In last Friday’s blog post Ask Grand Master Lu: Spirituality, we spoke about what it means to be on a spiritual path and how that relates to health and healing. We also discussed three main spiritual concepts for improving metabolism function and overall health. They are:

1. The energetic frequency of the unconditional love of the Universe, or God, gives our world and all living things vitality and creativity. Read more.
2. Ultimately, there is only Oneness.
3. There are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason.

Throughout the rest of this week, we will unpack each of these concepts.

Everything Is Oneness

Oneness is an immense concept. Beneath our everyday reality, everything is energy. Everything is connected. This vital energy or Qi has consciousness and purpose, just as you do. The quantum field itself is Qi—alive with possibilities and probabilities, dynamic patterns continually in motion.

Ancient Qigong masters understood the nature of this energy thousands of years ago. You are connected to the infinite number of galaxies throughout the Universe, and to the sun, moon, and stars. Your body is a part of Nature. You are connected to each individual in your life, past, present and future, as well as your beliefs and emotions. Your organs have an energetic relationship among themselves and with your Qi and Blood. Your spirit is connected to everything at once.

Most religions and spiritual practices talk about one God, and Oneness in relation to Spirit. Chinese culture calls this concept “Tao.” Taoist masters understood Oneness thousands of years go. Advanced science has also proven—from the micro to the macro level—there is only inseparability, only Oneness. Thanks to modern science, we understand what happens when we penetrate physical objects in this reality. We find nothing! There are waves and particles but no elemental building blocks of Nature. Everything is interrelated; nothing exists in isolation. There is only a dynamic realm of interpenetrating waves of possibilities and probabilities.

Everything visible and invisible in this reality is connected, from the subatomic to the galactic. Virtually everything in our lives is based on these theories. While oceans of words have helped us understand Oneness intellectually from the scientific and spiritual levels, TCM has used the word “Qi” for thousands of years to describe this same phenomenon. It may be different vocabulary, but scientists, spiritual leaders, and enlightened Qigong masters all point to the same phenomenon of Oneness.

Multidimensional Qi

Qi can be understood multidimensionally in the human body. It relates to its physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects. TCM understands there is Universal Qi; it says your body has Qi; your meridians are made of Qi. Qi unites all things. Qi is similar to the energy field quantum physics describes. Both disciplines understand energy is composed of force or power; each understands this energy carries information and messages. Qi has deeper meaning; it is motion and messages, intention and consciousness.

The principle of Yin-Yang and the Five Element Consciousness Framework allow practitioners to apply the concept of Oneness for prevention and creating better health by establishing balance at the body, mind and spirit levels. For millennia, Taoist philosophy has described the individuation or creation of patterns of energy that emerged from Oneness this way: “The ‘one’ split into two. Two created three. Three became an infinite number of things.” Everything starts from Oneness.

Interrelationships

Any kind of disruption in relationships is connected to a less-than-healthy metabolism function. All the interrelationships of your life are connected. Illness and disease can be understood in terms of imbalances. Deep down, they signal a problem with Oneness. When everything is seen as separate, conditions appear. Oneness allows you to see conditions reflect relationship problems. Love changes everything. At the spiritual level, you have somehow become separated from the unconditional love, acceptance and compassion of the love of the Universe. Everything comes from the same source; yet, this source lovingly allows different things to express themselves individually.

Nature is the best example of the manifestation of spirit’s love and Oneness. Nature knows how to collaborate. All the trees know how to cooperate with each other. Otherwise, forests wouldn’t exist. Animals wouldn’t exist in the same environment together. Nature puts on a beautiful display as it moves through the seasons to demonstrate the concept of Oneness and cooperation. It depends on how we want to see this.

Nature is a vast web of positive interrelationships among Qi, animals, plants, and humans. If we can apply this concept to healing, we will have an easier understanding of events and situations we refer to in our culture as illness and disease. We will have a better understanding of food, nutrition and vitamins and the things we ask our bodies to receive. We will not see these as separate, isolated actions or things anymore. We will stop believing in the myth that things just “happen” to us.

Seeing Connections

Separation is based on classical Newtonian science where atoms are regarded as the smallest possible particles and time and space are separate entities that only flow one way. Today, we know more. Our whole world is built on relativity and quantum mechanics. Things we take for granted—from X-rays to CT scans, from cell phones to satellites—have their origins in modern physics and quantum theory. We cannot continue to operate as if Oneness doesn’t exist. Everything is connected.

At the turn of the twentieth century, it took several weeks to get a letter overseas. Now, the Internet delivers email within seconds. In our world, when one event happens, social media reports the details faster than official news sources. Modern science has helped us break through many concepts and see many things from a very different framework. Can you embrace this way of seeing Oneness in your life?

On the healthcare front, for instance, instead of simply taking vitamin D from an external source, I hope you will at least ask yourself, “Why is my body suddenly missing this element, when I was able to create it before? What’s happening here? What’s changed in my internal or external relationships that is preventing me from creating vitamin D now?”

Life Is About Love

In the end, life is about love. It’s about faith, trust, compassion and acceptance. These qualities allow my patients, and me, to change. We can look to Nature and its emotions; wind, rain, trees, plants all have emotions. They all express themselves in this dimension by manifesting the highest level of their metabolism function. Life depends on love. Health is inside of life. When we talk about health, one of the ingredients, one of the areas we can’t neglect, is how to create healthy changes. Health is far more
than the absence of disease. If we really want to make significant progress with chronic conditions, the most essential breakthrough we can make is to love ourselves and recognize we are lovable and we are loved. The whole concept of Oneness is “As above, so below. As external, so internal.”

Excerpted from Digesting the Universe by Nan Lu, OMD with Ellen Schaplowsky

Join us this Friday to learn about spiritual concept 3: There are no accidents.