Unveiling the Secrets of Healing and Emotions with Chris Shelton
Struggling with stress, pain, or feeling misaligned? This podcast is for you!
Discover the power of Qigong to transform your health and well-being. In this week's episode, Qigong master Chris Shelton joins Lauren Abrams to reveal:
How to breathe colors for healing and stress relief
The connection between cravings and organ health
How to understand your emotions and prevent chronic pain
Simple practices to align your mind, body, and spirit
If you're ready to:
Overcome stress, fatigue, and pain
Improve your sleep, diet, and hydration
Break unhealthy emotional patterns
Tap into your full potential for joy and fulfillment
...then this episode is a must-listen!
Key Takeaways:
"If you want to improve your health... Qigong is what you need to do." – Chris (2:56)
"These emotions are good because they are barometers...[but] when we're not expressing appropriately...that shows up as disease" - Chris (12:35)
"The unproductive dry cough is actually grief stuck in the lungs" - Chris (16:07)
"Emotions also cause inflammatory diseases...it's a leading cause of death." – Chris (16:40)
Meet Chris Shelton, a guide to holistic healing and self-discovery. Get ready to transform your life!
In This Episode:
(1:34) – The healing powers of Qigong.
(1:46) – Chris reveals there are two Qigong.
(2:45) – Wonderful benefits you receive from Qigong.
(3:12) – Different organs hold negative energies that show up in illnesses and conditions.
(3:46) – Even if you can’t physically do Qigong, you can do it mentally.
(4:27) – How Qigong cures trauma.
(4:43) – The space between eyebrows and what that means on your face.
(5:01) – The differences between counseling and Qigong.
(6:13) – How Qigong practice heals you.
(6:31) – The connectivity of all the organs emotionally.
(6:45) – The importance of the spleen and Chinese medicine.
(8:14) – Sounds and how to heal..
(12:17) – Your lungs are where grief is felt the most and what color heals.
(12:34) – Frozen Shoulder Syndrome.
(13:22) – It’s not the mattress or the pillow, it’s Frozen Shoulder Syndrome.
(15:12) – Processed foods and the myriad of harms.
(16:28) – What your face reveals about you!
(17:14) – The different marks on your face and what they mean.
(18:00) – Michael Jackson his nose job and what that reveals.
(18:58) – The eyebrows and your parents influence.
(19:28) – Those lines on your face.
(20:38) – The Anger Lines on the end of the eyebrows and what they mean.
(21:34) – Botox can’t hide the source of the lines; your emotions tell the truth.
(23:18) – Julia Roberts’ face.
(25:03) – Women and perimenopause and Qigong.
(25:47) – Sleep, hydration, and diet and how that fuels the kidney.
(26:13) – The concept of Empty Heat in women is discussed.
(26:45) – Kidney-beneficial foods for women are revealed.
(27:54) – How different cravings correlate with our organs.
(29:27) – The line across the tip of the nose and your broken heart.
(31:41) – What the line between the lips tells about a person.
(32:01) – Who you can and can’t tell secrets to.
(33:18) – The conversation with the America Got Talent producer.
(34:52) – Chris discusses his upcoming television show.
(39:12) – A message of hope.
(39:22) – The wisdom of the Yellow Emperor.
Resources and Links
52 Weeks of Hope
About Chris Shelton
Chris Shelton comes from a broken family, complete with all the requisite signs, including neglect, abuse, and various addictions. By the age of 17, he had had two heart attacks, both of which were linked to drug overdoses, followed by a devastating back injury that nearly crippled him and made walking a challenge. Through the power of Qigong, he transformed from a man who could barely walk into a martial arts expert and later became a renowned healer. Chris and his wife have a combined five decades of healing experience and have witnessed countless healing transformations in people and animals from a host of different circumstances. They use the simple Qigong practices to power their business and results in their clients and are committed to the continued championing of this life-enhancing practice.
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Lauren Abrams: [00:00:00] Are you a burnt-out overachiever buried in responsibilities? Do you miss laughing with your friends just laughing from the gut? Do you feel like life's passing you by? Welcome to 52 weeks of Hope, where you get to rediscover laughing from the belly and get back your meaningful one-on-one time with others. This is where you get to learn how to make that lonely ache vanish and get rid of your nonstop inner critic. Learn self-compassion techniques and give yourself grace. How to stop feeling short fuze light up again to see people. If you've been wishing for some kind of shift, you're in the right place. I'm Lauren Abrams and I get to help you feel that magic again. Since going through my own dark night of the soul. So you can learn from my experience and the mentors and experts I meet along the way. And today we're talking to Chris Shelton, healer, teacher and master. Do you feel stressed, insane, and out of alignment? Are you sluggish? Are you ready to level up and get back to your clear, confident, vibrant self? You're going to love listening to Chris today. His holistic teachings are designed to get you out of stress and pain, and into your highest natural state of health and well-being. You get to learn how to love life at new levels, align your emotions and body, and create the results of your dreams. Get ready to listen to one of the most empathetic people I've had the pleasure to meet. Welcome to 52 weeks of Hope, Chris.
