Do you carry heavy emotions, stress, or tension in your heart? Try this 10 minute qigong routine to release energy in your heart through the heart meridian. This routine is led by Brain Education instructor, Chris Woolley, from Rolling Hills, CA.
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Hello Earth Citizens, my name is Chris. I'm a Brain Education Instructor from Rolling Hills,
California. Today we're going to do Qigong for the heart. So the heart is an area that holds
a lot of emotions, a lot of tension. It can help with our posture, it can help with our emotions.
So we want to open it through energy and Qigong is a certain distribution of energy. So what we're
going to do is we're going to start by opening up our feet. We're going to start a little bit
of gentle tapping. So I would like you to take your fingertips and start to tap your chest.
Good. So when we talk about energy, there's three forms we use. We use vibration. So as you're
tapping, feel the vibration. It's starting to break through some of that tension, that heaviness.
Good. And then there's light energy. That's your focus. So put your mind in there. So if you close
your eyes, you might be able to feel the sensation in your chest. Some places feel better, some
places feel worse. So allow that focus to come into your chest. We want to bring our mind into
our heart. And then we can make a little sound, a little ah sound. That vibration from the inside
can help clean, especially the emotional energy. So if you're feeling particularly emotional,
sound might be really good to help you clean. So we want to just start to open up our chest.
And if you want to tap harder, you can tap with your palms. You can tap with your fists. You can
open up depending on how much tension you have. You can let it all out. Closing your eyes will
help. So feel that tingling and the vibration through your heart. Good job. And slowly stop.
Down. Now feel your hand there, a little tingly too, a little buzzing. So relax your arms. So
we're going to open up using the heart meridian and the heart. So the heart meridian goes into
our pinkies. So I'm going to focus a little bit on our pinkies and our heart space. So from here,
I'm going to start to relax your arms. As you inhale, I want you to bring your arms up. Focus
on your pinkies reaching as far back and high as you can. Good. It's also opening your chest. Feel
the chest open. Now as you exhale, you're just going to lower your hands back to neutral.
Good. Now with our next inhale, we're going to bring our hands up right up in front of our heart.
Our pinkies are almost going to touch. Good. Now when you exhale, you're going to open wide.
Imagine your pinkies are trying to get as far away from each other as possible.
Your chest open really wide. Let go of all that emotion, all that stress.
Good. And as you inhale, bring your hands back together, almost touching those pinkies. And
then with your next exhale, you're going to make a little circle and it's going to look like a heart.
Look at your hands. Make a heart. Back of the hands come to each other. And then down,
washing away. That's our flow here. So now I'm going to guide you through our breath.
Relax the hands. Inhale back, pinkies high. Exhale back to neutral.
Inhale up in front of your heart. Pinky almost touch. Exhale, open. Let go of all that tension
and stress. It might have some sound if you're feeling tense. Good. Inhale back together.
And then as you exhale, making your top of your heart. See the little curves?
And back of the hands go down, sweeping down, washing away. Imagine feeding your heart.
Good. Inhale back. Exhale to neutral. Inhale up to your heart. So focusing in those pinkies. Exhale,
open. Feel the chest open and stretch all the way to your pinkies. Inhale back. Exhale,
sweeping, beautiful heart. Sweeping down, washing away your stress and your tension.
We're gonna do that two more times. Inhale back. Exhale down. Inhale up.
Open. Feel the chest getting warm. Open. Good. Inhale your hands back together.
Almost touching those pinkies. And then exhale, making your heart.
And washing down. One more time through here. Inhale back. Exhale down. Inhale up to your heart.
Feel the tension releasing from the neck, from the shoulders, from the chest. Your heart is open.
Exhale, bring your hands back together. Good. And up. And down. Feel the tingling in your hands.
Feel the opening in your chest. Good. Now I'd like you to bring your hands up gently to face
your heart. Palms are facing the heart. So relax your shoulders, elbows a little bit below your
hands. Feel the energy between your palms and your heart. Good. Now we're going to do a little
bit of circulation to clean a little bit more. So with your left hand, push the floor, the earth.
So you're going to receive energy from the earth and you're going to deliver it to your heart.
Good. So feeling coming in from the hand, in through the heart. Other hand into your heart.
Now as you inhale, twist your body all the way to the right side.
Good. And you can switch the hands. The left hand will come up, the right hand will come down.
Good. And as you exhale, twisting all the way to the other side.
This is a keep on flow for your heart. Switching the hands. Inhale all the way across.
Switching the hands. Exhale across. So full breath each direction.
Good. So I can switch my hands and I can inhale across. So keep delivering energy to your heart.
You want to deliver clean, fresh energy so that your heart can let go of any stress,
tension. Switching the hands. Inhale across. Exhale back. So you might feel a lot of warmth
growing through your chest. Tension melting from your neck, your shoulders.
When our heart opens, it starts to feel lighter, open. Breathing gets a little bit easier.
Good. Coming across. Good. Switch the hands. To the other side. Go back and forth. One more time.
Inhale across. Good. Now bring your hands both back up in front of your heart once again.
Now I'd like you to bring them just a little bit closer. So bring them closer to me.
I want you to really be able to feel the magnetism, the energy between your heart and
your hands. Good. So you might sway, you might move. As you breathe, let your chest expand.
It pushes your hands a little bit. As you exhale, you're pushing in more energy.
So find your breath. You're welcome to close your eyes at any time.
So as you're pushing in energy with your hands, you're releasing all of your stress,
all of your tension, anger, frustration, sadness, grief. Let it all go.
You're pushing in more clean, fresh energy. Your heart feels open. You feel more and more gratitude,
more and more joy. It starts to fill your heart. The tension melts through the neck,
your head relaxes. It feels cool. So you can continue to refresh this heart space,
allowing yourself to feel more compassion for yourself, for your loved ones. Feel more love,
more gratitude. Inhale fully. Exhale completely. Two more breaths.
Bring your heart open, expanding. Now slowly bring your hands to your heart. Let them rest
on your chest, closing your eyes. I want you to feel that beating heart. Feel that loving,
beating heart. That heart is a beautiful example of unconditional love. It beats every second
of your life. It asks for nothing in return. Keep adding more clean, fresh energy. How much
love do you want to share with yourself, with your loved ones, with the world? Grow that energy.
Feel that loving, beating heart. It smiles. You smile. You can grow unlimited love.
Feel this love radiating beyond your body, expanding. One more deep breath in
and out. Good. Now you can just smooth down your chest. You can shake out your legs, your arms.
So feel how your body feels a little lighter, a little fuller. Your chest feels open. Maybe
some laughter came out. Emotions can often clean this way. So thank you for joining me for this
practice today. We'll take a short break here. Thank you. And if you'd like to experience a
full one hour of brain education-based class, please check a local body and brain center near you.
