How to Rest | Coming Home Qigong Routine (short teaching)

This week, we have a theme of rest.

This is very important theme for me.

And I want to bring this theme almost the last because this one can, after you practice, you know how to take care of yourself.

You know how to be coming back to your self and to take care of yourself.

And then you can learn how to rest.

So how to rest is very important to take care of your body and your mind.

Sometimes we don't know how to rest.

Okay? We have too much stress and too much going on.

Mental discourse in our head.

We have so much planning.

Thinking.

Thinking all the time.

Monkey's mind.

And this kind of thinking pulls you away from your presence.

You presence for the body, your presence for your health, presence for your family.

Sometimes, like so many things going on and you cannot rest.

So resting and relaxing is most important in this exercise.

Know how to rest.

Know how to relax.

These are arts, ok?

The art of loving your body.

You love your body, but you don't know how to relax.

You don't know how to be truly present for your body.

By that, you're not truly loving your body.

So be present.

Truly there.

Know how much is too much for you?

The body.

Too much work today, too much thinking today.

You feel so stressful.

So you may stop.

Sit down to breathe in and out.

To lie down, to do some massage.

To let your self rest.

Okay?

Because you know the nature of breathing of all the animals.

They practice better than us.

All the animals, when they get wounded, they stop searching for food.

They stop chasing for the other animals or food, and they just go into quiet place in the forest, on a mountain, in a cave.

And lying down.

And rest, and sleep for many days.

That wound healed itself quickly.

Very naturally.

But our human's mind is usually struggling a lot about this.

We know that we need to heal.

We need to rest.

But we don't know how to rest.

We're still running, we're still struggling a lot.

So just allow yourself to have a time

to massage, to do some simple movement,

to lie down, to sit, to rest,

to allow yourself to breathe in and out, in mindfulness,

in a loving way

with peace and joy,

but also allow yourself to rest and to do nothing.

Okay?

So that is the thing we do this morning.

And as long as you have relaxing and resting in yourself,

you get the healing energy very quickly and happily.

Okay?

As long as you relax, and then you can heal.

When you rest, you can heal.

Look like animals.

They go to a forest, they lie out, they rest, they do nothing.

And the wounds in the body of animals, they heal themselves, but they don't get any medicine, you know.

Or animals, they get wounded, they don't drink medicine.

They don't have health like us, (they) know what to take care of themselves.

They themselves are taking care of themselves.

That's why they just have a...

find their own way to rest, to lie down, to relax and rest.

So I think this is the art.

This is the way that we can learn to do qigong every day.

And that's why you see every routine,

we have a time to lie down, to relax.

But especially today, we can do deeper to...

into the resting and relaxing movements.

Okay.