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5-Minute Qigong Self-Massage: RELAX and REFRESH

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    And you can massage
    your two palms together,
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    until you feel warm,
    and then side-by-side.
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    It's wonderful to start
    by massage your two palms together.
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    The other side.
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    So that you can ready
    to use your palms to massage your face,
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    your belly, and the whole body, okay.
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    Like that.
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    And after that you
    put your palms on your face.
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    First you massage your face
    to relax and to refresh yourself.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    It's wonderful always
    to massage your face,
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    and you feel you are alive,
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    like you are awake in the present moment.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    That's good.
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    And then you can put your two—
    er, ten fingers, on your head
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    and massage your head.
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    In the back of your head,
    look like you are brushing your hair,
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    and then beside your head,
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    and front.
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    So this movement can
    help yourself to relax your brain
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    and circulate the blood on your head,
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    and relax your brain,
    okay, relax your head.
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    Because some time we have so—
    we have too much thinking, heh,
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    we're thinking a lot, everyday,
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    so it's wonderful breathe in, out, to
    massage and brush your hair in that way.
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    Put one hand inside
    and another hand outside, okay,
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    to massage your belly,
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    with a clock-wise direction.
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    You press a little bit to massage
    your belly, your lower abdomen.
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    Help yourself to circulate
    the blood around the lower abdomen.
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    So this one is wonderful to do daily to
    help yourself to digest the food better,
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    but at the same time
    feel your belly, feel your lower abdomen,
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    you, er, bring
    love and care to your lower abdomen.
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    That's wonderful.
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    Left palm and then
    the right palm holding together.
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    And then you
    breathe in and out for three times, okay.
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    This one can strengthen your wrists.
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    Strengthen your wrists and,
    er, make your palms healthier.
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    In.
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    Out.
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    And then you put
    your left palm out— er, down,
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    and then you hold in your left palm,
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    and then you breathe
    in—out, also three times.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    In.
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    Out.
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    For the right palm,
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    and then the left palm
    holding the right palm.
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    Breathe in and out three times.
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    Feel your wrists,
    feel your palms relax.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    You feel like two palms,
    two hands support together, right.
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    We inter-are.
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    Your two hands very, er, wonderful.
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    They are a miracle of life.
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    So put your hand down,
    and then holding back your right hand.
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    Breathe in.
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    Out.
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    That's wonderful.
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    Place two hands up
    and stand by your toes, okay.
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    Breathe in.
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    And then breathe out, you make say 'hah',
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    to release the air and letting
    go all worries, tension, from the body.
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    Breathe in.
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    Hah.
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    Inhale.
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    Hah.
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    One more time.
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    In.
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    Hah.
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    That's wonderful.
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    Breathe in. Open your palms.
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    Out.
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    Bring your mind back to the body,
    in the present moment.
Title:
5-Minute Qigong Self-Massage: RELAX and REFRESH
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04:55

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