Paul's the best. So glad he keeps making videos for everyone like this , FOR FREE. Paul has taken years of knowledge and condensed it for everyone to understand easily. It's great to have someone who knows what they are talking about.
Dude. I'm 50. And you and Elliot Hulse are the ONLY two guys I can relate to 100%, and who make me feel glad about where I'm at... chronologically, and otherwise. Many thanks for all that you do. Super lucky to know your work online, and saving up for your books. Peace.
Paul Chek is amazing and incredibly inspiring. I wish I had understood fifteen years ago what he explains here about abdominals and what really constitutes the natural body. I might have had a natural childbirth instead of a c-section. Let me explain. Just prior to pregnancy, I was practicing marshal arts. I had always been athletic--as a teen a sprinter, later a gym rat. I had very "strong," tight abs. During pregnancy, I continued to workout at the gym and do crunches on the Swiss ball, but my midwife would always tell me to relax my abdominal area; I was creating too much tension. I had a beautiful pregnancy, but two weeks prior to my son's birth he turned around and put one foot down the birth canal. This is known as footling breech. I wound up having a C-section. Coincidentally, within the same week, two other patients at the birthing center delivered breech babies by C-sections. I was acquainted with the two other women--one was a professional dancer and the other a model. What did the midwife say we all had in common? Tight, unrelaxed abdominals throughout pregnancy.
Paul, thank you for your wisdom, and truth along with the effort you put into spreading it to the rest of mankind. I am on the road to becoming a healer through massage therapy, acupuncture, yoga, tai-chi, qi gong, and another other modalities I find useful including your HLC program. I just wanted to express my gratitude for being a mentor and an educator. I hope one day our paths cross. Infinite love and qi!
You are a master educator. Show don't just tell. Explain mistakes, correct with proper form and explain why (instead of appealing to authority). Thank you!
I wish u were more popular lol. I just started watching ur videos this week. Your what is the best diet video was the first I've watched in full. It cleared my head of much confusion. I have recently turned 16. I have just entered the world of nutrition more greatly because I have found many interesting things in it. With inflammation causing many problems (I just started reading Grain Brain by David Perlmutter), and why things like sugar make the average person fat (My interest probably started with the movie Fed Up which increased my awareness on food greatly). In the past week or so I have decided I want to heal people and move them towards their goals sort of like you and Elliott Hulse (I will need to watch more of your videos to be able to differentiate what u two do entirely). I was going to major in physiology or sports medicine (if they're different) in college (my dad works at a nice college nearby so it's free tuition :D), but recently I've found just how important and difficult nutrition is to learn. So I will specialize in nutrition if I can, and possibly minor in biochemistry. Questions: 1. Does this sound good if I'm aiming to do things similar to u in life? 2. Do you have any resources that I can learn now, on the body or nutrition or just life. Books, programs, channels etc. I will have the entire summer to learn! Hopefully this was readable. I don't know much about consciousness yet, but I feel as if I'm not as self aware as I was before. I guess I need some meditation and to watch some owen cook videos while he's present and aware :) Greatly appreciated. -Aidan
Also I do not wish to be one that gets his entire knowledge from college. I wish to live a long life studying from the greats like you, and people from other sides of the spectrum such as Alan Watts! I just want to be great . Period.
Aidanscereal Your 16 and already sound like your waaaayyyyy ahead of the pack mate. Learn everything you can. There are so many different methods, ideas and teachings. College is just one of many learning avenues and it really just gives you the basic knowledge, standard practices and a piece of paper that tells the system/authorities that you are "qualified" to teach or practice whatever it is you want to specialise in. Just of the top of my head some channels/ characters you might like Infinitewaters - About mind and Spirit Ido Portal - About the importance of body movement, mobility and complexity. Bruce Lee - Find books on his philosophy - very unique look at the application of ying and yang. Barbellshrugged - They are crossfiters/ Broscience - however very informative for training smart and they often interview people who can teach a lot. Stay focused, dont let the system get you down or box you in and Hope you do become great (Sorry im not Paul)
Aidanscereal Hi Aidan, The most important thing is not to do what Elliott or I do, but do what your heart feels inspired to do. To master anything is a long process that naturally comes with real life challenges. People that "do what others do, or do what others want them to do or "think they should do", or "do to make money" instead of doing what makes you feel good as a person is a dangerous practice that soon learns to one crisis after another.... When you are inspired by your own love of discovery and your own impulse to "create something unique of yourself", the natural laborsr of life and mastery become "labors of love"; a labor of love is sustainable, anything else usually ends up being "medicated"... What you are expressing as your interest is comprehensively taught in my HLC 1 class (Holistic Lifestyle Coaching) and my Chek Exercise Coach program, which teaches you all the basic skills you need to master both corrective and performance exercise yourself, and to teach it effectively. I've had a number of teenagers in both classes and they have all done very well...usually better than their parents who brought them there in fact! I'd start with the following resources: 1. my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" (www.chekinstitute.com) 2. My ebook "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need" (www.chekinstitute.com) 3. PPS Success Master Lesson 1: How To Find and Live Your Legacy (Legacy = Dream) www.ppssuccess.com When you purchase this on-line (or DVD) lesson, you get 90 days of access to my bi-weekly coaching calls where you can ask me any questions you have, and... you can listen to all the coaching calls I've done in over six years...loads to learn from... It would be worth it to go to the Chek Institute web site and sign up for our news letter(s), scout around at the course descriptions, and check the schedule of events so you can start exploring this possibility within yourself. Love and chi, Paul Chek
This is one of my favorite videos from Paul. Alleviates a lot of ignorance around the core and the importance of belly breathing and how that relates to every domain of our being.
Really love this video Paul! I'm starting to get more negative and negative towards bodybuilding. Simply because it doesn't serve the body for what's it's meant to do: Move. What's your opinion on Functional Patterns? They really go the opposite way. For example with the TVA.
Well I loved Naudi till I started following him on facebook. I love his work, and I own his book, but he's a class A douchebag when it comes to us, his fans.
Frank Pansier Hi Frank, Bodybuilding was started by the famous strongman Eugene Sandow, who ran the first bodybuilding competition (birthing the sport) in the year 1900; the Mr. Olympia trophy is a trophy of "Eugene Sandow's body. There were no drugs, vitamin supplements or gimmicks then. Bodybuilders were made of a combination of people that loved and appreciated their bodies, spent a lot of time sharing food concepts, and exploring other ways of creating health, vitality, and beauty. A significant number of competitive bodybuilders were Olympic lifters; many of them simply showed up and posed on stage, winning competitions with the beautiful bodies they'd developed through sound functional training principles and good eating. If you study the history of bodybuilding, you will see this approach was the dominant theme right up until 1960, when Vic Tanny started the first "machine based" gym chain...the beginning of "corporate fitness" was born...Then, between the influences of the Weider Brothers and Arthur Jones (Inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment), we saw the massive influx of "non-functional, isolationist, machine based training" and heavy supplementation and drugs "for BIG profits" infect the bodybuilding population and the world with faulty information and unhealthy motives that drive many industries to this day. In 1988, I began lecturing professionally, traveling the world and sharing very comprehensive, scientific evidence that this whole movement was biomechanically, physiologically, and even psychologically deficient relative to real food and real training. I unveiled what was then, the first every system of assessing human movement via the use of "Primal Patterns"; I developed the first ever, and still to this day, the most comprehensive and effective system of functional movement analysis, which is called "Primal Pattern Movement Assessment (and correction)". I developed an entire system of not only analyzing movement, but how to choose the right exercises for an individual's needs, how to effectively sequence them for optimal development, and how to periodize the functional movement programs. There have been a few variations on the theme, but the only decent one I've seen emerge since I started teaching the concept was created by Gray Cook. All Chek Practitioners are trained in primal pattern assessment and program design. Bodybuilding at large, is populated by people with little knowledge, confused knowledge, and became the first "fit sick people" on the planet; only to see the rest of the athletes take on the same gimmicks and suffer many of the same ills.... I've worked with and rehabilitated more bodybuilders than I can count, so I'm very familiar with the challenges that go with it... If you want to understand functional anatomy, primal pattern training and assessment, functional nutrition, and all such relevant issues, you will find the following resources helpful: 1. How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy! (book) 2. Movement That Matters (book) 3. Program Design (correspondence course with DVDs) There is much more advanced training available to you in my system, but its good to get through these first. If you can understand and integrate this information, you'll have a clear idea if the path I share fits your dreams and values. Love and chi, Paul Chek
Hi Pual Chek, thank you so much for your effort in sharing these videos with us. I've noticed that you often mention how our emotional and/or trapped feeling can impact our overall health. I wonder what is your opinion on EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) tapping? My concern is on the explained mechanics of how it works, for me rewiring our subconscious mind seems like playing with fire. Thanks.
