Tai Chi, Qigong & Martial Arts for Better Health & Wellness

If you have 10-minutes to spare, watch my video showing and explaining why tai chi, gigong and martial arts exercises for health are all a great low-impact option for staying mentally and physically active. All ages can practice and benefit from these time-proven methods. I can write about all of this information but watching me explain it and seeing it in action, might help viewers to have a better understanding of these methods and the theories and concept behind the practices.

My goal is to present an education that brings awareness to these time-proven methods. With an intent to de-mystify and simplify explanations, hopefully more people can come to realize that we are all accountable for our own well-being.

Instruction in qigong, Taoist yoga, tai chi, martial arts, ship pal gye, hapkido, fitness, wellness and many other avenues to improve health and well-being. I am currently accepting new clients for group, small group & private instruction.

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Be well!

Jim Moltzan 407-234-0119

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Masters Council

Yoga, Qigong & Tai Chi – share the same root origin

Yoga, Qigong & Tai Chi – share the same root origin.

Most people are not familiar with the origins of tai chi being from martial arts, and coming from qigong, which is basically yoga it its root. Yoga is often presented and taught with postures standing, lying down or positions in between. Qigong is often taught as standing static exercises with little or no body movement. However, both yoga and qigong have standing, sitting, lying, static and dynamic exercises; because they share the same root origin. Tai chi is basically yoga/qigong exercises in motion.

When I teach a new student or group, I try to simplify the explanation of tai chi to its basic components of gentle stretching/strengthening exercises, regulated mindful-breathing by way of engaged thought. A bit more involved is that tai chi/yoga/qigong are methods to regulate the nervous system modes of “fight or flight” and “rest and digest”. Beyond that, there are literally hours of discussion on theory and concepts of how and why it all works.

Many of you who have known me over the years, know me to be a bit passionate and meticulous about my studying, practicing and teaching of martial arts and various wellness methods. I can attribute my quest due to the following facets of diligent martial arts and mind/body/spirit training:

– Moving the body within the 3 anatomical planes (coronal, sagittal & transverse)

– Exercising the body’s 600+ muscles- Strengthening the body’s 200+ bones- Stretching of the 12 fascial lines

– Moving and strengthening the 33 vertebrae

– Getting the organs moving by engaging the core muscles

– Rehabilitation of injuries (knees, back, neck and shoulders)

– Boosting of the immune system- Relieving stress and anxiety

– Learning to see one’s self as others see me through mindful exercises engaging the mind, body and self-awareness

– and many more benefits.

Instruction in qigong, Taoist yoga, tai chi, martial arts, ship pal gye, hapkido, fitness, wellness and many other avenues to improve health and well-being.

I am currently accepting new clients for group, small group & private instruction. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo

Be well!

Jim Moltzan

407-234-0119

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Self-defense Skills – Becoming a Thing of the Past

Most people cannot defend themselves in a physical confrontation.

Few people exercise or stay active (only about 23% CDC 2018) let alone practice the physical and mental skills that can protect themselves or loved ones.

Basic Attacks

Kids don’t play outside or together as much as they use to. Video games and smartphones are the substitute for physical activity and developing social skills. Both of which are needed to avoid physical confrontations. In reality, most kids (and adults) never learn how to defend themselves these days until after the actual need arises – which unfortunately could be too late.

We live in a very different world than when we did a a few decades back. If you believe television and movies, everyone knows kung fu, boxing or mixed martial arts (MMA). However, this is not reality.

Good skills to learn:

Basic defense skills against being grabbed, touched, punched, kicked, etc.

Anatomy relative to “pressure points” or key body parts to defend or attack if necessary.

Situational awareness relative to options before and after someone finds themselves in a potentially dangerous and life changing event.

Balance, coordination and strength exercises to develop self-esteem and confidence that one does not need to be a victim or rely upon others for their own personal safety.

Contact Jim Moltzan at info@mindandbodyexercises.com, 407-234-0119

(almost 40 years of practicing and teaching of wellness, self-defense and a martial arts)

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News Flash – Our health is ultimately our own individual responsibility!

For at least the last few decades, we have known that in order to maintain wellness we need a healthy mind, body and spirit. The state of our health directly impacts our body’s innate (natural) immunity against disease, illness and injury.

Eat quality food, be active, avoid stress, sleep soundly, drink alcohol responsibility, don’t smoke, maintain positive relationships, enjoy life – these are known and science-proven components to maintain wellness. Why did these concepts lose popularity and credibility?