Chris Shelton [00:01:20] Hey Lauren, great to see you again. Thank you so much for having me on your show.
Lauren Abrams: [00:01:23] Yeah, it's so good to be together. Okay, so before we go any further, for anybody who's listening and doesn't know, can you talk about the healing powers of Qigong?
Chris Shelton [00:01:34] Yeah. So Qigong is a 5000-year-old practice. It's actually the foundation of Taiji, and it's also the foundation of acupuncture and classical Chinese medicine. And there are two styles of qigong. There are self-regulatory practices, like, where students like yourself could actually take classes and learn how to apply these practices for their own health, in particular mental and emotional health, which then affects your physical health. And then the other style is the medical style. But we have actually just trademarked, the name called Curative Qigong, where we're taking the essence of classical Chinese medicine with these techniques that I've mastered over the last, 23 years or 24 years of being in clinical practice. And so that way a person can actually learn how to take a course. We have a two-year mastermind course and learn how to work with other people, with other clients.
Lauren Abrams: [00:02:25] Now, how did you come into this? Because you're like YouTube Zen. And now, of course, you've you're way beyond YouTube, your TikToks and everything else people are watching, but they make you feel so good and do a six-minute morning YouTube looking at yours. And you feel energized, feel energized doing them. And they're easy.
Chris Shelton [00:02:43] Yeah. that's one of the things I love about qigong is that it's a lot easier than tai chi. And when people call the office and say, Chris, what practice should you do tai chi or should I do qigong? I said, if you want to improve your health quickly and if you want a tool right away to help you with emotional trauma past and present, then qigong is what you need to do. Now there are different styles of qigong. The style that I teach in particular is based on what they call the five-element school and the five-element school. We recognize that the five major organs of the body your heart, your lungs, liver, and kidneys are mainly responsible for sustaining life. And these organs have different negative emotions that will affect them. And it will show up as so many different types of chronic diseases, inflammatory diseases and chronic pain. So if you want to get out of pain, this is definitely one of those things that a person needs to have in their toolbox. Besides a healthy diet, besides hydrating, besides sleeping and not eating processed foods, really being able to take a pause and go inward. And like you said, it's so simple to do, and does not discriminate against anybody. We teach for the Special Olympics for a program called Healthy Athletes Strong Minds, and we have paraplegics doing qigong. And even if you can physically do it mentally, you do. Because even the specific meditations that I teach, actually I recorded 12 more. Let's we're going to wrap up this year. And each meditation, qigong, meditation, everything is meant to do something with this lean side of the body. It's not just the mindfulness aspect is meant to do something with this inside the body. So yeah, it's really cool. It's easy to do. And the funny thing is, you don't have to do that me.
Lauren Abrams: [00:04:24] Yeah. So how it can cure a trauma?
Chris Shelton [00:04:27] So how it cures trauma is what we do it. So I'm just going to use anger for example, because there seems to be a lot of anger and heat going on in the world right now. Yes, I think so. Anger gets stored in the liver and gallbladder. And again, and so let's say you have we'll get into more of the feast written later. Let's say you have father issues. And you can tell that by looking at daddy issues. You tell that by looking at the space between a person's eyebrows. So let's say you have these anger issues from maybe the father wasn't around neglect or the mother. Whatever.
Lauren Abrams: [00:04:55] Wait will show up differently if it's a mom or the dad or no, that's okay. Go.
Chris Shelton [00:05:00] Yeah. So anyway. What? Unlike conventional therapy, where sometimes. And this is just speaking from my own interaction with therapy years ago, is that sometimes I would leave. It would be like they picked off the scab, but I felt worse, like, oh, man, I feel worse than what I did when I walked in. The difference with this is that yes, I want you to focus on the trauma. What happened to you? Who was involved, what was involved and then associated with the organ? So let's say it is all anger or resentment. Then you imagine a green card. Is the color green associated with the liver? Gallbladder. Imagine pulling that green cloud into the liver. Visualizing the circumstance.
Lauren Abrams: [00:05:35] Why do you have to know where the liver is in the body? Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt, but we need know exactly where it is. Or like, especially like gallbladder. I don't I have no idea where that is.
Chris Shelton [00:05:45] You know, it's approximately in the liver is a big bowl you look at on the right side of the body. But just imagine pulling this green cloud into the right quadrant of the body and feeling and visualizing the circumstance. Then as you do the movement, let's say you're doing the liver cleansing meal, or if you're doing the liver cleansing sound, which is the sound of Shu like shouting, then you imagine that circumstance leaving like a dark cloud going speed away from the body and deep into the ground. And when I'm hired as a keynote speaker to give talks to trauma nurses and doctors, social services, or whatever, one of my favorite qigong practices to give is called The Dried Cry. Because your heart is the emperor empress of the body. It dictates how much of an emotion is going to be expressed and suppressed. So if you think about if you get angry, what happens? Your heart races and then attacks your liver. If you're worrying about something, your heart racing is there. If you're fearful about something, your heart races or weakens your kidneys, a texture.
