Old New Year (12)
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The Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding the New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also a tradition for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes
Each Chinese year is associated with an animal sign according to the Chinese zodiac cycle. 2023 is the year of the Rabbit, specifically, Water Rabbit. The sign of Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity in Chinese culture. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope.
Preparations are underway on Berneray in the Outer Hebrides for Oidhche Challain - or the Old New Year - which is celebrated on January 12.
It has been an unbroken tradition to mark New Year on this day on Berneray with islanders determined to respect the old ways of their people.
On Saturday, as the tradition dictates, children will dress up in homemade fancy dress - typically going as a fisherman or a crofter - and visit every house on Berneray, which has a population of around 130.
On arrival, the children recite a verse in Gaelic, the duan, that tells of their hunger before asking the householder to hand over their surplus food - or risk a curse being put on their house.
After being invited in, the children sit and have a chat and enjoy the warm of the home before collecting their treats. Tinned fruits and sweets are commonly shared but money is also handed over.
One woman recalled how her daughter, a few years ago, took home £64 after the night of Oidhche Challain.
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On leaving a house with their supplies, a second verse is recited in Gaelic which thanks the householder and wishes them well for the year ahead.
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Yes, there are nations that celebrate new year on other dates: Chinese, Persian, Jewish. But they celebrate it once a year, while Russians do it twice. To be sure, so to say :D
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first is it only Russia, and actually it is the orthodox church?
Second it is a separate event?
Many cultures hold combined events tthat tie in with each other.
Second it is a separate event?
Many cultures hold combined events tthat tie in with each other.
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same event because both use the Julian calendar.
The Old New Year, or the Orthodox New Year, is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar.
Berneray is not the only place in Scotland to mark New Year according to the Julian calendar, which was replaced in 1752 by the Gregorian Calendar.
Devised by Pope Gregory XIII around 200 years earlier, it introduced a new formula for calculating leap years with the beginning of the legal new year moved from March 25 to January 1
In addition, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752.
After the calendar change, people of Burghead in Moray decided to keep holding their traditional Burning the Clavie celebration on January 11 to mark the end of the old year.
The Old New Year, or the Orthodox New Year, is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar.
Berneray is not the only place in Scotland to mark New Year according to the Julian calendar, which was replaced in 1752 by the Gregorian Calendar.
Devised by Pope Gregory XIII around 200 years earlier, it introduced a new formula for calculating leap years with the beginning of the legal new year moved from March 25 to January 1
In addition, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752.
After the calendar change, people of Burghead in Moray decided to keep holding their traditional Burning the Clavie celebration on January 11 to mark the end of the old year.
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Tulefell
never recommend Qi Gong or Yoga. Qi and Kundalini psychosis are real things.
If you do them without the energy side pretty safe.
never recommend Qi Gong or Yoga. Qi and Kundalini psychosis are real things.
If you do them without the energy side pretty safe.
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GullyFoyle: Tulefell
never recommend Qi Gong or Yoga. Qi and Kundalini psychosis are real things.
If you do them without the energy side pretty safe.
Reiki then?never recommend Qi Gong or Yoga. Qi and Kundalini psychosis are real things.
If you do them without the energy side pretty safe.
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Well... indeed it’s true that you might get an adverse reaction from Qigong. It happens when a beginner starts with a very advanced technique and does it stalwartly and for a long time, say fifty-eleven years or some such. You can say that after all that time he wouldn’t be a beginner anymore and I would have no choice, but agree.
An important question though is how this adverse reaction will manifest itself. Simple: levitation. But no, it is not yet the adverse reaction itself. It will occur when you rise floatingly to your ceiling lamp and then you might notice a spider, peacefully weaving its web and if you have arachnophobia, you might pee yourself from above the ceiling. Tell about Kundalini psychosis it will create around the house.
An important question though is how this adverse reaction will manifest itself. Simple: levitation. But no, it is not yet the adverse reaction itself. It will occur when you rise floatingly to your ceiling lamp and then you might notice a spider, peacefully weaving its web and if you have arachnophobia, you might pee yourself from above the ceiling. Tell about Kundalini psychosis it will create around the house.
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Tulefell
The real issue is in traditional practice a"master will have decades of experience or with Qi gong access to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
With modern Yoga Joe the instructor spent five years learning and has little or no contact with anyone who understands the problem.
Western societies will send these people to psych doctors who will miss diagnose and dump them on the med of the week.
You will have the same problems moving outside a traditional culture into a western one, doesn't matter if it's drugs like Ayahuasca and peyote or energy work.
