My 2nd video training course just gets published by Udemy.
With a few more video training courses to be published, we can all begin to see the whole picture of the Ancient Wisdom to create Better Well Being today.
There are interesting observation and conversation with friends on the above subject matter, “What is Aging Process?”
Surely this subject matter is of concern to those past middle age, especially those retire from work.
At the same time, most admit that they cannot go into deeper discussion as they have very vague ideas what aging process is all about?
As a concept, we all know that we cannot stay young and strong forever.
But without knowing the aging process, it is difficult to ensure gradual and graceful aging. We do not know what to expect? How not to get into serious illnesses? Western Medicine does not provide much clues on the above, except general advice : good diet, good sleep, reasonable exercise, be happy.
And that is what most people do.
Those retired have the opinion that enjoy life to the fullness NOW, be happy, go travelling. The underlying assumption is Now everything is OK, enjoy. Later, …..don’t know, until some symptoms show up. Pray that no major illnesses.
Others still have a lot of ambitions with worthy cause. Some want to do charity to help people. This is another assumption that he or she currently is fit and healthy, hence can contribute much.
Later, when and how is he or she no longer fit, age faster, with weakening body functioning ……, that need others to do charity to him or her? i.e. To take care of him or her?
Isn’t is nice to know exactly what is the aging process, then we can become more conscious how to take step to ensure gradual and graceful aging?
In my 1st published video training on “Philosophy, Yin & Yang Theory, And Application” I shared, as per ancient wisdom, Aging Process is diminishing of Yin and Yang.
If that is the proposition, then we need to understand the basic concept of Yin and Yang, and how Yin and Yang are operating constantly in our life and take action based on that understanding.
Is Aging process only the concern of the middle age people?
Once we understand the ancient wisdom, we realize that we should implement the Life Cultivation in balancing Yin and Yang for babies and young children so that they have a better foundation to ensure gradual and graceful aging process.
You are welcome to learn from the following video training, what is Yin and Yang.
Today we discuss more the concept and illustration of Yin-Yang.
The theory says that only with balanced Yin-Yang, we can be healthy in mind, body and spirit.
We use an illustration to discuss Yin-Yang.
The word of “Pain” in western culture is “pain” by itself. But in Chinese culture, there are two words to describe “Pain”, called “TengTong” “疼痛”。
These two characters represent different manifestation of pain, and it carries meaning of Yin-Yang.
The character Tong “痛” consists of two parts, the outer part represents bed. Meaning the person is in pain and resting on bed. And The inner part is another character “甬” “Yong”, meaning spring water flow. If the spring water is blocked, then it is abnormal and resulted in something negative, i.e. pain.
And YEIC has the concept of Qi, which is like spring water flow, constantly moving, and should not be blocked, otherwise illnesses arise.
Most of the time, the Qi flow is blocked due to wrong diets, unbalanced emotions like worries, anger, fear etc.
内经说 ：“不通则痛，痛则不通。”
Then the other character, “疼” “Teng”. Again the outer part of the character represent bed, and the inner part “冬” “dong” represent winter, cold, something external that attacks the body and resulted in pain.
For example, excessive coldness causes blood to be stagnant, not flow easily, and pain resulted. It can also be internal “Cold” generated by the body, the person concerned often feel cold, even in warm weather.
Often females period pain is a result of internal cold generated, which can come from diets of intrinsic cold in nature, or depression, suppression of emotions.
Hence Teng “疼” (one type of pain) represents cold in nature, cold wind, cold flow in motion, and it fits the definition of Yang, (constant flow).
And Tong “痛” (another type of pain) represents something blocked, stagnant, and it fits into the definition of Yin.
Now we can imagine the misery and difficulty of autistic child, they have no language to express their discomfort felt within. It can be Yin Tong “痛” pain, or Teng “疼” Yang pain.
Again compared with western culture and western medicine, no such differentiation is made on pain.
With the above YEIC concepts, treatment can be more focused e.g. to dissolve the blockages so that blood can flow easily, whereas Western Medicine usually just administer pain-killer.