Lauren Abrams: [00:06:43] What does a spleen do anyway?
Chris Shelton [00:06:45] All that spleen. The spleen that all those doctors have been thinking now for so many years, that little spleen that's bleeding is so important. We mostly hear about the pancreas and obviously the pancreas, but they're closely interconnected. The spleen is responsible for the production of white blood cells. It also recycle. It also recycled blood cells are from a Chinese medicine model that spleen. Also what it does is it takes the food assets and the fluid from the stomach sends it up to the chest to be made into blood. That's one of the things that that's one of the many things it does. It helps to keep the blood within the blood vessels. So if you're somebody who bruises easily, for example, that's a spleen condition or have chronic bloody noses, that's a sign that you're worrying too much about something. It's weakening the spleen and that's hence causing bloody noses.
Lauren Abrams: [00:07:36] So what color do you bring to your spleen?
Chris Shelton [00:07:38] Yellow or orange?
Lauren Abrams: [00:07:40] Does it matter if you did yellow or orange? And by the way, for everyone listening, not watching. Chris was going more to his left side when he was talking about his spleen. His hands were going to his left. Probably. You don't even know that because you were doing this.
Chris Shelton [00:07:52] So yeah, the left, the spleen is located on the left side of the body, is about the size of a of an orange, and it has a lot of great as a functionality in our heart. For example, like I said, all these emotions go through the heart first, and some of the worst inflammatory diseases that I see in clinic is when a person does not is completely detached from an emotion or precedent. Appropriately, then those are the worst diseases and inflammatory diseases that I see. And the heart feeling sound is ha like laughing. You could actually imagine a pink cloud filling up into the heart. The next time you're anxious about something, let's say you lost a friend, somebody passed away, a pet passed away or something. Imagine. Feel that situation. I want you to feel it. Who's involved? What's involved? Or what is the feeling sensation? As you inhale, imagine that pink cloud filling up into the heart. And then as you exhale, imagine that circumstance leaving the body and do that over and over again. And the cool thing about this is that you could do it underneath your breath as well, too. So if you're in public, you're probably not going to be doing that not away lessons or parts of LA or San Francisco.
Lauren Abrams: [00:09:01] Right? I guess so, but I have a question. You were saying if you're anxious, but that sounds like you're sad.
Chris Shelton [00:09:06] Anxious? Yeah. So anxious anxiety attacks the spleen. Yeah. Okay. So when we in stomach now if we're talking about grief and sadness and shame because.
Lauren Abrams: [00:09:17] You're talking about loss, seeing the loss of a friend or a pet and things that sounds like being sad as opposed to anxious. Oh, I was running late to get here with the reins and the traffic and everything else. That to me was what I was thinking of. Anxious. That's.
Chris Shelton [00:09:34] Yeah. So it's any of the emotions. So let's say you're feeling angry or you're feeling sad about something, or let's say you're feeling anger about something. You're feeling anxiety about something. You pulled that pink cloud into the heart then. So make the horn sound. And, you know what that actually picks the heart is over excitation. Most people don't realize this, but you could actually died of a heart attack from laughing too hard. Hence the reason why would. We laugh hysterically at something, the first thing we all do, everybody does this as we go out and right. And the reason why we do that is because the heart is trying to regain balance once again. That's what it's trying to do, is trying to regain that balance. So this is just a very simple qigong practice. And instead of suppressing, you're able to deal with it as it comes up.
Lauren Abrams: [00:10:19] Okay. So those are that's three colors. We've got the orange and yellow on the left side. We've got green on the right side for the liver.
Chris Shelton [00:10:29] The white light for the liver.
Lauren Abrams: [00:10:31] Didn't talk about that yet. So white for the lungs. And what is that for. What are we feeling when we're doing that one.
Chris Shelton [00:10:38] So that's the grief. That's the loss.
Lauren Abrams: [00:10:40] That's okay.
Chris Shelton [00:10:41] So yeah. So when you have like I said, when you have an event that makes you angry, your heart races liver text liver. When you there's such a close interconnectedness between the heart and the lungs that your heart will hurt and then that weakens the lungs. In fact, you can always tell when somebody has lost somebody who has not processed the grieve because they will develop an unproductive, dry cough. The unproductive dried cough is actually the grief stuck in the lungs. And they'll go to their physician nine times out of ten, at least from what I've seen, they are prescribed an inhaler because they got some miraculous form of asthma. This occurred, and it's not. It's a grief stuck in the lungs. And so how.
