Qigong for Sexual Vitality with Master Chris Shelton

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Hello there Modern Man. Well, today I am going to be talking with Chris Shelton. Chris Shelton is a Chinese medicine and Qi Young master. He's helped thousands worldwide reclaim their health and enjoy a life free from chronic pain. Chris has worked with the Special Olympics team, professional athlete and celebrities looking for deeper meaning in their life. He is also the founder of Morning Crane Healing Arts center in San Jose in Los Angeles, California and the author of Chi Young for Self Refinement. And in fact, he just told me there's another book coming out as well. He's also the co creator of the Chi Club and the Qigong teacher training program and you can access all of that on his website. So welcome Chris.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be on your show.

Well, I'm more excited than you are, I'm sure, because this is a new concept that our listener will want to listen to because it's just not a Chinese name. It's a lifestyle and it's a healing art called Chi Gong. Did I pronounce that correctly? Qigong. Right. And it's spelled Q. I Q O N G. Like Q. Yeah. Right, like this book.

Yeah, Q I G O N G. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yep. Oh, G. Oh, it's a G. Yes. G O N G. So Q I G O N G. All right. I even I spelled that wrong in my own notes here and I should know about the. All right, so tell us about qigong. What is that?

So first and foremost, I wanted to say that qigong is not a belief structure. Chi is the life force energy that emanates through all things seen and unseen. Even the chair for which you're sitting on is an expression of consciousness, which means it has a certain level, has energy in it. If it did not. Now this is a very deep thought. If it did not, then its particles would disperse into nothingness. But chi, as we're talking about, as far as our human body goes, is the blood or the life force that supports our life. For us to be able to pump blood, for our brains to function, for our nervous system to function properly. That all takes energy. Gong then is the skill. So if you ever hear a Gong fu, that means skill with a fist. So qigong is the practice of harnessing this life force energy that emanates in all people and using the skill, which is the mind intent within certain specific practices in order to do certain things for the body. And in this case, the style of qigong that I teach is for mental emotional health and also for proper body functioning. And if you understand how the emotions and the physical tied together, which I'm sure you do, we talked about this and when we talk about sexual dysfunctions, that's definitely a physical and emotional dysfunction. So what's great about qigong is that it gives people the tools in order to transform their mental emotional state and at the same time as a byproduct increases their physical well being.

Wow. It's like something that we need. So just to kind of review Qi, it's almost like the energy that propelled the blood throughout your body. Would that be a good analogy there?

Yeah. So if people have a hard time conceiving what Qi is. Yeah. We have a saying that the blood contains the Qi and, and the Qi moves the blood around the body. So when I'm talking to brand new students, I tell them, well, if you have a hard time understanding, just think of blood circulating throughout your body. If you think about it, if your blood is weak or deficient, and if you're anemic, what happens? You're lethargic, you don't want to get out of bed, you might have depression, you know, you'll be tired all the time or get winded easily. So then the person's Qi or blood is weak. If the blood is strong and flourishing the way that it should be, then what happens is the person has vitality, but their complexion looks good, their hair looks good. I mean, you could definitely tell the strength of the Qi inside the blood by looking at how much energy somebody has, looking at their complexion and also looking at how luster this or how much luster is in the hair.

Okay, wonderful. And Gong. Now explain that again, you were saying that more is it another energy channel as well?

So Gong is really just the skill. And we have a saying that the imagination leads the mind and the mind leads the smooth flow of the Qi. So the Gong part, when you hear qigong is just saying that. Okay. While we're doing specific practices, they're all meant to do something medicinally inside the body. So these specific Gong style practices are intended on helping to move the qi through the internal organs and their associated system, which then that kind of skill, whether you're doing a specific meditation or specific movement, helps to harmonize the internal organ system, which then, like I said, then the person has a fruitful and a healthy, fulfilled life.

Wow. Okay, I get it now. So why should we care about Qi, and what should we care about? Qigong.