You can see that YEIC has formed a part of Chinese Culture, with Chinese characters taking up the concepts of the ancient sages.
Ancient sages believe that Life cannot be divorced from Yin-Yang.
This discussion involves a few key concepts which are elaborated in the online training. “Yin Yang Theory 阴阳学说”， “Pain in two concepts 疼痛” ，“Blockages cause pain 不通则痛，痛则不通”，”活血化瘀”。
Not knowing the alphabets, how to communicate and write an essay.
Not knowing a language, how to understand the underlying message.
Sometimes, we operate without being aware of such simple logic.
I give an example.
After being given a prescription by a Western Medicine doctor for an illness, the patient quickly checks at the internet, for more information on the medicine given. The patient finds some extra information regarding the medicine, which the doctor did not mention. The patient is worried about that information. On the second day, the patient visited the doctor again to challenge him on his prescription.
The patient know the language of the medicine, though not too technical in details, but sufficient for him to know the pro and con. This is the challenges faced by the Western Medicine doctors.
If the patient visits a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) doctor. When given the prescription, the patient has hard time to understand the prescription after spending long hours with Google search. There are strange language and metaphor used. For example, the Liver is on fire. Or there is too much Evil Qi, or the Yin Yang no balance. Or Wood attacks Earth.
The patient is at a loss. He cannot challenge the TCM doctor.
This is because the patient does not know the ABC, the language of the Chinese medical treatment system.
Some health-conscious people, or have some not too serious symptoms in the body, want to learn from the ancient Chinese health system, do good deal of research and reading. These people are often puzzled by the strange language. Qi Deficiency. Yin Deficiency. Yang Excessiveness. Stomach Qi or Essence depleting.
Soon these learners give up.
Not knowing the alphabets, how to communicate and write an essay.
Not knowing a language, how to understand the underlying message.
For the above cases, my work o Video Training Courses on the Ancient Wisdom, Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, has the purpose to provide basic ABC language to help learners to explore and understand better their performance, behaviours or health issues based on ancient wisdom.
More than providing the language, but also the knowledge how to do self Yin Yang balancing, e.g. Through food therapy, activating Qi, raising consciousness.
The next Video Training Course is on “Qi (Its mystery unfolded), Qi Blood & 5-Essential Human Life Variable” will be ready for publishing after Christmas
There are altogether 10 Video Training Course to complete the essentials of Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic.
Keep coming back to the is Blog to check the status.
In promoting 3000 years Chinese ancient wisdom, Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, 黄帝内经, which addresses all the major aspects of our life : Performance, Health, Illnesses, Emotions, Psychology, Consciousness, Physiology, I have been conducting training classes and doing one to one coaching to clients with all sorts of issues.
Last month a friend introduced an internet platform Udemy, whereby they have 24 millions students / learners eager to learn something in life, I get very excited with the potential reaching out to the whole world.
I plan to design the ancient wisdom in video training course, module by module.
Just a few days ago, my first video training course was approved. That provides great encouragement to me.
I found some great advantages using video training course. For example, to explain the fundamental concept of Yin Yang, how is the concept used to observe and understand the world and various phenomena, how Yin Yang changes taking place in our body, mind and emotions, how Yin Yang balance comes about to achieve harmony, …. I realize that if I do the explanation in the classroom, I may spent less than 10 min. as there are many other topics to cover in the 1-2 training days.
But in the case of video training, I have the luxury to spend more than 1 hour to bring the abstract concept of Yin Yang to deriving principles and application, and explain in details “What is Qi”? for 1.5 hours
I am now designing the 3rd module.
It is real great fun and inspiring.
You are welcome to listen and watch a few free preview video and study the video course objectives and program outlines.
This is another conflicting report against some long established nutritious product. Certainly more will come.
This is today dilemma of Western Medicine and Western Nutrition theory.
They have simple brain and naive mind.
They think that when the body lacks calcium then inject your body with more calcium.
Even engineers knows that with all raw materials input, the manufacturing process produces a new product, not give you back the raw materials.