Awakening of Kundalini Chakras Presenting as Psychosis—A Case Report
Zou huo ru mo (Chinese: ????; pinyin: zouhuorùmó) or qigong deviation (Chinese: ????; pinyin: qìgongpiancha; lit. 'qigong deviation/error' or Chinese: ????),[clarification needed] is a Chinese-culture concept traditionally used to indicate that something has gone wrong in spiritual or martial arts training. The qigong community uses this term to describe a physiological or psychological disorder believed to result during or after qigong practice, due to "improper practice" of qigong and other self-cultivation techniques. The concept was highlighted in the social and political context of mass popularization of qigong in China. The Buddhist or Taoist community also uses this term when referring to people who practice esoteric techniques or meditation without the proper guidance of a teacher.
The real issue is in traditional practice a"master will have decades of experience or with Qi gong access to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
With modern Yoga Joe the instructor spent five years learning and has little or no contact with anyone who understands the problem.
Western societies will send these people to psych doctors who will miss diagnose and dump them on the med of the week.
You will have the same problems moving outside a traditional culture into a western one, doesn't matter if it's drugs like Ayahuasca and peyote or energy work.
Awakening of Kundalini Chakras Presenting as Psychosis—A Case Report
Zou huo ru mo (Chinese: ????; pinyin: zouhuorùmó) or qigong deviation (Chinese: ????; pinyin: qìgongpiancha; lit. 'qigong deviation/error' or Chinese: ????),[clarification needed] is a Chinese-culture concept traditionally used to indicate that something has gone wrong in spiritual or martial arts training. The qigong community uses this term to describe a physiological or psychological disorder believed to result during or after qigong practice, due to "improper practice" of qigong and other self-cultivation techniques. The concept was highlighted in the social and political context of mass popularization of qigong in China. The Buddhist or Taoist community also uses this term when referring to people who practice esoteric techniques or meditation without the proper guidance of a teacher.
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Reiki then?
yes indeed.
I came from a MA background first then Reiki.
One can toss out bad energy and be harmful.
Unfortunately it is marketed as dealing ONLY with good healing energy.
I stopped doing Reiki when I got cancer. I did not want to accidentally slip for s second with someone I didn't like and cause "bad vibes" at minimum.
If the GENPOP spent more time researching the wide areas of knowledge dealing with anything energetic or mystical they would be more goddamned cautious.
Many actually deserve the Darwin award they receive by playing around instead of being serious.
yes indeed.
I came from a MA background first then Reiki.
One can toss out bad energy and be harmful.
Unfortunately it is marketed as dealing ONLY with good healing energy.
I stopped doing Reiki when I got cancer. I did not want to accidentally slip for s second with someone I didn't like and cause "bad vibes" at minimum.
If the GENPOP spent more time researching the wide areas of knowledge dealing with anything energetic or mystical they would be more goddamned cautious.
Many actually deserve the Darwin award they receive by playing around instead of being serious.
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Medical causes
The appearance of symptoms during or after qigong practice has been explained in various ways by the psychiatric community, in severe cases as an indication of latent psychosis. The Chinese medical literature includes a wider variety of symptoms associated with qigong deviation; the non-psychotic symptoms correspond to conversion disorder and histrionic personality disorder in Western classifications.
Latent psychosis
In cases of psychosis, a Western psychiatric belief is that qigong could be a precipitating stressor of a latent psychotic disorder to which the patient is predisposed, rather than erroneous qigong practice; a type of reactive psychosis or the precipitation of an underlying mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder.
Qigong community perspective
Within the qigong community, Zou huo ru mo is believed to be caused by improper practice:
Inexperienced or unqualified instructor
Incorrect instructions
Impatience
Becoming frightened, irritated, confused, or suspicious during the course of qigong practice
Inappropriate focus, interpreted as "inappropriate channeling of qi (life energy)."
Treatment
Within the qigong community, there are specific treatments believed to be effective for addressing different forms of Zou huo ru mo. In particular, depending upon somatic versus psychological symptoms, and whether the condition is considered temporary or an intrinsic mental disorder, self-correction treatments can involve relaxation, walking, self-vibrating, self-patting, and self-massage. Clinical treatments can involve psychological counseling, expert guidance of practice, acupuncture, massage, "external qi" treatments, and symptomatic correction.:?164–173
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Merc: your jokes annoy the righteous hypocrites. Keep it on!
Krema: your presence adds the aesthetical value to the fora in more than one sense.
Track: if you want to start meditating, then you can always try Qigong (meditation in movement) and this set is good to begin with:
Karl: I always admired your ability to stay calm no matter what. Your discrete presence makes difference.
Ali: thank you for always being nice and supportive.
Galrads and other good people, to whom I’ve been unjust, sarcastic or rude – I am sorry. Given the chance, I wouldn’t do it again.
I learned a lot from you and I am grateful for that!
Happy New Year and as they say: “Sois heureux un instant. Cet instant c'est ta vie.”