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Easy QiGong for Energy
The practice of QiGong started in ancient China thousands of years ago. The word “qi” means “life force energy” and “gong” means “acquiring a skill through practice”. QiGong is designed to enhance the body’s energy, using it to strengthen and heal all the body systems.
QiGong uses slow, gentle and repeating exercises to copy movements in nature, especially 
that of water, to energize, strengthen and cleanse the body. Along with the exercises, there are also breathing techniques that will help to relieve stress, increase the body’s own healing ability, and boost the immune system.
QiGong routines can be learned very quickly and are great for people of all fitness levels at any age.
My good friend Renae recently sent me some youtube videos of easy Qi Gong exercises she found online. It’s a series of 4 videos, with 14 total exercises that only take 15 minutes to do.
These simple exercises have totally amazed me!
Nothing in my life so far has worked as well as these exercises to give me all the energy I need. And for free! And believe me, I’ve tried practically everything; caffeine, diet pills, herbal pills, juices, vitamins, patches, everything!
I had to share these with you. They are so easy and simple, anyone can do them!
If you like them and what they do for you, just order the author’s book and DVD from amazon here:
the DVD
The Qigong 14 Movements
Here are the links to the youtube videos so you can watch and perform all of the exercises.
I try to do them every day, in the order shown, and right along with the videos.
Go for it! Do them for a week and hopefully you’ll feel great with more energy too!
Exercises 1 thru 4:
Exercises 5 thru 8:
Exercises 9 thru 11:
Exercises 12 thru 14:
Enjoy!
Use This Easy Low Cost Natural Remedy for Colds and Flu
Here is a great home remedy to stop a cold or the flu in it’s tracks!
Cold and flu season is now upon us. Lower your chances of getting really sick by using this great trick that some doctors even recommend!
Get some regular 3% hydrogen peroxide from your local pharmacy or grocery store.
It costs maybe a dollar or so.
Pour out a capful or get a dropper and fill it. You should have some tissues or a paper towel nearby also. Lie down on your side and pour the capful or use the dropper to fill the ear that is facing up with the peroxide. You will hear crackling noises as it bubbles and it could itch or tickle a little. In some cases there could be a slight sting if your ear is infected. Stay lying on your side up to 10 minutes or until the noises stop. Sit up and immediately drain your ear into the tissues or paper towel to get rid of the peroxide, and blot dry. Now repeat the whole process on your other ear.
That’s it! Simple huh?!
Do this at least twice a day as soon as you feel any symptoms of a cold or the flu coming on. It is more effective the earlier you start it. Some recommend using it every few hours until symptoms go away. Do your own research on the internet and decide how often would be right for you. Thousands of people have used this with great results. Myself and my husband have used it over the past several years and it always works to get rid of our cold or flu symptoms. We normally use it two to three times a day for the first day. Then, if we aren’t feeling better, we will start doing the treatment every few hours.
This treatment is based on the hypothesis that cold and flu viruses enter the body through the ears. The hydrogen peroxide bubbles up in the ear and kills germs, etc. Gargling with 3% peroxide is also a good way to help chase away colds and the flu. If the taste is too strong, dilute it with a little water at first to get used to it.
Try it and let me know how it works for you!
In Chinese medicine the lungs and chest are associated with the element of metal, and directions of west and northwest. Feng Shui indicates that a lack of metal in these areas of your home can cause imbalances in your health. To help alleviate these types of cold and flu symptoms you can add the metal element in the form of a metal decorative piece or metal 6-rod hollow windchime to the West and Northwest areas of your home.
Here is a great video of natural health physician and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola talking about the same treatment:
Feng Shui Thanksgiving
This article from my friend and mentor Kathryn Weber was just too good not to share this Thanksgiving holiday week. I hope you, your family and friends all have a Thanksgiving filled with peace, love, laughter and good times!
Thanksgiving 2011 — A Cosmic and Feng Shui Challenge and How to Be Prepared
by Kathryn Weber on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 4:35pm
It’s almost Turkey Time!
Next week is Thanksgiving and I’m looking forward to a quiet day, good food, a small celebration with my family. Last year was a big to-do with me cooking for 20 people. This year it’s just seven.
