My Qigong group is going to the Kunlun mountains this year and to Tibet again along with a visit to the Everest base camp in the Himalayas. After my trip to Tibet late last year, which was great, I thought I would skip the next trip as Tibet is so dry and has no humidity and I knew they would go back. There is a lot to explore in Tibet and we did a few thousand kilometres east of Lhasa.

The main reason I decided to skip this trip is because my work situation is tight with staff and I have a lot of expenses. It’s best I try to bolster my cash flow as it has had many holes put in it. I am not doing badly at all but it wouldn’t be wise to do a big trip. I would hope at most two years should be enough to get things in order and in the meantime I could visit Katoomba more.

Tomorrow would have been my late fathers birthday so I might visit my daughter doing some art things. Definitely need to do some reading and relax plus get groceries. I met up with an old friend today which was great. We had lunch and caught up. It is rare to meet friends who aren’t snowed under by the disaster area that is Sydney. Also it is a very spiritual friendship and it is rare to meet people who are spiritual and also grounded.

Something that I finally understood a few weeks back in Qigong was the way fire, as in the elemental energy is not to be simply met with a cooling antidote but encouraged in the right organs with fire. The reason fire comes up so much is that it’s the biggest issue in causing imbalances. Some men for example will focus on sex as a way to relieve fire although it is only sending the fire to where it isn’t needed.

When kidney fire is extinguished, which it shouldn’t be, it can travel to the lungs (cold and flu) or the head (delusions/anxiety/general mental discomfort). The most benign problem of extinguished kidney fire is lack of energy or tiredness. I am no expert on Chinese medicine but I generally find a lot of comfort in Qigong practice to limit fire and rely heavily on tea with some dietary measures.