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A Qigong Teacher Explains How to Cook via the P.C.T.P. Method<\/span><\/h2>\n

by Raven Cohan<\/span><\/p>\n

You all know things from deep within and have had the Power, Commitment, Trust and ability to Project your inborn knowledge into your activities. If you don’t know you have Power, it’s because it has been SCARED out of you because your culture is built on taking everything in steps.\u00a0 The left brained way of starting with A. and then moving through each successively lettered step, in my opinion is limiting you. That’s how most recipes in cook books are written. <\/span><\/p>\n

To be a creative being, you must act like one!\u00a0 Let the art of life awaken.\u00a0 Use this acronym: P. C. T. P.\u00a0 These are the best initials in the alphabet that guide me and yes, I need to start and end with ‘P’!\u00a0 Just don’t pee your pants doing it!\u00a0 The method itself will instill confidence. <\/span><\/p>\n

Improvising dinner, I realize is a skill that I have sort of been born with, but it got more developed by being a trained\u00a0improvisational actor-singer-dancer and eventually a teacher of Chinese alchemy.\u00a0 Alchemy is a science of formulas for living well. The P.C.T.P. formula is behind all three skills I mention here which include cooking.\u00a0 Notice, they are all Arts.\u00a0 Science and math are important but most people who depend fully upon exact sciences in their life-skill building times, often wind up pretty up-tight. Can you become a person who improvises anything in your life with practice?\u00a0 Do you measure everything to the letter? I Trust in you.\u00a0 Think about trusting yourself!\u00a0 Put aside that exactness and laugh! <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The cooking example is really a simple idea:\u00a0 The finished dinner is waiting behind the curtain.\u00a0 While in the wings I have no worries whirring about.\u00a0 Planning what the heck is going to wind up on the dinner table is not my modus-operandi.\u00a0 I have bought my veggies and staples which await me in the fridge and pantry.\u00a0 My hand reaches in and a bit of considering which veggies are less fresh and need to be cooked first comes into play!\u00a0 The veggies tell me how I will cook them and what sauces and spices I will add and what pasta or grains will set them\u00a0off.\u00a0 (It’s the same with the salad and dressings!)\u00a0 A hologram of creation is whirling into reality.\u00a0 (This analogy centers around my vegetarian lifestyle, but apply it to your own food choices and life interests in general.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know what is TRULY needed to be cooking well in ALL areas of your life?\u00a0 A Power source, Commitment enough to Trust and to finally Project out the finished product. (An improvisa\u001ftional actor must go onstage without a script.\u00a0 If the other actors have each their own\u00a0different script, the result will be a disaster.)A student of developing your life force energy via cooking healthy meals, or thinking and speaking healthy thoughts, must absolutely trust and commit to using the ONE power and then projecting it into the result which you commit to and trust.\u00a0 This approach will be helping you to heal every area that needs improvement. All arts require much practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do I ever have flops?\u00a0 Sure!\u00a0 What part of life is there that doesn’t wind up with less success than others, at times?\u00a0 My job as a human is to eat up some of those less delicious meals and not rub my face in the sour, spilled milk of ‘failure.’\u00a0 (My husband has to buck up and eat it, too.\u00a0 We might at times have to throw some disasters away.\u00a0 C’est la vie!\u00a0 It means eating more taco chips that night for a snack… but it is quite better than crying over the spilled rice milk.)<\/span><\/p>\n

After years of teaching my students of Tai Chi and Qigong that with every step, you must call on the Power of gravity that plays on you and not the other way around.\u00a0 It took me a while to realize I had learned to Trust the vegetables to communicate clearly like the actors on stage. \u00a0Stop over-thinking and start drinking in the formula!\u00a0 Don’t be trite and follow others.\u00a0 Be original.\u00a0 Do things for yourself.\u00a0 Study many different arts.\u00a0 Get out of a rat race that you allowed to pressure you!\u00a0 Whether you are cooking, balancing, writing your novel, communicating with your boss… Get out of your own head.\u00a0 Be with nature.\u00a0 Once again! P.C.T.P!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Raven Cohan is a Senior Certified Teacher of Universal Healing Tao of\u00a0 MasterMantak Chia since 1983 and conducts classes and workshops to help a student deepen their study of Taoist movement and meditation practices. She resides in the greater Fort Lauderdale, Fl. area. (954)-92-RAVEN <\/span>
\n or see <\/span>www.taoTLC.com<\/span><\/a><\/address>\n


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