Taking a Dive and Coming Up

Guests Bill McMillan, a retired psychotherapist and Secretary of Ren Xue of the Americas, and Sally Hinds, President of Ren Xue of the Americas talk about how they work with Ren Xue in their communities and around the globe. Sally has a business and systems background, and talks about Ren Xue as a whole, its integrity and efficacy, and some of the changes she has seen in her own life. Bill, talks about the activities Ren Xue teachers do in the Bay area, California, helping people with cancer, in rest homes, with visual impairment and more, and the impact these classes have had on people. They also discuss Ren Xue’s global activities, from Norway to South Africa, including at home learning programmes, online and local classes, and teacher training by DVD or in person in New Zealand and Sweden. Books on the philosophy of balance embodied in Ren Xue are currently being translated into several languages in order to help bring peace and health back into the heart of humanity.

Three Ren Xue teachers talk about how their practice has changed their lives. Shona and Nick give us insights into increasing clarity and creativity of mind, even as we get older, how to have the energy we need, and the delight of sharing a relationship in which both people are bringing love, openness and clarity. They talk openly about conflict, and how they step lightly and create growth and strength out of these opportunities. Natalie talks about the importance of the good state and how to extend it from the practice to everyday life. She describes how this changes her relationships with her family and friends who visit. She talks about the journey from depletion to abundance, from being a busy young mother and feeling her energy going out all the time, to learning how to gather Qi and developing an internal focus of mind, so that there is plenty of energy and Qi available in every moment. And when she forgets, she has tools at hand to bring her back to herself.

Host Dr Jackie Blunt and Vanessa Lukes, a keen gardener and Ren Xue teacher, share a conversation about habits of the mind and how they can be changed. They discuss mind patterns from the perspective of brain science, in particular in relation to the development of the brain in the early years, based on the current understanding of the highly respected Brainwave Trust Aotearoa of which Dr Blunt is a member. Ways of helping the brain are touched on briefly as they share stories of transformations they created in their own lives, health, and relationships, using an ever-deepening understanding of Qi and mind, and their role in life.

Cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty interview Cathy Fox, an Irish Yuan Gong teacher and Ren Xue practitioner who candidly talks about her experience with alcohol addiction. Cathy shares a very personal and open-hearted story about her struggle with substance abuse and how Yuan Gong and Ren Xue practice has supported her journey. For anyone who has wrestled with the many faces of addiction, this is a show not to be missed.

Join us for a wide-ranging discussion from how we can use Ren Xue to resolve conflict to who does the dishes. Host Jackie Blunt and co-host Bill McMillan are joined by Kelly Snyder, a fulltime Ren Xue teacher from Washington state, and Ana and Manfred Raunigg, a couple practicing Yuan Gong and Ren Xue in Golden Bay, New Zealand. They will share how they have used these practices to improve their relationships and overall energy, and to restore energy after childbirth and breast feeding.

In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty converse with guest Diana Lion who had struggled with Lyme disease, chronic migraines and severe multiple chemical sensitivities for about 15 years before applying the tools she has learned in Yuan Gong style Qigong and Ren Xue to heal herself. Diana is now healthy and shares the insights she has garnered along the way to health and wellness.

In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty listen as Helen Greenspan, a Hospice Nurse (care for the dying) for 25 years, gives a candid reflection of her work with the dying and the precious insights she has gained as a result of this work. Helen shares what she feels is needed at the bedside of someone who is dying, intimately discusses the challenges she personally has experienced and talks about how her hospice work has changed since incorporating Ren Xue’s five essential heart qualities of trust, openness, love, gratitude and true respect. Helen wraps up the interview with a beautiful song that she often sings at the bedside of someone who has just died.

In this episode, Kathy Fogarty, a Seattle naturopath interviews Dr. Mark Libow, a retired cardiologist, about intentional healing and the relationship between consciousness and healing. Dr. Libow shares a variety of studies culled from medical literature in support of various intentional healing modalities, and discusses why he believes the theory of quantum entanglement may validate intentional healing.

In this episode, cohosts Bill McMillan and Kathy Fogarty speak with Dale Mirmow, a Yuan Gong/Ren Xue teacher who survived a life-threatening accident while hiking. Dale shares a riveting story of how she begins healing herself using Qi and positive information infused with the five essential qualities of the heart. While her story begins in the great outdoors on a hiking trail, her path to healing ultimately leads her on an internal exploration into the meaning of trust and openness and the importance of these qualities for true healing.

In this episode three Ren Xue teachers talk together about the effects of sudden shock or trauma from earthquakes, accidents, and death. They explore how feelings and mind activity can transform into a positive and uplifting state, and give examples of how they have done this, and the effects it had on their own mental and physical wellbeing, and on the world around them. Host Jackie Blunt talks to guests Dorrie van Roij, a holistic lifestyle, and animal healing and communication expert living in Auckland, New Zealand, and Shane Ricketts, an osteopath from Melbourne, Australia.