Okay. Yeah. So what happens is that there's specific moving practices that I have on my YouTube channel that I, you know, show on my TikTok page and such. There's specific moving practices and meditative practices. So when people say, well, Kris, what is qigong like? And I say, well, have you heard of Tai Chi? Most people say, yes, Qigong is actually the foundation of Tai Chi. It's also the foundation of acupuncture and classical Chinese medicine. And so by doing these simple movements, what happens is it helps get you out of your head and back into your body first and foremost. So, for example, I have a meditation on itunes and Spotify called the White Pearl Meditation. Well, what is that? White Pearl meditation good for? Number one, to get you out of your head and then put you back into your body, but also to strengthen your kidneys. So if your kidney health is strong, then your vitality is strong. And so we have that meditation. I have another one called the center and Balance meditation. And the purpose of that meditation also is to get you out of your head and back into your body, but also, too, to be able for you to become so aware of your body that you understand when disease is starting to show up and then be able to do or utilize these specific qigong practices in order to transform chronic pain and chronic disease. And so, for example, when I see somebody with a frozen shoulder or they can't move their neck, a lot of times people will blame their mattress or they'll blame their pillow. And unless you're doing jiu jitsu and someone popped your shoulder out or you're a pitcher, you popped your shoulder out. Every single shoulder and neck issue I've seen always goes back to emotions that obstruct the heart. Because if you look at all the acupuncture vessels that feed up into the face or from the face down into the hands, they're all direct, connected, or indirectly connected back to the heart.

Is that the meridian line that you are referring to?

Right, yeah, the acupuncture channel. So by doing these practices daily, what happens is that it starts to release emotions, and you may not know what's coming up for you. Like, you may not Cry and those kinds of things. But it will start to release these emotions and these toxins from the organs. As a byproduct, you naturally become calmer and you naturally become stress free.

Wow, that's awesome. Now, this meditation on Spotify, is that your channel?

Well, it's. Right Now I have two meditations on iTunes and Spotify, like I said. One is called the White Pearl Meditation by Chris Shelton. The other one's called the center and Balance Meditation by Chris Shelton. I was in the recording studio earlier this year with famous composer CJ Vanston, who composed for Def Leppard and Tina Turner and Joe Cocker and everybody. Anyways, he's composing the music and we recorded 12 more qigong meditations that will be coming out probably in 2020, early 2023. And the difference between this, because some people say, okay, Chris, well, what's the difference between qigong and. And mindfulness meditation? Well, what I love about qigong is that it composes the yin aspect, which is mindfulness, but then it has the yang aspect, which is where we're mindfully doing something or trying to create some kind of change. And so all those meditations that I've recorded, no matter how simplistic they are, once again, they are all meant to do something medicinally inside the body. And one of the things most importantly is to calm the mind. Calm the mind, calm down the sympathetic nervous system, get you out of fight or flight mode. And then guess what, you have this vitality that's, you know, when they're looking, when people are looking for the Fountain of Youth, it's not Botox, it's qigong and healthy diet and exercise and proper hydration and proper sleep.

Wow, I love the way you say that. Yeah, anti aging is not Botox and fillers, but it's back to the basics of mind, body balance and proper diet, sleep and exercise, which, which is really good for all diseases, including. What this show is about, is sexual health. And my big point about sexual health is not just about sex. It's about your general wellness. It's about your longevity as well. Right, so on that, on that note, how can Qiyang help for sexual enhancement?

Okay, so according to classical Chinese medicine, first I'm going to talk about the physiology behind, especially for a man, being able to have an erection. The liver and kidneys are the main organs responsible for that action. Now there are other organs that do play a role because you're, you know, the misconception is that the heart produces blood. It doesn't. It's the Governor of blood. But your liver is the controller of blood. And so that's why they say, for example, if somebody drinks too much, then they have performance issues. Because that alcohol affects the liver, blood affects the liver Qi. And guess what? That liver acupuncture meridian, which is on both sides of the body, encircles the genital region. The reason why that little blue pill works for some people is because it affects the liver blood. Okay? So that's one organ. The other organ that controls the reproductive system is your kidneys. Now, your kidneys controls, gosh, everything from your reproductive system to the bones in your body, the marrow, all the major glands in the body, which includes the testes and the brain and the blood. So these kidneys have a great functionality. And if there's a weakness of kidney essence, then what happens is that from a physical standpoint, this also could be a contributing factor too. So that's why when people are burning the candles at both ends and stuff like that, and then they go home or they go to have sex, and all of a sudden this thing is not working. It's because the essence has to be restored. And so when we look at the physical aspect component, those are the two main organs. Like I said, other organs play a role too, because blood is essential to be able to get an erection. And so other organs that play a role would be your spleen and your pancreas as well as your lungs. So those organs indirectly play a role too. But when we see a patient come in with erectile dysfunction, then what happens is that we actually will look at the stress in the person's life. Because now let's talk about the emotions. If you have a lot of repressed anger or resentment, guess what? That will obstruct the blood flow of the liver. And if that anger and resentment is held onto for a long time, guess what it turns into? Depression. How does depression happen? Well, the blood becomes stagnant within the liver. And the blood, if the blood is stagnant within the liver, it doesn't flow through the heart properly. And then the mind will suffer as a result. So unlike Western medicine, where they treat the brain, what happens is when we see a patient that has depression or has anxiety around having sex, one of the first things that we do is then we look at, well, how's that liver blood functioning? How are the kidneys functioning? How much stress is in a person's life? You know, I did a few amateur kickboxing matches with Kung Li's fight team, and one of the professional fighters on the team. One time he came in to clinic and he said, you know, Chris, it was crazy because with Kung's fight team, we did hard sparring all the time. And he said, you know, Chris, he goes, last night, dude, we did. I don't know. I think he said they did like, 12 rounds of hard sparring. He said he went home to have sex with his girlfriend. He said, I could not get it up. I said, well, because you shot your wad while sparring. Because the same energy that it takes to fight, that is the same sexual energy it takes to fight is just like having an orgasm. That's why you will hear that a lot of professional boxers will not have sex a few weeks before a fight. Why? Because even if they know nothing about Chinese medicine, they know that it somehow weakens their system.