Ivar N Hello Ivar, Knowing the sciences of how the body-mind functions, my opinion of EFT is: 1. The mechanisms by which the method works is well explained, and backed by current scientific understanding of meridians, energy transfer through fascia and other tissues, and energy field transmission or conduction, which is heavily influence by "intention". 2. The challenge with EFT, and ALL such techniques I've seen over the years is that they are still dealing with "symptoms" unless the individual has a clear understanding of the etiology (cause) of the imbalance they are "tapping for", and do the necessary therapies and work to heal at the causal level. 3. "Rewiring the subconscious mind" is something you, and all of us are doing "constantly". Any thought or action repeated frequently enough to progress through the stages of both learning, and facilitation in the nervous system becomes an "automatic response at the subconscious level", just as I've explained abdominal bracing to occur as a byproduct of both faulty aesthetic posturing, incorrect exercise technique, faulty coaching, etc... Most of what runs in your subconscious now, is what was programmed into it by parents and family, particularly during the first seven years of your life. To the degree that the events occurring in an individual's life are congruent with what they are AWARE THAT THEY ARE CREATING, and they are at peace with such events, their subconscious programming is "dream affirmative". To the degree that an individual experiences live and events as "happening to them...or as someone else's fault" (as a them of their life), it is HIGHLY likely that they are acting out subconsciously programmed thoughts, choices and behaviors. In such cases, "rewiring the subconscious" becomes the difference between "moving toward your dream and enlightened living, and Groundhog day"... If you really want to learn how the mind is programmed (for better or for worse), how to assess yourself, and how to begin reprogramming yourself to live a dream affirmative life, I suggest you study PPS Success Mastery Lesson 2. Self-Management. I go into the science of how brainwashing works, how language programs our brains (ego-mind), and the essentials of effective self management. That is available at www.ppssuccess.com or through the Chek Institute web site. Get ready to have your mind blown, particularly when you learn how religions have been brainwashing people for a very long time and get better at it every year! Love and chi, Paul Chek
Paul Chek Thank you for your reply, I have to think really well to be able to follow you on this one hahaha. That might be what I was concerned about, I'm no expert here, but I think patterns stem from our natural reaction to certain environmental factors/beliefs. It's true that techniques like these might work well when it comes to correcting fault beliefs (in case that they're the "cause" like you've said). But I wouldn't be so sure when it comes to reprogramming how we naturally react to the environment, as I think we should have learned by now that manipulating how nature work can cause us unimaginable problems in the long run. In the latter case, changing the environment/our lifestyle is likely to be better (which again is the "cause" of the problem like you've said). Anyway, thanks again.
Ivar W One thing to remember is that because of the way we've distorted nature, and ourselves (through destructive diet and lifestyle practices and the harmful effects of modern gegetry, toxicity, etc...), people at large are quite physically, emotionally, mentally, and therefore spiritually imbalanced (their lenses of perception are distorted). Whenever you see any form of self-help technology or methodology being shared, instead of letting skepticism guide you, it is wise to appreciate the fact that the first and most important phase of healing/balancing is "The Intention To Heal". If you are always looking for a "logical rationale" for how or why something works, you are limiting your judgments to only the information you have stored in you head, but many of these methods act on many energetic dimensions and principles at once; this is why most drugs on the market don't work much, or any better than a placebo. My general policy is to "test before making any conclusions"...and to do that effectively, you have to A. be healthy enough and open enough to "feel what is actually happening". If you test anything with the preconceived notion that it "doesn't work" as your motive, you've already closed your mind to all other possibilities, and become "blind" to that very degree. Shaman around the world heal people by dong sham surgeries, magic tricks, working with animal and nature spirits, and working on people's challenges from both other dimensions of reality and, from within themselves. The same methods that work on "those that are open to healing from any source with a trust in Universal Guidance" often DON'T WORK for those that come into the healing as skeptics; have you ever tried to love someone that "didn't want your love?"... If you have, then you know what it is like to try and offer "healing (love)" to someone who "doesn't want love (skeptic that has already decided they don't want to be loved that way)". Additionally, someone may get a given amount of freedom from emotional stress, or pain, and then find the process won't take them further. That is when people start asking bigger questions and looking for what will take them further. Eventually, people walk this path until they either realize what is the actual cause of their challenges, and address it, or they just keep playing the game and often living out a "poor me" story that everyone around them gets very tired of hearing... Remember, one man's food is another man's poison; we are all different and our soul path is to celebrate and live that individuality as a contributing member seeking to help create harmony in a community. Some will tap, some will slap, and some will dance and sing their way to balance. Others may find balance in reading, sewing, knitting, and others will cure themselves of terminal cancer by going fishing when their heart desires instead of doing what their doctor tells them they must do "or they will die." So, if you see a commercial for a program that teaches fishing as a means of healing, would you say "that's a bunch of crap" as a logic based reflex...or....would you go fishing a few times and see what the Spirit of Fishing has to offer you? Love and chi, Paul Chek
Vincent Vidal If you go to www.chekinstitute.com and go to the section in the shopping area that handles audios, you can find loads of stuff. If you join PPS Success Mastery training (www.ppssuccess.com), you can have access to and download all my student coaching calls for the past six years or so...loads of training on all aspects of life. We also have many of my webinars recorded and available as downloads you can purchase through the Chek Institute. Love and chi, Paul chek
Hey Paul if I were to apply this to squatting the only time that I would have my core tight would be on my way up? And then I would release my core once I make it all the way up? Thanks Paul I just starting watching your videos, you're brilliant!
Hey Paul! I have a question about one of your stretches in the HtEM&BH book. The mid abdominal stretch, when I do this stretch I feel it in my abs where I should but as I extend my arms back I slowly start to feel an increasing pain in my shoulders. What does this tell me?
Hi Paul, Kind of off-topic for this particular video, which was awesome btw. I'm working through HTEM&BH, and I'm on the stretching section. I was wondering if you had any tips on the "IT Band" stretch to actually feel it in the entire IT band? When I perform the stretch, I feel it mostly in the hips at the very sides of my body, near glutes, but not much if anything down my legs. I also noticed that my core is very twisted compared to what yours looks like in the picture (if that's even relevant). Thanks!
canw84 This is a very technical stretch, and most people have a hard time with it. There isn't usually any sensation that your "IT band is stretching". It is composed of very thick fascia (with a tensile loading capacity of about 2000 pounds per square inch). The IT band is activated by the "tensor fascia Lata" muscle (meaning tensor of the fascial lata - the ITB) in front of your hip where your pocket is, and 85% of the gluteus maximus attaches to it. Therefore, stretching the ITB is usually felt in the tensor fascial lata, gluteus maximus, and often at the ITB insertion at the lateral knee, not in the ITB itself. These muscles become hyperactive whenever the core isn't working properly for any reason as a means of creating stability in the lumbar spine, pelvic girdle, hop or knee. The ITB is also reflexively linked with the colon (based on Hawaiian healing concepts) and I"ve seen that when there are intestinal challenges, the ITB does tighten and often gets lumps or what feels like knots in it. If you can find a Chek Practitioner, they can check your technique. In the mean time, using a foam roller and massaging the ITB out regularly, as well as the butt and hip muscles, will take you much further. Love and chi, Paul Chek
Hi Paul, thank you for the incredible video!! What if one flexes their abs by elevating the pelvis (posterior pelvic tilt), as opposed to crunching the spine? Why is this bad?
a little confused about this. years ago told by physiotherapists that my back injury was caused in part due to weak TVA. i try and keep the TVA engaged when moving/exercising to take the stress off my lower back and correct my posture. is this not a wise thing to do?
