This article discusses harmonious movement and practicing with a partner. It recommends finding a practice partner who is willing to explore outside their comfort zone, as practicing together can improve quality of life, mobility, flexibility, wellness, and attitude. Practicing with a partner provides greater efficacy than individual practice and creates a supportive environment that is often lacking in clinical settings alone. The author has seen hundreds of people benefit from Qi Dao coaching programs that assist with self-healing and healthier ways to face life's challenges.

1. VOLUME 1 • ISSUE 3 March 2011
Mastery Journal
The International Ezine on Mastery in Qigong, Internal Arts, and Life
Harmonious Culture of Movement
Lama Tantrapa Think With the Heart
Healing Yourself....Healing the Planet John Weston
Dr. Effie Chow Qi Dao and Mindfulness
The Ins and Outs of Breathing Kali Tara
Gary Giamboi The Greatest Epidemic Known to Man
Emotional Liposuction Part II
Gary Clyman Paul Levy

2. March 2011
Volume 1 Issue 3 Dear Mastery Journal Readers,
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Healing Yourself....Healing the Planet many of us out of slumber and awakened us to the
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Ocean in 2004, a number of Qigong practitioners have
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Gary Giamboi wounded and shocked or to contribute money, clothes
or blankets to the Red Cross and other disaster relief
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Gary Clyman For example, Dr. Effie Chow, the organizer of the 13th
World Congress on Qigong (scheduled to convene in
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4. Harmonious I recommend finding a practice partner who shares your
enthusiasm about venturing outside the box, as they
Culture of
say. In other words, your prospective partner must be
eager to explore things that are on the edge of his or her
Movement
comfort zone. On the other hand, this practice can be
very beneficial to anyone looking for ways to improve
the quality of life in general, or one’s mobility, flexibility,
wellness, and attitude, in particular.
Lama Tantr apa
Hundreds of people from all walks of life went through
If you live in a modern society, you are likely to be Qi Dao Coaching programs at Portland Qigong Clinic,
exposed to so much stress and artificial stimulatin that which assisted them in self-healing and advice regarding
you may feel disconnected from your body, a condition healthier ways to deal with the challenges on their life
often referred to as “being stuck in the head.” This can journeys. One of the reasons why I recommend practicing
restrict the free flow of life force and limit your availability with a partner is a much greater efficacy of semi-private
to life. Being out of synch with the flow of things in your sessions attended by two of my students or a client and
life may manifest as depression, disease, or chronic pain. an apprentice that I empirically discovered throughout
The more disconnected you are, the more discomfort you the years. This usually creates an atmosphere of mutual
may experience. This book will teach you to switch from empowerment and encouragement, which is often lacking
living through one misadventure after another, which are in a traditional clinical setting. The effectiveness of the
usually perceived as problems causing suffering, to living Qi Dao approach to dealing with health, relationship,
a dream life filled with genuine adventures that you start financial, environmental, and other issues has been
perceiving as awesome learning opportunities. proven time and time again.
To reconnect with the flow of life, begin by taking small On a personal note, as the holder of the lineage of Qi
steps, which are always easier to take than large leaps. Dao, I wish to congratulate you with taking the first steps
It is like learning a foreign language. First, you learn the on this path of developing your Harmonious Culture of
alphabet; then, using the letters as building blocks, you Movement. Once you have mastered these skills through
learn to form words. Subsequently, you learn grammar regular practice, you will be able to apply them in every
that will enable you to put words together to create aspect of your life. As pieces of a puzzle, they will come
sentences. With practice, you will develop an ability to together to give you a vision of the greater picture of the
communicate more eloquently with others who know this flow of energy in your world. I have no doubt that once
language. The language you will learn with the help of this you have experienced the changes that Qi Dao can bring
book is the language of Harmonious Culture of Movement. into your life, you will want to explore more advanced
applications of this art and join the international tribe of
Of course, you can and are encouraged to practice it on fellow spiritual adventurers. I welcome you to enjoy every
your own whenever you have a chance. It is more fun and step on your journey along the path of living your dreams.
challenging though to test rigorously all the practices you
learn, which is much easier to do with another person. If you spend some time observing people unaware of
Now, you may be wondering, “Do I have to have a partner their cultures of movement, you may notice that they
to practice Qi Dao with?” That does not have to be the often move with linear, start-stop and jerky motions that
same person all the time although some continuity helps. require a lot of energy. Constantly stopping and restarting
Besides, when a person gets to experience just a few your movements can certainly consume more energy than
applications of even the most basic principles of Qi Dao, continuous circular motion, because it usually takes just
he or she will likely become curious to find out more. This as much energy to stop a movement as it takes to initiate
is where you will be able to launch your coaching career it. Any formalized exercises that involve disharmonious
by encouraging that brave soul to become your regular movements can easily deplete your energy resources and
adventure partner. leave you exhausted and sore. Just imagine trying to get
to work constantly starting and stalling your car!
Can anyone practice Qi Dao together with you? Ideally,

