We Cannot "Make" a Seed Sprout: Creating Conditions for Health
We cannot make a seed sprout. All we can do is provide the right conditions: right amount of water, right amount of sun, some soil. ...
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Jan Bull
A Loving Light for hope and healing
Qigong teacher
MA Public Policy, Acupuncture
Member, National Qigong Association
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Jan Bull
- Aug 30
- 5 min
Dopamine & Gorging: Why One Chocolate is Never Enough
One piece of chocolate or one potato chip never seems enough, right? Even if we think one yummy thing will be enough, it never seems to...
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Jan Bull
- May 27
- 2 min
Fitness: Unplug and Move, but not too much ;)
The Daoist prescription for fitness is to move just enough to keep our muscles fit, andmove blood, lymph and Qi (loosely "vital energy")....
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Jan Bull
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
New Qigong Platform / And Tips for Nourishing Kidney Energy
We have within us a power that can push the organism to the actualization of all its potentialities. This is the essential vitality from...
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Jan Bull, L.Ac.
- Jul 26, 2021
- 4 min
How to cultivate well-being: AKA-"Self-love"
I have struggled with the concept of "self-love" and held a deep misunderstanding that "self-love" is narcissistic and self-indulgent....
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Jan Bull
- Mar 22, 2021
- 3 min
Befriending the neglected parts of You!
“Take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard” ~ Li-Young Lee ~ We all have aspects of ourselves which challenge us. It could...
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Jan Bull
- Jan 5, 2021
- 8 min
Practices and Recipes to Nourish Vital Energy (AKA QI)
To be able to do anything in life requires energy, AKA "Qi". This blog and dives deeper into the nature of this vibrant energy within us...
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Jan Bull
- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
The Apricot Forest Story: Giving What We Can
When I was in Acupuncture school, my teacher, Heming Zhu, told us the story of Dong Feng's Apricot Forest and his philosophy of...
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Jan Bull
- Nov 26, 2020
- 9 min
Feeling depleted and cold? Or, are you running HOT?
Are your hands always cold? Your feet? Or is your face red and you sweat a lot? You might tend towards one way or the other----but most...
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Jan Bull
- May 1, 2020
- 4 min
Healing Our Relationship to Sexuality
"Our consciousness is limited by what we are willing to feel" ~Shakti Malan Many of us, ok probably most of us, have some difficult...
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Jan Bull
- Oct 23, 2019
- 3 min
Stress & Pain: Quick Tricks to Release
Hi there. Right now, just as you are, I invite you to try this 12 second exercise: Allow your eyes to close, settle into your chair a bit...
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Jan Bull
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
The Beauty in our Imperfection
Is there one tree, or one flower more perfect than another? You are beautiful just as you are. ~Jan As we go through life, we acquire...
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Jan Bull, L.Ac.
- Apr 14, 2019
- 6 min
How to Find YOUR Own Balance: The Goldilocks Dilemma
"This porridge is too hot! This porridge is too cold. But this porridge is just right." Goldilocks tried them all to find the right...
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Jan Bull
- Mar 3, 2019
- 4 min
Re-framing a negative inner narrative
I've been inspired to resend this reflective practice on re-framing a negative inner narrative, by a wonderful blog on the Law of...
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Jan Bull with Laurena White, M.D.
- Sep 30, 2018
- 9 min
Women! Menopause and Wisdom Wrinkles
What if menopause isn't just a sign of decline but actually the opportunity for us to bloom into the best time of life? My teacher, Kaiya...
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Jan Bull
- Jun 3, 2018
- 3 min
Illusive sleep?
Sleeping In The Forest - Mary Oliver I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her...
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Jan Bull
- May 6, 2018
- 2 min
Achoo! Spring Allergies
Are you sneezing and rubbing your itchy eyes? Is your nose running and your throat itchy? The pollen is thick on everything and I've...
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Jan Bull
- Feb 27, 2018
- 4 min
Walking the last path with a beloved: Death and Dying
No, I’d never been to this country before. No, I didn’t know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn’t intend to Turn back. ~Mary...
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Jan Bull
- Feb 19, 2018
- 4 min
Spring: The Will to Life, and Allergies!
“The 3 months of spring Are called springing up and unfolding. Heaven and Earth together produce life, and the 10,000 beings are...
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Jan Bull
- Nov 21, 2017
- 5 min
The Daze of Doing
Where can we find the power and the peace in doing the “no-thing” (Dawna Furfaro-Strode) Scene 1: We awaken to the alarm and stumble to...
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Jan Bull
- 4 days ago
- 6 min
We Cannot "Make" a Seed Sprout: Creating Conditions for Health
We cannot make a seed sprout. All we can do is provide the right conditions: right amount of water, right amount of sun, some soil. ...
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Jan Bull
- Aug 30
- 5 min
Dopamine & Gorging: Why One Chocolate is Never Enough
One piece of chocolate or one potato chip never seems enough, right? Even if we think one yummy thing will be enough, it never seems to...
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