Hey there Mr.Chek What do you think about euthanasia? Where I live it is strictly illegal, would like to hear your perspective on that (for both active and passive ones)
Yiğit Ünlü My feeling is that GOD, nor God can ever die, only change forms of expression; THE ABSOLUTE is always ABSOLUTE. Each individual should rightfully be at will to choose when they want to transition from this form, to what the mystery holds next for them. When a culture has a myth that makes leaving the body negative or sinful, people simply "kill themselves slowly, and in accord with the myth they are living out; for example, becoming an alcoholic is "accepted" in our culture as a simple "fact of life". So, it's OK to "pickle yourself" in public in our culture, but NOT OK to die when and how you'd like to... In essence, that is my position on the issue. Love and chi, Paul Chek
You mentioned about premature spinal disk aging. My spine has an s shape to it. i feel more comfy on a sofa with the right side of my torso slightly pitched. I also feel slight discomfort in my spine in between my shoulder blades.when i twist around to far. I'm only 24 and i want to fix this problem before It starts to effect me later in life. What should I do Paul? Thanks from England!
But what about us women with the very opposite problem: diastisis recti?? The rectus are split apart so the gut pops out forward (organs fall through the split). There is zero tone! Traditional ab exercises worsen the split. What are your thoughts on tummy tuck to repair? Would it be too much tightening thus creating too much abdominal tone as you speak of? Please help us moms!!!
Dear Paul, I would like to ask about your abs. It seems that you have the 6pax but it is proturding. How did that happen? and how can we avoid? please advise
Dr paul can you give us some advice on sleeping peacefully. Most of us, i believe, live in cities and it is quite Hard for us to sleep with all the noise. Can you suggest anything?? Big hug from greece
salami aeros Skatakia There is an entire chapter on that in my book, "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" My advice is to start there. Love and chi, Paul Chek
Paul Chek i have already ordered the book a month ago from, what is supposed to be, a, reliable store but i haven't received the book yet... Anyway i'll check that out as soon as it arrives... Thank you and lots of love to you
Hi there Paul, thanks for everything you really inspire me to be an even better teacher by constantly remins me of applying the four doctor concept in my work! I have a question: What ratio of protein-carbs would you recomend for kids in general (age 7-15)? I would like to inspire the kitchen at my school to improve on the school-lunces (already organic!!!) I work at a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Vasteras, Sweden and is HLC1 (2015 Halmstad Sweden) Light and Hippieness to you and Angie and all conscious beings Ola Wauge
Dear Pau, I would like to ask about your abdominal. It seems your abs isnt flat even with the 6packs. It looks protruding with muscle. What are those? How to avoid that
Ezvu If you get my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!", you can do the tests I show in the book, use the suggested corrective exercises and dietary changes to restore optimal internal and structural function. There are too many ways knees get injured to even begin to address this with you without much more detail. Love and chi, Paul Chek
salami aeros Skatakia Sure, My mother was a devoted yogi, who introduced our family to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda (Self-Realization Fellowship) (see the book, "Autobiography Of A Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda; the audio version is narrated by Ben Kingsley and is excellent!). When I was 15, I spent the summer with the SRF monks learning different meditation techniques, and Yogananda's teachings on how to live well and grow spiritually in life. My practice was intermittent, but fulfilling, even at that age. I learned through the meditation practices that I had "inner-vision", which was fun and interesting for me. These practices helped ground me and open me to spirit, and helped me have tools to help others heal when they were unable to find help through the medical system. In my middle thirties, I took a training program on Chi Lel Qi-Gong (Chinese Medical Qi-gong), and practiced that for about a year and found that I could cultivate chi (life-force energy) and infuse my patients with it. Not only did this practice strengthen and stabilize me internally, it opened my eyes and mind to the power of such methods (which I'd only read about previously, but always found interesting). Then, while I was doing research into tai-chi for my book, How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!, I found out that one of the true masters in the ancient lineage of tai-chi masters lived in San Francisco. I wondered if he was still alive, and tracked him down. He was "very alive" and I asked him if he could train me and share information for my upcoming book. He was very open and happy to do both. I flew to SF to meet "Master Fong Ha" (see. www.fongha.com). He put me through a series of "gongs" (100-day committed practices during which you can't miss a day or your must start the gong over again). I found several things out through these practices: 1. Being an athlete with a high degree of kinesthetic awareness, the movement in the various tai-chi practices was much more engaging than the seated meditations that I'd learned from the monks earlier in my life. 2. Because of the movement, breathing, and relaxation of the ego-mind, my capacity to feel and move energy grew dramatically. It was very interesting for me to take notice of the fact that with each progressive gong I completed, more and more animals and birds started coming and hanging around me as I did my practices. I'll never forget the day I was at the beach in the early morning (where I'd been coming every day for months) and after about a 40 minute practice, I opened my eyes and came out of a very deep experience (of no-mind) to find at least 100 seagulls and other birds all gathered around me right at my feet, like a little audience in a lecture theater. They were all still, quiet, and seemed as though they were stoned on pot. They had no fear of me and even followed me for a while as I walked away to go home. It was an amazing experience, After that, it kept happening. There have been times at my home when I'd come out of my session, or feel the presence of other beings, and there have been coyotes standing there 15 feet away, rabbits, squirrels, ground squirrels, lizards and birds all around me. They watch me the way we watch TV. That still goes on to this day, but they come even when I'm doing stone work in my front yard (which is a form of meditation for me). It makes life a lot more fun when you feel a deep connection to nature. One day a couple years ago, I was having a meeting for all my instructors from around the world at my office and was standing outside talking to my wife on the phone. A couple of my instructors were six feet from me talking and they saw as two birds came and landed on me; one on each shoulder. It was a very amazing experience. Through my tai-chi practices, I've found that without a doubt, all living beings in nature ARE aware of our inner-state and can "feel out thoughts". If you, for instance, think a thought like "I'm going to throw something at one of these birds (or animals), they will clear out immediately. 3. By the third gong, I began having regular pre-cognative experiences. For example, I would know that a new patient would be coming, and would be given all sorts of information through visions, inner-voice, or "knowing" what their challenge was, and what was causing it, as well as what I needed to do to support their healing and growth as a therapist. Through these experiences (which still occur regularly today), I "grew out of" the intellectual ego-thinking based approach to my work. I progressively began to be able to find "each person within myself", as part of myself. I could/can feel in me what is happening in them, and using my knowledge of the body-mind and all related, I can much more accurately and easily guide them. 4. Though I"d had a samadhi (Union with the Universe) experience using one of Yogananda's methods meditation earlier in my life, through tai-chi, I have had numerous (and still do have) experiences of going beyond being one with the Universe (the Tao that can be spoken) into "The Tao that can't be spoken"; In this experience, there is no longer a me, a you, or even a universe. There is only timelessness, pure potential, and nothing that can be spoken of, put into words; we have no means of expressing this in our language. Usually when these experiences happen, I"m in my garden and I go through a time warp; what feels like ten minutes often turns out to be 40-60 minutes of being in that experience. I also feel VERY high, but not like psychedelics where there is a biochemical influence. It is as though I'm being flooded with joy and peacefulness. In these states, I can feel that even material things are "alive". I can feel the energy and activity in the roots of plants and tress, and can feel the sap moving through plants and tress. All my senses are very heightened. These practices have allowed me to learn to tap into "the strength of LOVE, the creative principle behind the Universe", and have allowed me to navigate the challenges of my life and the stresses of growing the Chek Institute. They have allowed me to "never feel alone in the world", and to fully realize and embody the first principle of Sufism: "There is no God but God. I worship everything and everyone". 