5. them into your new identity. You will learn to transcend
the limitations imposed by pain and discomfort through
shifting your attitude towards those edges – shifting from
perceiving them as obstacles to perceiving it as learning
opportunities. With practice, you will find yourself enjoying
more and more freedom each time you view your edges
as steps leading you to manifesting your dreams.
Harmonious Culture of Movement is dedicated to
creating new, more natural energy dynamics in your body
empowering you to experience fluidity of movement
and freedom of expression associated with being in the
flow. When you are in the flow, you can be balanced
and relaxed, all life challenges notwithstanding. Since
this is not an exercise routine but a whole new culture, it
systematically approaches every aspect of life, facilitating
being in the flow not just once in a lifetime but daily:
working, healing, fighting, making love, meditating,
walking in the park, or sleeping and dreaming. Natural
Stance, as the name implies, is the simplest way to stand
In contrast to that, I would like to invite you to develop a naturally. A naturally balanced human body responds
culture of movement that integrates your entire organism. to the challenge of gravity by bringing itself to a stable
This is what I call Harmonious Culture of Movement; it is position using its bone structure to support its weight and
based on smooth, flowing, non-stop motions. Fluid and prevent falling. The vertical alignment of the spine allows
graceful, these motions are free of rigidity. Instead of the body to spend the least amount of energy to maintain
exercises using isolation of certain muscles or parts of a stable, upright stance.
the body, it suggests to synergize the movements of the
whole system in order to animate any particular part of If you are one of the many people leading a sedentary
the body. On the basic level of practice, you can begin lifestyle you may not know how to keep your body naturally
by learning to send waves of energy throughout the body balanced and aligned. If you deviate from your natural
radiating from the center to the periphery of the system alignments, the weight of your body will not be supported
– your limbs – in order to explore and enjoy your range of by its bone structure, and you will have to engage your
motion. muscles to keep yourself from falling. Although muscular
tension may prevent you from falling, muscles are never
Begin these explorations slowly and gently. First, find the as strong as bones; muscles spend energy while the bones
center of your comfort zone, the most comfortable and do their work effortlessly. Not only will this make you tired
neutral state of alignment. Second, explore the extent but it will also restrict your mobility and cause discomfort.
of the comfort zone by experimenting with your range of Eventually, chronically tense muscles will begin to ache
motion, degrees of tension or amount of pressure. Third, from the effort required to keep the misaligned body
explore the edges of your comfort zone. There is no from falling.
need to push yourself over the edge of the comfort zone
by forcing your body beyond what it is currently capable You can experience Natural Stance by jumping up in the
of. Just being present at the edge of your comfort zone air and landing on both feet as softly as possible with your
for a while will allow you to expand it. Finally, find your feet about shoulder-width apart. Notice that the easiest
authentic ways to manifest your dreams and aspirations way to do this is to land with you knees bent, letting your
that are usually beyond the edges of your comfort zone. quadriceps (thigh muscles) absorb the shock of landing.
They are, after all, the largest muscles in the human body,
You can develop a tension-free culture of movement by which are most suitable for being shock absorbers. Natural
letting the flow of Qi guide you to the places formerly Stance allows you to maintain natural body alignment,
beyond your old comfort zone and learning to integrate distributing most of your weight on the bone structure of

6. your body, rather than the muscles.
Lama Somananda Tan-
Notice how bent your knees are. Naturally, the deeper trapa is the 27th lineage
you squat, the further the toes tend to turn outwards holder of Qi Dao, also
away from your centerline with the knees following suit. known as Tibetan Sha-
Experiment with bending your knees enough to cover manic Qigong. He has
your feet when you look at them. been practicing Qigong,
Dream Yoga, Meditation,
If the body is misaligned, it may try various compensation and Internal Martial Arts
strategies (e.g., shifting the weight between the hips, for over thirty five years,
tilting the pelvis, bending the spine, raising one shoulder primarily trained by his
or the other, etc.), all of which will eventually contribute Grandfather who was the
to the muscular tension and pain. Learning Natural paragon of the Russian Martial Arts and Qi Dao Grand
Stance and addressing the issue of balance between the Master. His background is complex enough to include
feet can often help resolve such common conditions as serving in the Soviet Army’s Special Forces, being kid-
headache, backache, shoulder pain, sciatica, and even
napped in the Ukraine and surviving several near-death
scoliosis.
experiences.
In Natural Stance, the weight of the body is distributed
Lama Tantrapa was ordained as a Buddhist monk in
evenly between both legs while the torso and head are
three different orders and initiated into Subud spiritual
resting on the bone structure of the spine. The natural
curve of the spine is neither exaggerated nor diminished. brotherhood. In addition to being a Tibetan Bon Lama,
This allows the free flow of energy throughout the he studied with a number of Qigong and kung-fu mas-
organism. If you could visualize the energy field of ters, great teachers of Yoga and meditation, as well as
such an aligned person, their energy field would appear Native American, Hawaiian and Siberian Shamans. He
symmetrical and centered. Taking a Natural Stance is also trained in Cultural Anthropology, Meta-coaching,
is an excellent way to begin exploring your culture of Hypnosis and NLP. When living for two years on a small
movement and a test of body awareness. tropical island in the Pacific, 7000 miles away from the
majority of his students and clients, he pioneered a
novel method of conducting Qi Dao sessions over the
Internet called Qigong Coaching. In the last decade,
he has provided wellness, peak performance and life
coaching to thousands of people of all ages and from
various walks of life. He is also a bestselling author of
several Qi Dao books, executive producer of the film Qi
Dao – Tibetan Shamanic Qigong, creator of CD albums
Qi Dao Initiation and The Art of Being in the Flow, pub-
lisher of the Basic Qi Dao Home Study Course and other
multimedia learning materials available at
www.qidao.org.
In addition to being the publisher of Mastery Journal,
Lama Tantrapa is also the host of the Internet Radio talk
show The Secrets of Qigong Masters that you can enjoy
at www.blogtalkradio.com/qigongmasters.