Lauren Abrams: [00:11:22] Could you help them? How can you help them? Or how could I like I hear I I'm talking to somebody I know that's what it is. It is awkward for me to be like, think you have. You're not dealing with your grief. You can't say that.
Chris Shelton [00:11:34] Yes, you have to word it there. Yes. There hasn't been some bedside manners when approaching.
Lauren Abrams: [00:11:38] I just heard jolt. And I know what this is because somebody is coming to mind right now, and I want to be like, listen to this.
Chris Shelton [00:11:44] Though. So yeah. So the conversation starts like, well, you've had that cough for a while. When did it start? Six months ago. Oh, what was going on in your life six months ago. That's how the conversation starts.
Lauren Abrams: [00:11:58] Yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:11:59] There's this qigong practice. Nobody ever heard of qigong before. She begins the simple moving, the meditative practice, gives people tool, the tools to deal with emotional stress and trauma. And then you just keep moving. Then you say, according to Chris, was that according to we are just passing on. Right.
Lauren Abrams: [00:12:15] But I heard Chris Shelton.
Chris Shelton [00:12:16] Yeah. The lungs and the healing sound for the lungs is log. People may have a hard time with that sound, but if you give them sound of heart, then what will happen? Is there a lot of people can because the heart lung is so closely connected, they will be able to identify with that sound more. And so that's how you in clinic. That's what happens when somebody comes in, let's say with frozen shoulder syndrome.
Lauren Abrams: [00:12:39] It was okay that I was going to ask you about that. I can't believe you said that because another friend has frozen shoulder right now and I had it. It's so painful.
Chris Shelton [00:12:48] Yeah. Oh, what's happened is that something happened in her life, and it could be something like even on an argument with the spouse or somebody else, but something happened that hurt her heart and she didn't fully process it. And because the acupuncture meridians and vessels that run from the face in the chest to the hands, or from the hands to the face and chest are directly or indirectly connected to the heart. So unless you're doing jujitsu, so impact your shoulder out. You're a pitcher in baseball. You pop your shoulder out, then it's always emotions of the heart. Everybody will blame their mattress or blame their pillow. They'll look up with something when he's studying. I'll say his name because he did a testimonial for me on for the TV show Celebrity Sweat. His name is Mike Kroeger, the guitarist from Nickelback. He flew up to my office in Salisbury several years ago, and he was supposed to have cervical surgery on his neck. And so I said, Mike, I said, all right, what was going on prior to the pain showing up two years ago? And he said, I think I slept wrong. And he said, I think maybe the stress of being on tour or hold my guitar on stage. And he said, and then he stopped and he paused. He goes, actually, as he said, two years ago, horse died and two weeks after his horse died, he took care of business, went back up toward then the pain started showing up. And he's really funny because, he said that I got rid of his arthritis in 30 minutes. And really, the reality is that. And you could actually see the arthritis in the x ray. And the reality is that, no, what happened was that there's a mind body connection to the loss because the body says, okay, would you pretend like that didn't hurt you? But guess what? It did. And again, these emotions are good because they are barometers for what's going on in our life when we're not expressing appropriately, when we are suppressing it or we're exploding, then that shows up as disease and that shows up as chronic pain. And yeah, we hear so much about inflammation. Yes, processed foods. And whether what's happening with our food system is definitely creating disease, that's for sure. And processed foods will create and inflammatory diseases, but emotions also create inflammatory. Diseases. And in Chinese medicine, it's a leading cause of death.
Lauren Abrams: [00:15:01] I love all of us. It's just. It's so good and it's so rich. And to me, nobody has processed foods anymore. That's not true, of course. And a lot of places will be closed. Yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:15:13] And and if you want to go down that and to part of it too, if you look at the economics, the economics behind that, who are they targeting those fast food restaurants towards? It'd be great if the city in the county of the state would have open organic gardening for people, especially people in low income places, and that would be ideal. But yeah, but no processed foods and the best food is still around. And you really have to read the labels nowadays because it might say organic, but is it really what's in those? What's in there? So you really have to look at what you're putting inside your body too.
Lauren Abrams: [00:15:46] Definitely. I keep wishing, I keep wanting to grow my own veggies and do all of that. And it's I did get tomatoes, right. I think that's because I think they're like weeds that anybody can grow. That's why I started there. So that's one thing. Okay, so you read faces, but let's go to that now. So what should we started with? The moms and dads and neglect. But we didn't say where that shows up. We went on a tangent. Never came back, so I'll go. Okay. Do it. Yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:16:19] I'm going to come back. Pedal a little bit because Chinese space reading. So people say, you're a fortune teller. And I'm like, no I'm not.
Lauren Abrams: [00:16:25] Yes, yes, yes, you actually are kidding.
