5-Element Medicinal Food That Doesn’t Taste Like Medicine

[Food As Medicine 食疗] Five Element Medicinal Food That Doesn’t Taste Like Medicine By Raven Cohan             Do we in this junk-food jungle, find joy in calorie-laden foods that have extra grease, sugars, and actual ingredients added that can poison … Continue reading

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Nutrition Basics and Energy Healing

[Energy Healing Through Science and Spirit] Nutrition Basics and Energy Healing by Cindy Cicero   The School of Chi Energy Presents a seminar on Nutrition Basics with Sifu Jones and Instructor Dr. Thomas Earnest, D.O.M., Professor of Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition … Continue reading

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To Eat or Not? How Daoists Classify Food

[Learn About the Dao 学道] To Eat or Not? How Daoists Classify Food (1) Livia Kohn, PhD (1) From Livia Kohn, Daoist Dietetics: Food for Immortality (Dunedin, Fla.: Three Pines Press, 2010).   In traditional China, certain foods were seen … Continue reading

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From the Editor (August 2014)

[From the Editor] Food, Glorious Food! By Michelle Wood   Welcome to the Food As Medicine issue of Yang Sheng Magazine! The days are still warm and sunny, but getting shorter as we move toward autumn. Now is the time … Continue reading

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Recent Research on Happiness & Health

[Research Updates] Recent Research on Happiness and Health  Compiled by Kevin W Chen, Ph.D. Happiness intervention decreases pain and depression, boosts happiness among primary care patients.  Prim Health Care & Research Dev. 2014 Jan 22:1-13.  By  Lambert D’raven LT, Moliver … Continue reading

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Seasonal Harmony — Late Summer

[Seasonal Harmony] Late Summer WHAT’S THE PHASE? – WHAT’S THE POINT?  By Ellasara Kling  “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and … Continue reading

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HUMOR In Health – Connection and Holding Space

[From The Dancing Doc] HUMOR IN Health – Connection and Holding Space by Sharon Montes, M.D. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.                       … Continue reading

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Surf Happy Qi: 7 Secrets

[Featured Article] Surf Happy Qi: 7 Secrets  Nadia Linda Hole MD  Fall 7 times. Stand up 8 – Japanese proverb It’s always easier to ride the wave in the direction it’s going – Gerry Lopez Happiness depends as Nature shows, … Continue reading

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Tales of the Dao — Playing with the Fish

[Tales of the Dao] Playing With the Fish  Solala Towler Zhuangzi often ridiculed the strenuous efforts of his contemporaries to attain immortality by subjecting themselves to various ascetic practices. At the same time, he was concerned about how the human … Continue reading

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Illuminating the Dao 悟道 — When Less Is More

[Illuminating the Dao 悟道]  When Less Is More by Michelle Wood (First published in Qi Dao Newsletter September 25, 2009)  I had the great pleasure of attending a birthday party a few weeks ago. The guest of honor was my … Continue reading

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