7. Healing “Giving individuals the power to determine and manage
their own health and destinies is the secret of true
Yourself…
healing.”
Aligned with this purpose, The World Congress on
Healing the Qigong/TCM is convened yearly in order to bring
together masters, scientists, practitioners and educate
Planet the public about the powerful tools available to them
through Qigong and TCM. As Chair of the World
Congress, my aim is to provide access to an exciting
Dr. Effie Chow array of styles and practitioners so that people can
decide for themselves what works for them. In 2011,
the Thirteenth World Congress on Qigong/TCM will be
The Chow Integrated Healing System or Chow Medical held in San Francisco April 29-May 2.
Qigong is a systematic approach that I developed
through much experimentation. It is a pragmatic system During the past week (Oct 24, 2010), as usual, I have
that combines modern Western health practices, ancient received testimony from people I have never met who
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Qigong, and my have been helped by Chow Qigong. It is a powerful
own original concepts of a total integrated approach to reminder and very humbling revelation that each of us
health of the body, mind, and spirit along with nature. touches and, in turn, is touched by countless people that
In this integrated approach, a person’s body, mind, and we will never meet. Here is one email that showed up in
spirit are one, interacting with people, the immediate my inbox:
environment, and the Universe. Clients play a central Hi my name is George B. III, born with severe scoliosis.
role in their therapy. Fitness and health are emphasized I found Dr. Chow’s book titled QI GONG, MIRACLE
and stress and tension often are seen as common HEALING FROM CHINA. I began to read and practice
precursors to disease. this, with really no understanding; however, I began
Another concept is that all to benefit. My level of stress dropped. I could not
true healing originates from only manage my discomfort but other areas of my
a higher power, and that condition began to be corrected… posture spine
effective healing occurs only pains I could breath better my emotional outlook on
when a healer or practitioner myself improved. I brought vol. 1 of Dr Chow Qigong
has facilitated the flow of Qi movements plus silver thread 5 elements meditation
from this higher source. CD. i have found an answer to my condition. My eternal
Throughout the years I gratitude will always be to/with grandmaster Dr Chow
have had the privilege to and this Qi gong. Thank you.
work with many clients and This gentleman used the book/DVDs to heal himself. It
students who have been is reminiscent of another such instance in Honolulu. I
helped with Chow Qigong was a speaker at a Rotary breakfast meeting and one
when all else has failed. participant bought the book/DVDs for his wife who has
The phenomenal results suffered with lifelong conditions. Within two weeks
achieved with Chow Medical I received an ecstatic 3-page letter from the woman
Qigong and requests from telling of her success using the Chow Qigong educational
clients and students inspired package.
me to create an educational
package of book/DVD/CD in Another email received this week, same day in fact:
order to put these tools into
the hands of the individual If you remember in February 2000 I called you in crisis
and carry out my mission: (at the time I was living in Spokane) and I was going
through an unexpected eruption of kundalini. For

8. three weeks I went to chiropractors, environmental exposures, or any number of factors,
looked to cranial sacral therapists a person becomes susceptible to disease. When this
and others and no one could help disruption of energy is rebalanced, health is restored.
me… I had never met you but had
been practicing your qigong having The Concepts of the Chow Integrated Healing System
learned it from Dr. Linda a few years is comprised of many important components, theories,
earlier. By some amazing Divine and principles. As a summary, ten of the most important
guidance I thought to call you. I basic concepts for initial practice are:
was astonished when you yourself 1) Get at least eight hugs a day, and be “in touch”
picked up the phone. I explained
my situation and you said that you 2) Get at least three Belly-Aching-Laughs-A-Day
would be having a healing meditation
at 8:00pm on Thursday not to worry 3) Maintain a positive mental attitude
and your group would send me a
4) Maintain proper posture and breathe with the
healing blessing. At 8:00 pm that
diaphragm (not the chest)
next night my kundalini turned off
like water turning off by a faucet. 5) Meditate daily
It was incredible. That whole
experience changed my life forever. 6) Good nutrition, supplements, and perhaps herbs
I have never been able to thank you
in person over all these years but some day I hope to. I 7) Practice the right type of exercise – Chow Qigong
hope you receive a 1,000 blessings back in your life of exercises
equal measure. 8) Be at peace with yourself and others
Just last weekend, I was introduced to a young man who 9) Live the Qi energy concept
told me this:
10) Give and receive lots of love
Dr. Effie Chow, I’m so happy to meet you. I have a friend
who says you accelerated his miraculous recovery from To learn more about Dr. Chow’s teachings and her
a terrible car accident while he was at the New York comprehensive educational package, please go to
Mt. Sinai Hospital and you were teaching a Qigong class www. eastwestqi. com.
there. He never met you but he felt the strong healing
energy and is sure that it was you that immediately
helped him out of his crisis condition, which was in a
dubious state. I can’t wait to tell him that I met you.
The above examples are typical of the hundreds of cases
I have in a year including conditions of heart, cancer,
respiratory, arthritis, cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, the
eye, hearing and ringing in the ears, bursitis, “frozen
shoulders,” pain of all sorts, symptoms manifested by
stress, and more.
Qigong in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the
basic underlying component of The Chow System based
on the classic Chinese theory that a powerful energy
system exists in the body, and that energy (Qi) flows
through known energy pathways. The pathways are
referred to as channels, or meridians. The Qi system
is as direct as the respiratory and nervous systems.
If Qi patterns are disrupted by emotional distress,

9. Master of As an internationally renowned expert in Qigong
and Taoist arts with over 30 years of experience in
teaching subtle energy methods internationally, she
the Month
is one of the most recognized leaders in the field of
Qigong in America today.
Dr. Effie Chow
Recipient of the
“Visionary of the
Year 1997,” “The
Humanitarian of
the Year 1999” and
“The Visionary
of the Decade
2000” Awards, Dr.
Effie Chow has
for over 40 years
been working to
integrate Qigong
and Traditional
Chinese Medicine
with Western
Medicine. Toward this goal, she founded the East
West Academy of Healing Arts in 1973 in San
Francisco.
In 1988 an arm of that organization was
established within the Academy to promote
research and clinical work in medical Qigong.
In 2003 she was appointed by the Museum of
Science and Industry, Chicago to their National
Task Force on The 21st Century Initiative on
Life and Health. In 2004 she was invited to join
the 15 member international Advisory Board
of the CAM Health Expo, and in 2005 - the 20
member Advisory Board of the National Library
of Medicine - Asian American Health Website
Users Group. In 2006, Dr. Chow became an
Associate of AHA! Ventures Int’l. In 2007, the
Editorial Board of the Boardroom Inc., Bottom
Line Women’s Health Publications, and Editorial
Board of the prestigious new “super peer-reviewed
publication, “The Journal of the Science of
Healing Outcomes”.
In October of the same year, American
Association of Acupuncture and Oriental
Medicine honored her as one of the “Pioneers
and Leaders of Oriental Medicine in the USA”.