5. Tai-chi helps keep my breathing and internal functions harmonized and my body more flexible. This became much ore noticeable after being badly injured during a lifting stunt; I was putting a man up over my head and was going to do walking lunges with him (which I'd done many times with much larger men); he got scared and buckled so I couldn't hold him and fell straight down with the full weight of his body on top of my head. This exploded my C6 disc, injured my C5 disc, tore intrinsic spinal ligaments and left me with significant spinal instability and spinal cord compression. A surgeon would have wanted to fuse my neck immediately. With that much pain and dysfunction (I lost 24 pounds of muscle in six weeks because I couldn't even carry a brief case without significant pain and neurological symptoms and the whole left side of my body began to atrophy) I could easily tell the difference in how much pain I had, and how stable my neck was before and after tai-chi. Not doing it became an act of self-torture comparatively. Great Spirit teaches us in some funny ways now and then. I could easily write a book on this, but this gives you the highlights. The key thing with any of the inner-arts is PRACTICE. Most people don't have the discipline, not the patients; they expect that because they've done tai-chi for a month that they should be able to walk on water, or light up light bulbs by touching them, or that all the problems will go away... I have taught tai-chi to thousands of my students world wide and can assure you, those that stick to their practice have many of the same experiences I've described here. In closing, I want to point out that "I do not do traditional tai-chi based on the 13 basic postures". I find that most people won't stick with it long enough to master it, and that there is so much emphasis on forms that the intellectual-ego stays far too active, so it just becomes another form of physical activity. My soul led me into the development of a variety of simple tai-chi or Qi-Gong style techniques that are easy to do (they are what I teach my patients and students). It has been important for me to use my inner-wisdom to create methods that are both powerful, and suitable for the western mind-set of today. This is why I created the zone exercises in my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" and shared methods in my ebook, "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need - How To Get Healthy Now!" In my opinion, if the whole world were to be in these practices, within one year, we'd all evolve spiritually more than many has evolved in the past several thousand years. Hopefully, hearing of my own experiences with these inner-arts will inspire you and others to explore enough to find a method you are willing to stick with for a few gongs and let the soul-bird out of it's (body and ego) cage. Love and chi, Paul Chek
Paul Chek thank you for your answer and your time. I really enjoyed reading this. It was very inspiring to hear the remarkable benefits of tai chi and Qi Gong and how they have helped strengthen you in weak moments of your life and still do. It is just fascinating but also mysterious, i would say, that with consistent tai chi or Qi Gong practise you can be so connected to living beings around you. Big hug to you
salami aeros Skatakia Every animate being, and inanimate thing is an expression of vibration. As our mind calms, it comes to a "rest point". At that point, our individuality is diminished and our connection to all that is is what is experienced. Itzhak Bentov (see: "Stalking The Wild Pendulum") shows that when a pendulum is at the end of its swing, at the exact moment that it stops swinging one way in transition to going the other way, it is by scientific definition "everywhere in the universe at once." The mind is like a pendulum...always swinging from here to there. We are conditioned to "notice what's moving/swinging" but not what's behind, supporting, or the axis of the movement (still point). As we enter this stillness, the Tao that "can't be spoken" emerges. It is through these sorts of experiences that we come to realize that the function of individuality is to express wholeness, and that wholeness can't experience itself as "this or that" without individuality. As Alan Watts would say, when we look at a rug, we see the patterns "we are walking on", but to see the whole picture, to see the short cuts the weaver took and actually connect to the whole process, we must also "flip the rug over"...we rarely ever do because we are so busy "walking on the beauty". Love and chi, Paul Chek
Paul Chek this is an answer i am going to have to give some serious thinking to in order to get to its bottom. Being young and with little experience in meditation i believe it will take me a while to see things in a different prespective. To see the whole picture will be difficult as i have been used to mostly look at things superficially. Lots of love to you!!
Robert Daudish Look into the British TV presenter "Michael Mosley" He does a lot of very interesting programs. One of which was called "Guts". That program shows some of the first ever motion video of the internal organs and how they (constantly) move within you. Sitting can crowd the organs and lead to a variety of health problems, so needs to be balanced with adequate exercise, movement, stretching... Love and chi, Paul Chek
Then what do you say about calisthenic athletes where their abdominals are muscular flat and don't protrude outward? Doing L-sits, human flag pole, and various body weight exercises require strong functional abdominals. Secondly, an anatomy muscular chart doesn't show a person's abdominal in a distended position; it's tight like those of "fitness models."
Ricardo Carter Mouth breathing can come from MANY different causes. I'd recommend you start your balancing and healing process with either my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" or my ebook, "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need", which has breathing information in it and much more. Love and chi, Paul Chek
Paul Chek Hi, Paul. Like Ricardo I am a mouth-breather and a I know I have nasal pollyps (apparently quite big ones). Is the best way to deal with them through surgery? Thanks Paul, I'm a big fan!
You might care or not, but here's a reflexive response for ya. "So? WhoTF cares?" You/we live life in a state of constantly varying receptivity to what is true, vulnerable to every low point of receptivity we experience, and any hardship you contend with, any blind spot of perception and so connection to your reality which you suffer comes from your preoccupation with... expensively irrelavent B.S. like say, a source's choice of words when it's easy to just take the point they're making, and in doing so value THAT far more than any judgement you may have of their mode of delivery. I wish you well even if I don't know you, and I thought you'd like to know that here, pairing your sense of humor to the content above makes you look like you missed the point... which, taken in the limited context of this chat forum, and to put it charitably, does not flatter you, but quite the reverse. You sound like a disconnected kid. Doesn't make you wrong, or good, or right, or bad. It's just what you appear to be showing to thousands of people who don't know anything else about you. But, maybe who care's cuz you'll never seek out further more beneficial interaction with them anyway, so what could you possibly have to lose, right? Either way, peace.
Dear Paul, I would like to ask about your abs. It seems that you have the 6pax but it is proturding. How did that happen? and how can we avoid? please advise
Noh Sagiman didn’t you listen to the video? The whole video Paul talking about how you WANT the abs to expand, because having stiff 6-pack abs, can cause a lot of health problems, and most people want the 6 pack just because they are insecure and don’t really know why they want it. Rewatch the video and listen carefully, you might change your mind.
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Paul's the best. So glad he keeps making videos for everyone like this , FOR FREE. Paul has taken years of knowledge and condensed it for everyone to understand easily. It's great to have someone who knows what they are talking about.
Ditto.
Dude. I'm 50. And you and Elliot Hulse are the ONLY two guys I can relate to 100%, and who make me feel glad about where I'm at... chronologically, and otherwise. Many thanks for all that you do. Super lucky to know your work online, and saving up for your books. Peace.
Paul is Elliot's mentor.
Paul Chek is amazing and incredibly inspiring. I wish I had understood fifteen years ago what he explains here about abdominals and what really constitutes the natural body. I might have had a natural childbirth instead of a c-section. Let me explain. Just prior to pregnancy, I was practicing marshal arts. I had always been athletic--as a teen a sprinter, later a gym rat. I had very "strong," tight abs. During pregnancy, I continued to workout at the gym and do crunches on the Swiss ball, but my midwife would always tell me to relax my abdominal area; I was creating too much tension. I had a beautiful pregnancy, but two weeks prior to my son's birth he turned around and put one foot down the birth canal. This is known as footling breech. I wound up having a C-section. Coincidentally, within the same week, two other patients at the birthing center delivered breech babies by C-sections. I was acquainted with the two other women--one was a professional dancer and the other a model. What did the midwife say we all had in common? Tight, unrelaxed abdominals throughout pregnancy.
Paul, thank you for your wisdom, and truth along with the effort you put into spreading it to the rest of mankind. I am on the road to becoming a healer through massage therapy, acupuncture, yoga, tai-chi, qi gong, and another other modalities I find useful including your HLC program. I just wanted to express my gratitude for being a mentor and an educator. I hope one day our paths cross. Infinite love and qi!
Wow. I've always thought keeping the abs tight was good posture. Thanks for the insight
I just love when he gives book recommendations in his videos.
classic Paul Chek video, so many gems of knowledge here. I just watched again after a few years and still good.
You are a master educator. Show don't just tell. Explain mistakes, correct with proper form and explain why (instead of appealing to authority). Thank you!
Incredibly incredibly helpful information, thank you
Dude nah, I love you. The amount of info and precision in your integration of that knowledge is amazing.
Been expanding my belly as I watched the whole video. I will try to do this as much as i can, maybe help with my neck pain and tmj problems
I wish u were more popular lol. I just started watching ur videos this week. Your what is the best diet video was the first I've watched in full. It cleared my head of much confusion.
