Most often, we use this valuable tool to illuminate and describe personal and world conditions. To explain current events and to evaluate how they will unfold in time. Nine Star Ki lends itself so well to this application. But, in focusing on our future, we often forget to emphasize the deeper qualities of 9 Ki, like the assessment of our personal strengths and weaknesses. Not only in our decisions and behavior, but even in the condition of our internal organs.
It's important to know that Nine Star Ki was developed, among other things, as a form of medical diagnosis. To provide a long, healthy life, not only on a psychological level, but on a basis that covers the entire physical anatomy. I would especially like to thank Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (unified masters extraordinaire!) for including diagnostic guidelines and techniques in their Nine Star Ki manual. Unfortunately, those chapters have been widely ignored, at our own loss.
These days, the immediate concern seems to be "what must I do to get through this situation and into the next one" (9 Fire thinking). There is little interest in a gradual healing that begins in the depths and slowly rises to the surface, like a fountain of living water that flows from the core of our being. The slow, but consistent and powerful improvement of our health, happiness and our life direction.
To become the kind of person who can thrive anywhere, responding to all situations with gratitude and joy.
That is my goal. To share 9 Star Ki in a way that will enrich the entire body, mind and spirit; the whole person. To instill a willingness to participate in life's challenges and to take charge of our own destinies. To provide the information that enables us to enjoy this miracle of being, with balance, deep happiness and universal integrity.
I have attended lectures and discussed 9 Star Ki with those whom I consider to be modern masters. And I have studied every text in English print. But, most of all, I have lived it and breathed it. Daily, aware of personal, domestic and world events, from a 9 Ki perspective. I have used it as a tool, countless times. And I am using it as I write these words.