Chris Shelton [00:16:28] What's interesting, excuse me, but what's interesting is different marks on the face could show us where a person has to be careful during that certain age period of their life, or some something potentially happening. The Chinese face reading was developed thousands of years ago. It's called Sing them. It was developed thousands of years ago because Chinese doctors did not believe it was appropriate to touch women to diagnose them. So they had to come up with a way to to be able to diagnose and guess what? Every part of your face and touching my nose and your brow bone and eyes, your cheeks, your ears, your lips, your chin, your jaw structure.
Lauren Abrams: [00:17:06] All the eft tapping faces. So you have to you tapping one's right.
Chris Shelton [00:17:10] You have to based on Chinese medicine. Yeah.
Lauren Abrams: [00:17:13] So that makes sense.
Chris Shelton [00:17:14] And so all these different features on the face guess what. Connected different organs. So you like for example your brow bone and eyebrows connect to your liver. The nose connects to the lungs. The tip of the nose connects to the heart. Your lips and your mouth connects to your spleen. In your pancreas. Your ears connect to your, kidneys, your chin, your philtrum connect to the kidneys. So different parts of the body.
Lauren Abrams: [00:17:37] What happens when you pierce your ears if.
Chris Shelton [00:17:40] That's you know, that's a great question I don't yeah. Does that tap into your jing, your essence of light? I don't really think so, because there's so many other things that are help to make up the overall person's constitution. Because when we talk.
Lauren Abrams: [00:17:54] Like a nose job, like the end of your nose, I don't know if they touch that. I have no idea.
Chris Shelton [00:17:59] Okay. What? You bring up a good point. So I'll bring up Michael Jackson, for example. When he was younger, his nose was wider and flashier, and when he started off his career, as he got older, he started making his nose smaller and smaller. So a person with a big nose is a sign of personal power. The person is a powerful, but there's other features on the face that will either take away from it or add to it, but the person is prominent and they have a potential for power, or like to do things on their own or like to be in charge. And then and that was Michael with his career a little bit. I do know about him and the family. And then as the age when he do, he started making his nose smaller and what was started happening to him losing certain things were were falling away. And it's not like going to be in school when let's say you get a nose job is either million seem to be over time you start to see these types of things as they start to fall away.
Lauren Abrams: [00:18:53] Interesting. Okay. So go ahead. So between your brows. Is that what you said?
Chris Shelton [00:18:58] Oh yeah. So between the eyebrow, this further part, it generally means that the person has more of a father's influence. If their eyebrows are closer together, the mother is more of the influence on their life. And now on that. Now there's going to be other features that we're going to look like, because that's going to be feature number one. I'm going to say, okay. And that would be the question that would come up. Let's say Lauren. So it looks like from talking to you that your father had more of an influence in your life, was not around. He wasn't around.
Lauren Abrams: [00:19:26] My stepfather, maybe. I don't know, not really. Yeah, yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:19:29] Yeah. Somebody who had a, masculine. Somebody who had a masculine. What does that position in your life when you're younger? You may not have agreed with them, but they had some, which was also the driving force for how you think and operate today. Partly. Right. They had that masculine person had more of an influence on you. If it was a mother's influence than that the brow bones would be the eyebrows actually be right closer together. Yeah. And so that's the first step in there. We look at line sort of lines on the face. And then if we had for example a line down the middle of the forehead here between the eyebrows, then we'd say we call that a suspended sword. If it's a deeper line is calling suspend needle if it's a more shallow line. And that means that this father type issue or this has affected the person to the point to where it affects them in their daily life or affects them as far as forward progress goes, because we have a saying that sword will eventually fall and cut off half the liver and the liver and stab the person in the foot, and that's a bit suspend. The sword has to deal with that anger from that person that has been from that masculine person that is projecting that onto the child.
Lauren Abrams: [00:20:48] What about the two lines? Because they don't show up from the touch up my appearance thing on this. What about the two lines on either end of the brow?
Chris Shelton [00:20:56] Yeah. So those two lines are the anger lines.
Lauren Abrams: [00:20:59] Yeah, I don't like them because I always think they're like. And they look angry.
Chris Shelton [00:21:03] Yeah. So depending on which line is bigger. So the line is bigger on the left side. That means that you store anger more than what you show it. And then if it's longer on the right side, then that means that you show it quite a bit. Most people that I see in clinic, what happens is that they store it now. They may blow up behind closed doors or something like that, but they'll shove it down in public for most people that I see.
Lauren Abrams: [00:21:24] Okay, so when you're reading them on TikTok and all that, what do you what else? Yeah. So you look at do you look at celebrities like I guess, yeah. What about Botox though?