I have recently turned 16. I have just entered the world of nutrition more greatly because I have found many interesting things in it. With inflammation causing many problems (I just started reading Grain Brain by David Perlmutter), and why things like sugar make the average person fat (My interest probably started with the movie Fed Up which increased my awareness on food greatly).
In the past week or so I have decided I want to heal people and move them towards their goals sort of like you and Elliott Hulse (I will need to watch more of your videos to be able to differentiate what u two do entirely). I was going to major in physiology or sports medicine (if they're different) in college (my dad works at a nice college nearby so it's free tuition :D), but recently I've found just how important and difficult nutrition is to learn. So I will specialize in nutrition if I can, and possibly minor in biochemistry.
Questions:
1. Does this sound good if I'm aiming to do things similar to u in life?
2. Do you have any resources that I can learn now, on the body or nutrition or just life. Books, programs, channels etc. I will have the entire summer to learn!
Hopefully this was readable. I don't know much about consciousness yet, but I feel as if I'm not as self aware as I was before. I guess I need some meditation and to watch some owen cook videos while he's present and aware :)
Greatly appreciated.
-Aidan
Also I do not wish to be one that gets his entire knowledge from college. I wish to live a long life studying from the greats like you, and people from other sides of the spectrum such as Alan Watts! I just want to be great . Period.
Aidanscereal Your 16 and already sound like your waaaayyyyy ahead of the pack mate.
Learn everything you can. There are so many different methods, ideas and teachings.
College is just one of many learning avenues and it really just gives you the basic knowledge, standard practices and a piece of paper that tells the system/authorities that you are "qualified" to teach or practice whatever it is you want to specialise in.
Just of the top of my head some channels/ characters you might like
Infinitewaters - About mind and Spirit
Ido Portal - About the importance of body movement, mobility and complexity.
Bruce Lee - Find books on his philosophy - very unique look at the application of ying and yang.
Barbellshrugged - They are crossfiters/ Broscience - however very informative for training smart and they often interview people who can teach a lot.
Stay focused, dont let the system get you down or box you in and Hope you do become great (Sorry im not Paul)
Aidanscereal
Hi Aidan,
The most important thing is not to do what Elliott or I do, but do what your heart feels inspired to do. To master anything is a long process that naturally comes with real life challenges. People that "do what others do, or do what others want them to do or "think they should do", or "do to make money" instead of doing what makes you feel good as a person is a dangerous practice that soon learns to one crisis after another.... When you are inspired by your own love of discovery and your own impulse to "create something unique of yourself", the natural laborsr of life and mastery become "labors of love"; a labor of love is sustainable, anything else usually ends up being "medicated"...
What you are expressing as your interest is comprehensively taught in my HLC 1 class (Holistic Lifestyle Coaching) and my Chek Exercise Coach program, which teaches you all the basic skills you need to master both corrective and performance exercise yourself, and to teach it effectively. I've had a number of teenagers in both classes and they have all done very well...usually better than their parents who brought them there in fact!
I'd start with the following resources:
1. my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" (www.chekinstitute.com)
2. My ebook "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need" (www.chekinstitute.com)
3. PPS Success Master Lesson 1: How To Find and Live Your Legacy (Legacy = Dream) www.ppssuccess.com When you purchase this on-line (or DVD) lesson, you get 90 days of access to my bi-weekly coaching calls where you can ask me any questions you have, and... you can listen to all the coaching calls I've done in over six years...loads to learn from...
It would be worth it to go to the Chek Institute web site and sign up for our news letter(s), scout around at the course descriptions, and check the schedule of events so you can start exploring this possibility within yourself.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek Thank you! I will do all of this!
Brendan Teplitsky Just subscribed!
This is one of my favorite videos from Paul. Alleviates a lot of ignorance around the core and the importance of belly breathing and how that relates to every domain of our being.
What a gem! Homage!
Excellent, educational video! Thank you, Paul!
Watching 5 years later and the organ dance is still relevant and fantastic!
Hello Paul It's Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:36am. I have been in pain since Oct 18, 2017. Now I know why. I thank God I saw your video. All blessings.😌
This and your video about gut inflammation are pure gold, on healthy core!
"Pretty damn Healthy!" - Paul Chek
Love and Chi
Pure Gold, thank you so much !!
Hope I'm like Paul at 50. Thank you so much sir!
Thanks for the video Paul. As a coach at the start of my career your videos truly are invaluable resources. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for those wonderful tips! You are number one, Paul.
Love you Paul, you help me and my girlfriend tremendously in our lives!
This goes MUCH further than just ab toning. Great video. Thank you.
2022 and still here sending love to you Paul from Austin tx
I like your organ "seaweed" dance. 😊
Really love this video Paul! I'm starting to get more negative and negative towards bodybuilding. Simply because it doesn't serve the body for what's it's meant to do: Move. What's your opinion on Functional Patterns? They really go the opposite way. For example with the TVA.
I have the same question!
Same here whats Paul's view on the teaching, view on exercises and philosophy of functional patterns.
Frank Pansier I love Paul Chek and I also love Naudi Aguilar and what he's doing at FP.
Well I loved Naudi till I started following him on facebook. I love his work, and I own his book, but he's a class A douchebag when it comes to us, his fans.
Frank Pansier
Hi Frank,
Bodybuilding was started by the famous strongman Eugene Sandow, who ran the first bodybuilding competition (birthing the sport) in the year 1900; the Mr. Olympia trophy is a trophy of "Eugene Sandow's body. There were no drugs, vitamin supplements or gimmicks then. Bodybuilders were made of a combination of people that loved and appreciated their bodies, spent a lot of time sharing food concepts, and exploring other ways of creating health, vitality, and beauty. A significant number of competitive bodybuilders were Olympic lifters; many of them simply showed up and posed on stage, winning competitions with the beautiful bodies they'd developed through sound functional training principles and good eating. If you study the history of bodybuilding, you will see this approach was the dominant theme right up until 1960, when Vic Tanny started the first "machine based" gym chain...the beginning of "corporate fitness" was born...Then, between the influences of the Weider Brothers and Arthur Jones (Inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment), we saw the massive influx of "non-functional, isolationist, machine based training" and heavy supplementation and drugs "for BIG profits" infect the bodybuilding population and the world with faulty information and unhealthy motives that drive many industries to this day.
In 1988, I began lecturing professionally, traveling the world and sharing very comprehensive, scientific evidence that this whole movement was biomechanically, physiologically, and even psychologically deficient relative to real food and real training. I unveiled what was then, the first every system of assessing human movement via the use of "Primal Patterns"; I developed the first ever, and still to this day, the most comprehensive and effective system of functional movement analysis, which is called "Primal Pattern Movement Assessment (and correction)". I developed an entire system of not only analyzing movement, but how to choose the right exercises for an individual's needs, how to effectively sequence them for optimal development, and how to periodize the functional movement programs. There have been a few variations on the theme, but the only decent one I've seen emerge since I started teaching the concept was created by Gray Cook. All Chek Practitioners are trained in primal pattern assessment and program design.
Bodybuilding at large, is populated by people with little knowledge, confused knowledge, and became the first "fit sick people" on the planet; only to see the rest of the athletes take on the same gimmicks and suffer many of the same ills.... I've worked with and rehabilitated more bodybuilders than I can count, so I'm very familiar with the challenges that go with it...
If you want to understand functional anatomy, primal pattern training and assessment, functional nutrition, and all such relevant issues, you will find the following resources helpful:
1. How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy! (book)
2. Movement That Matters (book)
3. Program Design (correspondence course with DVDs)
There is much more advanced training available to you in my system, but its good to get through these first. If you can understand and integrate this information, you'll have a clear idea if the path I share fits your dreams and values.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Holistic Health GOD
Wow, the best 27min lecture to know Paul! Thank you xo
What a lesson! Great video!
Praise God for Paul Chek!
Still THE inspiration!
Another great video. Thanks Paul.
An amazing video that makes so much sense thank you so much.
Do organs have consciousness? Meditating i can feel how they feel. I wonder about transplants...
