Creating Calm in a Time of Uncertainty with Ren Xue
(Copy of article by Tennille Ziegler originally posted by Verena Jonker)
April 2020
"I am grateful to wake up feeling truly free within myself. I am not attached to my thoughts anymore and experience a deep connection with everything. Love and gratitude are qualities I feel during the whole day. There is space, true peace and calm"...
If the past few weeks are anything to go by, the angst and uncertainty in the air are causing a flurry of heightened emotions. From fear to anxiety, anger to despair, there are a lot of emotions at play. Whilst the country settles into lockdown mode, Ren Xue looks into the future with optimism.
Ren Xue is a system of life cultivation that incorporates a new form of Qigong, a moving meditation whose traditions go back thousands of years in China. A place with a renowned heritage and bestowed upon traditions, Qigong is a way of life for many in the Eastern world.
Yuan Tze – founder of Ren Xue – has created a new...
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When someone goes through a mental breakdown (breakthrough to a new level of consciousness - which I have personally experienced) it is a very confusing, scary time, because all we know to be true is crumbling away, and we find ourselves hanging on the edge of the cliff of uncertainty and the unknown by our fingernails. Right now humanity is going through such a collective breakdown. And the problem is, many people have no idea how to navigate such a crisis. Yuan Tze knows how...
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Back in 1996 I was diagnosed with CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome).
This wasn’t the first time I had been diagnosed with a chronic illness.
Several years before in 1988 I had been diagnosed with clinical depression.
Finding myself unexpectedly ill set me on my journey to find solutions to illness which didn’t involve having to take medication, which didn’t agree with me in terms of the side-effects I noticed, or my growing philosophy of ‘well if I’m ill, there must be a reason, and I’d like to find out what that is, and solve it from there, rather than cover it up with medication, or prop myself up with supplements’.
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After working with counsellors after the depression diagnosis, I thought I was on my way to getting better, and whilst in some ways I was, in other ways I wasn’t, but I didn’t know it, because as I was to find out, illness - and the journey back to health - really is a journey of...