Yes, yes. And that's one of the reason why for men to hold their ejaculation to right, is to hold that energy inside and not release it and not deplete their. The sperm stores and make the testicles produce more sperm. And so. But you said two weeks. Is that how long it takes to kind of replenish the energy?

Well, you know, I know fighters that will actually do three to four weeks out. There's some fighters that will, excuse me, do like, two weeks out. But they know because. And if you think about it, you know, what's very fascinating is in one of the classical Chinese medicine textbooks and the Foundations of Chinese Medicine by Giovanni, I'm probably misquoting this, but it's ridiculous. He was saying that. I think between age 18 and 23, I think it's like seven orgasms a day. And then between 23 and 29, you know, for men. I'm talking about for men, you know, then it's like, then it goes down. Right. And the reality is, is that if you're having that many orgasms, then will you even have any energy to function? And what I tell people is, is that if you don't believe in what I'm saying, then the next time you feel a virus or flu come on and you feel like, oh, I'm getting body aches and stuff like that, have an orgasm and see if it makes you worse or not. Chances are if you deplete your essence, you'll get sicker.

Yep, yep. I totally agree with you. Because you're. You're.

But you're.

You're not in the mood anyway. Your mind will kind of like, oh, I'm, you know, I'm not in the mood as well. And like you touched upon before is, you know, in order to get. For you to get direction, you have to be in the parasympathetic state, which is the relaxed state. You know, the. It's what they call the, you know, breed and, and relax, date. So you have to be the opposite of fight or flight, which is a sympathetic state. And to tap into the parasympathetic state, you, you. That's how you. It's the opposite. So if you're stressed and if you're busy working, you're not getting enough sleep and you're getting, you're not eating well, you're not exercising well, you're. You're not staying in the parasympathetic state. Like exactly what you were saying before. So, so to what, qigong, how. What you mentioned in your book, the micro cosmic orbit meditation, I'm really curious about that. Can you talk more about that? And how is that different than yoga? So I was reading the instructions on the breathing. I'm like, how is it different than yoga breathing?