Thank you for sharing this Paul 🙏💪
this is the definition of infotainment.
Hi Pual Chek, thank you so much for your effort in sharing these videos with us. I've noticed that you often mention how our emotional and/or trapped feeling can impact our overall health. I wonder what is your opinion on EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) tapping? My concern is on the explained mechanics of how it works, for me rewiring our subconscious mind seems like playing with fire. Thanks.
Ivar N
Hello Ivar,
Knowing the sciences of how the body-mind functions, my opinion of EFT is:
1. The mechanisms by which the method works is well explained, and backed by current scientific understanding of meridians, energy transfer through fascia and other tissues, and energy field transmission or conduction, which is heavily influence by "intention".
2. The challenge with EFT, and ALL such techniques I've seen over the years is that they are still dealing with "symptoms" unless the individual has a clear understanding of the etiology (cause) of the imbalance they are "tapping for", and do the necessary therapies and work to heal at the causal level.
3. "Rewiring the subconscious mind" is something you, and all of us are doing "constantly". Any thought or action repeated frequently enough to progress through the stages of both learning, and facilitation in the nervous system becomes an "automatic response at the subconscious level", just as I've explained abdominal bracing to occur as a byproduct of both faulty aesthetic posturing, incorrect exercise technique, faulty coaching, etc... Most of what runs in your subconscious now, is what was programmed into it by parents and family, particularly during the first seven years of your life.
To the degree that the events occurring in an individual's life are congruent with what they are AWARE THAT THEY ARE CREATING, and they are at peace with such events, their subconscious programming is "dream affirmative". To the degree that an individual experiences live and events as "happening to them...or as someone else's fault" (as a them of their life), it is HIGHLY likely that they are acting out subconsciously programmed thoughts, choices and behaviors. In such cases, "rewiring the subconscious" becomes the difference between "moving toward your dream and enlightened living, and Groundhog day"...
If you really want to learn how the mind is programmed (for better or for worse), how to assess yourself, and how to begin reprogramming yourself to live a dream affirmative life, I suggest you study PPS Success Mastery Lesson 2. Self-Management. I go into the science of how brainwashing works, how language programs our brains (ego-mind), and the essentials of effective self management. That is available at www.ppssuccess.com or through the Chek Institute web site. Get ready to have your mind blown, particularly when you learn how religions have been brainwashing people for a very long time and get better at it every year!
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek Thank you for your reply, I have to think really well to be able to follow you on this one hahaha.
That might be what I was concerned about, I'm no expert here, but I think patterns stem from our natural reaction to certain environmental factors/beliefs. It's true that techniques like these might work well when it comes to correcting fault beliefs (in case that they're the "cause" like you've said). But I wouldn't be so sure when it comes to reprogramming how we naturally react to the environment, as I think we should have learned by now that manipulating how nature work can cause us unimaginable problems in the long run. In the latter case, changing the environment/our lifestyle is likely to be better (which again is the "cause" of the problem like you've said). Anyway, thanks again.
Ivar W
One thing to remember is that because of the way we've distorted nature, and ourselves (through destructive diet and lifestyle practices and the harmful effects of modern gegetry, toxicity, etc...), people at large are quite physically, emotionally, mentally, and therefore spiritually imbalanced (their lenses of perception are distorted). Whenever you see any form of self-help technology or methodology being shared, instead of letting skepticism guide you, it is wise to appreciate the fact that the first and most important phase of healing/balancing is "The Intention To Heal". If you are always looking for a "logical rationale" for how or why something works, you are limiting your judgments to only the information you have stored in you head, but many of these methods act on many energetic dimensions and principles at once; this is why most drugs on the market don't work much, or any better than a placebo.
My general policy is to "test before making any conclusions"...and to do that effectively, you have to A. be healthy enough and open enough to "feel what is actually happening". If you test anything with the preconceived notion that it "doesn't work" as your motive, you've already closed your mind to all other possibilities, and become "blind" to that very degree.
Shaman around the world heal people by dong sham surgeries, magic tricks, working with animal and nature spirits, and working on people's challenges from both other dimensions of reality and, from within themselves. The same methods that work on "those that are open to healing from any source with a trust in Universal Guidance" often DON'T WORK for those that come into the healing as skeptics; have you ever tried to love someone that "didn't want your love?"... If you have, then you know what it is like to try and offer "healing (love)" to someone who "doesn't want love (skeptic that has already decided they don't want to be loved that way)".
Additionally, someone may get a given amount of freedom from emotional stress, or pain, and then find the process won't take them further. That is when people start asking bigger questions and looking for what will take them further. Eventually, people walk this path until they either realize what is the actual cause of their challenges, and address it, or they just keep playing the game and often living out a "poor me" story that everyone around them gets very tired of hearing... Remember, one man's food is another man's poison; we are all different and our soul path is to celebrate and live that individuality as a contributing member seeking to help create harmony in a community. Some will tap, some will slap, and some will dance and sing their way to balance. Others may find balance in reading, sewing, knitting, and others will cure themselves of terminal cancer by going fishing when their heart desires instead of doing what their doctor tells them they must do "or they will die." So, if you see a commercial for a program that teaches fishing as a means of healing, would you say "that's a bunch of crap" as a logic based reflex...or....would you go fishing a few times and see what the Spirit of Fishing has to offer you?
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
life changing information !
we love you Paul !!!
I wish you had podcast recordings doc, so I can listen in while cycling to and from work daily. I don't always have time to view your videos.
Vincent Vidal
If you go to www.chekinstitute.com and go to the section in the shopping area that handles audios, you can find loads of stuff.
If you join PPS Success Mastery training (www.ppssuccess.com), you can have access to and download all my student coaching calls for the past six years or so...loads of training on all aspects of life. We also have many of my webinars recorded and available as downloads you can purchase through the Chek Institute.
Love and chi,
Paul chek
Thanks Paul
Perfect! What's the name of the documentary about models and their pre and post-shooting looks?
Hey Paul if I were to apply this to squatting the only time that I would have my core tight would be on my way up? And then I would release my core once I make it all the way up? Thanks Paul I just starting watching your videos, you're brilliant!
Paul chek your wisdom is god like.
Paul, you're a genious! (everyone already knows that but i had to say it...)
Thank you i just remember how important breathing is :)
Hey Paul! I have a question about one of your stretches in the HtEM&BH book. The mid abdominal stretch, when I do this stretch I feel it in my abs where I should but as I extend my arms back I slowly start to feel an increasing pain in my shoulders. What does this tell me?
Excellent.
Hi Paul,
Kind of off-topic for this particular video, which was awesome btw.
I'm working through HTEM&BH, and I'm on the stretching section. I was wondering if you had any tips on the "IT Band" stretch to actually feel it in the entire IT band? When I perform the stretch, I feel it mostly in the hips at the very sides of my body, near glutes, but not much if anything down my legs. I also noticed that my core is very twisted compared to what yours looks like in the picture (if that's even relevant).
Thanks!
canw84
This is a very technical stretch, and most people have a hard time with it.
There isn't usually any sensation that your "IT band is stretching". It is composed of very thick fascia (with a tensile loading capacity of about 2000 pounds per square inch). The IT band is activated by the "tensor fascia Lata" muscle (meaning tensor of the fascial lata - the ITB) in front of your hip where your pocket is, and 85% of the gluteus maximus attaches to it. Therefore, stretching the ITB is usually felt in the tensor fascial lata, gluteus maximus, and often at the ITB insertion at the lateral knee, not in the ITB itself. These muscles become hyperactive whenever the core isn't working properly for any reason as a means of creating stability in the lumbar spine, pelvic girdle, hop or knee. The ITB is also reflexively linked with the colon (based on Hawaiian healing concepts) and I"ve seen that when there are intestinal challenges, the ITB does tighten and often gets lumps or what feels like knots in it.
If you can find a Chek Practitioner, they can check your technique. In the mean time, using a foam roller and massaging the ITB out regularly, as well as the butt and hip muscles, will take you much further.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Hi Paul, thank you for the incredible video!!
What if one flexes their abs by elevating the pelvis (posterior pelvic tilt), as opposed to crunching the spine? Why is this bad?