It’s a good thing, too.
This week could be a doozy for travel, difficult crowds, the usual family drama that unpacks its bags at ever family get together (or so it seems).
Why?
In addition to a new moon, we also have Mercury going retrograde on Thanksgiving Day and a partial solar eclipse right when everyone is headed out for midnight madness post-Thanksgiving early black Friday shopping.
I’ll be in bed. Asleep. With the covers pulled up and surrounded by a fluffy feather comforter.
So here’s what you need to know for Thanksgiving travel:
- Guests may be late or not show up at all if you’re cooking
- If you’re traveling, you might be late or not show up at all.
- If you’re driving, bring your GPS device in case you’re stuck in a traffic jam or are re-routed. You’ll need to find another way to go.
- Expect delays if you’re flying. Pack medicines and important items and a small toiletry case in the event you’re flight is delayed, cancelled, or rerouted. You’ll want a toothbrush with you.
- Make sure all luggage has plenty of identification on it. Losses by luggage handlers are likely.
Here’s what you need to know for Thanksgiving Day and Mercury Retrograde:
Mercury Retrograde begins November 24, 2011 at 2:19 am, EST.
- People might be edgier than normal. Let it flow and let it go.
- You might be edgier than normal. Have another glass of wine and mellow out.
- Do NOT go shopping for electronics at midnight madness sales. Your items will either break, won’t work right, or the recipient won’t use it.
- Write a list of everything you’re preparing so you don’t forget things.
- Cook, clean and do as many things ahead of guests as you can. Cook the turkey the day ahead even. Seriously, snafus are going to happen.
Here’s what you need to know for the New Moon and the Eclipse:
The exact time of the November NEW MOON and partial Solar Eclipse is Friday, November 25, 2011 at 1:10 am, EST.
- Make New Moon wishes late in the evening on Thanksgiving Day.
- Make some New Moon wishes for our country, our earth and our world. We all need it.
- Make some wishes to bring peace and comfort in your life.
- Focus your wishes on Sagittarian themes of creating a stronger identity, more personal freedom or adventure, optimism, spirituality, trust in positive outcomes, greater influence, international travel.
Feng Shui for Thanksgiving — How to Debone the Turkeys at the Table
We all know that holidays mark a time when the people you never see except once or twice a year are all in the room. In feng shui talk that means tension. Old grudges come up, feelings get hurt, you name it.
It could be worse this year.
So here’s a feng shui prescription to de-fuse Thanksgiving:
- Add red colors to make people hungry and focus on the food and not who got Aunt Sally’s spoon collection.
- Put out some candles (unscented ones) to burn up excess wood (the element that represents family) and stop arguments and nasty sniping
- Add red and orange flowers to the table to burn up the wood energy.
- Use the silver to stop the wood energy
- Be sure to have some small finger foods for everyone to nibble so they’re not “hangry” (angry/hungry) because the turkey’s not on the table yet.
For more ideas, read on here:
http://redlotusletter.com/dining-room-feng-shui-make-your-holidays-happier/
Start thinking about the New Year because it is certainly headed our way. Get your big picture ideas into your New Moon wishes because the archer is known for his name.
Have a safe holiday and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Katie
Kathryn Weber is the publisher of the Red Lotus Letter Feng Shui E-zine and certified feng shui consultant in classical Chinese feng shui. Kathryn helps her readers improve their lives and generate more wealth with feng shui. For more information and to receive her FREE Ebook “The Cash Register at Your Front Door” visit www.redlotusletter.com and learn the fast and fun way how feng shui can make your life more prosperous and abundant!
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Get My Free Report!
My long absence from posting on this blog is due to my working on my new report,
“The 25 Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat … That You Can Change RIGHT NOW!”
That’s at least partially true, the rest is just due to life happening and a busy summer.
You can get my new report FREE just by clicking on the link or picture to the right and signing up for our email list. There’s a future health & feng shui newsletter in the works too!
SIGN UP NOW AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! 
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Cardio Workout
Well, I didn’t start using the Slim in 6 DVD last week. I just started it a few days ago.
