is of a young Malcolm X. Malcolm has always been on of my heroes. He found himself in jail because of a series of choices he made, mostly unconsciously. Malcolm could have kept on his self-destructive path but instead he decided to try something very different. He decided to try to understand himself and his society. He decided to stop being a victim of his bad unconscious choices. Instead he started a life long journey of self and social exploration that not only challenged the world to change, but also kept challenging him to keep on changing as his understanding changed. More about him can be found at the following link; http://www.malcolm-x.org/ Malcolm with one of his daughters. We change not only for ourselves, but for our family, friends and the people of the world. When one of us changes for ...

The above photo is of my much loved, now with Allah, sufi teacher, Fazal Inayat Khan as he was back when I had the honor of living in his school in southern England. The photo comes from the following website ; http://www.movimentosufi.com/Aggressivit%E0FazalG63.htm The teenage group habits. Photo found at the following link; http://www.pakskarate.com/mandarin/year2002.shtm The individual habit; http://www.idiomsbykids.com/taylor/mrtaylor/class20022003/idioms/idioms2003/idiomst.htm It was the summer of 1972 in a beach near Katwijk , the Netherlands. I was attending a summer school of the International Sufi Movement. The link to the summer school for this year follows. http://www.sufimovement.org/events.htm That summer our teacher was Murshid Fazal Inayat Khan. Fazal had taken us to the ocean' s edge to share his teachings. He had us gather around in a circle. Inside the circle was one of our fellow students. The student was tied up by a thick rope, hands and feet both bo...