The real deal.
God bless this holy rascal.
Thank you, Paul.
God this video is so fucking good
Awesome!
a little confused about this. years ago told by physiotherapists that my back injury was caused in part due to weak TVA. i try and keep the TVA engaged when moving/exercising to take the stress off my lower back and correct my posture. is this not a wise thing to do?
this shit is Gold, thank you Paul, u are brilliant
Thanks buddy
Hey Paul,should you engage your abdominal when doing the prone cobra?
Hey there Mr.Chek
What do you think about euthanasia? Where I live it is strictly illegal, would like to hear your perspective on that (for both active and passive ones)
Yiğit Ünlü
My feeling is that GOD, nor God can ever die, only change forms of expression; THE ABSOLUTE is always ABSOLUTE.
Each individual should rightfully be at will to choose when they want to transition from this form, to what the mystery holds next for them.
When a culture has a myth that makes leaving the body negative or sinful, people simply "kill themselves slowly, and in accord with the myth they are living out; for example, becoming an alcoholic is "accepted" in our culture as a simple "fact of life". So, it's OK to "pickle yourself" in public in our culture, but NOT OK to die when and how you'd like to...
In essence, that is my position on the issue.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Awesome.
I really like what he’s talking a bowt
Paul can you give me a link where to buy the 3 books you reccoment in this video from Bulgaria pease
от къде си?
hismajestydaniel Panagurishte jiveq v plovdiv
You mentioned about premature spinal disk aging. My spine has an s shape to it. i feel more comfy on a sofa with the right side of my torso slightly pitched. I also feel slight discomfort in my spine in between my shoulder blades.when i twist around to far. I'm only 24 and i want to fix this problem before It starts to effect me later in life. What should I do Paul?
Thanks from England!
I cant do that last third with my chest. Any advice? I have pectus excavatum
This was a lovely Funny Video ... He just says it. 13-year-old child, etc. GREAT :o)
how dp you prevent anterior pelvic tilt of you are supposed to have 0% activation of your abdominals?
But what about us women with the very opposite problem: diastisis recti?? The rectus are split apart so the gut pops out forward (organs fall through the split). There is zero tone! Traditional ab exercises worsen the split. What are your thoughts on tummy tuck to repair? Would it be too much tightening thus creating too much abdominal tone as you speak of? Please help us moms!!!
Dear Paul, I would like to ask about your abs. It seems that you have the 6pax but it is proturding. How did that happen? and how can we avoid? please advise
Dr paul can you give us some advice on sleeping peacefully. Most of us, i believe, live in cities and it is quite Hard for us to sleep with all the noise. Can you suggest anything?? Big hug from greece
salami aeros Skatakia
There is an entire chapter on that in my book, "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!"
My advice is to start there.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek i have already ordered the book a month ago from, what is supposed to be, a, reliable store but i haven't received the book yet... Anyway i'll check that out as soon as it arrives... Thank you and lots of love to you
Hi there Paul, thanks for everything you really inspire me to be an even better teacher by constantly remins me of applying the four doctor concept in my work! I have a question:
What ratio of protein-carbs would you recomend for kids in general (age 7-15)? I would like to inspire the kitchen at my school to improve on the school-lunces (already organic!!!)
I work at a Waldorf (Steiner) school in Vasteras, Sweden and is HLC1 (2015 Halmstad Sweden)
Light and Hippieness to you and Angie and all conscious beings
Ola Wauge
I need a tatto on my hand saying "breathe man"
5 hour energy is so bad for you
Dear Pau,
I would like to ask about your abdominal. It seems your abs isnt flat even with the 6packs. It looks protruding with muscle. What are those? How to avoid that
Best place to purchase your books?
+Rod Paletta amazon
Thanku
paul can bend back further than elliott!
Probably why I have meniscus tears in both knees at 19. Already had one shaved down... :/
Ezvu
If you get my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!", you can do the tests I show in the book, use the suggested corrective exercises and dietary changes to restore optimal internal and structural function. There are too many ways knees get injured to even begin to address this with you without much more detail.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek where can I get your book?
+cchgn amazon or chekinstitute
So what's about Pilates? R u r not supposed to keep your abdominal tight?
pilates suck.
Can you tell us how practising or engaging your self in tai chi has made an impact on your life??
salami aeros Skatakia
Sure,
My mother was a devoted yogi, who introduced our family to the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda (Self-Realization Fellowship) (see the book, "Autobiography Of A Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda; the audio version is narrated by Ben Kingsley and is excellent!). When I was 15, I spent the summer with the SRF monks learning different meditation techniques, and Yogananda's teachings on how to live well and grow spiritually in life. My practice was intermittent, but fulfilling, even at that age. I learned through the meditation practices that I had "inner-vision", which was fun and interesting for me. These practices helped ground me and open me to spirit, and helped me have tools to help others heal when they were unable to find help through the medical system.
In my middle thirties, I took a training program on Chi Lel Qi-Gong (Chinese Medical Qi-gong), and practiced that for about a year and found that I could cultivate chi (life-force energy) and infuse my patients with it. Not only did this practice strengthen and stabilize me internally, it opened my eyes and mind to the power of such methods (which I'd only read about previously, but always found interesting). Then, while I was doing research into tai-chi for my book, How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!, I found out that one of the true masters in the ancient lineage of tai-chi masters lived in San Francisco. I wondered if he was still alive, and tracked him down. He was "very alive" and I asked him if he could train me and share information for my upcoming book. He was very open and happy to do both.
I flew to SF to meet "Master Fong Ha" (see. www.fongha.com). He put me through a series of "gongs" (100-day committed practices during which you can't miss a day or your must start the gong over again). I found several things out through these practices:
1. Being an athlete with a high degree of kinesthetic awareness, the movement in the various tai-chi practices was much more engaging than the seated meditations that I'd learned from the monks earlier in my life.
2. Because of the movement, breathing, and relaxation of the ego-mind, my capacity to feel and move energy grew dramatically. It was very interesting for me to take notice of the fact that with each progressive gong I completed, more and more animals and birds started coming and hanging around me as I did my practices. I'll never forget the day I was at the beach in the early morning (where I'd been coming every day for months) and after about a 40 minute practice, I opened my eyes and came out of a very deep experience (of no-mind) to find at least 100 seagulls and other birds all gathered around me right at my feet, like a little audience in a lecture theater. They were all still, quiet, and seemed as though they were stoned on pot. They had no fear of me and even followed me for a while as I walked away to go home. It was an amazing experience, After that, it kept happening. There have been times at my home when I'd come out of my session, or feel the presence of other beings, and there have been coyotes standing there 15 feet away, rabbits, squirrels, ground squirrels, lizards and birds all around me. They watch me the way we watch TV. That still goes on to this day, but they come even when I'm doing stone work in my front yard (which is a form of meditation for me). It makes life a lot more fun when you feel a deep connection to nature. One day a couple years ago, I was having a meeting for all my instructors from around the world at my office and was standing outside talking to my wife on the phone. A couple of my instructors were six feet from me talking and they saw as two birds came and landed on me; one on each shoulder. It was a very amazing experience. Through my tai-chi practices, I've found that without a doubt, all living beings in nature ARE aware of our inner-state and can "feel out thoughts". If you, for instance, think a thought like "I'm going to throw something at one of these birds (or animals), they will clear out immediately.
3. By the third gong, I began having regular pre-cognative experiences. For example, I would know that a new patient would be coming, and would be given all sorts of information through visions, inner-voice, or "knowing" what their challenge was, and what was causing it, as well as what I needed to do to support their healing and growth as a therapist. Through these experiences (which still occur regularly today), I "grew out of" the intellectual ego-thinking based approach to my work. I progressively began to be able to find "each person within myself", as part of myself. I could/can feel in me what is happening in them, and using my knowledge of the body-mind and all related, I can much more accurately and easily guide them.
