Healing + Human Potential
Secrets for More Energy and Less Stress - with Lee Holden | EP 74
04 Feb 2025
What if slowing down could actually make you more productive? In this episode, I sit down with Lee Holden, a master of Qigong, Tai Chi, and energy cultivation, to explore the power of slowing down. We talk about why so many of us feel stressed and burned out and how shifting into a more relaxed, focused state can actually help us get more done with less effort. Lee shares insights from Chinese medicine, breathwork, and movement practices that can help us increase energy, reduce stress, and move through life with more flow. We also dive into how our emotions, mind, and body are connected, how to develop our intuition as a skill, and how small shifts in our posture and breath can instantly change how we feel. Plus, Lee introduces sexual reflexology, an ancient practice that uses energy movement for health and deeper connection. If you’re looking for simple ways to manage stress, improve your energy, and feel more in sync with yourself, this episode is for you. === EPISODE TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 02:13 - Slowing Down for Productivity and Energy Management 04:46 - Research Supporting Eastern Practices 08:01 - The Role of Intuition and Creativity in Life 10:33 - Exploring Energy Centers and Intuition 24:37 - The Role of Emotions and Energy in Health 34:04 - Practical Techniques for Energy Management 44:36 - The Concept of Sexual Reflexology 49:05 - Challenges in Integrating Physical, Mental, and Emotional Health === GUEST LINKS Instagram: @holdenqigongofficial Website: https://www.holdenqigong.com/ Get Lee Holden's new book 'Ready, Set, Slow': https://www.holdenqigong.com/p/ready-set-slow-book === Have you watched our previous episode with Aggie? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k5WiTjRyDMA ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
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89% of primary doctor visits are stress-related. So emotional stress causes pretty much 90% of the reason why people go to a doctor. I got a headache, I got digestive issues, my heart's acting funny. It's emotional stress that's causing it. And I don't know if you know this, Alyssa, but
The way the medicine was practiced, you would pay your Qigong doctor, your acupuncturist, your herbalist, as long as you were healthy. As soon as you got sick, you stopped paying. So they're like, oh, we're not doing our jobs because you got sick. Our job is to keep you healthy. It was health care, not sick care. And now we have a Western medicine that is all about sick care.
Now, if somebody is depressed, what are they going to do? Their body shape, the wind, the energy of the body, the chest sinks down, the face frowns, the chin goes down.
So if everybody wants to try something, if you look up and just take your body shape and look up and expand your chest, bring a little smile to your face, look at your ceiling and then say, I'm so depressed with a little smile on your face. You're gonna be like, wait a second, my body shape doesn't match that statement. Sexual reflexology was interesting because it was healing through pleasure.
Again, in the West, we have more of a model of healing through pain. You would go to the doctor and you say, oh, I got asthma. And the doctor would be like, okay, take out his prescription pad. You need to have sex five times a week in this position so that the chi goes into your lungs and starts creating this healing effect. And then everybody wants to go to the doctor.
Welcome back to the Healing and Human Potential podcast, where today we're going to be taking you through somatic practices that you can use to cultivate more energy and ease in your life. This is actually an embodied practice. We're joined by Lee Holden, who is a Mindvalley speaker, an author, an acupuncturist, and a renowned Qigong master.
Together, we're going to uncover simple yet powerful practices to support you in lining your body, your mind, and your emotions so that you reduce burnout, but then actually have more vitality. Let's dive in. Lee, I'm so happy to have you here on the podcast.
So happy to be here too.
And I want to kind of dive into what I know people are really wanting, which is more energy. They want to feel more alive. And with most of us in our modern day life, a lot of us can feel stressed out or have this endless to-do list. And so leading busy lives, it can lead to burnout. But I remember when I was getting my second master's degrees was in somatic psychotherapy.
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