Hey Healthy Boomer: Join the Qigong Sarasota Group…

Siesta Key Florida

As a Boomer in the Sarasota, Florida area, you owe it to yourself to re-activate your vitality, initiate an anti-aging campaign and find some peace of mind.  In my experience, there is no single exercise set as beneficial to the human body as a combination of Qigong and martial arts training.

This is for a multitude of reasons including:

• Qigong renews the body on so many levels – improved circulation, increases in Qi circulation, natural strength and diminished levels of stress
• The type of strength that is developed over time is what I call a comprehensive strength – using the whole body in unison, not muscle mass without integration
• All aspects of the body are activated, rejuvenated and coordinated into maximum performance without requiring maximum output

You can do this by joining our group. It’ll take some time and practice, but it works every time for everybody who is diligent and receives competent instruction.

Mr. T.C Lee  of Honolulu was my Wu Style TaiChi teacher in 1973/74. He used to tell me:

“Doing TaiChi everyday is like putting pennies in a piggy bank.  It doesn’t seem like much, but in 40 or 50 years, you have a lot of money.”

Being  a Healthy Boomer requires a long range attitude and long range execution. A little bit every day makes for amazing health, stability and balance.

I speak from experience.

If you’re in the area, stop by check out the Qigong Sarasota group on Siesta and start packing away your pennies for 20-30 years from now. If you’re in a different area, find a Qigong group and try it out. You can learn Qigong at any age. Once you learn this stuff, it’s yours. You own it for the rest of your life. The beauty is that you can practice wherever you are:

• in  a hotel room while you are traveling
• in a park
• on the beach
• in your own backyard or living room
• at your mother in law’s house
• anywhere…

Being a wealthy boomer makes no sense at all without optimum health to go with it. How can you enjoy life from a wheelchair, an assisted living facility or a hospital bed?

I can’t. Not my thing and never will be.

What are you waiting for?

Check it out and see for yourself.

Qigong Sarasota

Sarasota is a little piece of paradise.

If you are not local,  stop by and say hello when you come here next time for vacation. Get tuned up and while you’re here plan to attend a Heart Forgiveness Workshop and get the inner self tuned up too…

I AM Michael Barrett, I  AM a Healthy Boomer, a Heart Forgiveness and Core Health Facilitator and I love Qigong.

Grand Master David Harris

Grand  Master David  Harris Came to Town March 24

and a lot of Baby Boomers who want to be a Healthy Boomer showed up. About 65 people made it to Radiance of Sarasota and we filled the space to capacity.

We’re excited for several reasons.

Having an opportunity to host such an amazing guest is an honor and a rare experience.

GM David was World Kumite Champion for two years, set a world record in brick breaking, is a Grandmaster in 4 martial arts systems, a member of the Black Dragon Fighting Society, a Qigong Master,  a Martial Doctor and the youngest Grand Master in the world.

People in attendance really liked GM David’s down to earth presence, humility,  great

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There is potential for many people to benefit as a result of this revolutionary and powerful technology.

Many of the attendees are current workshop participants (or graduates) of our Heart Forgiveness, Core Health and Funny with Money workshops.  They already knew who GM David is because we speak about him often in our workshops.

There is a definite connection between Core Health and GM David. He is a member of the Energy Essentials Applications Research team that played a key role in peer review and in an advisory capacity during the development of Core Health. We were introduced to him by Dr Ed Carlson, the founder of Core Health.

Yet the connection goes deeper than that. GM David noticed – in his work with Core Health students and facilitators over the last few years – that Core Health frees up  huge amounts of energy. This release makes it easier for him to do his job energetically and what might take him an hour to do in the past, might only take fifteen or twenty minutes with Core Health graduates.

Here is what he says:

“I find Core Health and the Skills Development highly effective ways of inner purification, absolutely necessary to being optimally powerful from the inside, flowing into outer expression, in life, in martial arts, and in health.”

My Personal Experience With Grand Master David…

In my personal case, GM David helped me with an energy issue that Dr Ed and I were unable to clear using Core Health, alone. In addition, on a physical level he helped me modify the bone alignment of my left wrist that I broke severely in 2003, reset a partially separated clavicle that had been out since 2006 and reset my left knee (that has been injured multiple times since 1971) to complete natural health.

This man gives 100% of himself to help others and humanity.

Grand Master David (<== read more here) is a wonderful, charming and lively human being and an old soul.

After turning his primary efforts from fighting to healing, he has done amazing work as (what he calls) a martial doctor. In the time we have known GM David, he has done much to help many.

