In the Lab

Chi

In the Lab

During one of my tai chi classes, we were discussing the self-healing aspect of Tai Chi and Chi Kung (Qigong). It is believed that healings can take place through the balancing of the patient’s energy field.

One student asked if this is true, then why aren’t we experiencing more healings? I responded by questioning how much time are we spending “in the lab.” What I mean by in the lab is the time given to practice and the experience of our energetic bodies. How much time are we devoting to meditation, performing the forms and the study of our divinity?

No one in history has so profoundly demonstrated the ability to heal than Jesus. Scriptures are filled with accounts of his healing of the sick and even raising the dead.

He must have devoted himself wholly to lab work. I am sure his days were filled with meditation, studying sacred scriptures and engaging the cosmic body.

Our lifestyles are considerably different than the time of Jesus. The world has gotten faster and noisier, more gadgets and stimuli commanding our attention. I believe that’s why we’re not seeing the healings on the magnitude of Jesus’.

We’re too busy and important and let the duties of the day crowd out our time for lab work. Jesus had a tremendous healing ministry, what could be more important than that. But scriptures tell us he didn’t let his work encroach on his time of solitude.

“Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sickness. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” Luke 5: 15-16

I practice tai chi and meditate daily, but I admit I can do a better job at tuning out and tuning in more. I am getting over my self-importance and have given my self permission to whittle my to-do list. If the world and its problems could wait while Jesus spent time communing with the Divine, then who am I that the world can’t do without for a couple of more hours a day. I am clearing my day for more lab work.