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Emotions and Five elements – Part 2

February 23, 2018 Smiljana Golja 1 - LIVING QIGONG, 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

This text is the continuation of the previous blog Emotions and Five elements – Part 1. Emotion as an energetic movement In Daoist thought emotions are regarded as energetic movements which originate from the center of our consciousness. Emotions propagate through the entire energy system and they are changing its vibration. You can feel how different emotions have different vibrational qualities. If you are sensitive, you don’t feel only your emotional vibrations, but you can[…]

Emotions and Five elements – Part 1

February 16, 2018 Smiljana Golja 1 - LIVING QIGONG, 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

In previous blogs about Five elements Petar was already writing about the connection between Five elements and emotions. In this and in the next blog I will discuss some general aspects regarding emotions from a Daoist (and partly TCM) point of view. I have added some of my thoughts and experiences that I hope you can use in your own exploration and practice. 🙂 I think that emotions in our society are generally misunderstood and[…]

Sixth element?! – Part 2

February 9, 2018 Petar Prikratki 1 - LIVING QIGONG, 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

This text is continuation of the blog Sixth element ?!– Part 1. Lack of consciousness When a human eats a living food, he intakes a consciousness that follows this way of life. Simply, fears start to vanish. If you live in fear, which causes a lack of consciousness – you don’t love and you are not connected with Divine, One, Source, Tao… How do I know that, because I have experienced it. Chinese say,[…]

Sixth element?! – Part 1

February 2, 2018 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

Has now come a Time to introduce a Sixth element? In Chinese tradition there is a theory of Five Elements. In short these elements are: Metal, Fire, Water, Wood and Earth. To each of these elements belongs a certain light vibration, which I will list in the same order I listed elements – so: White – Metal, Red – Fire, deep Blue – Water, Green – Wood and Yellow – Earth. To every element belongs[…]

Fire element – 4: Pericardium and Triple Heater meridians

January 26, 2018 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 16) Read also previous blogs about the Five elements. A pair of Pericardium and Triple Heater are meridians that represent second Fire. What is really interesting to me is that this is the Fire that is more of non physical or »ethereal« nature :). First of all it is very unusual to our western mind, that there is “something” named a Concept of Five Elements and then there are Six… Hmm, could[…]

Fire Element – 3: Small Intestine meridian

January 19, 2018 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 15) It has been quite some time since we share with you a new blog and a new video about Qigong topics every week. Recently we have made some mistakes and we have realized that we need vacation. But only after the journey through the Five elements is finished. 🙂 🙂 If you have missed first two blogs about the Fire element, clickthese two links: Fire element 1 – Introduction and Fire[…]

Fire Element 2 – Heart meridian

January 12, 2018 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 14 ) In the previous blog I have discussed about the Fire element in general. Let’s continue with the Heart meridian, the Yin meridian of Fire element. Heart, as we all know, is the seat of our soul. But do we? I know that according to scientific experiments our heart as an organ which knows what will happen even before it happens, it knows what is going on with our dear ones[…]

Fire element – Part 1

January 5, 2018 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 13) If you have missed the previous articles in the series about Five elements you can find them here: https://petarsmi.com/en/blog/ What can we say about Fire element? Let’s start with its position in the five elements diagram. In the five pointed star diagram, Fire element is placed at the top position. This position derives from the Postnatal/Post-heaven Bagua arrangement, where Fire/Li is positioned at the top. In the Pre-heaven Bagua Heaven gua/kua[…]

Wood element – 3: Gallbladder meridian

December 29, 2017 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 12) In the previous blog I have discussed about the Liver meridian and today I continue with its pair meridian, the Gallbladder meridian. Bringer of the light Bringer of the light, as it is sometimes called Gallbladder meridian, since it is very much involved with the flow of Yang energy and of light inside the body. Besides that it helps Liver with its many functions. It is the Yang meridian of the[…]

Wood element – 2: Liver Meridian

December 21, 2017 Petar Prikratki 3 - QIGONG THEORY, Five elements

(Five elements – 11) In this article I will further discuss Wood element and the Liver meridian. Liver meridian is Yin part of the Wood element represented in our bodies. The other is Gallbladder, which I will discuss in the next article. Liver and two roles Liver meridian has two major roles: storing Blood as well as providing the flow of Qi. First one is Yin function the second one is Yang. Liver can cause[…]