Do you ever feel that traveling can unlock a burst of excitement, inspiration, and even a heightened connection to the world around you? A feeling that your mind is expanding and your entire being is becoming enriched?
According to the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong, those inner experiences have a strong energetic component. When you explore new places and delve into new cultures, it can activate powerful energies within you, making you feel fully alive, invigorated, and more connected to the world around you.
In this blog, you’ll discover how traveling can impact your Qi, in both nourishing ways as well as in ways that can be challenging. By understanding the different ways in which traveling affects your energy, you can fully experience the joy that comes from traveling, while also staying resilient against the difficulties that it can bring.
Can you think of a trip you took in which you felt fully alive and engaged in the world around you?
Maybe it was a road trip with your family, a getaway in the mountains, or a rich cultural experience in a new country. Whatever the adventure was, you know that it enlivened your energy in a way that you don’t typically experience on a day-to-day basis.
While Qi Gong focuses largely on helping you cultivate joy and vitality within yourself, the practice also recognizes that there are many gifts you can harness through your experience of the world around you. Traveling can awaken your Qi in some powerful and transformative ways.
First of all, discovering new places and experiences can feel exciting and joyful. These internal experiences help elevate all aspects of your energy system, including your Heart Qi. This is a similar quality of energy that you might experience when you’re laughing or playing games.
When you experience joy and excitement, that energy flows throughout your body. In doing so, it can help nourish and revitalize your entire body. In other words, cultivating joy and excitement through travel and adventure doesn’t just feel good; it can boost your holistic well-being.
Additionally, travel can often expand your awareness and open your mind to new possibilities in a wide variety of ways.
In many cases, travel may broaden your perspective to new ways of living, especially if you’re visiting a new culture. This allows you to integrate the aspects of others’ ways of life that resonate with you.
In other situations, traveling may expose you new activities or deepen your relationship to activities or practices you already love. For master Qi Gong teacher, Lee Holden, many of his travels have centered around Qi Gong. Over the last several decades, travel has played an important role in helping Lee to connect with other teachers and students, and emerse himself in various ways of practicing Qi Gong.
For those who are passionate foodies, traveling can be an exciting way to discover new tastes. Not only can that create a fun culinary experience, but it can also help you expand your own personal menu of items that you’ll decide to cook yourself once you get home.
Other areas in which travel can expand your mind include music, art, history, politics, dancing, exercise, and experiences in nature. Regardless of where your interests and passions lie, travel can help broaden your horizons in areas that feel important to you.
Expanding your mind through travel can help contribute to cultivating greater empathy and a sense of connection with the entire world. And when you feel connected and integrated with the world around you, you experience a greater sense of energetic harmony. Of course, there are other ways to cultivate this feeling of inner harmony with the world, but travel is one powerful way to help expand this feeling and awareness within yourself.
Traveling can uplift your energy and expand your mind in numerous ways, but it can also challenge your energy system at times.
If you’re like most people, you do better when you stick to a healthy routine that supports your needs. Unfortunately, traveling can make it more difficult to stay consistent with healthy habits.
A few common challenges have to do with sleep, diet, and feeling grounded.
When it comes to sleep, traveling can sometimes upend your bedtime and wake-up schedule. Long travel days, unexpected trip interruptions, or social occasions can all make it difficult to turn off the lights and go to sleep at your target bedtime.
While culinary exploration is one of the big benefits of traveling for many people, it many cases, it can be difficult to find meal choices that align with your dietary needs. Of course, this can take a toll on your body and energy system.
Another significant way travel can take a toll is emotionally and energetically. As exciting as traveling is, it can sometimes start to feel ungrounding. When that happens, you may feel uncomfortable, anxious, or depleted.
To help minimize these challenges, it’s very important to keep your energy system strong while you’re on the go. This means maintaining awareness of your own personal needs and not becoming overly absorbed in the world around you. This may be difficult at times when you’re in an exciting new place, but it’s very important for staying centered and balanced.
One powerful way to stay grounded and centered while traveling is to practice Qi Gong. In fact, one of our previous blogs offers a five-minute Qi Gong routine that is specifically designed to help you keep your energy strong while you’re on the go.
When you practice Qi Gong, it naturally helps strengthen and balance your energy system. Not only does it make you feel more centered and grounded amidst the turbulence of travel, but it also helps expand your mind so you fully experience the joy and inspiration that traveling has to offer.
If you’re interested in learning Qi Gong practices that help strengthen your energy system and cultivate more joy, be sure to check out the Free Two-Week Qi Gong Trial.
If you want to discover how to elevate your energy and fortify your Qi, the Two-Week Qi Gong Trial is the perfect way to do exactly that.
The lessons in the Two-Week Trial focus on helping you cultivate an abundance of energy within you. Not only does this allow you to fully cherish the joys of exploring new places, but it also empowers you to be strong and resilient against the less pleasant parts of travel.
Although the exercises in the Two-Week Trial aren’t specifically geared towards travel, the energizing and calming benefits of the practice are ideal for helping you feel calm, centered, and inspired when you’re on the move.
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