10. The Ins and Outs shoulders. This can result in chronic tension in the neck
and shoulder muscles which can produce stiffness and
of Breathing
soreness in those areas; as well as, headaches. It may
also cause your Lumbar spine (lower back) to make a
Part I
small arch every time your shoulders rise. This could
lead to fatigue in that area and eventual chronic low back
pain.
Gary Giamboi 2. It is the least efficient method and results in the
least amount of gaseous exchange between the lungs
The Three Forms of Chest Breathing and the outside. Thus, one needs to breathe more
rapidly to maintain the proper ratio of gases in our blood
Breathing is perhaps the most important physical action supply. It can also signal the brain that you are anxious
we do in order to stay alive. Most of us can do without (even if there is no other reason to be) and the brain will
food for a month or longer (depending on how much our respond to it as it would to any other cause of anxiety.
body has already stored), water for about a week, sleep
for about 4 days and breathing for about 4 minutes. 3. It involves the least smooth physical action
and is the mostly likely to result in gaps between one’s
Yet, of these four items, breathing is the one most taken inhalations and exhalations.
for granted. Perhaps that is because it is the only one
we do not have to consciously set out to do. It is so 4. It is associated with Fear.
important to our immediate survival that we are wired
to perform it automatically. Well, that is not completely Middle chest breathing is what most people do. This
true. Although we are hardwired to perform the method uses the intercostal muscles (those located
function of breathing automatically, the circuit we use is between the ribs) to expand and contract the rib cage. It
not fixed in stone. It is adaptable. is also a shallow way of breathing and not very efficient.
This method has the following effects:
The problem with this is that since our circuits were
wired correctly to begin with, the only changes to it that 1. Middle chest breathing is associated with the
can be made easily are the ones which will make it less fight or flight syndrome. Our body’s defenses work like
correct than the original pattern. a two-way street. Psychological changes will produce
physiological changes and physiological changes will
Babies (all the time) and all people when they are produce psychological changes. In other words, whether
asleep breathe correctly. Somehow, as we mature into your body changes your mind or your mind changes your
childhood from infancy our breathing pattern changes body, you will end up in the same state of being: Stressed
from diaphragmatic breathing to chest breathing as Out (even if it is only low level stress). Chest breathing
adults. This then poses a problem for all of us who are keeps us in a chronic state of low level stress. As we
lucky enough to learn of this change: we must learn how know, higher levels of stress are associated with higher
to return to diaphragmatic breathing. levels of mortality from many causes. I do not think
anyone knows all of the effects of chronic low levels of
There are three kinds of chest breathing. Let’s call them stress. But what they do know and what they surmise is
upper chest breathing, middle chest breathing and lower definitely not good.
chest breathing.
2. The intercostal muscles become fatigued and
The following is a list of all the negative responses upper eventually lose their elasticity which then makes the rib
chest breathing produces in our bodies: cage less elastic. This makes our upper body less flexible
and our breathing even less efficient.
1. Upper chest breathing requires the greatest
expenditure of energy to perform since it involves 3. This brings us to the last form of chest breathing:
raising the height of the upper chest and moving the low chest breathing. This form of chest breathing utilizes

11. the lower portion of the chest to breath. This method
Gary Giamboi founded
occurs when the lower abdomen expands with the
The Institute of Asian
inhalations and contracts on the exhalations.
Arts in 1994 in order to
continue the tradition
Most breath work instructors say that this is
of discovering, nurtur-
diaphragmatic breathing. I say that this way may or
ing and passing on the
may not be fully diaphragmatic breathing. This is
wisdom of the ancients.
because most “experts” say that belly breathing and
He began his Eastern
diaphragmatic breathing are one and the same. I say
journey in 1969 and has
they are definitely not the same.
had the unbelievable
good fortune to have
Inhalation using Belly Breathing is accomplished by
become a disciple and personal student of four World
moving the belly outward using the abdominal muscles.
Class Masters
This expansion of the abdomen causes a vacuum to
develop which causes the diaphragm to drop and the
He has achieved the Rank of Master Level Instructor in
lungs to expand. On the other hand, true diaphragmatic
Qigong, Taijiquan, Ninpo, Jujutsu, Asayama Ichiden Ryu,
breathing is initiated by contracting the diaphragmatic
Kenjutsu and Yoga in world recognized organizations. He
muscle to which pushes this dome shaped sheet of
is also certified as a Personal Trainer, as a Pilates instruc-
muscle downwards. This downward motion of the
tor, in Ohashiatsu, in Thai Yoga and has several other
diaphragm pushes the wall of the abdomen outwards
lower rank Black Belts in various martial arts. He special-
and creates the vacuum which causes the lungs to
izes in finding the common thread of Truth in All of these
expand. To fill this void the lungs expand. Then air
Arts, because at the end of the day “Things Can Only
rushes into the lungs to fill the void which that creates in
Work One Way.” Even though they use different systems
the lungs themselves.
of Internal Energy, Yoga works in China and Acupuncture
works in India. Each contains a piece of The Truth or The
Exhalation is activated in both cases by relaxing
Way Things Are. It is up to each of us to find as much of
diaphragm which causes it to rise back up to its original
That Truth, That Way and live by it as closely as possible.
position.
Gary has taught and demonstrated Martial Arts, Qi-
Although this sounds simple, there was really a lot
gong, Yoga and Fitness Training in the USA, Japan, China,
of “thought” that went into making it happen. For
Canada, UK, Belgium, Germany, and Ireland. He has sev-
example, the diaphragm actually has two sections: the
eral articles published a total of over 64 times on various
outer muscle section and a central section composed of
web sites and blogs, produced 2 DVDs on Qigong, 1 on
a thick central tendon. The outer section actually has
Taijiquan, 2 on Yoga, 1 on Balance and a Point by Point
cutouts in it for the aorta, inferior vena cava and the
Relaxation CD. He also has two books nearing publication
esophagus, as well as many other smaller ones. These
and several new DVDs coming soon. His web sites are
cutouts enable the up and down action of this tough
www.Genbukan.biz and the new
sheet of muscle not to interfere with other important
www.Secrets-of-Yoga-Qigong.com
physiological functions such as eating, drinking and the
flow of blood to and from the lungs.
To repeat this important point:
True Diaphragmatic Breathing only occurs when the
Diaphragm itself initiates the action of inhalation and
exhalation.
There is another form of breathing which is actually
composed of all three kinds of chest breathing which are
performed in a specific order and which will be discussed
in part II of this article.

