Master Your Energy to Transform Your Life – Master Mingtong Gu with Dave Asprey – #833 : 833
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
I’m always curious to learn from people who’ve mastered ancient teachings. I hold a deep respect for people who’ve dedicated their lives to deep inner work and transformation to become better humans. That’s why I’m really glad to welcome Master Mingtong Gu to this episode of Bulletproof Radio.
He shares ancient Eastern wisdom around the world to show how you can achieve better health and consciousness in contemporary times. The ancient wisdom and teachings of chi, the breath, meditation, and energy are particularly relevant today. The mystical has become measurable.
“The whole universe is made of energy,” says Master Mingtong. “And only four percent is visible, measurable, or what we call physical. Then the rest 96%; it's not just the vacuum space, but actually is full of energy.”
We talk about the power of chi and how to integrate a qigong practice. You’ll also learn how you can use energy and movement to heal your body, mind and emotions. Master Mingtong brings a lightness and joy to the show. He’s quick to laugh and takes you through live examples of breathing and sound healing exercises that boosts your energy.
“You have the same capacity, not only to access the energy, but to master your own energy,” Master Mingtong says. “This is one of way framing your life purpose. And one way of literally upgrading ourselves as human beings.”
Born and raised in China, Master Mingtong Gu received extensive Qigong training under Grandmaster Pang at the largest Qigong medicine-less hospital in China. He was named The Qigong Master of the Year by the World Congress for Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He leads retreats and workshops throughout the United States and internationally.
He founded the Chi Center, a 79-acre retreat center south of Santa Fe. The Chi Center presents retreats, workshops and online learning programs, including a professional certification program for Qigong teachers and health professionals. He’s most interested in working with energy to open people's hearts and human capacity.
“Mastering your own energy is inseparable from cultivating or connecting the energy of the earth, energy of the universe and the energy interacting with the other phenomenon, including interpersonal relationship,” he says. “But when you're approaching [life] in a more cheerful way, somehow things that flow much more effectively.”
More about Master Mingtong:
-He’s the author of key books and the Pure Qi Online series that translate the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong for today’s world.
-He’s on faculty for Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Shift Network.
-He’s presented at Institute of Noetic Science (IONS), Wisdom 2.0, US Journal Training, PBS, and the Festival of Faiths. Additionally, he’s spoken at VISA, GOOGLE, Mile Hi, and the Energy Psychology Conference.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Bullproof Radio with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:09.7 | Today we've got a large audience from the upgrade collective listening in live. |
| 0:15.4 | They'll be asking questions at the end of the show. |
| 0:17.8 | If you are new to Bullproof Radio, the upgrade collective is my membership and mentorship |
| 0:21.9 | group where I answer all of the questions. |
| 0:24.5 | My team answers all of the questions about biohacking and I teach all of my books in structured |
| 0:28.7 | content. |
| 0:29.7 | I teach all of the community of people who are all working on being better at controlling |
| 0:32.9 | our own biology, our spiritual, emotional, physical, cellular and whatever else we can figure |
| 0:38.2 | out kind of stuff. |
| 0:40.3 | And speaking of spiritual, how about we talk about Chigong? |
| 0:46.7 | And I've had so much success in my life interviewing the masters or my elders, whether it's someone |
| 0:55.1 | like Jay Abraham who is a master of marketing and has much more experience than I do and |
| 1:00.0 | he's been on the show a couple times or Dr. Barry Morgalon who's been on and these are |
| 1:05.6 | people who have spent decades more than I have working on similar stuff or Jack Canfield. |
| 1:10.5 | And so we learn from people like that, especially when they're studying traditions that we |
| 1:16.1 | might not know much about. |
| 1:18.6 | And that's why I'm really pleased to bring a friend and a master on to the show whose |
| 1:25.3 | name is Ming Tong and he is a widely acknowledged Chigong master who's based in San Fe about |
| 1:32.2 | 20 minutes from where I spent most of my summers growing up which is super cool. |
| 1:36.8 | So every time I go to visit his retreat center there, I always feel like I'm back home as |
| 1:41.2 | a teenager which is kind of neat. |
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