BeiJing 北京 scenes (21)

An 11 day trip through YunNan province in the snow ... Plus, 'Never regret a trip to LiJiang' ... Includes the nearby Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

Plus a charity run for deaf children ...

A mix of classical and Chinese folk music staged on West Lake. Awesome ! Bonus films ... HangZhou : 'Heaven on Earth' - Marco Polo

With Walk East ... XiJiang QianHu, Miao village ... 'Little ShangHai' ...

A look at how current president Xi JingPing has guided China over the last five years, the ideas behind the changes, and the future direction.

Thoughts on how emotional stress / trauma can get stuck / repressed (suppressed / buried / hidden) and have a big impact on our current health / 'diseases'. The insights of Pavlov (conditioning) and Freud (repression, the unconscious, projection, ...) remain key facts in psychology ... Emotional stress is being stuck in the past, in some deep-rooted ways. To live in the now, those roots must be uncovered and removed. True living is not reliving the past, or fearing the future; it is about being in the now, detached from past conditioning / beliefs, and the ensuing fear of / dreams of the future. Eat when hungry, sleep when tired, live while you're alive. What you do now, is what will live on. Simple as that.

The provincial capital is GuiYang.

In these times of mid-winter, and the Omicron virus variant, something special - relaxing music on another level - with Bliss - inspired by the music of the world; let your spirit soar above the mundane ... The last track here, Wish you were here, is perhaps the most famous (if you listen to the likes of Buddha Bar album mixes, but most likely Bliss are the most amazing artists you have never heard, until now. There are many albums out there to enjoy. Bringing in latin america, middle east, african, indian and oriental influences, yet always aligned with the cosmic flow ...

With Jordan Porter. [videogallery type=playlist id=PLWmo3LKKQdCS_bppH-JVY40bB5jX0di7b num=20]