Sing dahn foi lok = Merry Christmas

 

 

I learnt the cantonese words for „Merry Christmas“: sing dahn foi lok.

I wish you all a happy Xmas season, enjoy your travels, your families, the food and the gifts … and for the New Year all the best, luck and success and remember when you are in a hurry „take an elephant ride“ …  „listen“ to your heart and calm down for a while.

 

I took the snapshot at IFC mall some days ago.

Working on values and focusing on one’s heart.

Tonight I will present 2 of my coaching-tools. Pls read the invitation that was announced by HKICC:
Petra works with the „brain – heart – stomach Model“.

We are all very good in using our brain and we know about our gut feelings in our stomach. But what about our heart? The heart connects both: brain and stomach. It is the most important organ in our body. If the brain cannot agree to make a decision … we are feeling uncomfortable … the heart very often knows a good solution. Some people mention that they follow their hearts, but not many can show us how to do it. What does „following the heart“ really mean?

Basic research regarding the heart (or „core“)-work is described in books from Doc Childre of „Heart Math Institute“ and other Neuro-immunological heart-scientists like Paul Pearsall („The Heart’s Code“).

She also works with questions that focus on one’s heart. She will translate the German questions/cards into English for this presentation.

Finally Petra will present some heart-values and heart-qualities. It’s up to you which of these qualities you would like to add to your value-range. Petra invites you to play with the idea of trying out new values in your daily life. A person who lives to its heart-values is well-balanced, motivated and successful. Values are like pearls. Valuable and beautiful. Like you are!

Duration of the presentation:
60 minutes talk and interactive sessions.

Language: English

 

Date: November 20, 2008 (Thursday)

Time: Registration: 6:45 to 7:00pm; Presentation & questions: 7:00 to 8:00pm

Where: 29/F, Times Media Centre, 133 Wanchai Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

How much: free for members; $100 for non-members

 

QiGong

Qigong (or ch’i kung) refers to a wide variety of traditional cultivation practices that involve methods of accumulating, circulating, and working with Qi or energy within the body. Qigong is sometimes mistakenly said to always involve movement and/or regulated breathing; in fact, use of special methods of focusing on particular energy centers in and around the body are common in the higher level or evolved forms of Qigong. Qigong is practised for health maintenance purposes, as a therapeutic intervention, as a medical profession, a spiritual path and/or component of Chinese material art.

The qi in qigong means breath or air in Chinese, and, by extension, life force, dynamic energy or even cosmic breath. Gong means work applied to a discipline or the resultant level of skill, so qigong is thus breath work or energy work. The term was coined in the twentieth-century and its currency, Ownby suggests, speaks of a cultural desire to separate cultivation from superstition, to secularize and preserve valuable aspects of traditional Chinese practices. Read more here … (Source Wikipedia)
See this video of „8 Brocats“ (Source Wikipedia)
Source of the photo: Wikipedia : Hu Yue Xian

Starting the day: Morning rituals

How did you start your day this morning? Did you stay in bed and enjoyed the silence a few minutes before getting up? Did you kiss your partner or caressed your pet? Maybe you opened the window and inhaled the fresh cool air? Were you in a good mood to start your day? What did you expect? Meetings, appointments, a nice lunch or difficulties during the day? Anselm Grün, a spiritual German author seeks „the secret of the day“ in his book „50 rituals for life“.
„Morning time is different compared to the evening time. We enjoy breakfast in another way as compared to lunch or diner. He is asking: What is it I would like to dig into today?“
My own morning rituals are: Strolling to Siena Park near our home, do some Tai Chi and activate the meridians of my body. I write a „to-do-list“, I write „morning-pages“ with all my thoughts and feelings … I feel relaxed and clear afterwards. The head empties during writing. What kind of rituals do you like in the morning? How do you get fit and get started?

Looking forward to your answers! Have a great morning.

Mid Autumn Festival

In 2008, the dates of celebrating Mid Autumn Festival falls on Sep 14th, 2008.
August the 15th according to the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid Autumn Festival in China. The festival is the second most important festival to the Spring Festival to Chinese people. Every year, when the festival comes people go home from every corner of the world to meet their family and have dinner with them.

Why is the Mid Autumn Festival so important? Because it is related to the moon and Chinese people like the Moon very much. In Chinese culture, the full moon is a symbol of peace and prosperity of the whole family. On Chinese lunar August 15th the moon looks full round so people think this day is very propitious.
Source: http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/festivals/mid-autumn-festival.htm

Young Christian Women Association in Hong Kong

The YWCA announces 3 of my workshops this Autumn:

For Business-Ladies: First things first
Category: Business and interpersonal skills
1 evening session: 2 hours  (7 – 9 pm) 390 HK$.
Thursday September 25.

In a hurry? Have a break!
Category: Health, Lifestyle … For „Tai Tai’s and Mam’s“
1 morning session. 2 hours. 10am  - 12 (noon). 390 HK$.
Wednesday October 22.

Finding Mr. Right. For single ladies in Hong Kong
Saturday October 18.
10 am to 4 pm incl. lunch. 750 HK$.

For further information and registration pls get in contact with the YWCA directly: see http://www.esmdywca.org.hk

See u there.