12. Emotional Before he met Clyman, Chicago developer Terry Harb
was suffering from sciatic pain so intense that three
Liposuction
different doctors recommended surgery.
“I had a back brace when I came into his office,” Harb,
Gary Clyman 42, recalls. ” Gary touched a bunch of points on my body.
Each one of those points he touched where I felt severe
The scream, Gary J. Clyman recalls, sent a chill through pain, he said it was an issue point. The points held anger,
everyone in the room. Clyman was holding a personal rage, abandonment. He told me it was all related to
power training workshop in Portland, Oregon, in the stress. The stress was related to my developing business
late 1980s, when a Vietnam veteran volunteered going under. Each point that he touched that was
for a treatment Clyman would later dub “emotional painful, he would jab at it and I would make a different
liposuction.” Lying on a table, the veteran allowed type of scream or yell until the pain went away. ” And
Clyman to touch various spots on his body. Using the result?
his energy, or jing, to reach out to the man’s stored
emotions, Clyman touched an area right by the hip, even “I kid you not, when I stood up, I was able to kick over
with his pubic bone. my head, which I was not able to do in more than a year
and a half,” Harb says. “I put the back brace in the back
“I put pressure. It wasn’t a lot of pressure. But he was of the car and never used it again. I asked him about a
able to pop,” Clyman recalls. “He was a captain who lost follow-up and he laughed at me. He said I did not have
his entire platoon and blamed himself for their deaths. to come back. ”
He let out one guilt screech. It shot a chill through
everybody in the room. He felt different on the spot. ” While Clyman discovered his own brand of “emotional
liposuction” on his own, energy healing and touch
During the past 20 years, Clyman has perfected this art therapy have been around for centuries, if not millennia.
of “emotional liposuction” out of his Chicago offices, “It has its roots in Chinese Shamanism, as well. You
extracting emotions of rage, anger, bitterness, grief, can read old books where they suck emotions out of
sorrow and others from thousands of patients from people and they put it into rocks,” says William Goit, a
all walks of life. His clients have included children, licensed acupuncturist in Laguna Hills, California, who
grandmothers, stock brokers, geniuses, rape victims and learned emotional liposuction from Clyman. “To be able
drug smugglers. Some have come from as far away as to change or affect the emotions is common in Chinese
Europe for his help. medicine. Internal organs are thought to store emotions.
The liver is anger. The heart is joy. Abandonment is right
“The most common treatment is anger or rage. One over the heart, in the sternum. Bitterness is in the pit of
hundred percent of our population has anger or rage,” the gut. People talk about feeling bitterness in the gut
Clyman says. “Next is abandonment at 50 percent. all the time. But on the other hand, nobody else is doing
Next is bitterness at 25 percent. Guilt and sorrow is 10 this but Gary. He’s repackaged it and made it accessible
percent.” Clyman’s “emotional liposuction” technique to Western minds. Emotional liposuction is his baby. ”
uses chi kung combined with a knowledge of several
spots in our body that store emotional pain. At first, Goit admits, he could not envision himself
performing emotional liposuction. “It’s a seemingly
Using his jing, or internal power, to create healing brutal procedure,” he says. “The release of this internal
vibrations, Clyman says he can suck out the emotional emotional turmoil, it hurts. They are hanging onto their
cause of illness, disease, pain, depression and other pain. You’re overpowering the patient’s will to hold onto
ailments into his arms, which he then washes off with the past, their negative emotions, and free them to go
cold water. “My chi kung practice creates an internal into the present. You project your jing or vitality into the
vacuum,” Clyman says. “When I touch somebody, the body, activating and exciting that latent emotion, and
emotional point is activated and then I suck it out until sucking it out. ”
it’s empty and does not hurt anymore.”
“It’s not the most comfortable procedure,” agrees

13. Stephanie, 39, of Orange County, California, who forever.” Then she laughs and adds, “It’s not like
received emotional liposuction from Goit for depression, chiropractic work. ”
insomnia and grief over the loss of her mother. “It’s
painful. It’s like someone giving you a super deep tissue Gary Clyman began his
pressure in your abdomen and ribs. My eyes were Tai Chi career in 1974
tearing. ” in Chicago. He studied
Temple Style Tai Chi
Despite the pain, Stephanie says she felt “a sense of Ch’uan as taught
relief or letting go” during her emotional liposuction. by Master Waysun
Combined with acupuncture, Chinese herbs, the Liao. Gary took his
treatment allowed her to stop taking antidepressants studies very seriously
and sleeping pills. “It’s not like I walked out and I was a from the beginning.
new person,” she says. “But I think it helped.” In 1977, his Tai Chi
practice developed
“It’s like having a truck rolling off of them,” Goit says. into a full time job, requiring between 6-10 hours
“It’s an amazing treatment.” Although Goit has only per day of personal practice. Temple Style Tai Chi
treated some 200 patients with emotional liposuction, Ch’uan as passed from master to disciple is a real
compared to the thousands treated by Clyman, he has Tai Chi system. It includes all aspects of the highly
seem some amazing changes, including a visit from a revered and famous art. It includes forms, standing
male nurse from El Salvador who was gay. and sitting meditations, martial art applications and
fighting, two person sensitivity training and high
“I was removing his sorrow, located just to the left of performance endurance training. Rarely will you find
the nipple, below the armpit,” Goit recalls. “I asked if he a Tai Chi system like this. A number of other masters
had a tough relationship with his father. He really broke have come to study with Gary Clyman on an ongoing
down. He got real quiet and he suddenly was in the basis. As he explains, “Chi Kung was originally
place where he told his parents he was gay. His parents taught as “the icing on the cake” to augment his
reacted badly. But he’s way more comfortable with Tai Chi training.” His techniques, Tidal Wave(tm) Chi
being gay now. That was very gratifying.” Kung, Mind Light(tm) Nei Kung and most of Temple
Style Tai Chi Ch’uan, are available on video and in
While Goit says emotional liposuction is potentially for special workshops to those interested in learning
every one who can handle the pain, he is careful not these powerful, internal techniques to quickly and
to call it a permanent solution. “It’s like getting your permanently change their lives for the better.
teeth cleaned. It’s not like you never have to brush your Gary’s website can be found at:
teeth again,” Goit says. “In many ways it’s a starting www.chikung.com
point, not an ending point. Then they learn how to be
without those feelings from the past. Not to bring them
back. I can tell you people whose lives have changed
dramatically. On the other hand, I’ve treated people who
did not change at all.
It’s like that with every therapy.” Goit also notes that
he does not have as much experience in emotional
liposuction as Clyman, who touts single treatments of
emotional liposuction. “They feel better and it lasts a
long, long, long, long time,”
Clyman says.
For her part, one dose of emotional liposuction was
enough, Stephanie says. “I think you only have to do
it once,” she says. “It’s not like you’re going to suffer