Okay, so that's a great question too. So the microcosmic orbit breathing, it also has other names like the Jupiter's orbit breathing, Small heaven breathing. Like, it has so many different names. So what happens is we have these 12 regular acupuncture meridians in the body. These 12 regular acupuncture vessels or meridians, they control the 12 major organs in the body. We have then what is referred to the eight extraordinary meridians or vessels in the body. Two of the most powerful vessels in the body is one is called the governing vessel, where the channel runs up the spine, up over the top of the head and actually ends right here, right at underneath the plethora here. That's where the governing vessel ends. Conception channel comes up from the perineum and then flows up and then it connects to underneath the tongue. So what happens in the microcosmic orbit meditation is that we mindfully place the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth as if saying the letter N. And then we imagine a white light, or just energy, you can imagine whatever, flowing straight up the spine up over the top of the head. And then as you exhale down the front of the face, the chest, the abdomen, lightly squeeze the anal sphincter muscle and use that as a pump. Then as we pump straight up the spine, up over the top of the head, down the front of the face, the chest, in the abdomen. And so what will happen is that they say it takes about 100 days to open up those two main vessels of the body. Meaning doing that practice for, I don't know, 10 or 15 minutes every day. Inhaling up the spine, exhaling down the front. They say in about 100 days, then what happens is that those two channels really open up and then start to flow into the other vessels or channels, which are the 12 channels of. Feed into the 12 organ systems of the body. So it's like a reservoir in nature. What happens if that reservoir becomes full? What happens? It flows into other smaller reservoirs and creeks, right? And then. And then benefits the other lakes, you know, that are surrounding it. So this microcosmic orb meditation, what it does is it helps to balance out the 12 organs of the body that all contribute back to sexual function, number one. Number two, what it does is it helps to benefit our cns, which is our central nervous system. And if you study the central nervous system, Things like what we're talking about, the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system, right? That all comes from that cns. So. And there's different components of the spine that control those different. Those two main types of responses in the body, right? So the theory is, is that you do this meditation every day. You start to benefit the other organs of the body. Because at some point or another, these other channels that feed into the organs Cross over these two major channels of the body. But also, to just reiterate, we also help to move the energy and stimulate that central nervous system. So very, very powerful. But there's actually. But so. But there's actually another meditation for men. Well, women can do this too. And, you know, when people say, like, for example, like, oh, I'm practicing celibacy to serve God, well, they have to understand why they're doing that for. Why. Why would they be doing that? And if they are doing that, you still have to move the chi. Because if you don't move the energy, then you take more chances for testicular cancer, Prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, because the energy gets stuck. So a great practice to do. It's hard to practice. Is pull the energy straight up and then down. So that flows down to the perineum. Now, the perineum is the acupuncture point right between the sex glands or behind the sex glands and the anal sphincter muscle. So then what you do is then you inhale a smaller orbit. And from the perineum up to the Ming men, which is the acupuncture point in between the left and the right kidney. And then you imagine that energy circulating to right below the Belly button at chi hai and then it circulates around to the perineum and then up the spine again and up over the top of the head, down the front of the face, the chest, the abdomen, flowing through the perineum back up again to the Ming men, which is the acupuncture point between the left right kidney through the body, emerging again right below the belly button. And you know what else is great about this practice too is this teaches men to be able to last longer too without having to have an orgasm.

Right. And what, what is that practice call? Is that also the microcosmic orbit or is it.

Yeah, I call it the smaller or I call it the smaller orbit breathing or some people will call it the harmonizing of yin and yang because you know, we have the. The perineum is considered the lower dan tien or energy sphere in some systems. The Mingmen is considered the middle dantian in some schools of thought. So you're combining the yin and yang and you're circulating, you're circulating. So once again, whether you're male or female, if you're not having sex, whether it's planned or unplanned or for a purpose or, you know, just, that's just the way things are, it's still important to circulate that energy through that region here, you know. But also too, as a man, what's really good, when you feel like you're going to have that orgasm, you're going to have that release, if you want to last longer, then what you do is use practice, you know, as that or that sensation comes up. Then you practice squeezing that anal sphincter muscle and pulling that energy up, back and up. Back it up towards the head.

Back and up.

Yeah, and then back down and then back down. Because we don't want to leave it up here. We want to. Unlike a kundalini, like when we hear about people having that kundalini rising, we don't want to. In qigong, we don't want to keep the energy in the head too much potential for injury. So what we want to do is we want to pull it around. And if you are having intercourse with somebody, there's something called Taoist sexology. And Taoist sexology was.

How do you spell that?

Daoist, T, A, O, I S, T. Uh huh.

Okay.

So there's books out there on Taoist sexology that have further other practices that you could do. But the whole purpose of Taoist sexology was because ancient developed people of the time recognized that, oh well, if you're having too much of a release all the time. You shorten your. They were shortening their lifespans. In fact, my acupuncture teacher, who I studied with privately one on one for two and a half years, she was the first one licensed in California. She was telling me that if you look at the character, there's two characters for acupuncture. One represents the needle, the other one represents moxibustion. And so what she said they would do is what happened was that emperors thousands of years ago were dying in their 20s from heart attacks because they had too many concubines. So they had to come up. So they had to come up with a way to keep these emperors alive. And so this technique of moxibustion, which also, by the way, that white pearl meditation kind of works in the same way of restoring the essence, the jing of the kidneys. What they would do is she said they burned the moxibustion right below the belly button, and this would pull the yin essence in and then to the kidneys and spread qi throughout their body. So she's really cute because, you know, she's very old school Taiwanese, you know, and a philosopher on Confucianism and stuff. And so she looked at me and she said, so, Chris, Viagra has been around for many thousands and thousands of years.

