Qi Gong for Depression & Emotional Balance
In the West, we are not taught how to elevate our energy naturally. We aren't taught how to free ourselves from negative thoughts or heavy feelings that keep us down, or how to claim the power of our mind and heart.
Big Pharma promises that a "magic pill" will help you reclaim your life from the cold, blue grasp of depression, but medications only help you live with the problem. They don't address the root cause of depression.
Qi Gong for Depression empowers you to address the root of your problems. Through deep breathing, gentle stretches, and flowing movements, master teacher Lee Holden teaches students how to transform depression into inspiration and inner peace—without taking harmful medications.
You will learn
- A practical, straightforward qi gong routine to release stress, malaise, and "the blues" so you can free yourself from negative thoughts and feelings of self-blame for good.
- To activate your life-force energy (qi) for emotional balance and reconnect to your inner fire, which rekindles your motivation to get things done.
- To stop the "negative thought spiral" with natural, easy-to-follow, meditative movements so you can connect with the people you love.
- How to calm your body so you can get a good night's sleep and wake up feeling refreshed with abundant energy throughout your day.
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Video Comments with Ratings
What follows below is an excerpt from my post in the General Discussion Forum of Video Fitness Forum -- in that post I compared Lee Holden's Qi Gong for Anxiety program and his Qi Gong for Depression & Emotional Balance program. Click here to read that post.
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Qi Gong for Depression and Emotional Balance is filmed at an English countryside and has three programs: short (20 minutes), long (30 minutes), and extended (40 minutes).
My favorite quote from Lee Holden in the short practice is: “In Chinese medicine the lungs are associated with depression on one side and courage and inspiration on the other. We want to transform depression into inspiration.”
IMHO Qi Gong for Depression and Emotional Balance is very different from Qi Gong for Anxiety. There are breathing exercises but there is a lot more active movements – some of them burned out my quads a bit, but I’m in physical therapy so that may not happen to you.
The short routine for Qi Gong for Depression and Emotional Balance begins with belly breathing with both hands on the abdomen, belly breathing with one hand on the abdomen and one hand on the chest, and then spinal cord breathing where you open the chest and round the back with arm movements. There is a chi massage where you knock on your chest/sternum, then you knock below your collarbone on each side, and then you knock on your chest again. Then there is some more deep breathing. There is a very active movement called tiger clears the way where you pump your legs (like squatting) while you swing your arms. Then you shake your body. There are arm movements up and down and then some rib stretches. There is a movement with one arm in front of you palm facing out while the other hand is behind you and you change positions often. There is some hinging forward at the hip with arm movements up and around. The session ends with belly breathing with your hands on your abdomen and then gently rocking and swaying.
I did experience lots of prickly tingling while doing the short session and I did feel more energized, focused, and alert when the session ended.
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Thank you again to YMAA for sending me Qi Gong for Anxiety and Qi Gong for Depression and Emotional Balance, both by Lee Holden. On the YMAA site both are available to purchase as a DVD or streaming immediately through their site. More info on streaming here – an actual file that you download to keep is not available.