14. Think With The heart is this consciousness and when you start to open up the
heart, you connect with your true self. This inner voice within
will start to direct you and actually function as your thinking
Heart process. This is universal consciousness or the compassionate
heart because you really cannot think with your upper mind.
Jon Weston The upper mind thinks like you read, which is point to
point in a sentence. You start the sentence and you finish the
As your consciousness or your monkey mind enters the void sentence with a period. It reads from left to right in English,
it connects with nothingness, which is infinity, which is the and right to left in Hebrew. This is how we think and that is
Tao or what the Taoists call the Wu Chi. It then starts to called linear thinking, which is fine except that the universe is
communicate back and forth ever so subtly and eventually not only linear or horizontal but also vertical and omniscient.
the inner voice will start to direct you. Now, it does not talk The upper mind can only think
to you verbally; it is a feeling that the mind picks up as the of one point at a time and
inner voice directs you. When you are in a situation where it really cannot give you the
you are asked to make a decision and you have no idea what correct answer because there
to do, then suddenly you get a feeling: I have got to do it this are too many points involved.
way. For some reason you are prone to do it this way and it So, your superior or supreme
turns out to be right. Then someone asks you why you did it consciousness in the heart
that way, and you just say it felt right. Well, that feeling is the center which is the all-knowing
direction from the inner voice. consciousness of the universe
can think for you. You have all
Now you are probably asking yourself how the physical the different angles, not only
heart can actually think. Why? We go back to western science horizontal, but vertical and
and explain how the physical heart does have consciousness. horizontal to consider, so you
Because doctors have worked with heart transplants, are going to get the correct
they have actually transplanted someone else’s heart into answer to your question or
somebody else’s body. There have been various situations situation. All you have to do
where somebody else’s heart has carried their consciousness is learn how to connect or
tune in to that compassionate
heart, the sacred heart or that
heart center in the universal
consciousness.
In other words, we can learn to think with the heart.
Use the upper mind just to observe whatever is going on
throughout your whole body, especially in the heart center.
This is how you pick up this internal or inner voice. It does not
talk to you verbally, but the upper mind, as an observatory,
picks up the feeling. The sensation it gives directs you and
motivates you to do a certain (what the Taoists call) correct
action.
Now, it can get a little confusing because this heart
center is also your emotional center. Many people pick
up an emotional imbalance in the body and mistake that
for their true feeling, true sense, the compassionate
into the receiver of the heart after the transplant. There
are documented experiences about people who had a heart
heart or their consciousness. Basically, the emotions are
transplant and picked up energies and situations of the an imbalance or an expression of one of the individual
other person that actually affected their lives. There have organs. The heart itself gives you cruelty and hatred and
been some criminal cases where a person was killed and his joy and happiness (negative and positive). Those are
or her heart was transplanted in another person, who then the emotions, and in the West the emotions have been
had consciousness of who actually killed the donor. These separated from the organs. In the Taoist understanding,
have been documented. Thus, the physical heart does have
consciousness in that respect. Various religions or religious emotion is a word explaining an expression of a particular
systems have always talked about the sacred heart or the organ, either positive or negative. When you have an
compassionate heart. This compassionate heart or sacred extreme positive or negative condition, this is what

15. will come as an not the true feeling or the inner voice speaking out to them.
emotion through So you have to be very careful. By using the Taoist Formulas
the body from as a magnifying glass you begin to start to focus and transform
this energy by balancing the energy in the organs of the body.
the organ.
In the West the Now you are probably asking yourself, “How can I pick
focus is primarily
on the emotions, up this inner voice with all these emotions speaking
separating them out?” With all the activities in
from the organs your life you probably say, “Well,
and the body. with emotions and everything
What Taoists do else, how can I really pick up
is focus with a
this inner voice?” This brings in
Taoist formula to
balance the organ, another aspect you must try to
which will balance consider, because you have too
the emotion or much attachment and unfulfilled
the expression desire. You are searching outside
of the organ – not too negative or not too positive. For yourself to fulfill these desires or things that you think
the kidneys it is fear. “I was so afraid I wet my pants”
is an expression in the West because it deals with the you need. This clogs your ability to focus within to pick
kidneys’ feeling of fear and their positive emotion of gentleness. up this inner voice or this feeling inside. As you become
If somebody is afraid, you transform the fear by calming the detached from your desires, they will not draw out your
person, as when a child becomes afraid you calm the child, emotions or create imbalances in the organs, which clog
rebalancing the kidney energy. For the liver it is anger and the heart center and prevent the pickup of this inner
aggressiveness and the positive aspect is kindness, forgiveness
voice.
and generosity. So, when somebody comes at you with great
anger, just use kindness and it completely neutralizes
or balances the anger that the other person is sending
you or that you have within yourself. Now with the
lungs it is sadness, depression and grief and the positive
emotion is courage and righteousness. Again, if
somebody has an imbalanced lung he or she is expressing
sadness, so use courage to balance that energy, giving some
positive energy to the lungs. For the spleen and pancreas
worry and anxiety are the negative emotions and fairness,
openness and balance are the positive emotions.
Jon Weston is the true “international man of mystery,”
who contributed to the massive success of master
Mantak Chia and his organization. In addition to W. U.
Wei, Jon Weston wrote under the pen name Wei Tzu and
co-authored Living in the Tao, the twelve Taoist poetry
books of over 1,200 poems Emerald River expressing
the feeling, essence and stillness of the Tao. He also
co-created with Mantak Chia the Universal Tao formula
cards, “Chi Cards” (6 sets of over 240 formulas) under
the pen name
These are the five vital organs of the body. The The Professor – Master of Nothingness.
reason they are called vital is because if you do not www.the-professor-mon.com
have one you are dead. This explains why many times
many people confuse the inner voice with an emotional
imbalance. There is too much emotional energy in one
of the organs and it comes through the heart center, but it is