Chris Shelton [00:21:34] Yeah. But even with Botox as a last, because if you haven't changed, they actually haven't seen if you haven't changed the most emotional expression which caused that line to begin with, then the line's going to come back. Yeah. And so on TikTok, what's been happening is that people have been sending me their pictures to read their faces, which I think is really brave because you're, as Dave Chappelle says, unlike one of the things he says, like, guys, I don't punch down on people, and I have people that want me to read politicians and stuff like that, and I won't punch down on people. I'm going to read certain things, would have fun with that. But I think is brave for, and it's only women so far out dating that is only sending the photographs. And I think what it is because that was the male fragile. Fragile. He, ego they don't want they don't want to be read. In fact, I had one guy. I'd read one one woman's face from the Midwest somewhere, and he said he asked me a question. I thought it was a sincere question. He asked me so you could tell by the length of the nose how the person invest money. And I thought it was a real serious question. And so I, when I finally got around to responding to him on TikTok, I said, yeah, we could tell by the length of the width of the nose how well somebody invests money or how tight they are with their money or whatever. He immediately responded back and he says, you're crazy. So I responded back.
Lauren Abrams: [00:22:54] Why am.
Chris Shelton [00:22:55] I response? I said, okay, I said, I am. So tell you what, why don't you send me a picture of your face and let's just really see how crazy I am? No response.
Lauren Abrams: [00:23:05] No, he didn't send it. Now he says only women so far. So I guess.
Chris Shelton [00:23:09] I'll give you an example. Yes, I do read celebrities as well too. I just saw Julia Roberts on, but it was a Jimmy Fallon talking about that, the most recent movie that she came out with, I think it was on Netflix or whatever. And I was like, oh my God, what happened to Julia Roberts? Because she was on Jimmy Fallon. And then I saw the movie and I was like, well, she played him in this movie. She played it in like a angry person. But in fact, a one part of the movie, the one of the actors, the the gal, she says, why are you so angry? For one thing, to be able to act it out. And some of the people the comments and said she's just playing her part, but you can't hide certain features on her face. And I compared her from Pretty Woman to to this. I'm forgetting the name of the movie right now. And yes, she does age. But also you see the features that show that somewhere along the way she has been treated badly between Pretty Woman, the filming of that and this filming. And this is why the anger and stuff, and I haven't done any research on her to see what she's been through in her life. I was always a big fan of Julia Roberts, and I did a comparison between the two, and I would also wonder if there's some level of depression as well going on. And you could see this on her face. And like I said before seeing the movie, well, at first cut, my attention was seeing this small clip of her on Jimmy Fallon, and that's what made me intrigued to see, wow, okay, there's been a definite change.
Lauren Abrams: [00:24:40] I wonder when you were talking before about the liver and the lungs and the different, is there anything women in perimenopause or menopause or the things we get instead of all the hormone replacement? And it's, oh yeah, if you're in perimenopause. Take this because I hear a lot of questions about that.
Chris Shelton [00:25:03] That's a great question. And so one of the side effects women says on Perimenopausal is they'll talk about the hot flashes or the night sweats. Right. Right. Okay. So in Chinese medicine, our kidneys are responsible for how long or life it will be. So at the time of conception between your parents, God, and your environment, this created your kidney. Well, it's like a battery. Your kidneys are the foundation of the yin and yang aspects of the body. Good aspects of the body are your fluids, blood, sweat stream. And so even though our blood is warm and still nurturing, what is considered yin yang is the motive force which allows for the assimilation processes inside the body. And for digestion, those kinds of things. So as we age, what happens is this battery naturally declines the number one tonic for to replenish the kidneys to sleep. The next tonic is obviously diet and hydration. The next tonic there is that Michigan practices because they call it qigong the fountain of youth. So what's happened is that the kidney yin aspect, which also controls your reproductive system and influences a lot of your hormones, it has now become weakened. So creates a condition inside the body is what we call as MTC. What does that mean? That means that the body thinks it's hot. But if you did, for your temperature's normal. So what does it do? Sweats and sweats. Because there's a weakness already in this component of the kidneys. So the body think oh I am hot. So I'm going to sweat more. Guess what? The more that the woman sweats, the more of that essence diminishes. And so hence it becomes a vicious cycle, which then, if untreated, goes deeper and deeper. So yes, there are herbal formulas that that women can do. Go see if you want to go see an acupuncturist. I have some great recommendations if you want to come and see me, that's great as well too. And then foods that we need to eat is are foods that are what we call to benefit the kidneys. So like those little packages of seaweed that you get at like Trader Joe's or whatever, maybe one of those days. Bosch pears in particular, the brown pears in particular, are really good for night sweats and hot flashes. Raisins, dates, oatmeal, seafood. Not farm raised fish, but saltwater fish. Seafood is really good. Not shellfish though. We're also looking at things like, azuki beans, goji berries. These are some of the things you could add to the diet. And then avoiding things like alcohol. Wine is very hot. Wine and alcohol is hot energetically, so. Well, cause more of this kidney weakness as well, too.
Lauren Abrams: [00:27:42] So what kind of beans did you say?
Chris Shelton [00:27:45] Azuki beans. Azuki or like. Yes. Or kidney beans?
Lauren Abrams: [00:27:50] Kidney beans.