If You Want to Be A Healthy Boomer, Study Qigong

When it comes to energy, I have studied with two Qigong masters in the past, both exceptionally skilled, each in their own way. In my personal experience, GM David’s energy and power is both amazing and unparalleled.

This is compounded by his well delineated level of Spiritual development and accomplishment.

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In an effort to help as many people as possible – and to effectively multiply himself – GM David has been designing a new system of software that emulates and magnifies Qigong energy. This has been a monumental task over a 4 year period and is essentially a marriage of old ‘organic’ qigong technology and 21st century technology.

He recently released the software, called SRC4U (spiritual real time correction), you can try his software for free – two ways:

1. a free version called Ultra Lite
2. a two week free trial of the Premium Version

Go here to get the download links: SRC4U

We have been running this software for about 2 weeks. It’s kind of like a genie in the lamp. It’s an amazing program that can help in many ways.

Spending an evening with GM David is an awesome experience in itself. He has a wide variety of life experience and is an interesting and compelling story teller. He is quite an accomplished man and a great guy.

If anyone knows how to teach us to be a Healthy Boomer, he does. He knows how to build a healthy wealthy boomer.

It is an honor to call Grand Master David my friend.

Please try out the software for yourself. There is no cost and after you use it a while, please come back to this blog and give us some feedback AS IN LEAVE A COMMENT.

People would like to hear what you have to say.

I AM Michael Barrett, I AM a Healthy Boomer, I AM a Core Health Facilitator

Baby Boomer Six Pack – All You Can Drink…

Gotcha. I’m talking about six pack abs – not beer. You know the kind of sexy abs that look great at the beach. I’m on a mission and I could use your support. Will you help me?

First A Little Personal History

Back in November 2008, I was talking to my close friend on the phone who said that he and a mutual friend of ours had decided to lose weight together. So on that call, I committed to my friend to join in and get below 200 pounds by my birthday the following July (2009). Along came July and I was under 200 pounds for the first time in a number of years.

This year, I’ve made a different commitment with less time to accomplish it. What’s the commitment?

6 PACK ABS BY MY BIRTHDAY IN JULY.

This is on the radical side – time wise -and a tough target but I’m confident that I can do this. Last time I lost the weight almost exclusively as a result of increased physical activity – initially by walking 5-7 miles a day in the mountains of Pennsylvania and later by adding back in Tibetan Rites, Qigong and reduced food intake to my daily routines.

I’ve tried the six pack abs thing before unsuccessfully. I even blogged about it in 2008: Why Can’t I Get Six Pack Abs?

Why Will I Be Successful This Time?

My plan will succeed because I’m refining my physical routine again plus adding a significant focus on raw foods and being specific about getting enough of the right kind of fat.

This is my physical regimen between now and July:

• Walking 3-5 miles a day aggressively
• Tibetan Rites every day
• Qigong 3-4 times a week
• Free weights: (to build up my upper body to strength level that preceded my broken wrist in 2003) 3- sets of 12, 10, 8, 6 alternating on each arm with starting with 10 pound weights and working my way up to 40 pound weights.
• I will also be using diet suggestions and core exercises recommended in Mike Geary’s incredibly successful e-book: The Truth About Abs.

Note: Personal Recommendation – Over the last couple of years, I’ve been following Mike. I think he is the genuine article and really walks his talk. I always read his newsletter and the more I read it, the more I realize that our health philosophies are really in alignment. Lots of things I have been saying for years keep coming out in his newsletters. Nice to get validation from a certified personal trainer and certified nutrition specialist. I highly recommend Truth About Abs for anybody serious about health and getting in shape – and the bonuses that come with his – e-book are really awesome.

Something else is different too.

Combined with Geary’s core strength recommendations I’m adding another tool: Core Health. Coupled with my physical regimen this creates a Baby Boomer Secret Weapon – and if I am right – the tools for a Baby Boomer Six Pack.

In 2009, I found Core Health. I liked it so much that I moved from Montana to Florida to study it with the founder, Dr. Ed Carlson, and after months of study and multiple joyful, expansive weekend intensives, I received my certification as a Core Health facilitator last December.

While the physical aspects of exercise and diet are very important, there are other things that are just as important and perhaps even more so – attitude and energy. From what I have learned in Core Health during 2009, I am convinced that when I lock in my commitment to succeeding at creating 6 pack abs using the DTQ techniques and making new energy decisions, I will succeed 100%.

The proof is in the pudding. Results are all that matters.

