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Note: This guy doesn’t know qigong, but his thinking is similar. I think emphasizing the element of PLAY in your daily practice is ESSENTIAL to keeping it alive. – Michael
http://neverleavetheplayground.com/
Never Leave the Playground is a program of activities (videos) that stimulates the growth of the brain and body by specific training of the hands and feet. My method has two goals: to promote good health and to have fun.
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Scientific studies show that constant, consistent physical movement throughout our daily lives is the single most important thing to do to be physically healthier and smarter, regardless of age. Every cell in the body is affected by movement. The brain improves as we use our muscles, which, in turn, grow with use. Movement training can prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, the paralysis of MS and Parkinson’s, and delay the effects of aging since neural pathways open and increase as we learn new activities.
People believe exercise is strenuous, but my method is neither arduous nor boring. Instead, I focus on play and games, many similar to those children play on the playground. I begin with simple movements which progress to more complex challenges for the brain and body.
For example, I train both left and right hands and feet to manipulate large and small objects with increasing precision. This promotes balance and dexterity which prevents falls and increases eye-hand coordination. The activities in my method develop the large and small muscle groups and foster stability and physical coordination.
Instead of sitting all day, then exercising feverishly for an hour or so, I encourage constant movement and play throughout the day
oupled with periods of more intense movement like walking and running. Standing and balancing on one foot at a time while typing at your desk, pacing while on the phone, or sitting while playing with toys for the hands or feet – all are essential to age proof the mind and body.We are born to move. For millions of years, our ancestors were hunter/gatherers. During those prehistoric times, they were constantly moving to survive: gathering food, hauling water, hunting game, etc., and they walked or ran an average of 8 to 10 miles every day. There was a direct relationship between movement and survival and good health.
Imagine if ancient man was afforded the luxuries of modern medicine. Who knows how long they would have lived?
We no longer have to move to survive. We can go to our refrigerator to get food. Most of our lives are sedentary. We sit to drive, work, watch TV and movies, and play with our gadgets. By not moving, we become mentally and physically sluggish. Our creativity diminishes, and our bodies begin to die a little at a time through lack of use. Modern medicine works overtime to keep us healthy and negate the effects of inertia on the body and mind.
Puppies and kittens and children run around wildly chasing each other, tumbling, rolling, developing quick and agile movements. Children play jacks, hopscotch, jump rope, swing, slide, play running games and ballgames on their playgrounds, continually refining the speed and accuracy of hand and foot movements, stamina, and breathing – very important at any age in continuing the plasticity, growth and health of our brains as well.
Never Leave the Playground teaches the method of lifetime fitness through toys and play and games that can be played alone or with others of any age throughout our lives. By simply returning to the playground every day, your memory will improve, you will become more creative, and you will look forward to each new day with the excitement and vigor not experienced since you left the playground of your youth. It’s time to go back to the playground and never leave it again.
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Email Stephen Jepson: stephen@neverleavetheplayground.com
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Welcome VideoI never understood the idea of “playing” qigong or tai chi.
In the same way I do not appreciate the way adult monkeys wave rainbow plastic toys in the face of young children. Who is the idiot here ?
Raising in Montessori they don’t play, they live, their idea is that you are real no matter what age you are, be real.
With Qigong if you don’t feel or comprehend what is occurring then you will get bored and need some philosophy to get going.
But it is all because you practice without presence sensitivity or consciousness.
Qigong and all practice is about growing, and growing involves a sort of tearing.
It is not free, everything is earned.
Like growing pains.
Otherwise you practice for a million years and nothing happens.
We are trying to become universal which is a long way from being a physical mortal monkey … a long way, a long journey.
Like a hot blade hammered again and again and then back into the fire for fusion.
Each step is crystallizing something inside.
These tiny steps are like a mountain climber learning from climbing, 1000 small decisions, 1000 conditions, 1000 steps … all this is required to create a new individual.
You create yourself.
But if you are “playing” …. does anything happen ?
What is the need of “play” ?
Isn’t reality alive enough ?
Isn’t chi profound enough ?
Isn’t to live fully enough ?I disagree ride forever.
It is ALL about play. It has to be fun, you need to enjoy what you’re doing now or why do it at all?
What are you trying to achieve by doing qigong? How do you know you’re going the right way? I’ve been doing it over 12 years daily and nothing is permanent, there is no result from qigong that you will be able to keep, there is no goal to reach, other than realizing there is no goal, and nothing is permanent. It sound like you love the sensations and sense of power and control you get from qigong. Thats great, i do too. So you enjoy it… You’re having fun. Later keep repeating the same thing and it gets boring. The power and sensations will be the same ones you’ve done year after year and it will become less rewarding. I remember at my peak when i was practicing around 8 hrs a day for the most part of 2.5 years while living in china and I felt i could pretty accurately predict the near future – it became so obvious, however while it felt awesome at the start it soon became boring because there was no surprises left in life.
You said:
It is not free, everything is earned.
Like growing pains.
Otherwise you practice for a million years and nothing happens.
We are trying to become universal which is a long way from being a physical mortal monkey … a long way, a long journey.
Like a hot blade hammered again and again and then back into the fire for fusion.
Each step is crystallizing something inside.But then whats the point of a razor sharp blade. Yes it can always be worked on and become slightly sharper and sharper, however what use is it if you don’t use the blade. On a single use it’s sharpness is deminished. Infact, perhaps of the 5000 times you’ve hit it with the hammer, the last 4000x did nothing to increase it’s practical effectiveness at cutting meat. However if you enjoyed hammering it those additional 4000x then you enjoyed yourself and it wasn’t a waste. If it was hard work and you did it because you believed you would EARN something miraculous, other than a sore arm, you may have better spent the time making love to your wife 🙂
I think what is implied here by “Never Leave the Playground” is you need to be enjoying what you’re doing. Fun = enjoyment. If it’s not fun you’re wasting your time.
Cessation is the point of the path. Escape from the 10,000 things.
The endless honing and never achieving anything permanent that you describe and think is fun : what you are describing is the low insincere unconscious state of humans that will lose their soul when their body dies.
Children play.
At least on this planet. On other planets even children are treated with respect.
Humans born on this planet are treated like idiots from day one, they don’t know why they are alive, the play and “play” and “play”.
Rather than be real.
It is all insincere.
And of course the collective insincerity adheres to all the spiritual paths.
As I said Qigong is in fact in direct opposition to the goal of Laozi.
Of sitting in cessation.
Sitting in death.
And there are many warnings in the old fables about trying to stay young.
Only a fool keeps doing the same thing and falling on his face and thinks it’s funny.
It is difficult to comprehend such things when from the moment you have been born you are taught to betray your own soul, and eventually you agree to do that.
So in the Qigong groups say that they are just keeping themselves alive so that they can meditate “later”.
But it is a lie.
They never mediate “later”.
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