Chris Shelton [00:27:51] Okay. Black beans are also really good as well too. Okay. Also. Yeah. And so if you start implementing this into your diet and avoiding greasy, fatty fried food and sugar also creates heat in the body, but also too, if you're craving something that your body is really knocking on your door saying that this organ actually, if you're craving sweets and sugar, that means that your spleen is weak. So then you need to do more than spleen qigong practice in order to help to tone it. Fine.
Lauren Abrams: [00:28:21] Okay.
Chris Shelton [00:28:22] Reclaiming salty. Guess what that means? Your kidneys are weak. If you're craving sour, that means your liver is weak, right? So, do you want more?
Lauren Abrams: [00:28:29] What else? These are very interesting. Okay.
Chris Shelton [00:28:32] One more pungent. If you're craving something pungent. I don't know how many people. Just the random cloves of garlic. But if you're craving things, your awesome pungent, then that means your lungs are deficient. Or if you know that you're on the or on the opposite end. If you're catching colds easily, it means that your lungs are deficient. So we want to eat more pungent foods. If we have a heart imbalance, though, we want foods that are more bitter in nature. For example, like beet greens, for example. Saltine beet greens will be a fine example.
Lauren Abrams: [00:28:59] But how do you know if you have a heart imbalance?
Chris Shelton [00:29:01] You could only tell if one of the ways that we tell obese readings, we tell by looking at their eyes how bright their eyes are, because they say that the heart houses the mind which houses the Shen in China is the Chinese word for spirit. So we could tell how intact the heart mind is by looking at the glistening of the eyes. That's one of the things. But if you've been diagnosed with something with, a-fib.
Lauren Abrams: [00:29:24] You could tell I don't go to the doctor a lot. Got questions?
Chris Shelton [00:29:27] Let's say, for example, if you have a line bisecting the the nose here, a subtle line bisecting the nose, that means the person's had a broken heart has implemented.
Lauren Abrams: [00:29:36] So Chris was going across the bridge of his nose.
Chris Shelton [00:29:39] Yeah. Across the. Yeah, across the right. Pass the tip of the nose there. Somebody who's had a broken heart. And you can try this out in the next. And then the line would be very subtle a lot of times and say, oh, you're still processing a broken heart. You'll say, oh yeah, I don't, you know, and so a line.
Lauren Abrams: [00:29:55] Yeah. Somebody that's like online dating. What should I look for in a face?
Chris Shelton [00:30:00] Okay, it depends on them. And we talked about because I teach a face reading course. And we're actually going to be repackaging that and make it into an online course.
Lauren Abrams: [00:30:09] And of course we'll have all of Chris's links for everything. All of his like all of it. Okay. Keep going. Yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:30:15] So I think it's funny though. I think it's a lot more fun to have the live class. But anyways, we talked about doing a face reading class for singles. Okay. So for me everybody's different. For example, somebody could be with somebody that's controlling or whatever, but if they have lots of money and they like to spend it on you, then they might say, you know what, I can handle that. A little bit of control here and there because I want to be pampered and be taken care of. So it all depends on somebody else's, like an E type personality. Let's say if you're a woman has a D type personality or like, no way nobody's going to control me, right, then that's not going to apply. So it all depends. We could tell by the size of the lips how o mouth, how passionate they are. What was really fun in the last base ruling class the first time we did it, but we started talking about different features on the face. It tells us about the gentleman tell you for men and women, and most of all, it's funny again on that one too. On that night's class, all the men did not show up as only the women that showed up again. None of the men showed up, and I called him out the next week to like, what happened to you guys. Come on, man. Oh, dog, eat my homework. Okay, whatever. So.
Lauren Abrams: [00:31:24] Yeah. Yeah.
Chris Shelton [00:31:26] So it just depends. And but if you read, it just depends on what you're looking for. Yeah.
Lauren Abrams: [00:31:31] And you tell if somebody's lying, then because everybody's still on line for things. Are there ways to tell somebody is a liar or the things on the face.
Chris Shelton [00:31:39] The line between the lips. So that line is about this line between the listen, your lips are with you when your lips are close. If that line is crooked, that person tends to lie a lot.
Lauren Abrams: [00:31:50] Which lie which line?
Chris Shelton [00:31:53] There's a line when your lips meet. So if you look yourself in the mirror, see, like your line is pretty straight across. It's a little bit wavy, but it's, you know, it's pretty straight across, right? So when the person's lips are closed, that's one way that we could tell if.
Lauren Abrams: [00:32:06] Oh, interesting.
