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The Tao of our economic crisis

On the day last Saturday in April, World Tai Chi and Qigong is extended over hundreds of cities in over 65 countries and 50 states. You can offer something that can profoundly beneficial to our national and global economy. How?

The Chinese character for "crisis" is composed of two characters, "danger" and "opportunity."

If we let this economic crisis can enable a paradigm shift that not only create a much more balanced and healthy, but also to ensure a sustainable planet and enjoyable for our children and their grandchildren.

Unknown to most of us, our planet has been severely "out of balance" for a very, very long time. Traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years touted the need for a balance to ensure the health, individual health, community health and global health.

What I mean "out of balance"?, You ask. I 'll explain. My wife is from Hong Kong, while I grew up in an era rich in western Kansas. Not rich or even upper middle class, but even in our world of blue collar workers had a lot, never been hungry, and took the long road trips cheap fuel whenever my father had some free time.

I did not know is that everywhere on the planet, a young man who one day marry has been the experience a world where resources are very precious. My parents understood that their experience of the Great Depression. However, I thought his views were not current, and when finally met and married my wife, Angela Wong, I thought his views were not relevant to our modern world is.

Angela, like my parents, exalted me, not "lose". No wasted energy, fuel, paper towels, nothing. She taught me that everything we eat is a precious commodity. I laughed at her for decades.

I do not laugh. I changed. From the impressive first fall of a large part of our economy for some months now I tear a small corner of a napkin to clean a small spill instead of using a paper towel over. I have a Prius hybrid, and play the game to see how the miles of road you can make out of each gallon of gasoline. Our windows are double glazed and insulation in our house, and purchased equipment savings energy, and light bulbs. And do not leave a door open when the air conditioner or heating the air, and have learned to live in hot summer and cold in winter.

I'm not sad, or live in the truth, I'm just the challenge of being effective. I am more and more experience. I am becoming someone new, someone more conscious. This crisis was an opportunity that has been fueled by a threat economic crisis.

When talking to friends, I think there are millions, even tens of millions of Americans are same thing now. So when I do a paper towel such as paper towels before ten, "became in mind:" I know that tens of million paper towels are saved by our nation. Tens of millions of gallons of gasoline are preserved.

Over the decades the world has been living in or near poverty wages. Why? When the wealth of some nations on the resources of poor countries as an aspiration magnets, no none left for the locals. When I was young, my father worked with a Mexican who came from a part of Mexico, who grew watermelons for export to the United States. All his life in Mexico that he had never tasted cantaloupe water until it reaches the United States as a young adult.

As fuel becomes expensive, long-term exports become less attractive. Land premises in poor countries may possibly be more focused on feeding the local population in developed countries than rich countries more accustomed seasonal distribution of products manufactured locally.

However, the fuel crisis may also stimulate a broad public and private investment in green renewable energy cheaper type of solar wind. This technology can be exported around the world, an energy-hungry China, for example.

Environment Our environment is in dire straits. Few people deny it any more. Approaching a tipping point, and if they do not change radically from fossil fuels (oil and coal) to renewable energy (wind, tidal, solar), which can damage ecosystems beyond the point of repair. Any person who is consciously aware that the climate has changed since we were kids. There may come a time where change is to intensify the world painfully.

This moment of "crisis" is dangerous economic, but it can be sewn into an opportunity to catapult the global economy to renewable energy cheaper. Because ultimately much cheaper not only energy production but the maintenance system, and lack of environmental disasters and campaigns to clean energy.

Health is another area that knows a paradigm shift. projection of current trends in the coming years, the annual State Health exceed 4 billion dollars per year. This is not viable, and the bankruptcy of our nation, if not amended.

However, we change. We've all experienced outrageous insurance costs, and had to fight for medical coverage, even if they are insured. We have seen health care professionals we put very expensive treatment protocols and not always effective for long-term health.

At the same time, new studies and personal experiences provide insight into health no other solutions that can address many of the most common and costly health problems socially.

Research has shown as Tai Chi, Yoga and meditation can reduce blood pressure, helps chronic pain and mobility problems, depression, falling, anxiety, ADHD, mood disorders and conditions. Type 2 diabetes can be treated with Tai Chi and heart disease as well, according to a study emerging. A controlled study at UCLA found that Tai Chi participants improved resistance to viral infection by 50%, and another study revealed Tai Chi improves sleep quality in 65% of participants. How much money is spent inoculating people, or the treatment of flu victims? How are the companies that lost productivity due to colds and flu could be avoided by the spirit and low cost the formation of the body? How much is spent on drugs for anxiety, depression and sleep loss

Where expenditure $ 10 or $ 20 per week of learning Tai Chi or Yoga, we can save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars of costs of health care the future, and our portfolio is growing thin. . . options are increasingly attractive

A study of twenty years Kaiser-long learning found that between 70-85% of all diseases refer patients to their physicians were caused by stress, not aggravated by stress, but caused by stress. How to learn our business, which included a healthy body / mind wellness companies can save each tens of thousands of insurance companies disease and loss of saved dollars U.S. productivity, things change.

