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So far we have talked about how internal heat can damage your body and the types of symptoms to look for to show that your body is overheating.

In this last part of the series, I will tell you some of the things you can do to reduce the levels of heat, and to bring your body and mind back into a more harmonious and healthy state.
 
Firstly let’s look at three of the most common ways which lead to the body overheating and causing problems on the inside; in areas like the brain, organs and tissues …
 
 
1) Diet – Heat can come about through the consumption of two different flavors of food. They are spicy and sweet foods.

In my books "Chinese Medicine Can Help You Beat Cancer" and "Superior Health : Secrets Of THe Chinese And Eastern Way", I often refer to the great healing and health enhancing benefits of performing Qi Gong exercises daily.

These exercises are excellent at keeping the body strong, healthy and youthful. (Click on this link to read more about the benefits of Qigong.)

There are lots of good demonstrations on YouTube of my favourite style of moving Qi Gong exercises - The Ba Duan Jin (8 Pieces Of Brocade). A selection of some of these can be found below.

If you have a copy of my book, have read all about how brilliant Qi Gong is, and are now eager to start practising it; then take a look at the clips below. Pick one of them, copy the exercises and start to repeat them every day...

(If any of the links above stop working, then please let me know in the comments section and I will find some replacements for it). 

From my book "Superior Health" ...

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One of the main differences between Eastern and Western Medicines is the ability to see the bigger picture.
 
In the East, they take a very different view of the world than we do in the West. If we were both asked to look at the same picture of a man in front of a building, the Western mind set is usually to focus in on the man in explicit detail. However, the Eastern mind would instead focus on the background and entire picture including the man. Our Western culture and upbringing have geared us towards concentrating in on small details and fine points; we are trained to tune in on tiny details and be hyper critical, but sometimes when we do that we lose sight of the bigger picture.

This is often the case in Western Medicine. By breaking down the structure of diseased cells into more and more minute parts, it often isolates these cells from the bigger picture of what is really going on in the entire body. It then tries to find a chemical or procedure that will have some bearing on this secluded group of diseased cells. Unfortunately this method, when effective, often just covers up the symptoms of the illness rather than treating the cause of it.

In past blogs I have written about how essential it is to maximize your energy to keep all your organs functioning at their highest levels. This will produce the optimum in physical, mental and emotional well being.


It also empowers your body to carry out the necessary functions, repairs and maintenance which will help prevent many ailments or any weaknesses that can allow disease to occur.


There are many methods used in the East to cultivate and gather energy in the body. In this blog update, we will focus on just one of them, the use of Eastern style breathing techniques. Breathing is free and when performed correctly can produce great improvements to your overall health.

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Taken from my book "Superior Health : The Secrets Of The Chinese And Eastern Way."

So what way should we breathe ?

Well, the proper way is complete breathing. It involves expanding both the belly and the lungs as you take each breath in; then letting the lungs deflate back into place and at the same time, pulling the belly back in to its original starting position.


If you look at animals, children or babies asleep, you will quite often see their abdomen naturally move up and down in a similar fashion as they are breathing.

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This article was adapted from my book "Superior Health : The Secrets Of The Chinese And Eastern Way" ...


Quite often in the East you will hear of the terms Yin and Yang. Taken literally, Yin means the dark side of the mountain and Yang means the bright side of the mountain. They represent the seemingly opposite states of life which interflow and eventually act to rebalance each other.

Adapted from my book "Superior Health : The Secrets  Of The Chinese And Eastern Way"

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Genes and germs.

There are two aspects that modern Western Medicine projects as the cause of many diseases; these are genes and germs. In this article we will examine how credible this viewpoint is.

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Eastern Medicine looks at illness and an unhealthy body in a very different way than Western Medicine.

In general Eastern medicine will try to establish a bigger overall pattern that is leading to symptoms being expressed in the body, whereas Western Medicine often just looks at and treats individual symptoms in isolation.

The problem with this is that even when it is successful at eliminating symptoms, the underlying weakness or agitation which allowed the illness to manifest, can often just cause a new problem to spring up in a different location. You might fix one problem but the state in the body which caused it has been allowed to remain and fester.

