Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers a unique approach to health and wellness, focusing on balance and harmony within the body. One of its key components is diet therapy, which uses food as medicine to support the body's natural healing processes.

Dr. R.J. Singer (Chinese Medicine) shares two simple methods of breath-work to regulate your nervous system, reduce stress and anxiety, and reduce inflammation.

In a recent research study observing the effects of Akkermansia levels, people with obesity had almost no Akkermansia left. Those with depression also tested low. This bacteria isn't just important; it's the difference between a sharp mind in a healthy body and brain fog in an overweight one.

Sit in a comfortable position, spine straight, head forward. Relax your body. Slowly raise your arms in front of you, palms facing one another, as if you were holding a ball between them. Inhale deeply as you slightly move your hands together contracting the ball , exhale as you expand them. Visualise energy expanding and contracting with each breath and movement.

This simple exercise using the breath has amazing effects on relieving allergy symptoms, improving the immune response to both colds/flus, and for many auto-immune conditions. The breathing technique featured here, increases Nitric Oxide; regulates the immune system, warms the body, and opens the pores to stimulate sweating. Use it when you have early symptoms of a cold or flu, sinus allergies, post-nasal drip, or are suffering from an auto-immune condition.

For digestive problems, and abdominal issues, such as gas, bloating, IBS, menstrual cramps, etc. It also calms down the nervous system.

No matter what the disease or illness, the process of digestion remains the same. It is our source of transforming food into energy, and is required for all cellular metabolism, and repair. The stomach is thought of in Chinese Medicine as a pot on a stove. It receives food and liquids, that decompose and cook. In order to cook something and transform something, heat is required.

HOW DOES KINESIOLOGY WORK? Muscle Testing is used to detect stress in the body and mind, by working with the central nervous system it is able to bypass the conscious mind and tap into the subconscious mind, allowing us to examine where, when, how and why stress has occurred and been stored or suppressed throughout our life, so we can explore the hidden parts of ourselves. Once discovered a variety of balancing methods are applied to resolve the stress by acting on the ne

In two previous articles, I demonstrated a QiGong exercise that could resolve nearly any health condition, the ZhiNeng QiGong Wall Squat. While being an incredibly effective and powerful exercise, it is challenging and impossible for people that are unable to stand. Here are some additional techniques that have similar benefits. They are far easier to do, and may be the most suitable QiGong exercise for some people. These exercises are particularly good to balance and

It is very difficult to work with Qi, when you have no awareness for sensing Qi. In the video above, teacher RJ Singer demonstrates an exercise to learn to feel Qi instantly and immediately experience a Qi sensation, and then gives you another exercise to develop this skill further.