The Foundation of Health

精气神, pronounced as Jing, Qi, Shen are coarsely translated as nutritional energy, breath energy and primordial energy.

Nutritional energy comes from the foods and drinks we consume and it is the essence of these nutrients.  This energy circulates in  blood streams and lymphatic system.

As we moved toward the uncommon science or the meta-physics, many definitions are not available and hence translations became clumsy. Breath energy is not exactly the air we breathe (anyone interest may refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi). It is sometimes referred to as prana, chi/qi, or wind energy, because it has a wind-like behavior.  It is the source of life, anything that grows has chi, including plants and trees. Our consumption of fruits and vegetables includes the intakes are this energy.  Stamina of athletes are also related to this form of energy.  Breath energy travels along the meridian paths where the superficial ones are commonly known as acupuncture points.

Mysterious primordial energy possibly explains the vorticity of the chakra. If Breath energy is meta-science, primordial shall be meta-meta-science.  I prefer to use energy-of-origin instead of primordial energy because it has a descriptive purpose.  Primordial energy is psyche in nature.  It affects our concentration and ability to manage emotions.  A disturbed emotion is a drain on the breath energy and eventually the physical body.  Modern lifestyle is destructive to our primordial energy and we have shorter life-span, because we are draining more and more energy of origin.

Primordial energy is replenished by withdrawing our five senses, especially sense of sight, i.e. the eyes. Meditation is the most effective ways to charge this energy.  In ancient times, the sages and the wise meditate more than they sleep.  Closing your eyes and not thinking or feeling any emotion is a way to refill this energy.  Sleep of course is our instinctive mean to preserve health by replenishing the primordial energy, although it is less effective than meditation.

When you had a good night sleep, you feel good the next day and people you meet always say, "wow, you look fresh, good and vibrant today'. The more sensitive ones will say "you have a good aura today".  Remember days when you were deprived of sleep, people you met said you looked like a ghost and asked if you were sick.  That's appearance.

Emotionally you are easily disturbed when you are mental tired or lack of sleep. Everyone you met are irritating. You are easily angered or sad, and that caused a drain on your breath energy.  Chakras and emotions are closely linked and chakras vibrates to generate the energy surrounding you that is called the aura.

There are too much to write on this subject. How the modern lifestyle exploits our greed and lead us to poorer health, lower quality of living, and poor inter-personal relationship with others.

I have no intention to expound this note into a full-blown article. This is just a note keeping. I do wish to write more in the near future.  I need to clarify that I am no authority is this subject and I am merely an observant student in my own learning.