Healing Tao USA | Chris Wreede | Activity https://healingtaousa.com/members/chris-wreede/activity/ Activity feed for Chris Wreede. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:15:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c65c274480befc0cc89f59621781859a Chris Wreede replied to the topic New Isabelle Robinet book on Internal Alchemy in the forum Philosophy https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/new-isabelle-robinet-book-on-internal-alchemy/#post-37664 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:36:50 -0400 Would you recommend any of the other books on his website by Golden Elixir Press?

]]> 2e15baf6b7e35580400d5f47a2e15e66 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Tai chi with ball in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/tai-chi-with-ball/#post-37525 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:47:51 -0400 Taiji ruler – good for solo push hands training

A slower approach

More of a qigong approach

awesome soundtrack

]]> f0e7acd8e1288fcb8f4b856c5e648cc0 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Tai chi with ball in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/tai-chi-with-ball/#post-37523 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:23:07 -0400 youtube…

The taiji ball master

The same dude

A different approach

master of the heavy ball (bad audio)

master of the really big heavy ball

a western approach

discussion board

http://rumsoakedfist.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9744

]]> c977ee76d55aca9fe30e40c45f323ec9 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Tai chi with ball in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/tai-chi-with-ball/#post-37521 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:45:33 -0400 Actually, I think He did practice Taiji with it, but never taught any of his students how to use it. Apparently he used to throw it up in the air and bounce it off his body (the stone ball), its like the Harlem globetrotters of the taiji world.

]]> fe62af6202dee3edcc7b9cda4149af0f Chris Wreede replied to the topic Tai chi with ball in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/tai-chi-with-ball/#post-37519 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:26:52 -0400 Fu Zhen Song was famous for practicing his dragon Bagua form with a 25 pound granite ball. Good training for core muscles and balance! Kettlebells also work well for this.

]]> bedfd8aa56b66e80927a8138c3a6106c Chris Wreede replied to the topic Lao Zi quote about music in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/lao-zi-quote-about-music/#post-37511 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:44:18 -0400 It seems that the quote attributed to Lao Tzu may actually be closer to this excerpt from Lu Dong Bin’s Hundred Character Tablet:

“Sit and listen to the stringless music.
Clearly understand the Universal way.”
– Translation by Zhongxian Wu, posted by Craig on a different forum.

This sounds also like what Michael is referring to as a…[Read more]

]]> fdc047a747cd0356ee21feaae2d828c5 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Lao Zi quote about music in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/lao-zi-quote-about-music/#post-37509 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:45:04 -0400 Here is a quote by Karl Paulnack from a speech to parents, Head of the Boston Conservatory. He doesn’t mention ancient China that may have been more advanced than the Greeks at the time, but their accomplishments in ancient times and the focus it had are related on a deep level:

“One of the first cultures to articulate how music really works…[Read more]

]]> 5713b9b163cd3bbb24877d246527f7a7 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Lao Zi quote about music in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/lao-zi-quote-about-music/#post-37507 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:39:23 -0400 Point taken from both responses – thanks.

I like the way verse 41 has such a rhythmic cadence 3-5-5-2 (at least in this random translation by Derek Lin I found on the net).

Also how the whole verse seems to describe the “unseen quality of virtue given substance”, or the “(physically) silent tone” as Michael mentioned that is also central to…[Read more]

]]> 4d68dc7f68d1e2252ba6fa2840a5c92e Chris Wreede replied to the topic Lao Zi quote about music in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/lao-zi-quote-about-music/#post-37501 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:27:25 -0400 These are the only ones I could find that contain the word music:

Chapter 2

When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other
Difficult and easy bring about each other
Long and short reveal each other
High and low support…[Read more]

]]> a0ca3dc8bfb20a1b5be45c9b8fe8024f Chris Wreede replied to the topic Health effects of a broken heart (article) in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/health-effects-of-a-broken-heart-article/#post-37488 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:40:42 -0400 Good advice on restoring normal sleeping patterns. Meditation definitely helps too, but when the body is in self sabotage mode, the problem becomes actually doing the restorative activities, not falling asleep. In these cases though consistently taking one step in the right direction will eventually produce positive results and turn the…[Read more]

]]> 1e0d583a0009adf9b62186481cd49e05 Chris Wreede replied to the topic WHO study: cell phones = cancer risk, microwaves your brain in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/who-study-cell-phones-cancer-risk-microwaves-your-brain/#post-37450 Tue, 31 May 2011 22:05:18 -0400 Use the speaker phone! The radiation is much less concentrated when it is farther away from the head and body.

]]> 3969ab32661e29d0a995f837c0a6f843 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Super Healing Sounds method ″tuned″ with EMDR. What do you feel? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/super-healing-sounds-method-tuned-with-emdr-what-do-you-feel/page/2/#post-37434 Sun, 29 May 2011 18:57:27 -0400 Alchemy is inherently a method of accelerated change, of accelerated spiritual evolution, but contains within it safeguards for moving too quickly. While it has the possibility of causing imbalance in a person through unleashing some hidden or buried aspect of their personality, it also has the tools to balance that. I have found that if a…[Read more]

]]> fc7fdf2bcf2194b88a27f2197d73c71a Chris Wreede replied to the topic Super Healing Sounds method ″tuned″ with EMDR. What do you feel? in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/super-healing-sounds-method-tuned-with-emdr-what-do-you-feel/#post-37408 Sat, 28 May 2011 03:02:42 -0400 The way implies constant change, is there a risk to change?

