When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally answer: I show women (who’ve tried a lot of things already) to end the negative impact of anxiety, anger, and/or overwhelm on their health and enjoyment of their lives.

“Are you a therapist?” usually follows my “what do you do” answer.

This is when the person I am talking to might decide that what I do is too WOO-WOO or fluffy or weird to get actual results.

No, I am not a therapist. I go on to answer “HOW” I show my clients how to reclaim their lives:

“I teach my clients how to get stronger on the inside with a powerful method of building and balancing their internal energy and explain how to get the most benefit from that method. I provide direct support for them to evolve efficiently using medical qi gong protocol, coaching skills, and western and eastern mindset guidance so that they can disentangle from what has kept them connected to stories and patterns that have fueled a pattern of anxiety, frustration, and emotional (and even physical) pain.”

Here’s what I found on my own journey to get back my own life: Not one intervention really worked or worked for long to drastically change my overwhelm and resentment, my inner dialogue of griping, or to improve my chronic health conditions (including physical pain).

[I acknowledge that some interventions brought me relief, a temporary felt sense of calm, and gave me hope. 

I am grateful for that. 

Even though I felt better for a while, I wasn’t really getting better. My scary health diagnosis remained, I was still in pain most of the time, and my emotional state was almost always a little bit or a lot AGITATED.]

Apparently, the typical approach of western medicine and western therapy was not going to alleviate my patterns of anxiety and apathy toward joy. I required something outside the box.

In my case, and also for most people out there who are feeling stuck or like their health is slowly (or rapidly) slipping, I was depleted of Qi: I had some long-standing patterns of low and out-of-balance Qi in my body and mind.

Qi (pronounced “Chee”) is a Chinese word for foundational energy. The energy that supports life and functions in the body. The source of your immunity and metabolism. Animating force. We are in it all the time – like fish in water, we don’t even notice it for most of our life. Perhaps though, you are aware already of this energy inside of you. You may have felt the energy of another person or a group of people. Or noticed it in animals, or food, or plants…

It wasn’t imaginary.

[This is where you might decide what I am talking about is woo-woo, weird, against your religion, or not real and you stop reading. I invite you to stick with me a little longer though if you’ve gotten this far.]

Have you ever noticed the energy in your body?

I invite you to try this: Focus on your hands right now. Close your eyes. Can you notice the subtle energy there? Or perhaps focus on the last time you were angry. Is there a place you can feel this emotion “in the physical body”? Now recall someone you love. Relax the body. Breathe. Is there a place in the body you feel that love?

Perhaps you noticed something as you focused in this way above. That is Qi.

Note: This energy isn’t about a religion or spirituality – although the faiths of this world do recognize this energy in their own way and language. There is absolutely nothing woo-woo about this foundational, internal energy in the body nor about the millennia of knowledge about how to correct and increase it for better health and happier life.

Think of Qi as the gas in your car. If you don’t have it, it won’t matter what kind of maintenance or flashy upgrades your car has. You aren’t going far if you don’t have much gas or if your gas tank is full of sludgy mess.

When people have support to improve the quantity and quality of that foundational energy or Qi, they stick with cultivating it. And circumstances, responses, and emotional states get better and better.

We need Qi to be abundant and in the right balance to really get better and not just feel better:

This is not woo-woo – it’s ancient wisdom.

Cultivation of Qi and being curious and diligent about broadening your intention or presence is what has been missing from the conventional (and many unconventional) efforts to transform fear, overwhelm, anger, and self-deprecating thoughts.

This perspective I share with my clients (and prospective clients) offers a profound turning point so that, from this point forward, they begin to transform what has been causing them the most pain so that they become more resilient in the face of situations or thoughts that led to anxiety, anger, and/or overwhelm.

Having support from someone else who cultivates their own foundational energy to assist with improving the quality of others’ Qi can change everything. Even if health or immunity or metabolism weren’t their main concerns, diligent clients have seen these aspects of life improve too.

If what you have been doing hasn’t worked or stuck to change where you are with your anxiety, overwhelm, and/or resentment, maybe you would benefit from something outside the box too.

