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Jiaoshi Andrea
- Aug 30, 2022
- 3 min
Misleading Mysticism: The Trap Of The Spiritual Journeys
When we start a spiritual path, be it Buddhist, Christian, etc, most of the time we get too much involved with the external aspect of it. We don’t realize that the rituals, the story behind the religion, the clothing, a particular mantra, and so on, represent only the “tools”, not the end game. If we get too attached to a system or a belief, we forget that we are something more than all of that. We might forget who we truly are. We become rigid, with many opinions and ideas,
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Aug 21, 2022
- 2 min
Does Spiritual Enlightenment Really Exist?
Enlightenment is an escape. It's a concept we believe in when we have conflict within ourselves. We try to find a solution, an appealing solution, in some kind of world that is not this. A world that is not within our perception. We have conflict inside and we create more conflict by looking for something outside of ourselves. We resist life. We resist what we perceive. How can this bring the enlightenment that we are hoping for? That's a kind of nonsense, isn't it? If we wou
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Aug 14, 2022
- 2 min
How to Transform your Life & Grow Spiritually with Nei Qi Gong
Working with ourselves means also encountering our limits. It means to see our negative tendencies and transform those lower tendencies into a greater aspect of ourselves. It's about knowing ourselves on a physical, emotional, and mental level. The Nei Qi Gong path can transform our minds and turn bad habits into good ones. As long as there is mind movement, we will never find that natural blissfulness that we have as human beings when we relax. Nature is a beautiful space to
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Aug 9, 2022
- 2 min
Nei Qi Gong: Authorized Instructors & Copyright
Today I’m clarifying a very important aspect of the Nei Qi Gong: who can teach it and why the system is protected by copyright. Nei Qi Gong is not some sort of course or training you follow for a couple of days to then become a teacher. It's a very serious, efficient, and powerful system created by my teacher Shifu Costantino Valente. He is the founder of the Nei Qi Gong Fu school. This is a practice that can only be taught by an authorized instructor, like me for example, an
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Aug 6, 2022
- 2 min
Spiritual Business: Taking Advantage of Our Ignorance
Spirituality has become a mess nowadays and let’s be frank about this: we’re cheating each other! It’s a shame and it’s sad to see people that do business out of something they don’t really know anything about. They take advantage of people’s confusion, fragility, and insecurity. Unfortunately this happens quite often. The web is full of spiritual retreats of all kinds: for the feminine, the masculine, ayahuasca retreat, and so on. A popular one is the tantra retreat where pe
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Jul 30, 2022
- 2 min
The Difference Between Nei Qi Gong & Qi Gong
One of the questions I get asked often is what is the difference between Nei Qi Gong and Qi Gong. When we talk about Qi Gong we are referring to all those breathing, static, or dynamic exercises that aim to work with vital energy: the invisible layer of reality, called Qi by the Chinese people, that flows in the meridians and regulates our health. Like an underground system of pipes, Qi regulates our human functions and it’s the foundation that also delivers the energy and th
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Is Nei Qi Gong like the Mo Pai system of John Chang?
Many people contact me with the silly idea of developing superpowers. I get contacted by many who are interested in Mo Pai. This is a lineage of teaching coming from John Chang, a teacher from Thailand who passed away a couple of years ago. There is a documentary of him filmed by the BBC and available on youtube called “The ring of Fire” and also a book, written by one of his students, where I think these superpowers are over exaggerated. For me it’s not about superpowers. It
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Jul 18, 2022
- 2 min
Is There Really a Meaning to Life?
In this video I will try to address probably the most impossible question: what is the meaning of life? This was a question that used to bother me a lot, creating lots of issues in my life. While a Buddhist practitioner, I always asked myself questions like: Why is life so painful? Why don’t things go the way I want? I was trying to make sense out of life, of its purpose, and my role in it. These are questions that keep us occupied all our life; they create conflict, blame, a
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Jul 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Importance of Learning Qi Gong with a Teacher AND NO with Books!
It’s very important to study Nei Qi Gong, Qi Gong, or I think, any kind of discipline in general, with a teacher. The reason is very simple: when we talk about Qi Gong, for example, we might get into it intellectually, reading and fantasizing about things, maybe using a book or a YouTube video. But the experience is what is really missing, and we don’t have anybody to verify our energy sensations. We are talking about something that is in reality quite complex and subtle at
Jiaoshi Andrea
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
How To Become Emotionally Stable With Qi Gong
When we start following a spiritual path we do it for several reasons: some of us are looking for a more meaningful life, and others want to resolve their inner conflicts and have a pleasant experience in life. Growing personally or spiritually involves big work. It is not something that society encourages us to do, especially because does not make money. It requires money and time! It is also the toughest thing to do because it means discovering and facing our personal limit
Jiaoshi Andrea
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
Q&A with Jiaoshi Andrea & Julian (Cyprus): Integrating Meditation and Nei Qi Gong in our Daily Life
I have recently asked my followers and students if there was any topic that they would like to touch on together in an open discussion that would have been shared on my Youtube channel. In this video, I am talking with Julian from Cyprus, one of my students that recently started the path of Nei Qi Gong. It was very interesting to talk together and explore certain topics related to Meditation, Qi Gong, and their practical integration/implication in our daily lives. Most of us
Jiaoshi Andrea
- May 3, 2022
- 2 min
Q&A with Jiaoshi Andrea & Felipe (USA): Practical Spirituality, Mental Clarity, Presence
One of the most common mistakes, when we embark on a spiritual path, is to go from ideas to experiences. We tend to see and filter life through our own ideas. However, in this way, we do not see life, we see our own ideas projected on it. This is a very important topic for people looking for a spiritual meaning because most of the time we try to comprehend things with our intellect. But our intellect is limited by its nature, and not everything can be explained rationally. In
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Qi Gong Teacher: The Best Way To Learn Qi Gong
It is more and more difficult to keep people down to earth. Especially in the field of Qi Gong and spirituality, in general. Sometimes, people learn few things, practice for a very short period of time and feel that they have already understood the principles behind these technologies. The worst thing, that unfortunately happens many times, is that people feel entilted to give instructions to others or even teach. And they might even do that only because they have read some b
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Nov 6, 2021
- 3 min
Qi Gong: The Big Mistake of Chen Bao Shi (Hugging The Tree Posture)
The current spiritual and energy practice scenario is a mess. Everybody on the web talks like an expert master, because they read some kind of book about Qi Gong or attend some kind of 2-day teacher training program. People discuss in the Facebook groups and give recommendations to each other on what is best to do and how, without having a practical and direct understanding of it. Most of the time, they are just starting out and following a "new age approach" to reality. So e
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Oct 23, 2021
- 2 min
Qi Gong: The Experience Of Feeling The Qi (Energy)
When we start a Qi Gong practice for the first time, we bring lots of expectations to it. We start reading about Ying Qi, Yang Qi, Jing, Qi, Shen, and so on. Everybody on the web seems to have an opinion and intellectual explanation about it. However. the most important thing is the actual fact and experience of it. Although there are words and ways of describing the manifestation of Qi in the body, they do not represent the actual experience. And they might even create a wro
Jiaoshi Andrea
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
Qi Gong Exercise: Proof Of A Force Stronger Than Muscles (Qi Energy)
There is one force in the human body that is not based on muscles. That increases with time, rather than decaying with aging. This strength/force is not based on contracting the muscles. On the contrary, it is based on relaxation and filling up the body with this "mysterious thing", that Chinese people called "Qi or Vital Energy". We could say intellectually that this energy is everywhere, all around us. That it manifests itself, in various forms Yang Qi or Ying Qi, or Jing,