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18. Mindfulness: A you would like to achieve. How would you need to
be in order to manifest that goal? If you feel like you
are constantly playing catchup with your schedule and
Path to Taking think there are many things in your day that are just
not under your control, try this simple step. Rather
than rushing around, you may want to have more time
Charge of Your to accomplish things and feel more in charge of your
day. Simply imagine yourself doing all of the things you
Life
want to do and focus on how you would need to be
in order to live this dream. You may be amazed how
this subtle shift in perspective can greatly change the
outcome of your day.
Kali Samaya Tara
3. Recognize that the energy is within you. If you
Many people in today’s modern world operate under have a vision of how you want to be, then some part
the constant pressure of deadlines, demanding clients of you must already have the energy it takes to be
or customers, ridiculous schedules, family pressures, that way. If you didn’t, you simply would not have
and seemingly never a moment to themselves. that vision. Imagine yourself being in charge of your
Perhaps you don’t eat right, grabbing fast food because day. What do you see when your day goes according
of the convenience. Maybe you even forgo some much to plan? By simply paying attention to and focusing
needed sleep in an effort to keep up, and what about on what you want, you already knows what needs to
exercise, hobbies, or a little time for yourself? If you be done to have more control over your day. You just
feel helpless, a slave to your obligations, your bills, need to start doing it.
and maybe even the lifestyle to which you and your
family have become accustomed, then the following
tips should help get you started on the path to taking 4. Tap into that state of consciousness and focus on
charge of your life. your dream. Now that you know what you want, you
know how you need to be in order to achieve it, and
you know that the energy is within you, all you have
The Path to Mindfulness to do is focus on that dream and allow it to manifest
naturally. After all, focusing on what you do not want
(your nightmares) has seemed to manifest just that
1. Recognize where you are in relation to where you
quite often, so why not try focusing on what you do
want to be. Where do you focus your attention? Is it
want for a change? Take some time to prioritize your
on the past, or maybe on worries about the future?
projects and plan your schedule each day. Get up early,
Do you ever find yourself imagining the possibilities
practice qigong, enjoy your breakfast or time with the
and often the worst case scenarios before the event
family before heading off to tackle your day. Block out
even actually happens? If we spend our lives focusing
time for getting projects done.
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on manifesting what you want to happen, rather than on what we want. Just remember, that life is about
struggling with your own nightmare? the journey, not about the destination. While focusing
on our dreams, we can remain detached from the
outcome, and appreciate the joy of living and learning
2. Ask yourself how you would need to be in order to
along the way. No one is perfect, and no one gets what
live your dreams. Now that you are focusing on what
they want all of the time. Besides, if we did life would
you want, imagine yourself manifesting the outcome

19. likely be rather boring. So let whatever happens be
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20. The Greatest virus. The global financial system is one of the most rapid
vectors and pathways through which the virus of wetiko is
going pandemic in our world.
Epidemic Known The economy as an entity is a projection of the collective
to Man Part II human psyche, but particularly of the “Big Wetikos,” who
hold a disproportionate power in crafting its operating
system and in running its day-to-day operations in the world.
In the wetikonomy, money has become indispensable for
VAMPIRE SQUID our biological survival, as well as our psychological well
ECONOMICS: being and need for social prestige. This results in the
drive for acquiring money becoming hardwired into the
most primal centers of our lower, animal nature. This can
A CASE STUDY IN FULL- generate a dependency that can easily lead to a treadmill
that spirals downwards towards degeneracy, a true “rat
BLOWN WETIKO DISEASE race” in which we become addicted to chasing after “the
buck,” as we increasingly worship Mammon (the God of the
love of money; interestingly, the esteemed economist John
Maynard Keynes considered the love of money a form of
By Paul Levy mental illness). Our need for money becomes the “hook” by
which the Big Wetikos, who control the supply and value of
money, can “yank our leash” and manipulate humanity. To
say it differently, the economy is engineered by a few, the
In part one of this article, I contemplate a psycho-spiritual
“Big Wetikos,” who then utilize their creation to manipulate
disease of the soul that I call malignant egophrenia and
the collective human psyche and in so doing influence and
indigenous people call wetiko which is undermining
warp it in a wetiko-like way.
the evolutionary development of our species. Wetiko/
malignant egophrenia (heretofore referred to as wetiko)
is nonlocal, in that it is an inner disease of the spirit, soul
and psyche that explicates itself through the canvas of Using the global financial and monetary system as our case
the outside world. Certain people, groups of people, study, we can see and understand how the wetiko virus
corporate bodies, or nation-states embody and act out this operates in the psyche and in the world, which are both
psychological malady in the world. Specific situations in the interactive and co-creative reflections of each other. The
world, such as the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by invention of money was a breakthrough in human affairs, an
myriad multinational corporations, or Monsanto instituting innovation in which real wealth is allowed to be symbolically
terminator seeds as it tries to gain control of the production represented by something else. Money is a construct,
of the food supply, are real-life enactments, both literally something made up, which adds convenience in the trading
and symbolically, of this self-destructive, inner process. of goods and services that have value. The wetiko-created
Certain potent symbols in our shared waking dream fiat money system, however, is the doorway through which a
are literally showing us this inner, vampiric dynamic, a deviant distortion in this cooperative process of exchanging
stupefying process in which we get bled dry of what really value amongst ourselves emerges. The wetikonomy’s fiat
counts. currency is not backed by real value, but rather, is a system
in which, as if by magic, money is created out of thin air.
Having fallen through the rabbit hole, we now live in a world
where money materializes simply by decree (fiat) of an elite
Seen as a symbolic entity, the global financial system, for
cabal of Big Wetikos, who can exchange the tokens of value
example, is the revelation of wetiko disease displayed
they have conjured up for the time and natural resources of
graphically and schematically in its architecture, operations
everyone else. The wetiko-economy is basically a legitimized
and overall design, so that anyone with a trained eye can
counterfeiting operation. The Big Wetikos use their military
discern the telltale signs and spore prints of this maleficent
and police state “enforcement” resources to ensure that
psychopathology getting down to business. The global
others cannot accumulate and circulate capital outside
economy (which can appropriately be referred to as the
of their system. As if that isn’t bad enough, in a further
“wetikonomy”), displays the fear-based, linear logic of
diabolic sleight of hand, this virtual fiat currency, backed
wetiko disease as it reduces everything to the bottom line
by nothing real and having no intrinsic value in and of
of dollars and cents. We are living inside of a horrifying,
itself, is then equated with debt, thus making it worse than
abstract economic structure that itself is a living symbol and
nothing. This total inversion of our concept of value itself is
representation of the out-of-control insanity of the wetiko
a glaring symbol in our midst primal screaming that there is

