Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Advocate from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. When I recently discussed whether prayers really work with a Buddhist nurse, she shared this beautiful true story with me, which I'd like to now share with you. Not so

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. In the East, it is believed that there are three types of major disasters in life: natural disasters by fire, water and wind; wars and diseases; and poverty. The global pa

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. Confucius wrote in ‘The Analects’ (論語), “Wise men like water" (知者樂水). Yesterday, I took two of my students to the beach at 4AM. Since the sun rises around 5:45AM these day

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. This is an awe-inspiring story about my 11-year-old niece. I have two incredibly cute nieces who love animals, as most children do. They enjoy visiting Jeju Island because

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. A few years ago, I asked someone who had just returned from attending the 14th Dalai Lama's teachings in India for two weeks, if he felt any extraordinary energy radiating

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. “What is the difference between having hopes and dreams and being greedy?” This used to be my burning question. I asked this question to many different teachers, practitio

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. Once, my teacher Master Seol-won took me to the Unmunsa (雲門寺, Cloud Gate) temple in Mount Crouching Tiger in Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea. It is an old Zen temple first built i

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. This is a story from The Tathāgatagarbha Sutra (如來藏經, Rulai Tripitaka). Many treasures were buried, hidden in the basement cave of the poor woman. She was completely obliv

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. When it comes to traveling to India, people usually have opposing views—they either love it or hate it. India is a big country that is densely populated. Even while riding

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. I have a special story with the picture Treasure #1818 at the Botasa temple in Seoul. In 2011, I visited the Gaeunsa temple — a 14th-century temple right at the back gate

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this and other Eastern Philosophy & Meditation practices every Monday on the ICBRKR blog. A few years ago, I was waiting in the studio for one person who had insisted on showing up for a group class despite the black signal for heavy rain, while everyone else h

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Eastern Philosophy & Meditation stream every Wednesday. We may have heard of many stores in our lives, some of which are beyond our comprehension. This story is about a 1,300-year-old tree at the Buseoksa templ

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Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. About a decade ago, I indulged myself in a 10-day Spartan retreat in silence under the guidance of my Buddhist nun teacher, Ven. Hyun-Young. Just like my other mentors,

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. Story one A couple of months ago, I was watching a documentary of a Buddhist monk and calligrapher who has been living alone for 30 years in a remote mountain area situ

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. This is a true story I heard from Ven. Hye-Guk Sunim. About 30-40 years ago, there was an old abbot at a small Zen temple in the high mountain ranges of Korea. The abbo

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. The hardest thing about being on a diet – more than dieting itself – is going right back to where you were at lightning speed unless you change your lifestyle permanent

Post written by Zara Kenyon with contributions by Dr. Balu. Originally published on Cannaray, providing science-backed CBD products to positively impact everyday wellbeing. At one point or another, each of us will experience some form of anxiety. It might happen while we’re fretting over a big presentation, gearing up for a job interview or – like so many right now – struggling with self-isolation. For those who suffer from chronic anxiety, that racing heart and rush of worri

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. Ven. Hye Guk Sunim burned off three of his fingers in his early 20s, right before going into 2 years and 7 months of meditation where he wouldn't lie down for the entir

Maggie H is a Global Explorer and Wellness Guru from Hong Kong. Among many spiritual endeavors, Maggie practices and leads Qigong meditation to help people around the world find their inner balance. Find out more about this practice and join her weekly on ICBRKR's live Qigong Meditation stream every Wednesday. Tap-tap... tap-tap-tap. That's the sound of a big split bamboo stick tapping on the shoulder of a monk. It is a common scene in a Zen temple when monks meditate. They s