I am going to blog about this process the whole way and post videos and blogs about my routines from now until my birthday. I’m looking for some support. Just an occasional “atta-boy” and blog comments along the way would really help. Are you with me?

Away we go…

Watch as my baby boomer six pack materializes before your eyes between now and July.

I Am Michael Barrett. I Am a Core Health Facilitator and I Am a Healthy Boomer.

First off, I work at it.

I am a baby boomer. I care about people in my age group who are starting to show the signs of wear and tear and who aren’t doing anything about it. I want to help Boomers change this in a big way and I know how.

If you’re wealthy and sick, are you really wealthy? If you had a terminal disease, what would you pay to get your health back? The fact is that millions of Boomers are headed there right now unless they start doing something about it.

For the greater part of my adult life, I have been very consistent about taking care of myself. I love to feel good and I have lots of energy. Ask people that know me well and they will verify my vast reserves of energy and untiring ability to keep going after most people burn out.

I’m not a superstar, just a guy who has a system that works well for me.

I am not a tri-athlete, a marathon runner or a weight lifter. But I have amazing endurance, useable strength and overall excellent physical tone. I can’t run 26 miles but I bet I could walk 100. I can’t lift 400 pounds, but I have a healthy back and that’s what hydraulics are for – not the human body. I’m almost 56 (and that picture was taken less than two weeks ago), but most people think I’m in my 40′s and that’s not just from the way I look, it’s also how I use my body. It’s physical expression as well as surface appearance.

In my book, Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st, I go into detail. I also wrote a companion course to implement the plan and get it working in 60 days, called “How To Look Better and Feel Better in 60 days.”

I created checklists and instructions that I keep in a binder and check off the list as I follow the program everyday. I have found this to be effective for me because it creates a visual map of my consistency, diligence and where I need to improve my efforts. At a single glance, on one sheet I can see everything I have done (or not done) for 10 days.

Over the course of the last 35 years, I have read and studied all kind of programs and been a diligent student of natural health and how to create a healthy lifestyle with the objective of a primary goal:
LONGEVITY.

Here ‘s a quick summary of what I do all the time.

• I walk.
• I drink lots of water.
• I eat really healthy food and know a lot about what fuel works best for my body.
• I practice qigong regularly.
• I do Tibetan rejuvenation exercises.
• I do a 6-7 minute set on the Total Gym (although right now it is in storage in another state after a recent move and I have not retrieved it yet)
• I stretch.
• I love my body and let him know often how much I appreciate everything he does for me.
• I love myself.
• I focus on positive thoughts and language.
• I think healthy thoughts.
• I work at balancing my emotions and being present.
• I MEDITATE everyday.
• I recognize SOURCE ENERGY as the root of my strength and the source of my health and I express my gratitude every day

I do lots of other things regularly – but not every day. I choose health and always take responsibility for three things:

• What I put in my mouth everyday
• What I think about and the words I use
• How I use my time

I have developed a system that really gets long range results. It is designed to work for anybody – just regular people who want to improve themselves. You simply start wherever you are and get started doing whatever you can handle to begin with. You add more to the regimen as you develop skills, expertise and the ability to handle more.

Nothing extravagant, exotic or difficult to learn.

The key is to get started and keep doing what you can everyday. I can show you how.

I’m no super star professional athlete, just a guy who has figured out how to keep thinking right and really loves to feel good. Most of it is common sense, but it helps to have a coach to bring out the best and learn how to improve – at least until you have the system down yourself.

I’m going to start introducing live workshops, online training and various programs in the near future. I am also now focused on publishing my book with three more coming after that.

For now, if you’re feeling lousy. Do something about it.

• Start walking everyday and increase the distance as your legs get stronger and your breathing improves.
• Drink a gallon of water a day forever. Start with a few glasses of water and work up. I fill a half gallon container up 2 times a day and drink it all day long. You can drink a glass every hour. Whatever works for you. Just do it. Hydration is so important.
• Start eating smaller portions of the food you are eating right now. And eat more frequently. Cut way back on fried foods – period. Eat more raw food and organic is way better.
• Elminate toxic thinking and emotions.

None of that costs anything or is a big transition. Anybody can do what I just wrote.

• Choose to start loving yourself.
• Decide.
• Take responsibility.
• Do it.

You are perfect, whole and complete and you are loved Divinely just the way you are. There is nothing you need to change or be, just to to remember that you are perfect and really believe it.

With some practice on your part, the rest will take care of itself. Before you know it, you’ll be a healthy wealthy boomer too.