21. something terribly amiss with our financial system. There planetwide Madoff-like ripoff done with smoke and mirrors,
is indeed something wrong with a virtual, bubble economy the wetikonomy is like a massive optical illusion that is
that is decoupled from the real economy and is dictated and projected by the Big Wetikos, a cadre of master spellcasting
manipulated by the few at the expense of the many. wizards who have nearly infinite resources at their disposal
to make their illusion seem real. The wetikonomy, like
apparitions of majestic castles in the sky, is a magical display
that captivates and holds spellbound the credulous, semi-
The over-leveraged wetiko economy is a “phantom menace,” conscious masses, who are more than willing, based on their
in that there is hardly any real substantial value changing childlike need to hope and believe in an authority outside
hands except in appearance. Unlike a real economy that of themselves, to give away their power so as to quell their
is based on, backed by and generates genuine wealth, fear. This is a regressed form of magical thinking writ large
the wetikonomy, because it has no conventional solid, on the world stage.
objective, substantial reality, has only a phantom-like,
apparent existence. It is as if authors of a fantasy novel or a
fairy tale are trying to “market” and “sell” their creation as
nonfiction, and we, as consumers, are “buying” it, believing At first glance, an optical illusion looks one way, but
it to be true. Collectively pretending the fiction is real, we when we investigate further, we can see the illusion for
have forgotten that we are playing a mass game of “make what it really is. If this grand financial illusion were to be
believe.” The bubble economy of wetiko is a con-fidence unmasked and collectively seen through, the underlying
game (a “con” game), a con-struct of our mind maintained and pervasive “fraud as a business model” approach to
in each moment by the belief that the system is real, solvent running the global economy would reveal itself to be the
and legitimate. spectral phantasm that it is. Once the seemingly rock-
solid, concrete skyscrapers of the wetikonomy reveal
themselves to be a stage set with nothing behind it, built
on ever-shifting sand, it is not enough just to realize this
A virtual, synthetic economy such as ours is a product and do nothing. It is then our responsibility to re-create
cooked up by the fevered imagination of the wetiko and re-dream a different set of agreements regarding how
financiers. Like a collective dream, or a mass spell, it is a to be in relationship with each other. This sets the stage to
concoction based upon mutually shared agreements among re-engineer the system of wetiko-ized control mechanisms
its participating members. The wetikonomy in which we live, that, through locked-in contractual relationships, freezes
unlike a free market economy, is subject to the intervention the economy in a corporate, and wetiko-ized trajectory. The
of and manipulation by the central bank, an entity which has power structure in a wetiko-ized society is inherently fiscal
interposed itself between us and the market. The agency of instead of political, which is why political change doesn’t
the central bank, in its attempts to interfere with and control result in economic change. It is the banks that control the
a natural, self-regulating marketplace, is a living symbol of government, not the other way around. As our collective
the wetiko pathogen and how it disrupts a living system. realization gathers momentum, however, such a process of
waking up en masse could dissolve the wetikonomy to its
empty core, bursting the bubble economy and collapsing
Just as a vampire can’t stand to be seen and thus avoids the whole artificial edifice – the artifice – of fake finance,
the light of day at all costs, as it is only able to operate like the house of cards that it is. This realization lays the
by the deceptive cover of darkness, so the very nature groundwork for a more enlightened financial and investment
of the institutions and operations by which the phantom system grounded in real economics, a healthy environment
wetikonomy functions must be kept hidden from the light and the cultivation of a humane human civilization.
of public awareness. The financial instruments of the
wetikonomy are purposely crafted to be incredibly complex
and hard to understand so as to hide and obfuscate the The unsustainable illusion that is the wetikonomy, however,
theft that is happening. Hiding the reality of what they is based on and supported by violence or the threat of
are doing is one of the “chief features” of wetiko finance. violence, from a personal level up to the capacity to
Replacing transparency with opacity, it has become standard collectively wage war, both visible and invisible. The ability
accounting practice in the wetikonomy to “cook the books” and willingness to kill is not an illusion. This is why many
so as to avoid being held accountable. If clearly illuminated people collude in supporting and perpetuating the illusion,
and exposed to the light of collective disclosure and for to not do so inevitably leads to some form of coercion,
transparency, the shell game and Ponzi scheme that IS the which is a subtle (or not so subtle) form of violence. In the
global financial system will be revealed to be the staggering highly uncivilized world of the wetikonomy, “might makes
and unlawful deception that it is. In a vast computerized right. “ The nature of the beast that we are dealing with
web of electronic transfers and accounting shenanigans, the needs to be factored into the equation of how we creatively
global economic system has become an insanely desperate and strategically respond.
pyramid scheme, a high-tech casino-like scam. A monstrous,