4. Though I"d had a samadhi (Union with the Universe) experience using one of Yogananda's methods meditation earlier in my life, through tai-chi, I have had numerous (and still do have) experiences of going beyond being one with the Universe (the Tao that can be spoken) into "The Tao that can't be spoken"; In this experience, there is no longer a me, a you, or even a universe. There is only timelessness, pure potential, and nothing that can be spoken of, put into words; we have no means of expressing this in our language. Usually when these experiences happen, I"m in my garden and I go through a time warp; what feels like ten minutes often turns out to be 40-60 minutes of being in that experience. I also feel VERY high, but not like psychedelics where there is a biochemical influence. It is as though I'm being flooded with joy and peacefulness. In these states, I can feel that even material things are "alive". I can feel the energy and activity in the roots of plants and tress, and can feel the sap moving through plants and tress. All my senses are very heightened. These practices have allowed me to learn to tap into "the strength of LOVE, the creative principle behind the Universe", and have allowed me to navigate the challenges of my life and the stresses of growing the Chek Institute. They have allowed me to "never feel alone in the world", and to fully realize and embody the first principle of Sufism: "There is no God but God. I worship everything and everyone".
5. Tai-chi helps keep my breathing and internal functions harmonized and my body more flexible. This became much ore noticeable after being badly injured during a lifting stunt; I was putting a man up over my head and was going to do walking lunges with him (which I'd done many times with much larger men); he got scared and buckled so I couldn't hold him and fell straight down with the full weight of his body on top of my head. This exploded my C6 disc, injured my C5 disc, tore intrinsic spinal ligaments and left me with significant spinal instability and spinal cord compression. A surgeon would have wanted to fuse my neck immediately. With that much pain and dysfunction (I lost 24 pounds of muscle in six weeks because I couldn't even carry a brief case without significant pain and neurological symptoms and the whole left side of my body began to atrophy) I could easily tell the difference in how much pain I had, and how stable my neck was before and after tai-chi. Not doing it became an act of self-torture comparatively. Great Spirit teaches us in some funny ways now and then.
I could easily write a book on this, but this gives you the highlights.
The key thing with any of the inner-arts is PRACTICE. Most people don't have the discipline, not the patients; they expect that because they've done tai-chi for a month that they should be able to walk on water, or light up light bulbs by touching them, or that all the problems will go away... I have taught tai-chi to thousands of my students world wide and can assure you, those that stick to their practice have many of the same experiences I've described here.
In closing, I want to point out that "I do not do traditional tai-chi based on the 13 basic postures". I find that most people won't stick with it long enough to master it, and that there is so much emphasis on forms that the intellectual-ego stays far too active, so it just becomes another form of physical activity. My soul led me into the development of a variety of simple tai-chi or Qi-Gong style techniques that are easy to do (they are what I teach my patients and students). It has been important for me to use my inner-wisdom to create methods that are both powerful, and suitable for the western mind-set of today. This is why I created the zone exercises in my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" and shared methods in my ebook, "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need - How To Get Healthy Now!"
In my opinion, if the whole world were to be in these practices, within one year, we'd all evolve spiritually more than many has evolved in the past several thousand years.
Hopefully, hearing of my own experiences with these inner-arts will inspire you and others to explore enough to find a method you are willing to stick with for a few gongs and let the soul-bird out of it's (body and ego) cage.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek thank you for your answer and your time. I really enjoyed reading this. It was very inspiring to hear the remarkable benefits of tai chi and Qi Gong and how they have helped strengthen you in weak moments of your life and still do. It is just fascinating but also mysterious, i would say, that with consistent tai chi or Qi Gong practise you can be so connected to living beings around you. Big hug to you
salami aeros Skatakia
Every animate being, and inanimate thing is an expression of vibration.
As our mind calms, it comes to a "rest point". At that point, our individuality is diminished and our connection to all that is is what is experienced.
Itzhak Bentov (see: "Stalking The Wild Pendulum") shows that when a pendulum is at the end of its swing, at the exact moment that it stops swinging one way in transition to going the other way, it is by scientific definition "everywhere in the universe at once."
The mind is like a pendulum...always swinging from here to there. We are conditioned to "notice what's moving/swinging" but not what's behind, supporting, or the axis of the movement (still point). As we enter this stillness, the Tao that "can't be spoken" emerges. It is through these sorts of experiences that we come to realize that the function of individuality is to express wholeness, and that wholeness can't experience itself as "this or that" without individuality.
As Alan Watts would say, when we look at a rug, we see the patterns "we are walking on", but to see the whole picture, to see the short cuts the weaver took and actually connect to the whole process, we must also "flip the rug over"...we rarely ever do because we are so busy "walking on the beauty".
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek this is an answer i am going to have to give some serious thinking to in order to get to its bottom. Being young and with little experience in meditation i believe it will take me a while to see things in a different prespective. To see the whole picture will be difficult as i have been used to mostly look at things superficially. Lots of love to you!!
Paul! You were on one in his video. What did you eat that morning? Or what coffee was that? Lol
*****
On Joy 4 Living, a half a shot of espresso, and my usual routine to start the day...
Love and chi,
Paul
Paul Chek Your THE Man Paul - still such an inspiration and great source of information!
God Bless Paul Chek!
Sir, how organs move / or don't move while you're sitting?
Robert Daudish
Look into the British TV presenter "Michael Mosley" He does a lot of very interesting programs. One of which was called "Guts". That program shows some of the first ever motion video of the internal organs and how they (constantly) move within you.
Sitting can crowd the organs and lead to a variety of health problems, so needs to be balanced with adequate exercise, movement, stretching...
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
My past is so overly full of emotional guarding with the mask. 5:43
Then what do you say about calisthenic athletes where their abdominals are muscular flat and don't protrude outward? Doing L-sits, human flag pole, and various body weight exercises require strong functional abdominals. Secondly, an anatomy muscular chart doesn't show a person's abdominal in a distended position; it's tight like those of "fitness models."
Mr chek im a mouthbreather, do you have video on this. What is causing me to mouthbreath. And how can i stop this
Ricardo Carter
Mouth breathing can come from MANY different causes.
I'd recommend you start your balancing and healing process with either my book "How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!" or my ebook, "The Last 4 Doctors You'll Ever Need", which has breathing information in it and much more.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Paul Chek Hi, Paul. Like Ricardo I am a mouth-breather and a I know I have nasal pollyps (apparently quite big ones). Is the best way to deal with them through surgery? Thanks Paul, I'm a big fan!
Paul Chek could you make a vid on this PLZ !!
Ricardo Carter He has a series on this problem on the same channel. Just look them up. Good luck.
His abs look better when they’re relaxed. Huh, interesting...
02/19/23
paul chek is hot :P
(and healthy and intelligent) #goals
14:00
Aaaaahahahahaha!
he said, "our culture is so heavily masculanized.". lmfao!
You might care or not, but here's a reflexive response for ya. "So? WhoTF cares?" You/we live life in a state of constantly varying receptivity to what is true, vulnerable to every low point of receptivity we experience, and any hardship you contend with, any blind spot of perception and so connection to your reality which you suffer comes from your preoccupation with... expensively irrelavent B.S. like say, a source's choice of words when it's easy to just take the point they're making, and in doing so value THAT far more than any judgement you may have of their mode of delivery. I wish you well even if I don't know you, and I thought you'd like to know that here, pairing your sense of humor to the content above makes you look like you missed the point... which, taken in the limited context of this chat forum, and to put it charitably, does not flatter you, but quite the reverse. You sound like a disconnected kid. Doesn't make you wrong, or good, or right, or bad. It's just what you appear to be showing to thousands of people who don't know anything else about you. But, maybe who care's cuz you'll never seek out further more beneficial interaction with them anyway, so what could you possibly have to lose, right? Either way, peace.
Dude I need weed to understand that
Dear Paul, I would like to ask about your abs. It seems that you have the 6pax but it is proturding. How did that happen? and how can we avoid? please advise
Noh Sagiman didn’t you listen to the video? The whole video Paul talking about how you WANT the abs to expand, because having stiff 6-pack abs, can cause a lot of health problems, and most people want the 6 pack just because they are insecure and don’t really know why they want it. Rewatch the video and listen carefully, you might change your mind.
Breathing will temporarily protrude the belly. But his belly is protruding solid. I read some article about HGH gut.
His belly is not temporarily protrude from breathing. Its packed solid. Isnt it HGH gut?