I couldn’t even find the DVD at first, since it had been so long since I used it. I looked everywhere for about 30 minutes, then it dawned on me that it might still be in the DVD
player where I used it last.
Went to the DVD player … it wouldn’t open! The display would light up and act like it
was working, but there was no sound of anything working. We got some needlenose
pliers and forced it open, and lo and behold! …
the DVD was there! Yay!
Ok, finally I could do my workout, LOL, before I get too tired to even start! If you’re like me, that has been a big problem over the years. You get home from work, relax a little,
maybe eat dinner, then you’re too tired to workout. That’s why I have to make sure I do my workout before dinner.
The workout started out easy enough, but about 10 minutes into it I noticed that my arms were getting tired. There was a lot of holding your arms out in front of you and moving them different ways while doing different things with your legs. The leg part was fairly easy but I wasn’t used to keeping my arms up for that long a time continuously.
It reminded me of being in the high school card section at football games where we held 
up different colored cards at different times to make different messages or pictures that could be seen from across the stadium. I remember our arms really aching from doing that, because we had to hold them up for 30 to 40 minutes at a time if I remember right. I don’t even think they do that at high school games any more!
The Slim-in-6 1st workout was only 30 minutes (I had thought it was 45), but it got me sweating and I felt a little sore in a few places so it definitely worked. I also found a bunch more old workout videos that I hadn’t used in a while, so I might change it up a little from week to week.
Do you have any favorite workout videos that you love? Let me know!
Here’s a funny exercise-related joke picture I received today:
FINALLY SOMETHING THAT WORKS FOR ME.
***Daily Exercise Routine For Seniors***
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500 lbs?! 650 lbs?!!!
Yesterday I was tired all day. Went into our training session at 5:15 PM feeling that way too. Did our usual 10 minute cardio warm-up, I felt a little better … then Boyd had us go straight to the leg press.
Little did I know that I would leg press 500 pounds! and my husband Robert 650!
I couldn’t believe he did that! Talk about being “pumped” up!
I don’t know how he does it, but our trainer Boyd seems to know just when we would be able to handle more weight during our workouts. I certainly didn’t know! I left there feeling much better and energized too.
I still haven’t lost any more “weight” yet, and that is pushing me to find something different to do in my training “off” days. I have been trying the “get up earlier” to do 20 minutes of extra cardio, but it hasn’t been really working for me. Lately I’ve had to much to do in the evenings, and get to bed late, so getting up earlier than 7am is not an option. I’m one of those that needs at least 7 hours sleep, if not 8 or more. So sometime this week I’m going to start doing a cardio workout video called Debbie Siebers’ Slim in 6
We did something fun this weekend. We went to dinner with friends at a place that was dance club also. It was our wedding anniversary this Monday, so we made Saturday evening our night out to celebrate. It was a lot of fun to be out like that, and dancing! Yes, my husband actually danced with me! Made me feel like I was in my 20′s again. 
Good exercise too! I had forgotten how much fun that can be. We were drinking wine, and water too. Remember, moderation is definitely the key (and good Feng Shui) to treating your body right and not feeling bad the next day!
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Latest Progress
I’ve been neglecting to post lately cuz I felt like I really haven’t been losing any weight lately. Which is true. When I finally got up the courage to have our trainer take my measurements again I was pleasantly surprised.
I had lost more inches!
Since the last time we measured, I have lost:
No weight
3/8″ in my neck
1 inch in my shoulders
1/2″ in my chest
Another 2″ in my waist!
Another 1-1/2″ in my hips!
1/2″ in my thigh
0 lost in my arms 
Lost 3.9% body fat
Here is a recent picture, although I have kinda loose clothing on so it’s hard to tell, but they were new, and a smaller size! Yay
I have lost 2 sizes now.