For whatever reasons, our society for the last year and half, has pretty much disconnected the key components of health, fitness and wellness from personal responsibility. We have grown accustomed to blaming somebody, anybody, and everybody for our health issues, when we ultimately make the decisions of what we put into our bodies and the lifestyle we live.

Obviously not everyone’s socioeconomic situation allows for the Utopia of the perfect society many seek. But overall, our US citizens possess the freedom and ability to change the exact things that make us sick and dis-“ease”d.

“Normal” in the US:

– 12.2% of adults meet the daily fruit intake recommendation (CDC 2018)

– 9.3% of adults meet the daily vegetable intake recommendation (CDC 2018)

– 23% Exercise regularly (CDC 2018)

– 42% vitamin D deficiency (CDC 2018)

– 73% overweight (CDC 2018)

– 42% obese (CDC 2018)

– 18% obesity age 2-18 (CDC 2018)

– 70% on prescriptions (CDC 2019)

– 60% have chronic issues (CDC 2019)

– 40% have more than one chronic issues (comorbidities) (CDC 2019)

– 14% Smoke (CDC 2019)

These are the reasons why the US spends the most $$$ of all nations on healthcare but does not even rank in the top 30 nations for quality of life.

I am adamantly pursuing opportunities to share and teach methods of mind, body and self-awareness to open and willing health-conscious individuals. I teach and encourage people how to live a healthy lifestyle. Learn how this works and relates to your health and well being.

Be well, be healthy, be wise!

Jim Moltzan
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Viscious Cycle of Healthcare Mentality

Allopathic medicine or allopathy is a health care system in which medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals are licensed to practice and treat symptoms of ailments and diseases. Treatment protocols generally address the symptoms of particular issues, often regardless of the root cause of the condition. For example, treating chronic headaches with pharmaceuticals, rather than a change in lifestyle factors such as stress or poor diet. Obesity might be treated with Lap-band gastric surgery to restrict the size of the stomach rather than the individual adjusting their diet.

Allopathic medicine came to dominate health care over the span of the nineteenth century. This new scientific path to health was attributed to the increase of university medical training to guarantee practitioners were experts in the science of medicine. Consequently, the laboratory became the desired venue for medical research.

Doctors and medical professionals saw their social status increase as they established their own associations to set rules and standards regarding who they felt could or should not be allowed to practice health care methods. As the American Medical Association (AMA) formed in 1847, it gained its influence in society, as healers of various medical models, such as osteopaths, chiropractors, herbalists and midwives were discredited as not being “based on science”. The first chiropractic organization was the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), and was founded in 1905.

The American Medical Association is an extremely powerful organization with its political influences as well as vast financial resources. The association and many of its members previously (and maybe currently) did not want to give away patients to other methods that the public sees as more effective, cheaper, less invasive and sometimes easier to obtain. For example, up until 1976, the AMA labeled chiropractic as unethical and unscientific and conspired to destroy chiropractic medicine. A lawsuit in this year revealed that the AMA’s intent was to decrease competition for financial reasons rather than to protect the public from unethical practitioners.¹

During the proceedings it was shown that the AMA attempted to:

Undermine Chiropractic schools
Undercut insurance programs for Chiropractic patients
Conceal evidence of the effectiveness of Chiropractic care
Subvert government inquires into the effectiveness of Chiropractic
Promote other activities that would control the monopoly that the AMA had on health care²

To have CAM practitioners and their methods become more integrated within the US healthcare system, things need to change with how the AMA recognizes these other healthcare systems.

Allopathic medicine is the most common healthcare model in the United States. Other names for allopathic medicine are:

Western medicine
biomedicine
mainstream medicine
conventional medicine
orthodox medicine

Typical treatments consist of:

medications
surgery
radiation
chemotherapy
other therapies and procedures

Other approaches to health care are sometimes called complementary alternative medicine (CAM), integrative medicine or alternate medicine. Western and alternative approaches often disregard any integration with one another. However, some more open-minded practitioners of Western allopathic medicine are beginning to integrate alternative and complementary methods along with their treatment protocols. These include:

homeopathy
naturopathy
chiropractic care
Chinese medicine
ayurveda

Many people have grown weary of the amount of time, money and effort they spend at their allopathic doctors with little or no improvement of their chronic or occasional conditions. However, the US system of biomedicine does seem quite miraculous when it comes to treating trauma such as re-attaching a severed limb, re-setting of broken bones, reconstructive surgery, diagnostics and other immediate types of injuries. However, chronic issues like lower back pain and sciatica, allergies and headaches being treated entirely with pharmaceuticals have lost some recent market share to CAM options such as exercise, herbs and lifestyle changes.