Introduction:
Enhancing Your EnerQi
Welcome to a better understanding of the concepts of the body's energy and the energy that surrounds us in the world. This knowledge will allow you to better participate in your own living process, healing process, and health maintenance. I use the following simple mnemonic device, which I call the LAINE system, with my patients to illustrate our incredible nature:
- Learn (about incredible natural energy)
- Align (restore balance)
- Inform (use newfound information to integrate lifestyle changes)
- Natural (discover the health and vitality that is part of your inherent nature)
- Energy (harness your internal power)
Reading this book will help you to learn about incredible natural energy and how it can change and enhance your life. It is my sincere wish that by the time you have finished reading, you will be inspired to experience acupuncture, embrace its profound effects, and enjoy a balanced lifestyle.
Do you ever wonder what the word balance means in relationship to how we live and behave in our mental, physical, and emotional lives, and why a lot of us seem to be reading and talking about balance more frequently? As a twenty-eight-year practitioner of Oriental medicine, I know that balance always comes up in conversation with my patients, regardless of their sex or age. Oriental medicine is designed to preserve qi energy, the life force that circulates in our bodies and around all of us throughout the day and even when we are at rest or asleep.
Balance is the way in which we maintain harmony and preserve our vital qi force field. EnerQi is the combination of all the factors that bring you to your optimal state of wellbeing. I have coined the term EnerQi (ener-chee) to describe this harmonization and preservation of our inner and outer power.
So how does EnerQi apply to our lives? How can we use it to create more equilibrium and happiness in our lives and within our communities? The chapters that follow will provide you with insight about our natural energy and how you can begin to live a more balanced lifestyle for richer health and deeper happiness.
As you will learn, creating balance in our lives means to sleep deeply and well; to exercise regularly and eat delicious, whole foods that replenish and nourish our bodies; to enjoy art, literature, music, and good conversation with friends while sharing our feelings openly in ways that make others desire to listen and engage with us; to show compassion for ourselves and others; and to go quietly within to develop clear answers to cloudy questions.
In all these ways, we become strong conduits of our own EnerQi vibration. This means being as real and as true to ourselves as we can possibly be, right here today, in this moment. If sadness or loss is prevalent in our lives, we do not pretend it away. We allow ourselves to feel the pain. We have the ability and the courage to look at any situation with as much awareness and honesty as we are capable of in any given moment. Balance is the ability to love others in the ways we want to be loved in return.
Maintaining an attitude of gratitude in life, practicing acceptance and forgiveness, and facing and accepting the challenges we all share with a positive approach will bring us truth and inner happiness. Accessing the EnerQi of the situation, whatever it may be, creates a way to restore or maintain balance. As we move about our lives in our world and in our neighborhoods, we give off an energetic vibration, and others pick up on it. When we are in balance, or on an even keel, a wave of good EnerQi is created. You can choose to begin creating yours now.
©2014 Sheri Laine, LAc. All rights reserved. Reprinted from Living the EnerQi Connection: Demystifying Acupuncture. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the written permission of the publisher. Publisher: Health Communications, Inc., 3201 SW 15th Street, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442.
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