Through, through, through moxibustion, right?

Yes.

Well, I need to look into that. I need to look into the treat. That's a treatment for my patient, moxibustion. And essentially what you' saying is that if you do that, you pull the chin in, you can actually hold ejaculation, right?

Yes, you can hold the ejaculation. So going back to Taoist sexology, if you. They believe that at the time of conception, between God and your parents and your environment, you. You get this battery of life. Now, this battery will predict how long your life will be, except for like if you got hit by a car or something like that or some disease. But so your overall essence. And like I said earlier, these kidneys control everything. Your ears, your hair, your brain, all that stuff. Excuse me. So that's why, as you age, what happens, Hearing loss, memory loss, hair loss, Sexual performance starts to diminish. Why? Because this essence is naturally declining. So ancient developed ones understood that too many ejaculations. Now, don't get me wrong, it's healthier to have sex because sex is proper. Sexual function is considered healthy and natural. When we have people that are having issues, that's considered disease in Chinese medicine. But they recognize if there's too many ejaculations, then this would weaken their or lessen their essence. But more importantly, they believed in immortality. And one of the steps of immortality was to conserve this essence. So to refine the qi. So Taoist sexology would teach men especially how to circulate and how to conserve the essence. So, you know, we do these practices and let's say if an orgasm is a 10 and then peaks off, right, with this system of practice, it's a constant eight and you can control it for as long as you want to go.

Oh, that's interesting. Very, very interesting. And, and I guess when we were talking about the frequency of sex and those in those days, you know, I would assume probably anything more than ten times a day is, is a lot. And you know what, if you listen to this podcast, I've been kind of advocating, you know, have sex three to five times a week. It should be the minimum. But you know, when we're talking about when you're having too much death, it's probably between more than probably 10 a day because your body have to expend energy to make the semen, the fluid from your ejaculation, that comes from the prostate, that comes from the testicles, and it has to expend a lot of energy to make the sperm. Then anytime you ejaculate, you deplete that supply and then your body have to make that energy again as well. And I can certainly see that. And I like the part where you're saying that, you know, when you have stagnant energy in the perineum or where the, you know, the sexual organs are located at, it manifests as a cancer like prostate cancer or cervical or ovarian cancer. And you really need to clear that, that, that energy, that stagnant energy, and let it move throughout the meridian as well as the gates that you mentioned in your book. The whole point is that, you know, the meridian line and the energy line you're talking about, they need to be moved. They need to be balanced between moving, you know, at a balance, moving throughout your body, right? And if there's a stagnation of one of the energy line and that manifests as disease, right?

Or like what we're talking about here specifically, then it could turn out to be sexual dysfunction or premature ejaculation, nocturnal emissions. You know, all those things are all symptoms as to what is going on in your life. And chances are, besides drinking too much alcohol, having too much greedy fat, greasy, fatty fried food or sugar, chances are if you are having those Situations. It's due to your mental emotional state.

What do you mean by that?

Well, you know, for. For example, the kidneys. Most people don't realize that the kidney. Different emotions attack different organs. The kidneys are affected by fear and shock. So if you have fear in your life, maybe there's fear around having sex, or maybe you saw something that was shocking. Maybe you survived abuse or trauma. Maybe you survived sexual abuse. This can actually create an obstruction of the proper functioning of the penis. And then we will start to see a weakening of the kidney essence, which, if there's a weakening of it, then we will see nocturnal emissions. Right. We will see premature ejaculation because the body's not strong enough to hold the semen back. That's what's happening. But if you go back to the mental emotions, they. Well, okay, well, what's happening with me? Well, you know, it can also be things that we take for granted, too. Like maybe you're watching too much news and seeing things that are disturbing for you. Right. Disturbs your shin or your spirit. You know, this could also trigger the kidneys as well. So. So, yeah. So when we're looking at dysfunctions, male dysfunctions, we really have to address. And majority of the time, though, from what I've seen, and years ago, I'm just going to be transparent, years ago, in my early 20s, I had this happen to me because I have very strong sexual prowess, right? And I was with this gal that was. Didn't know it at the time, but she had a lot of psychological issues. And so we were fooling around and stuff like that, and she wanted to wait until we got an STD test to have to have sex. And anyways, so we were, like, right there at the moment, and she's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then I was like, yes. Then it was, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then I was like, okay, well, let's just go. We get in the car to leave. And she goes, I really meant yes. And so, like, my shit didn't work.