Last week I got up 30 minutes early before work and did 20 minutes of cardio on the treadmill. You don’t know hard that was for me, I’m definitely NOT a morning person LOL. I only started it last Wednesday, so we’ll see how much I can keep it up this week. I’ve got to do something to jump start my poundage loss again. I’ll let you know how it goes …
I’ve added a new feature to my blog on the sidebar to the right >>>>>
It’s an “Exercise Video of the Week”
These will be music videos that I actually use and are my favorites for working out on the treadmill or the elliptical. They really make it easier to go faster, longer and harder at your cardio. What I do and you can too, is add the VEVO app to your cell phone or tablet. From there you can find your favorite videos and watch them on your device while you work out. Actually seeing the video and the dancing helps to get your chi (energy) up and going and makes it more fun to workout!
This first one is called “Blow” by Ke$ha. It’s very upbeat and funny too!
Leave a comment below and let us know what your favorite music is for working out!
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Easy Dinner Tonight
We were trying to think of something for dinner tonight, and had some ground meat to use up. So I looked up several meatloaf recipes online and came up with my own healthy version.
It turned out fantastic! Add your favorite fresh veggies on the side, and if you have to have a carb too, make some brown rice.
I wanted to make this faster and easier than normal, so I thought to use a blender for most of the ingredients before mixing with the meat and the breadcrumbs. This little idea worked great and definitely made it faster than chopping things by hand.
Try it and add your own modifications!
CHERYL’S EASY HEALTHY MEATLOAF
INGREDIENTS:
3 pounds ground meat (2 lbs turkey, 1 lb lean hamburger)
1 medium Zucchini
1 large carrot
1 medium green pepper
1 medium onion
2 large jalepenos (cleaned and seeded)
4 – 6 cloves fresh garlic
3 teaspoons sea salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 Tablespoons prepared mustard
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon oregano
¾ cup breadcrumbs in whatever brand & flavor you like
3 large eggs
¾ cup ketchup, organic and/or low sugar
2 Tablespoons worcestershire sauce or your favorite steak sauce
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. Cut veggies into uniform chunks
3. Combine all ingredients except meat, breadcrumbs and 1/3 of the ketchup into a blender and blend to desired consistency, but not totally liquified
4. Place meat and breadcrumbs in large bowl, then add veggie mixture
5. Mix well with clean hands or large spoon
6. Spray 2 glass loaf pans with Organic Olive Oil Pam, or use Extra Virgin Organic Olive Oil to coat
7. Divide meat mixture in half, and place into 2 loaf pans
8. Brush remaining ketchup on top of each one
9. Bake meatloaves for 1 hour, cool for 10 minutes before serving
NOTES: To make this super healthy, use all organic and natural ingredients when possible. The jalapenos don’t really make it spicy, unless you use more, or leave the seeds in. Omit them if you need to.
Let me know what you think, and any suggestions for the recipe too. I think I’m going to try using cooked organic Quinoa instead of the breadcrumbs next! Yummm!
Wuz happenin
These pictures were actually taken on 5/17/11. I took them with my phone, then my phone had problems with its “gallery” and I couldn’t find the pictures! Very frustrating, but luckily a system update became available and fixed the gallery problem. And there were my pictures again!
You can see a little progress, it is going slow but steady. Things are tightening up, especially in the rear area, I’ve lost a little in my face, I have a waist now, and my cellulite is going away, Yay!
Got a new haircut too. Changing the body, so it seemed like time to change the hair LOL.
I haven’t really lost anymore weight recently. I may have only gained one pound on my vacation, but I think all the no-no’s end up slowing things down metabolically. I know the alcohol defintely does. That’s why I’m drinking iced tea right now instead of the glass of wine that I want.
I prefer to think that right now I am still gaining more muscle than losing fat, and that is the reason I don’t show any weight loss. Sounds good anyway, doesn’t it?
So I am trying to be much better about the diet again now. Got a little too lax there for a while. It is hard sometimes. You think one little bite of something here and there won’t hurt, but it does, because it leads to a lot more bites here and there.
I did buy some new workout clothes in the last few weeks. I will try to take the next pictures in those since they’re tighter and will show more. Not that I want them too, but maybe you can see more progress that way.
Now I want to ask you a question … What is the ONE thing that you couldn’t be without? Is it chocolate? or alcohol? pasta? ice cream? You tell me. Please fill out the poll below and let’s see what everyone picks.
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