When our education system began teaching the mind and tools for the health of the body to our 90 million students we will begin to see billions in annual health spending in the trunk future. It is a wonderful opportunity, propelled forward by the economic crisis.

Without the economic crisis, he probably would have stepped building on drugs and surgery as our first line of defense for health, rather than a last line of defense, taking an initial natural intelligence and training of the body can actually deal with these problems and not only to reduce symptoms.

In this period crisis is actually a time of opportunity. The question is, can we take this opportunity to change or we will tighten the noose on teeth mysterious and ancient ways of life, which are constipation birth of a new form, a new world?

The ancient Chinese Yin Yang symbol, if you look the white spots and black spots, are less yin yang, and so on and so forth. This symbolizes that our body works can be seen in cells in collaboration body, and function of our society and health is reflected in the health and body function. What does this mean for our society Modern?

In Tai Chi or Qigong, we learn that the tension in our mind, heart, body and restricts blood flow, energy flow, distribution of immune cells, nutrient distribution, etc. Therefore, when the "boost" around old thoughts, fears, hatreds, prejudices, habits, our body 's vital functions running tighten and restrict the ability of all our systems to maximize health.

Tai Chi Chi Kung or deep breathing doctor, and a vision of "letting go" of the "rigidity of the age" that we have collected so we can open and empty in a new health, all health paradigm. By "softening" of our mental, emotional and physical we can afford to re-form the most optimal condition to maximize our health.

Our local society, nationally and globally, is given in question at this time to re-form a new image the evolution of the self that feed our people, our planet and reforming economies emerging. If you tighten around the old model, the fears, prejudices, etc. that our bodies tend to do, we have created our ability to open the stream leads to a more optimal way.

While hundreds of millions around the world open to techniques of mind / body to maximize health and minimize their healthcare costs, which will experience a side effect. "Not the kind of negative side effects that we see in drug advertisements on television, but the side effects of other pregnant with possibility.

As these Hundreds of millions of people "loosen its grip on the old rigid thoughts, feelings and behaviors, their communities and nations also release control over the economic policies of old waste. The nutrients of raw materials in an overpopulation of the planet, will begin casting technology and production to maximize effect while minimizing costs.

New industries flowers, to be held on the cars sun Free and no wind, and power and industry and with it lowering costs. The work can find gainful employment in areas that grow Health and well-being in society, rather brazen consumerism For reasons of consumption and profit. We find that these new industries, not only damage our societies and ecosystems, but feed on many levels.

For example, Tai Chi, Chi Kung, meditation and teachers are labor-intensive industry expanding wealth among communities around the world, rather than concentrating benefits small businesses in pharmaceuticals. The result will be vibrant and healthy, more creative people who have dominated innovation and economic benefits of their communities through a very decentralized.

This will benefit the ecosystem. Why? An article in the Kansas City Star a few years ago noted that the biggest polluter on the Missouri River has been the pharmaceuticals, no industry, but from human waste in running. As people come to mind / body health solutions, not only to spread the wealth in the economy, but reduce pollution problems.

Mind / Body tools also reduce violent behavior and professional studies as aberrant, and promotes the calming effect seems to extend from larger populations around them, as shown in a large study of meditation transcendental in Washington DC in early 1990. In this study, the influence of TM meditators actually reduced the rate of violent crime throughout the city.

Since the United States now imprisons more people than any other nation in the world, spend hundreds of billions a year incalculable to the police, courts and the penal system, as a side effect of the mind and body training of our people, can significantly save on costs as well.

Our economic crisis is not by chance that it freezes our mind, heart and body around the old model. However, as the Chinese symbol said, it also offers a great opportunity to enter a new paradigm of humanity who feed us all and our planet for future generations future. We know that bad habits are passed on by family and economic concerns drive our people to the spirit / healing solutions body, they also affect future generations, to develop multi-faceted benefits that can not even imagine.

It is time breathing, loosen, change and the flow to a new future of unlimited possibilities. Day World Tai Chi & Qigong 's you WorldTaiChiDay.org gives freedom "Breathing Lessons " and more to facilitate this process. WTCQD has provided these tools for some of the world 's most important personal Company directors and managers, the major international institutions and health businesses and governments around the world such as free health services public.

And the last Saturday in April to teach-in will take place in hundreds of cities spanning over 65 countries on six continents and 50 states U.S. trade tools of the mind / body that incorporate breathing, visualization and gentle movement to relax the mind, heart and the body so vast that it can open the possibility on many levels.

About the Author

Bill Douglas, Founder of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, and author of the #1 best selling Tai Chi book, “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to T’ai Chi & Qigong.” Bill has been a Tai Chi source for The Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post, BBC Radio, The New York Times, and media worldwide. He is the 2009 Inductee into the Internal Arts Hall of Fame; recipient of the Lou Gehrig’s Hero Award; the recipient of the Extraordinary Service in the Field of Qigong Award from the National Qigong Association; and the Media Excellence Award recipient from the World Congress on Qigong. Bill can be reached at http://www.WorldTaiChiDay.org

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