]]> 85fd4fbe6e5d2cb038988425030e28ba Chris Wreede replied to the topic Moving from You Wei to Wu Wei ( Taiji Article) in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/moving-from-you-wei-to-wu-wei-taiji-article/#post-37390 Sat, 28 May 2011 03:01:23 -0400 When the way is lived as the way, the question answers itself

]]> 5fa9c821c0795207d02c7a44470f5284 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Moving from You Wei to Wu Wei ( Taiji Article) in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/moving-from-you-wei-to-wu-wei-taiji-article/#post-37376 Wed, 25 May 2011 03:39:41 -0400 The author of this article that Michael posted teaches Wu style Taijiquan in Kansas city, and was the first teacher that charged money to teach Six elbows Kung Fu in North America that I know of, as well as openly calling it by one of its names not normally advertised to the public. The form is also called Tai Xu quan and after viewing some of…[Read more]

]]> 7c06f28ed8db4d71e40e187716ae2634 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Moving from You Wei to Wu Wei ( Taiji Article) in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/moving-from-you-wei-to-wu-wei-taiji-article/#post-37374 Wed, 25 May 2011 03:21:48 -0400 According to the author Daniel Levitin, who wrote the book “This Is Your Brain On Music”, the only thing in common between experts in any field whether it is sports (martial arts), music, or meditation, is over 10,000 hours of practice. That means three hours a day for 10 years, or 1.5 for 20 years etc.

It is after this amount of time that…[Read more]

]]> 7b0e32f9d0576aeee247b1aa949189b7 Chris Wreede replied to the topic dark days and fusion in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/dark-days-and-fusion/#post-37361 Sat, 21 May 2011 22:14:41 -0400 Primordial qigong sometimes would seem to cause things to go into overdrive for me, such as a run of bad events. These are usually followed by some good events though that balance it out.

]]> 8e9e40531d2ec2538858d32068da8074 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Qigong and meditation while dreaming in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/qigong-and-meditation-while-dreaming/#post-37329 Sat, 21 May 2011 03:48:58 -0400 Sounds like something surfacing from deep inside. I always find it helpful to interpret the “feeling” of the dream rather than the actual events.

If you are familiar with any acrobatic practices (capoeira etc.), it is cool to feel yourself doing the movements (spinning, flipping) while lying in bed before going to sleep…I have found myself…[Read more]

]]> 93bf40bec07a30809322ef7792e255a8 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Gabrielle Roth on What is the Dance? in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/gabrielle-roth-on-what-is-the-dance/#post-37339 Sat, 21 May 2011 03:35:24 -0400 I think that “surrendering to someone else’s music beat” depends on how you look at it. You have a choice to dance or not and if you choose to do so, your movements belong to you. I think that is why people dance out of free will, because they enjoy contributing to the group qi field, and stop when they aren’t feeling it. Though, I agree that…[Read more]

]]> de976a3e76dc9ae6240e7e103c2fb605 Chris Wreede replied to the topic David Wilcock: Coherent Love Field Battles Dark Disasters in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/david-wilcock-coherent-love-field-battles-dark-disasters/#post-37342 Fri, 20 May 2011 08:19:58 -0400 The idea below reminds me of the concept of the “Ghost River” in the Yi Jing (Karcher version):

>>>”Ultimately this is due to the fact that these disasters are caused by a rotational ‘spin’ that is worked into the gravitational field. Gravity pushes the air, the water and the liquid mantle under the crust around in circuits.
When those…[Read more]

]]> 4ff157b5573a93bf57cf2b18354bf7b2 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Mixing Forms-Good or Bad? in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/mixing-forms-good-or-bad/#post-37101 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:43:09 -0400 Any practice takes time to realize the benefits because cultivating qi is like creating a path in the forest: the more you walk on it, the clearer it becomes. As Michael likes to say, the qi field is intelligent, and the clearer your communication is, the clearer the response.

This is also why I am leary of qigong forms that don’t have a…[Read more]

]]> 1f3320c200ad1382d2a94b98d0570525 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Raw Jin-chi in body why it happens? in the forum Practice https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/raw-jin-chi-in-body-why-it-happens/#post-37111 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:31:27 -0400 Depending on where you are at with your practice, storing sexual energy/Jing in the heart helps to open the heart center and balance the heart and kidney water/fire elements as Steven said, although activating their virtues will help to balance them more. Circulation is also good as it distributes the jing qi throughout all the pathways, and jing…[Read more]

]]> 421f205586ab15486a9e3bdaedc00958 Chris Wreede replied to the topic Health Dangers of Unfermented Soy - used in many "health" foods in the forum General https://healingtaousa.com/forums/topic/health-dangers-of-unfermented-soy-used-in-many-health-foods/#post-36800 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:53:17 -0400 Very informative article. I ate tofu and soy for quite a few years but never felt like it made me feel “good” as a health food, as well as it being difficult to build strength from exercise. Feels much better now.

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