And I was like, what's going on here?

What are you doing to me? But it was because of the back and forth. The, you know, there is. Because of that emotional. Again, emotional state. Right, that mental, emotional state. And. And I'm really glad that you're doing this type of podcast because a lot of us men don't like to talk about those situations. We pride our masculinity on how fertile we are or, you know, our sexual prowess. Right, That's. But so if something like that happens, you know. You know, men don't really talk about it. What needs to happen is, you know, women talk about their sexual health with their girlfriends all the time. They talk about their periods and, you know, the cycle. But us men, nope, oh no, you.

Don'T talk at each other when you go to the locker room either. And it's almost like an insult if you do. But what you're saying is that, you know, and what I've always been stressing is that the brain is a larger sexual organ. If the brain isn't there, nothing gonna happen below the neck or below the belt at all. And, and like the story you were telling or that, you know, your brain wasn't there, it was just too much back and forth and your brain was gone. You know, you were really kind of, you left your parasympathetic, you left your, your relaxed state to more of a worry state, like, what, what's going on here? But to go back to that, what men do not know is that you need, they need to know that the brain is the larger sexual organ. And that's what, you know, that need to be addressed first. Not to say that, you know, there's anything wrong thing wrong with them psychologically, but just, just like stress or distraction or to the story that you're telling, you know, just like frustration that, that will kind of, you know, ruin everything as well. But what I see is that sometimes that anxiety, that performance anxiety, as it happens a few times, that create this, this negative imprint in a man's perception, their performance, and especially if they already has a little bit of performance issues, as in like not getting as firm as they used to, but then compound upon that, it actually makes the ED worse. So the end point I'm trying to make is that if the thought is there and there's that negative imprint there, it actually make your physical functioning worse than often than it is. Meaning that if your erection physically only like working maybe 70% of the time, but because of the brain thinking and the negative imprint thinking that, oh, you know, I may not, I'm not going to be able to perform and, you know, I need to do that, it worsened the condition and make, and make the erection about maybe 50% of firmness. And that's what I see when, you know, and I treat my patient and we restore direction and the blood flow again. But the part they have to overcome is in their mind that, hey, you know, it's working again and I need to get that negative imprint out and stop relying that little blue pill because that little blue pill becomes such a crutch for men for their performance because once you take that and you feel more firm and they feel that they can last longer, it becomes a crutch and it's hard for them to stop taking it. I, I, I equate the little blue pill almost like recreational drug like you know, cocaine and amphetamine because it gives you that sense, false sense of confidence and it totally hijack the, the natural sexual response. Meaning hijack how your, how a man has a natural response to get an erection. And like you, you stated it start, you know, the energy really probably start from, from the perineum and then go up to the head and then go down I think, you know, and maybe not in the head then go up and down. But you know, it does, it is like kind of a yin and yang balance there that you see. So that is really, really interesting. And I think that you know, for a band, if you have sexual dysfunction, look into qigong and check out Chris website. So how does our listener find out more about you and about qigong?

Okay, so we have multiple websites they go to. So all my, my YouTube page and Instagram Facebook is Chris Shelton. That's S H E L T O O N Chris Shelton Qigong Q I G O N G. That's the handle my TikTok page where I have like little quick videos, tai chi videos, face reading videos. It's Chris Sheltonchigong or you go to sheltonchigong.com and also on there there's a five element questionnaire for which you could download and figure out what your personality type is, which is important too.

And I totally recommend that. I actually did that. It's a questionnaire is very extensive and it's free and but take your time in answering it because it can tell you a lot about yourself and how you can actually heal yourself. So I took the questionnaire and these are my result. So my biggest number is fire and my lowest number is metal is minus 4. And as you can see here, I'm going to have Chris interpret this for me and what does it really mean? So if you take this questionnaire, there's an explanation for it and some recommended resource as well. I'm hoping that Chris will help me interpret this and what it means.

