Dr. Jenelle Kim is a 9th-generation Master Herbologist, best-selling author, and internationally recognized wellness expert. She shares the power of living meditation, how to manage and master fear, and why you must “stop being drunk on your own thoughts.”
Why living mediation is so important to our health:
“Living mediation is about having the ability to be able to balance with whatever comes your way. And that is of utmost importance. So, I speak of three M’s – which is medicine, movement, and meditation – and at the core of all three of those pillars, as they have been handed down for thousands upon thousands of years, is all founded on the dao and the universe, the principle of a lifestyle that I certainly live by and couldn’t live without.”
Having balance and staying calm:
“Everything in this life is about balance. And if we’re able to remain calm so that we can see clearly what is in front of us then we can handle anything that comes our way. And to me that is the most important thing about meditation.”
The mindset of the samurai:
“I love that you brought up the samurai. That’s something that I live by – the samurai code and the warrior mind. At the end of the day, living meditation and those principles are very much rooted in those principles of being able to put yourself outside of your own shoes. One way of translating or defining what samurai even means, and what they committed themselves to, is ‘of service.’ And that’s what gave them strength.”
The importance of pausing and not making emotional reactions:
“In any situation, if you react it’s (often) based on emotion. And emotion is so important. We’re human beings and we have to have emotion, and we have to have feelings. But, if we let that run our lives, our lives can become very chaotic. We can make a lot of decisions that later, because we didn’t pause, we regret. A lot of times we might not even know that if we had paused, we would have had a much better outcome.”
Understanding the duality that is the foundation of life:
“First came the universe and then came yin and yang. That’s the duality and the dichotomy that literally everything is part of. And if we start to understand it in this way, then now we have day and night, we have sadness and happiness, and you can not know happiness unless you have sadness. You can not know opportunity and success unless you have failure. … That’s also how our body works. We have yin and yang. We have blood and body fluids and vital energy chi, and they work together.”
Why we must treat our bodies with care and respect:
“We all should understand that our bodies are miraculous. We can heal ourselves from imbalances that occur. So, why is it important to eat proper foods? Why is it important to put on clean beauty and natural products? Our bodies go through so much when we’re sleeping, or even sitting right here, constantly our bodies are having to balance with everything around us. So, why not make it a little easier for our bodies, mentally, physically, and spiritually and start to put things into and onto our body that are easier for our bodies to balance with … it just makes it easier for our body to do what it needs to do.”