Very silly ya for nutritionist to treat the body system as non-processing.
Suppose a family is unhappy. It appears that the unhappiness is caused by lack of money. So you give them a lot of money. Do you think they attain happiness ever after?
Surely not. Often easily obtained money destroy their life. What is important is the knowledge and skills to generate the required finance by themselves.
Our new Malaysian government sees the problem of NEP now, and they try hard to make progressive changes.
Similarly our body system must have the capability to generate what is good for healthy bone structure.
How does YEIC understand and treat bone related problems?
First of all, ancient sages observe bone weakness (osteoporosis, walking difficulty, joints pain) , memory loss (dementia), deterioration of brain power, hearing problems etc are related mostly to aging. And they all belong to governing power of Kidneys-sub-system.
They also observe that good Lungs and Large Intestine functionalities improve Kidneys-functions.
They also observe that poor Spleen / Stomach system weakens Kidneys functions. Do you not observe the same, aged people have poor digestive system?
The above is governed by 5-element Theory. 五行学说。
So how do we strengthen bone structures. It must be strengthening the overall body system. And by Life Cultivation 养生, ancient sages give us plenty simple and practical methods to improve the concerned problem.
Interestingly by practicing Life Cultivation, you improve the overall quality of your life, not just weak bones problems.
Do you think ancient sages are wiser and more scientific?
This discussion involves a few key concepts which are elaborated in the online training. “5-Element Theory 五行学说”， “Life Cultivation 养生” “Words in Chinese are texts from the book YEIC, 3000 years ago.”
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It is indeed wonderful that the whole world can learn the ancient Chinese wisdom.
Why are there often pustules on the face (lips)? (Heat-symptom)
Why pustules at the lips and not nose etc?
Why face often has pimples?
Why eyes are red, especially when angry?
Why wrinkles on the face when we grow older, and not at the feet or butt?
Why during winter, people wrap themselves all over the body with warm clothing, but not so much the face?
Why hairs (on the head) turn white and drop, but not so much hair at other parts of the body?
Why so much money spent on cosmetics and beautification by females, but cosmetic can hardly maintain the desired beauty?
How does Western Medicine explain the above?
Most of the time the explanations are piecemeal, un-connected to each other or just taken for granted.
Ancient sages use a simple concept “Yin and Yang” to explain all.
Head / face are considered Yang with respect to the lower part of the body.
Of all the meridians to the head region, there are 6 Yang meridians, except one Liver-Yin meridian.
Hence the head region is heavily Yang, implies warm or heat. Hence the head / face can withstand winter cold better. At the same time, due to heat, pustules and pimples easily develop.
When one is angry, the Liver Qi rises, YEIC says “Liver energy manifests at eyes”, the eyes turn red without adequate Yin nourishment.
Hairs turn grey and drop due to inadequate Yin sources nearby.
Why pustules at the lips and not nose?
YEIC says : “Spleen’s Opening is at mouth and lips”. When Spleen functionalities are out of balance, pustules as symptoms emerge at lips and mouth, not nose.
What can trigger Spleen / Stomach imbalance? Beside wrong diets, it is over pensiveness, worries. Hence pustules are reminding you to cool down, take life easy..
Why females have difficulty to maintain beauty of the face?
Since the head is a Yang region, it needs a lot of Yin nourishment supplied by Spleen, Liver, Lungs, Kidneys and Heart. But all these organs are easily out of balance due to excessive emotions.
Are you not amazed how ancient sages can use a simple theory to explain various phenomena, with good logic? Yet today modern science still have difficulties.
In fact, Western Medicine also cannot explain logically how Parkinson, Autism, and many other illnesses come about. Yet they can administer medicines and surgery. Funny Ya!
This discussion involves a few key concepts which are elaborated in the online training . “Yin Yang Theory 阴阳”，”Meridian Theory 经络学说”., “Spleen manifests at mouth and lips 脾开窍于口 其华在唇”，”Organs functionalities 五脏六腑”，”Liver manifests at eyes 肝主目 “Words in Chinese are texts from the book YEIC, 3000 years ago.”