Okay, so if anybody's ever taken a personality questionnaire, chances are they've taken what is called as an enneagram. Like I'm a number eight on the enneagram. And that enneagram is great because it tells us overall what the personality of the person is now this five element questionnaire that's in the back of my book there, Qigong for Self Refinement. Also on the Shelton Qigong webpage, it tells us what our primary typology is, meaning, believe it or not, different organs will govern us. And in your case, your heart is fire, represents the fire elements of your. You're a heart person, you come from a space fire. People light up the room when they walk into a place. You know, they're the fun of the party, you know, they express love. That's their. Because that's the virtue of the heart, is love. And so what happens is that when you know your typology and if you deviate because there's a whole list of items that show what your strengths are. So what is your strength if your liver governs you, what is the strength if your lungs govern you? But when you deviate from that typology, that starts to indicate specific diseases. So for example, if a fire type is not allowed to show their light, that will start to show up as psychological disorders and disease because in other health problems, like maybe cardiovascular issue, heart issues, afib, those types of things. So the importance of this is, yes, it tells our personality, but also what it'll do too is it'll tell us what potential diseases may be lying around the corner because of that typology. Now, the other important number on there was your weakest number, which in your case was your metal typology. So the metal connects to the lung. So when we see a gap larger than 16 between all the five organs, and all those five organs correlate back to a certain element like fire, wood, water, earth and metal. If there's too much of a gap, then it shows us, okay, well, that deficiency there must have been because the lungs are affected by grief, sadness and loss. So there must have been some loss somewhere in your life, some grief. And this is the reason why that lung number, that metal number is so low. So this is important because now we're like, oh, okay, now that I know this, I could do specific qigong practices to tonify and strengthen my lungs, to release the grief and the sadness and the shame and the guilt and allow for the positive virtue to come in. I could do healing sounds for the lungs. I could do a gentle feng shui that benefits the lungs. I could do gentle herbs food that benefit lung qi. So this is the importance of knowing this or taking this questionnaire is it tells us who you are, tells us when you deviate from who you are. As a certain typology, potential diseases, but also underneath the surface, what other diseases may be lurking as a result of. Result of emotional trauma that affected a certain organ that needs to be built up.

Oh, so I need to build up my. My lung then. Yeah, absolutely. Right. I am prone to getting respiratory disease, see. Yeah, yeah. I get bronchitis. I get bronchitis in the wintertime. And. But the silver lining, you know, since COVID is, you know, we wear a mask. And I haven't gotten it in the last couple of years because I wear a mask now when I work. And you meant. It's interesting that you mentioned grief because both my parents had. Had died early, in fact, you know, you know, at 57 and 79 for my dad. But, you know, 57 is what I'll be next year, which when my mom passed away and she's been a chronic smoker. But, you know, I may not realize that's affecting me more than I thought.

Yeah. So that questionnaire will pinpoint. Will start to pinpoint it like you said. And so that's because of that repressed grief or loss. Then what happens is your lung qi is weak. And one of the things that the lungs do is it houses what is known as the wei qi, which is our defense mechanism, which is part of our immune health. That's why during COVID when doctors were telling their patients to go home and take some, you know, Sudafed, I was telling my patients to come in because you're not going to get me sick because my lung health is so strong. My wei qi is so strong. And besides that, we. We were helping with Chinese herbology heal people that had Covid. But if you look at the emotional state, that's where the qigong comes in. Then that's where we say, okay, well, I'm going to focus on maybe circumstances with my mom that makes me sad. I'm going to feel it, see it, what are some of the environmental things? And then I'm going to inhale, open up the chest, and then exhale, allow for that. Then to leave out the hands. Or if I'm doing the healing sound, whether it's ha for the heart or if it's for the lungs, this is how we release the emotional trauma. So unlike conventional therapy, where you go in, and this is from my own experience, you go in, you talk about things, and sometimes they pick off the scab. You leave, you're like, oh, man, I feel worse than what I did when I walked in. I want you to pick off the scab. But then by doing this specific qigong practice that's in my book, that's also my YouTube page, you then release the vibration from the organ, and that's how you start to process that trauma.

Oh, wow. So we can find. I can go to YouTube channel and find out how to release that energy to boost up my lung element then. Yeah, right.

Yeah. And if there's one more thing I can say before we sign off here for men out there is that if you have a partner who is verbally abusive to you, makes you feel bad if you're not able to get an erection or your performance is not what it used to be, you know, I would definitely voice how you feel. Don't keep that in because that will further create more of this problem. And then if possible, I would change partners, you know, if possible, because you need people that are going to be understanding and, and be able to be supportive because that psychological abuse or when people say mean things or like, oh, you're not interested in me, am I? Something wrong with me? That kind of guilt affects us men. And a lot of us men, we don't show our emotions. And as a result of that, it shows up, as in this case, dysfunction, or it can show up as disease.

