5 Principles for High Performance

Are you a professional, executive, athlete or otherwise highly motivated individual looking for an edge? Have you been searching for strategies to break out of the herd?

Many coaches and marketers have programmes that promise results, but how do they really help you?

Having good posture is about more than only preventing back, neck and shoulder pain. Although these are motivating reasons, according to Chinese medicine, proper posture also sets the stage for the flow of your life-force energy (called "chi") to flow freely throughout your system. Many people don't realise the intimate connection between their body, chi, emotions and mind. For example, a bad postural alignment can block your energy channels where chi flows and cause a negative emotion to surface.

I teach how-to training tips via video blogs to help you train at home. I cover topics such as stress reduction, Longevity Breathing, qigong and tai chi self-healing exercises, and Bagua Circle Walking Meditation.

Spherical movement is what all serious qigong, bagua and tai chi practitioners aim to achieve. The process begins by learning an external form and then developing circularity within your physical movements. For some, this process can take many years or more. Results are always based on the quality of your practice at each micro-step along the way.

Qigong (translated as "energy exercise") is a system of self-healing, internal exercises that was designed to the body all of the exercise it needs whilst helping to reduce stress and tension in body, mind and chi (life-force energy energy).

Tai chi is a complex form of qigong. Both tai chi and qigong have been used in China for millennia to help people become incredibly healthy, fit and balanced on all levels of their being.

Breathing techniques have been used by spiritual traditions since the dawn of time. Almost every stress reduction system of the modern age also includes some form of breathing exercises because breathing can be so helpful for calming down during stressful events and gaining access to your inner world.

My passion is Bagua Circle Walking Meditation because it's been so effective at opening up my body, dredging out that which is stuck inside, releasing bound stress and tension and leaving me with a sense of stillness. For me personally, Bagua Circle Walking Meditation's swirling movements serve as the perfect exercise programme for health and fitness and calm disturbed thought patterns and negative emotions.

Why Your Cardio Health Matters

Cardiovascular diseases include hypertension (high blood pressure), coronary heart disease (heart attacks), cerebrovascular disease, peripheral artery disease, rheumatic heart disease, congenital heart disease and heart failure. Qigong and tai chi exercises have been proven to be successful treatments, mitigating and even eliminating symptoms, of heart diseases.

Paul is particularly insterested in exploring ways to combat the following surprising and disappointing statistics that show how seriously people are suffering worldwide.

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