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Qi Gong at the major hospital in Bologna

The time of dormant winter energy has passed, almost completely stopped, and we find ourselves in the season of Spring, the season of awakening. Nature gently opens, moves, the days are milder, the nights get shorter, the Yin loses its arrogance, giving way to the birth of the Yang. Now let's analyze these elements by making a comparison between macro and microcosm, relating what happens in this season in nature with what happens inside us. In nature and in all things, the element that is often underestimated, but that shapes and makes possible the existence of any form of life is the MOVEMENT.

To understand the meaning of the true intention, the "Yi" must first clarify the activity of the heart and mind in a detached way. In Traditional Chinese Medicine the heart represents the Shen or our deepest feeling, while the mind is seen as a computer that processes; it acts as a synthesizer of information, it finds itself synthesizing both information from the heart, and from the outside (parents' relationships, school, mass media ...) reflecting its processing externally and internally.

The research of vacuum in Qi Gong for health, as well as throughout the traditional Chinese medicine is the condition for each transformation, to the happening of any event A step of chapter XI of the Tao de Ching illuminates the meaning of emptiness in Taoist thought.

In this period the practice of Qi Gong is oriented towards the nourishment and rebalancing of the KIDNEY. The kidney has the urinary bladder as its bowels. Seat of the original energy Yuan Qi, from strength and vigor to the whole body, a weak kidney is recognized by exhaustion, fear, all the disorders of the spine, need of salty foods. It takes energy mainly from the North, its element is water and its maximum energy in the day is from 17:00 to 19:00, the taste is salty, the emotional state the fear but also the will

Because a food choice can do much more than we think ... It is important to be able to convey the concept of "Vitality and Transformative Capacity of food" whose availability is a "Gift" due to the generosity of nature and the work of others people. Through everyday food choices we can do much more than we think ...