For example, we could take the case of a cancer having been treated by surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. If the patient survives these intense treatments and the cancerous cells have been removed, then this is deemed a success, a “cure” by Western Medicine. From an Eastern perspective you have not addressed the vitally important question of what caused the cancer in the first place. If you do not address the causes of the cancer, then even if you have eradicated the mutated cells, the patient is still left vulnerable to a re-occurrence of it at a future stage in their life.

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(The information for this article was taken from my book "Superior Health : Secrets Of The Chinese And Eastern Way").

The human being, in its current form Homo Sapiens, has according to most historians been on this planet for about the last 80,000 to 120,000 years. Our bodies have been in roughly the same form all that time.

Because of this they have evolved in a certain fashion and we are stuck in those ways. We cannot break free from them in the space of 10, 50, 100 or even 200 years.

In past times people lived simply; when it became bright, people would get up, hunt, gather foods, and then eat them. When it got dark they would go off to bed and sleep. There wasn’t much else they could do. Obviously they couldn’t stay up and watch television, do shift work, eat meals or anything else throughout the night.

Because of our slow evolution, we are stuck with an internal biological clock that dictates when our bodies and its organs are functioning at their peaks for different tasks.

For example, from morning to afternoon, because of the times we used to eat at, the energy in our digestive systems is at its most powerful. While in the evening it becomes sluggish and less able to process food. Recent scientific studies have shown that if you eat food at night you will gain substantially more weight and fat than if you eat the exact same food earlier in the day.

At night, for about four hours after 10 to 11 pm, when we should be sleeping, our bodies will use this opportunity to emit growth hormones to repair, replace and rebuild cells. Because of the work these hormones do, we now know that the old saying about going to bed and getting a good night’s sleep to keep you beautiful and young, is actually true.

Our bodies too are used to breaking down unprocessed, unrefined simpler more natural foods. They are not structured to deal with many of the chemicals, additives and preservatives now found in our food supply. Preservatives are put in to prevent nature from breaking down foods; the problem is when they end up in us they are interfering with our natural ability to digest foods too. A build up of these chemicals can eventually lead to high levels of toxicity and cause disease in our bodies.

Our physical systems aren’t built to cope with life in a 24 hour society, nor are our brains designed to process the vast amount of information we are now being exposed to in our media and technology driven culture. Technology has very definitely well out paced us. And unfortunately from this overload, high rates of depression, anxiety, stress and emotional apathy have begun to become the norm in today’s society.

Science has provided us with many fantastic improvements and comforts in our lives but we must never forget that our bodies are still part of nature and the more we move out of our natural rhythms the more sick we tend to become. This is clearly evident from the ever escalating rates of diabetes, dementia, heart disease, cancer, obesity and so many others that seem to be accompanying technology in our modern world.

Sometimes common sense is also more relevant to our lives than scientific fact. For example, we all know that the earth undeniably revolves around the sun. This is an indisputable fact. However, the common observation of the sun moving over our heads and across the earth from morning to night, giving it the appearance of revolving around us and the earth, has much more of a bearing and impact on our real lives. It has many more practical implications for the human being, it dictates our sleep, our work, our meal times and even times for socializing.

Sometimes common sense, practical and natural approaches are much more influential, important and relevant to our everyday lives than technical science is. Chinese and Eastern medical science tends to try to fit in with more natural laws and observations. They are more concerned with functioning and practical responses in the human being than with the minute structures of cells.

Most often as long as we are making the right changes in our lives on the bigger level; then all the smaller parts which make up the body, will automatically change right along with these bigger processes, ( as we will clearly see in forthcoming blogs). Eastern Medicine sees nature as having superior knowledge in its own design and in its design of the human being. It therefore tries to assist and guide people back into a balanced natural state, allowing their own bodies to perform any complex healing at microscopic levels. The body created itself in the first place. And if it becomes unwell, then when it is given the opportunity and right circumstances provided by Eastern Medicine and right living, it alone truly knows best how to rebuild and heal itself.