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10 Tips From A Shaolin Monk On How To Stay Young Forever


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Most people realise health is the most important thing but how many people live by this belief? We usually make the excuse of having no time like a friend of mine who called to say he was unwell. I asked him to come and visit me so I could teach him Qigong, he told me he didn’t have time, I said to him, but when you are sick you will have time to go to hospital because you have no choice. The next day he came and studied with me for seven days.

We need to start today. In order to help us stay on the path to health I have translated an extract from one of the Shaolin Classics. Written by a monk who was a great martial artist and scholar, here he gives advice to lay people as to how to stay young and healthy.

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Ten Tips From A Shaolin Monk On How To Stay Young 

1) Don’t think too much. Thinking takes energy. Thinking can make you look old.

2)  Don’t talk too much. Most people either talk or do. Better to do.

3) When you work, work for 40 minutes then stop for 10 minutes. When you look at something all the time, it can damage your eyes and also your internal organs and peace.

4) When you are happy, you need to control your happiness, if you lose control then you damage your lung energy.

5) Don’t worry too much or get angry because this damages your liver and your intestines.

6) When you eat food don’t eat too much, always make sure you are not quite full as this can damage your spleen. When you feel a bit hungry then eat a little.

7) When you do things, take your time, don’t hurry too much. Remember the saying “Hasten slowly you will soon arrive”

8) If you only do physical exercise all the time and you never do Qigong this makes you lose your balance and you will become impatient. You lose the Yin of your body. Exercise balances the Yin and the Yang.

9)If you never exercise, just peace, meditation, soft training, Qigong, then this doesn’t give you Yang energy so you use up your Yang energy.

10) Shaolin Gong Fu gives you everything. The purpose of our training is to balance our Yin and Yang.  How many hours is not important. It’s down to knowing what your body needs.

The Bodhidharma gave us the medicine to make our mind and body whole and well. His Shaolin Martial Art's prescription may look beautiful but it has never made any one well. Only when we train do we take the medicine. Take action today!

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2 comments


  • Edward Hanson

    Great article and so clear.
    I have been studying Tai Chi Chuan for 12 years, Yang style.
    “Living Younger Longer” has always been the motto and goal of my Shifu’s school.
    The majority of his students are older, like me (I’m 71).
    I want to see this taught to children from an early age, not just later in life as I have.
    I am so glad there are people like you teaching this. It’s not just a physical practice, it informs the spirit.


  • Govind Alreja

    Exccelant trains program i learned a lot thanks.

    Hi ilearnrd a lot exccelant program.


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