Lots of people are sick these days. Illness may seem normal, and it may seem like you have to do a lot to keep yourself healthy, but good health is the most natural condition of life. In other words, being healthy is what’s normal. In this video, I’d like to introduce a simple, clear principle that will help you attain better health, whatever your state of health right now. It is called the “Golden Principle of Health.” The golden principle is related to the temperature of your body. Before we talk about the principle, let me ask you a question. Between your head and belly, which one will work well when it’s cool, and which one works well when it’s warm? Right. You wouldn’t want a hot head or cold belly. When you are angry, or you have the flu, your head becomes hot. What do you do at such times? You put a cool towel or ice on your forehead to lower your temperature. You do this because your body tells you what it needs. When you have a bad cold and your whole body is shivering, you don’t guzzle cold water or gobble down ice cream. Instead, you would like to have hot chicken soup, or drink a cup of lemon honey tea to warm the belly. When I grew up in Korea, I enjoyed hot barley tea or ginger tea. Let’s check your physical condition right now to see how healthy you are in light of this principle. First, touch your forehead with your hand and then the nape of your neck. Sense the temperature of these two areas. How did it feel? Now, try feeling your lower abdomen. Try to sense the temperature inside your abdomen, too. Does your gut feel hot or cold inside? Check the temperature of your hands, by touching your hands together. Check the temperature of your feet with your hands too. Do your hands and feet feel warm or cold? It is great if our forehead and neck feel cool and your belly, hands, and feet feel warm. If that's your condition, you’re probably focusing well, with your mind at peace and your head clear. However, if your forehead feels hot, or if your lower abdomen, hands, or feet feel cold, then the balance of your body may be broken. In this state, you might feel your neck, shoulders stiff, your body tense, and your eyes and mouth dry. Your sensory organs are duller and your breathing is shallow. This condition will affect your mental state, as well. You may have trouble concentrating. Haven’t you experienced that you were reading a book for a while, but you have trouble grasping and retaining its details? If this is the case with you, why don’t we change the state of your body? Let's do some exercise together. Sitting on the floor or in a chair, make loose fists with your hands. Relax your shoulders and, alternating hands, tap your lower abdomen two inches or so below your belly button. You can use the part of your fists where your little fingers are. Don't tap too hard. Apply enough force that you feel the vibration in your abdominal muscles. Tap your body and feel the vibration. Loosen up your shoulders, and don’t frown your face. Give some stimulation to your abdomen. You can do more than 100 repetitions within a minute. Let’s do a little bit more. And stop. Rub your abdomen. Close your eyes now, and feel your body. You can comfortably focus on the sensations you feel in your body. Do you feel a warm heat developing somewhere deep in your belly? Can you feel the warmth spreading to your entire abdomen and lower back? Is your chest more comfortable, your breathing deeper? Are you eyes moister, and is your mouth filling with saliva? Do you feel better? It didn’t take you even three minutes to do this exercise. You made your head cooler and your abdomen warmer, so that you were able to change the condition of your body in a very short time. That’s why I call it the Golden Principle of Health. It is “Keep your head cool and your belly warm.” This video was inspired by the book Water Up, Fire Down by Ilchi Lee. Try the exercise and breathing meditation in this K Wellness TV, you’ll experience your head becoming cooler, and your belly warmer. I hope you become healthier, happier and more peaceful with K wellness TV. Like this video and subscribe to this channel. Thank you. 감사합니다. 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for weekly videos (and click the bell!) ► https://bit.ly/2VmkOby 00:00 Introduction 01:39 Check your physical condition 03:39 Tapping exercise 06:50 Feel your body WHAT IS K-WELLNESS TV? K Wellness TV provides physical health and mental wellness videos based on Korean traditional mind-body balance and harmonization practice. Our mission is to give you opportunities to experience the best version of yourself. We use methods that originated thousands of years ago in Korea, Sundo, and have been combined with modern science, Brain Education. #WaterUpFireDown #TappingExercises #CoolHeadWarmFeet