Lights Please!

Hello everyone.  I hope you are all done with your shopping and baking and are relaxing these last few days and giving some special time to yourself before the celebrating of the coming holidays.

As I sit here tonight, December 20th (nibbling on some yummy Christmas fudge), it is only two days away from the Winter Solstice, which is the shortest day and the longest night for those of us here in the Northern Hemisphere.  The Winter Solstice has been very significant for thousands of years because it marks the time when the life and light-giving sun’s retreat before darkness begins to once again reverse itself.  It’s no wonder that the Solstice is the source of many perceptions of sun gods and rebirth in almost every culture around the earth.  In fact, did you know that our observance of Christmas has its roots in Roman customs around the Saturnalia, or harvest festival that marked the Winter Solstice and honored Saturn, the god of sowing?  The two common themes that always show up are the triumph of light over darkness and some sort of symbolic birth or rebirth to ensure the continuation of life.

I feel that it is no coincidence that the celebration of Christ’s birth falls so near this time that has so much symbolism of light and rebirth for all of us.  Or that so many were led to where he was born by the light of a bright star shining in the darkness.  And it surely is no coincidence that all this symbolic light leads us so many times through our own darkness to the true light of Jesus.

But is this spiritual light really only merely symbolic?  We too have been said to be literal beings of light, and now science is proving it.  Biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp has discovered that every living thing (that includes all of us!) emits tiny bits of light called biophoton emissions, and that these biophotons are actually the medium for communication not only within the organism itself but between that organism and its environment.  So the very light itself is information.  What is even more interesting is that experiments found that when these biophonic emissions were interrupted in any way, the information became garbled and disease would follow.  But when these light emissions were then returned to normal, communications resumed and so did normal health.  Is it any wonder then that Jesus, the “Light of the world”, was the greatest communicator and healer that has ever walked the face of the earth and has shown us the way to rebirth and eternal life?!!  He also said that every single one of us could do everything that he did.

Light is life.  And as true beings of light, every one of us has the power to shine our own light and be part of the One Eternal Light and Life.  May you celebrate Christmas with a whole new perspective this week, and have a very happy and “enlightened” 2012!

Love and Blessings,

Arlis Feser, Msc.D.
Qigong for Health
19413 Judson Circle
Hutchinson, MN  55350
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