The Power Of A Chi Cycle Lifestyle with Jost Sauer

Jost Sauer is a Dr of Chinese Medicine and has worked with 10’s of thousands of people. He is known as the lifestyle medicine man and has a daily 5-hour-practice (3.5 hrs morning, 1.5 at night), which he has only missed once, in over 30 years.  Jost has discovered that if lifestyle is the problem, a different lifestyle is the solution. So he developed a therapeutic lifestyle, based on the ancient Chinese 24-hour chi cycle. This cycle repeats daily and is divided into two-hour brackets. His chi cycle lifestyle, taps into the intelligence of each of these 2 hours, to enable us to build chi, or energy, and create vitality, longevity, health and happiness. He is deeply committed to living by the Chi cycle. Jost has written seven books, and his latest book ‘Clock on to Health’ covers how to use your body clock to naturally boost your health and self-heal. I really appreciate teachers and practitioners like Jost, as the live 100% of what he preaches. Jost is 61 years by the time this was recorded and has phenomenal health, he is a walking example of what following the chi cycle can do. In fact, he is ripped, and amidst that, he does his martial arts workouts are similar to what a 30-year-old athlete would do. Jost believes that if you follow your chi cycle it becomes clear to us when to get up, when to work, when and how to eat, sleep, pray, and love - everything you do can be 10x as beneficial towards your health and happiness. In this podcast, Jost and I covered the first part of the day.  He explains how we can flow with our chi cycle to optimise our health and heal disease and what an ideal morning practice could look like according to Chinese medicine. Something to point out is that he distinguishes between physical and energetic organs. For example with our large intestine hours at 5am-7am, which is when we digest and eliminate  the previous day’s meal but also last days events and emotions. This understanding basically ensures that we look after body and spirit at the same time and treat them simultaneous not in isolation. His studies also point clearly to the fact that we are following ancient ideas but the practice has evolved and improved since then. I sometimes like to romanticise the thinking that old school ancient practice was the real deal, but Jost has found that ancient teachers have always pointed to holding on to the ideas behind a school of thoughts but to adapt and evolve as time goes on. So upgrades happen to ancient practices too, nice. I hope you enjoy! Please dont forget to review the podcast and let us know who you would like us to interview next. Until next time, have the best day ever!