Well said. I love how you say that. And so men. Go to Chris's website at Shelton Qigong. It's S H E L T O N Q I g o n g.com and check out his. His chief club, as well as take the free 5 element questionnaire like I did. It will give you some more enlightening to what's going on about you and your personality and what your weakness are. Because I am. I'm. I'm probably gonna join his chi club and. Yeah, and. And do the exercises with him as much as I can. Find out so much about qigong that it's almost an essential thing you need to do in your life along with diet and exercise. Right. Why don't we do this more, Chris? Why isn't this more mainstream?

You know, because I think people thought it was a Chinese thing or it was a belief thing or, you know, like it went against Christ or something like that. And I'm a man of God, and I'm telling you right now, that's one of those things. And it's been hidden kind of in secrecy because other things have taken more precedence in their life. And so what's great is that people like you are exposing their population in the world to these practices, and it's not a new practice. Like, I said it's over 5,000 years old. What I tell people, if it was fake, anything that's fake has a way of exposing its weakness over time. It would not last 5,000 years, would not last this long. So the fact that it's still around and it's gaining momentum across the US and around the world, if it's still around, that means there's something to it. So I think, in fact, more hospitals, like we have government contracts up in the San Francisco Bay area where we teach for the HHS and we teach, you know, for the county supervisors, because they recognize that the emotional stress, especially during COVID the first responders that had to deal with all that they had to deal with, they recognized that, wow, these simple practices were giving their employees tools in order to deal with that emotional stress of what was going on. And so I believe that now it's going to start to come out. With my new film that's coming out, I was in a movie this filmed with Billy Blanks. Taebo creator Billy Blanks is coming out this coming year to theaters and where I get to drop some wisdom because I play kind of cross between Mr. Miyagi and Yoda and.

Oh, wow, wow. What is the name of that movie?

The Circuit. The movie's called the Circuit. And again, Billy. Billy being a man of God also, he said, I want to promote. When he asked me to be in his movies, he says, I want to promote these internal arts, because qigong also could be used for internal martial arts as well, too. That's the other component it's used for, too. So Billy sees the value of what I'm sharing with the world, and through his movie, the Circuit, wants me to gently put it out there. So all these different avenues being on your show, my second new book on how to fix back problems, all this kind of stuff. My new short film that's coming out this year, A Healer's Journey or the Healer within, is all going to further help to expand the awareness to the public that it's not a belief structure. It only enhances what it is that you're supposed to do. And what I love about it the most is that it does not discriminate against your race, your gender, your age. You could do qigong from a seated position. You don't need a special mat. You don't need special yoga clothing. You could do it anywhere, and you could take it with you anywhere, and that's what empowers you.

And I love that. And you don't have to, and you don't have to spend a lot of money at all because Chris makes it very affordable to access this skill and this art that is so valuable. I just wish, I think it'll be more mainstream if insurance company covers this, you know, because insurance company I know covers seniors defined as 50 over 50 years old for gym membership like at the YMCA or at Goals Gym. Why can't they, they cover Qi Young as in, you know, now you can access it through, you know, online now and on demand. And that's how I, I think it's going to get to mainstream. So sadly, sadly, acupuncture is still not covered by insurance as the mode of treatment at this time. And like you said, acupuncture has been there 5,000 years as well too. And the whole kind of Asia, Europe, everywhere is using it, but yet in the US it's still not considered an approved, effective treatment. And, but you know, doing $25,000 surgery such as the knee replacement or hip replacement surgery and putting, putting rods and pins into the spine is covered instead of trying to promote preventative health with something as simple as breathing and moving the energy in your body. So I applaud you for what you're doing and I hope that you know, together we and collaborate on bringing this skill. It's a simple skill. You just got to practice and be consistent and have a mentor that can guide you and teach you. So thank you for being with me today and giving your dropping your pearls of wisdom for our listeners. I've learned a lot myself as well and so thank you very much.

Thank you. And you know, for those of you that are interested, like she said, we do have the Chi Club. That's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, live from 8 to 8:30. And please join us and if that doesn't work for you, the YouTube channel, there's all kinds of free videos. They're all meant to help to improve your state of well being and once again live the quality of life you deserve to live in. Thank you again for having me on your show and yes, I'd love to collaborate with you. You have a fantastic energy, you're so much fun and this has been a great honor to be on your show. So thank you.

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