I offer two programs to support the transformation of anxiety, anger, and overwhelm immediately and a formula to stay resilient. 1) One is shorter, with a strong foundation in qi gong, medical qi gong healing, and direct and group support from me. 2) The other does the same but is a longer healing mentorship that provides a deeper dive into uncovering and healing what has kept you from developing a resilient emotional state. This is accomplished by more direct and private one-on-one support in addition to teaching modules. Please private message me on Facebook or via email if you’d like to discuss how these intensives work and which is best for you.

Please private message through Facebook or respond to this email if you would like to explore if this is a good fit for you now because you’ve decided that you want to do more than maintain and mitigate – you desire a happier and healthier life where things keep getting better and better and you flow with what is happening around you.

Peace be with you.

Erin Tracy

A main source of anxiety is being preoccupied or focused on matters that are outside of your control.

Part 4:
[Last week I shared 1-3 about anxiety’s roots.]

-the anxiety that comes from what it is going on in the community, world, collective culture

Wowza. 2020-2022 were an interesting collection of years! One of those eras that changes (or at least impacted) EVERYTHING it seemed. For nearly everyone. On the entire planet.

COVID, fires, floods, earthquakes, murder hornets, hurricanes, job loss, unjust actions, school and learning structures, public outcry, public response, political mayhem, economic uncertainty.

And it’s not done.  You know, as they say, there’s always something.

However, you don’t always have to interact with it in the same way – you are powerful like that.  You can change your PERSPECTIVE.

So, some of you really FEEL the suffering. You are aware of your own AND the suffering of many many others.

It feels like, sometimes, the ONLY thing you can do to “help” is WORRY and be overwhelmed. Sympathy is good, right? And so, you are doing your part.

Perhaps you’ve experienced this…

The worry, though, goes beyond the inconvenience and canceled events.

Generalized anger at the world, waking up daily “on the wrong side of the bed” for weeks or months, overwhelmed with helplessness, worry about the state of the world that lasts more than an hour, self-medicating to escape, a general feeling of pessimism, worry, worry, worry.

And the challenges that are present in your life? With all the added collective stress and all the unknowns, it’s not being handled 100% the way you prefer. And maybe it’s been a long time since you “rolled with it.”

Sometimes you wonder if you remember what resilience is at all.

There is an antidote.
-Improve the quantity and quality of your foundational energy – daily.
-Decide to shift your perspective from one of disempowerment to empowerment.

In a nutshell, express your emotions about what is happening that is outside your control and let it go. It’s a source of personal empowerment to remember that we can LET IT GO:
Send it love.
Send out the sincere wish that EVERYONE be free of suffering and know the root of harmony and happiness.
Remember that you cannot control world events and it isn’t your job personally to fix them (another post soon on activism with presence).

Do you know the teaching of ho’oponopono? If you do, strive to heal *your resistance to fully practice it*.

What are you letting go of NOW from this point on?

Choose to decide to do it.

AND to truly let go so that our bodies (health), minds (patterns), and souls are FREE from anxiety, requires that we first cultivate acceptance about what it is (and has been). Second, we must also replenish ourselves with foundational energy.  The things that have happened in our lives, especially traumatic events or emotionally painful relationships, drain us.  In our society, we have not grown up with effective ways to remedy that draining.

When you have a proven method for not only improving your foundational energy AND the support of someone who can assist you with clearing out the energy that got lodged as a result of traumatic events or painful relationships, there is a palpable and decisive shift.  When you have that shift, having a guide empowering you in this new territory is KEY.

Start by learning the most powerful method of improving your foundational energy that I have ever encountered: Pangu Shengong.  It’s saved my life, it’s easy to learn and practice.  However, it’s efficiency at enhancing your life, your love, your mind, your soul is unparalleled. If you can’t find a class, contact me and we will set one up for you.

Also, Join my free Facebook group Loving Living FREEDOM to see if I can help you with that guidance to apply teachings that change everything.  It has been my honor and joy to do this for hundreds of clients in the last few years.

This is the time to change everything. You already possess the power to do that – sometimes though, we need reminders for HOW to access that power.

[You can also contact me here to find out more about working with me intensively.]

Peace be with you,

Erin Tracy

*Previous sections of this post: Part 1, Part 2,Part 3