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Instructor: Gilles Marin

Awaken passion and enthusiasm for life and cultivate your personal Inner Spirit.

This recording is designed to enhance the life force in health care practitioners and their clients. The meditations included on it have been inspired by the practices of Taoism and Tantric (Tibetan) Buddhism. They are powerful formulas from esoteric practices and are completely and safely adapted to the Western mind and way of life.

The meditations and Chi Kung (internal exercises for life force enhancement) progressively guide those who practice them through everyday life enhancement to higher spiritual realms of wisdom, mental clarity, emotional maturity and life guidance.

Recent scientific research on laughing supports this approach.

Scientists, normally a solemn group, are beginning to take humor seriously and are discovering that it is no laughing matter. Neuropsychologists at the Harvard Medical School, studied longevity and found one clear theme that emerged from comparing the lifestyles of those who live to 100: a good sense of humor. They speculate that a strong sense of humor contributes to aging well because smiling and laughing provide the same benefits as physical exercise -- they refer to laughing as "internal jogging".  Laughter raises blood pressure just long enough to increase oxygen and blood supply to tissues. It alters the breathing cycle so that more oxygen is inhaled and toxic carbon dioxide exhaled. Muscles throughout the body tense and relax during laughter in exactly the same way as with stress reduction techniques such as yoga.

Waterloo University, in Ontario, recently established that exposure to humor improves immune system functioning, producing significant rises in the body's natural defenses, such as antibodies in the bloodstream. Low antibody levels predict greater likelihood of future disease. Yet what was particularly intriguing about this study was that, given something to laugh at, those with a good sense of humor experienced the highest rises in antibody levels.

Having a good sense of humor to help cope with stress is now regarded as one of the most powerful defense mechanisms for dealing with problems over which you can do little. Recent research has also established that electrical brainwave patterns of the right and left hemisphere tend to co-ordinate more when we experience humor. This is important because there is evidence that depression is accompanied by less co-ordination in brainwave patterns between the two sides.

It has been established with bio-feedback and the observation of brain waves while meditating, that the mere act of smiling internally reverses the stress response in our neuro-endocrine system and stimulates our brain wave pattern into deep healing and longevity. Studies made at UCLA on Mantak Chia, one of Gilles Marin's principal teachers and one of the foremost teachers of Chi-Kung in the world, show that to smile internally triggers the production of healing endorphins, inhibits the damage of stress hormones such as adrenaline and insulin, and makes the blood more alkaline.

It is Gilles Marin's theory that the real reason why French people get away with their diet rich in fat, meats, sauces and alcohol is because they spend the first half-hour of lunch and dinner getting slightly drunk on special wines reserved for these frequent occasions. This is called "prendre l'apéritif" (appetizers) and consists of socializing, making fun and laughing at everything they possibly can.

While eating, laughter inhibits sad subjects of conversation such as work, politics, or the news unless, of course, they are to be made fun of.  Laughing while eating appetizers increases the production of bile, digestive juices and digestive enzymes to emulsify the fat content of rich food. This tradition obliges French people to take a longer time for their meals allowing for better digestion and enjoyment of each dish.

Smiling and laughing regularly is very important for good health and sanity.

This recording, Activating Inner Fire - Laughing Chi-Kung, contains a series of four meditations and exercises to help people to be more alive and to enjoy life in a meaningful way. The progression of simple guided practices is geared to relieve your heart of stagnant energy, the oppression of rigid mental pressure, and the weight of emotional charges. They will help to greatly reduce any risk of heart attack as well as help to reverse the conditions that lead to depression.

By practicing this series regularly in the indicated sequence you will develop a greater capacity for appreciating the beauty and goodness of life, and therefore will benefit from a greater enjoyment of life. The Inner Fire Meditations will equip you with both an increased perception of life's obstacles and the mental and emotional ability to surmount them. They also increase intuition and the ability to connect meaningfully with others.                    

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