Lately Alkaline Diet is another popular Nutrition diet system.
We have discussed earlier, every now and then Western Nutrition comes up with new theories, new diet system, each advocated by different experts, attracting their own believers, as all these experts do not see eye-to-eye. Some go into aggressive advertisement.
As far as Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic (YEIC) Dietary System is concerned, thousands of years till today, it is the same consistent theory. Hence there is never any quarrels, as the dietary system is linked to the whole body functionalities, which are also linked to health, or sickness and illness.
Such holistic theory is used for the last 3000 years, no new theory is needed. Because it is proven working thousands of years.
Alkaline Diet claims that it is the acidic body conditions that cause hundred types of illnesses.
We will now discuss Alkaline Diet make comparison with YEIC.
1。Alkaline Diet identifies human body has two types of Body Constituent : Acidic and Alkaline.
YEIC says, there are nine types of body constituents : some tend to be fat, some thin, some scare of cold, some scare of heat, some feel depressed, some aggressive … etc.
If any of these 9 body constituents get worse, illnesses arise.
There is no Acidic or Alkaline body constituent in YEIC.
Do you think complex human body only has two types of body constituents? What about those who often feel weak, difficulty in breathing, tire easily called Qi-deficiency. Some often feel hot, others cold. Is he acidic or alkaline?
2。In YEIC, the equivalent “acidic” is sourness.
YEIC places great importance to 5 major tastes : Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Salty and Pungent, each affect different organs differently.
In the case of “Sourness” or acidic, it affects the Liver. Too much or too little “sourness” cause imbalance to the liver.
Etc.
Alkaline Diet says “Acidic is the cause of many illness”, then can we say “Excessive sweetness, or Excessive Saltiness, etc are also causes of many illnesses?
Of course, every thing must be in moderation. Then what is the use of highlighting “Sourness” (acidic) is the cause of many illnesses.
3。It seems Alkaline Diet borrows some ideas from YEIC, it says : “After 1 am, if still not in bed sleeping, the body turns acidic.
So far only YEIC has a system that says daily 24 hours, each period different organs are functioning differently at optimal. Not only the above that says after 1 am, not sleeping.
E.g Which hours liver performing detoxing optimally, which hours kidneys manage water system optimally.
The 200 years of Western Medicine do not have such concepts.
Alkaline Diet says : “At 1 am, not sleeping, body turns acidic”.
3000 years ago, ancient sages say : “Between 1 – 3 am, liver performing detoxing at optimal, if not sleeping, the detox cannot be done effectively, and over time, weaken the body. The concept is Functionalities of the body system, not acidic body.
Ask Alkaline Diet expert,if not sleeping till 5 am，what happen to the body? Turns even more acidic? They wouldn’t be able to give any clear answers, except guessing and proposing more new theories.
4。Alkaline Diet also says : “If not sleeping at 1 am etc. try not to eat meat, eat more Carbohydrates”.
(Ha, ha, Keto and Atkins diets say go for low-carbohydrates. All are experts, who is more right?)
YEIC says, between 1.00-3.00 am，Small intestines is at rest, even if you take any foods, after digestion, the nutrients cannot be absorbed by the Small Intestines at these hours. Then what is the use of the advice from Alkaline diet expert on taking carbohydrates?
There are surely vast differences between YEIC and Western Nutrition Theories. I hope readers will do own serious research on both to determine which one makes sense to you most.
When you have opportunity to study YEIC, you will be amazed by the interconnectedness and completeness of the holistic theory, not just diet, (not just to reduce weight),but link to hours, link to organ functionalities, link to your emotions and psychology, and of course link to illness if balanced is not achieved.
This discussion involves a few key concepts which are elaborated in the online training.
“Body Constituents 体质”，”Organs clock and functionalities 五脏六腑功能”，”Five tastes 五味 (酸、苦、甘、辛、咸)” ， 。。。 。。。 “Words in Chinese are texts from the book YEIC, 3000 years ago.”
