If you want to regain the upper hand on stress, you should know there are principles at work behind healthy body – healthy mind that reach far deeper than the bursts of relief you get from cycling, running trails or even doing most modern versions of yoga, qigong and meditation.

There are 3 principles of energy that govern the physical, emotional, spiritual domains of your being and your brain.

Using them will improve your health, strengthen your character and actualize your higher potential, which is what we all long for. 

The 1st principle, “Water Up – Fire Down” establishes a strong physical foundation to build upon. It activates your parasympathetic nervous system to “repel stress like water of a duck” and harmonizes your body, mind & spirit to a calm and peaceful state.

Water Up/Fire Down (1st Principle of Energy)

In eastern practices the 1st of three principles, “Water Up – Fire Down,” is also referred to as the microcosmic circuit. It manages the parasympathetic response of the autonomic nervous system, emphasizes physical health and offers us an important balancing perspective.

According to this principle, warm fire energy, produced in your heart, should travel down to your abdomen. Cool water energy, produced in your kidneys should travel upward through an energy channel along your spine.  Good health is characterized by a warm belly, which is good for your abdominal organs, and a cool head, equated with a calm, clear mind.

Negative health consequences come with reversed energy circulation.  When the energy center in your lower abdomen is weak, it’s hard to hold fire energy in your abdomen.  Poor stress management constricts the chest and forces fire energy back up toward the head.  Symptoms of this reversed energy flow include a warm head, a cloudy mind, headaches, irregular digestion, anxious thoughts, shoulder tension, lower back and joint pain… and is the primary instigator underlying lethargy, depression and disease.

As water up-fire down restores the physical energy builds in the dahn jon (lower abdomen-2nd chakra), healthy energy circulation restores in the digestive system.  The body’s blood supply is purified and nutritional absorption is optimized.  Clear, fresh energy and blood circulates through the entire body.

Exercises For Beginners

Water Up- Fire Down energy condition begins on the physical level with your basic health and immune system. It’s activated by simple exercises that deepen your breath to warm your core, which in turn warms your kidneys and adrenal glands.

Since most people in our current information age have too much heat or fire energy in their head, there is often stiffness or blockage in the neck and shoulders or chest that needs to open and clear, as well as stiff, cold intestines that need to warm and relax and release toxins first.

When the intestines are stiff and tight, the muscles in your neck, shoulders and brain are as well, which makes your brain less efficient.

Traditional Eastern practices start with warming and toning the intestines to restore healthy peristalsis and rest and digest condition. 

Then, for more focused cultivation, making space in your lower abdomen for Ki-energy to gather in your core to develop your 2nd chakra- to get you centered and grounded and give you more energy through the day. See: How To Activate Your Energy System For High Performance

Advanced Forms

Intermediate practitioners build on the foundation of Water Up – Fire Down from physical health, to energy management, and cultivating their emotional IQ (see: “Want Less Strain, More Flow Through The Day?”).

Advanced practitioners sequentially build into self-mastery.  They incorporate the 3 Principles it into daily life and cultivate their character along with their qi-energy through daily Qigong, Dynamic Meditations, and ongoing introspection.

It doesn’t take long to become toned and agile, empowered and highly capable. Your entire being longs to be centered and connected, in a relaxed and peaceful state of creative expression. 

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