

🌸 *When physical appearance and spirit are kept together, this is identical with an endowment of utmost longevity. Because one carefully nourishes [body and spirit], one receives the true [qi] from heaven. Hence it is possible to make full use of the years allotted by heaven*🌸 (Excerpt from *Huang Di Nei Jing*) The *Huang Di Nei Jing* is the classical text for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Daoist beliefs. It is over 2,200 years old (dating approximately 168 BCE) and was discovered in Hunan, China in a royal crypt with several other medical texts and an immaculately preserved body! The *Huang Di Nei Jing* is comprised as a discussion between the Emperor and his physician detailing how to employ ying yang theory, five elements and control environmental factors of wind, damp, hot and cold, to consciously control ones *qi* (energy) conducive to overcoming aspects of aging and disease 🕊