Chris Shelton [00:32:07] Test and want to hear something else. You could tell. Let's say you have a close friend or you have someone you can tell secrets to the way you could tell that you can tell secrets to somebody is if when they're on their phone or something, let's say looking at social media, their emails, and their mouth is left open like this and they're typing, they're not talking about like this. That means that the words fall out of their mouth. So if you tell them something, they're going to go tell that to somebody else. So that's the tell for me, like in business and stuff like that. Those are one of the things that's fun to look for it, because if I have an IP thing, my own intellectual property, right, I'm not going to share that with that person because I already know that he's going to use it or take it and share it with somebody else. Right. So it's good for business relationships, too. And if they have mom issues or dad issues and depending on what the cases. So so what's amazing is that the art of face reading has left pretty much sums up to Chinese medicine community. Most universities are not teaching us nowadays. It's really a lost art, and people that are taking my course are people that, are for personal relationships or business relationships or whatever. But well, was funny on TikTok, was America's Got Talent reached out to me, the executive producer, because I was talking about a certain feature. I was a reading embedding space and talking about a certain feature. I'm going to start making more posts about, oh, you see this shape of the tip of the nose? That means this, right? Yeah. Anyways, so she saw something and she that I had posted and she said, oh my god, like he's totally describing me. So she reached out and I actually made it. I actually made it to the fourth round of auditions this year on America's Got Talent. We're going to post that on guitar. And they were having me, and they're putting me under the fire, too, because one of the things that people say is, can you read somebody right on the spot? I'm like, yeah, because the picture features are facial features. It's like seeing a flower on the end of a stamp, I don't know. So anyways, yeah, I beat it to the fourth round to the point in the producers, executive producers and stuff like that. If I leave that, I'll end up on there. And what I really want to do is because I know that executive producer still part of the show, but she was the executive producer for The Bachelor or the oh, it'd be so much fun is to get the pictures.
Lauren Abrams: [00:34:26] Of all my.
Chris Shelton [00:34:28] Yeah, right. And start and go with the guy and say, okay, this person is this person has this going on, this person's very giving, very general whatever. And then see during the show, if those features unfold themselves, that would be a fun one.
Lauren Abrams: [00:34:41] That would be really good.
Chris Shelton [00:34:43] Yeah.
Lauren Abrams: [00:34:44] That would be great. Okay, so what a couple last things. You have a TV show coming out.
Chris Shelton [00:34:52] Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes we should.
Lauren Abrams: [00:34:55] Talk about that.
Chris Shelton [00:34:57] So it's a. So what happened was that from, from the San, from the San Francisco Bay area, from San Jose. And when my old buddy or the trainer started pulling me down here 13 years ago. So give me all of his high-profile clients. And at some point, we were killing ourselves, flying back and forth from San Jose to here to L.A. and I had asked myself, Chris, what is your purpose for doing this? Because I don't get starstruck by anybody. I meet some interesting people, but I don't care if you're a gender or Tom Cruise. I treat everybody the same. So anyway, I realized the next stage of my career to help more people on a broader scale is television, right? So about eight years ago we started this process and then shot, we shot this is real famous bodybuilder Jeff Bihari came out okay. Muscled into quite. And we thought, I thought I wanted to do a documentary style TV show Caesar the Dog Whisperer intervention type thing, but for humans. Right. So I've had the background. Okay. And go into the person's home. When does the camera show the background of patient, whatever what they're going through with their home life is like what their work life is like and stuff. And then I go cheat patient. We see the success and all work. We go, so then we show all the seconds is real. That one was better, but it's still when we showed it to some of our clients, agents, it still wasn't something that really sparked any interest. And then in 2002, we shot a 30 minute short documentary that turned out really well. And then, unfortunately, my whole team went crazy and I had to pull the project before going to the film festivals. We were this close, so fast forward I was interviewing different, directors to try to make some tweaks because it turned out really well, but it needed some tweaks and stuff like that. And then finally, my old bike coach, Conley, who was the reason why I met Eric the trainer 13 years ago and ended up down here. So I was on a Zoom call with him and got into movies. In fact, Channing Tatum used to come and train with US kickboxing and my cousin's gym. We used to joke that Channing had a man crush on the coach. Kind of. Anyway, I know so many people because kids got into movies. And so he introduced me to the showrunner named Victor, that when the leader says, okay, what is it you want to do? I said, I want my own TV show. He says, all right, the 15-minute short is amateur. Why don't we just make your own TV show? I said, okay, but that 15-minute short came out really good. I don't just want to sell it. And he says, okay, the same day that we shoot the pilot, we will shoot the actual footage and make you a feature film. So I got two things coming. I got a feature film that's going to be coming out right now. We are shooting. We shot the first episode. We have the first two scripts written, the show Bible and the pitch Deck already finished. And it's a dramedy. It's not a comedy or it's not a it's a documentary. It's a dramedy. So it's playing out real life case studies of patients that I really have in clinic, and we're addressing some of the real, true events that are going on in the world today and society. And at the same time, too. It's funny. So anyway. And so yeah, so we're really excited. We're in post-production. We're hoping I'm pretty sure there's not a show out there like this. I promise you, there's nothing else like it. We are, looking at introducing people to qigong and tai chi and Chinese medicine, but integrative medicine. So people need to show for hope. Hence your. Yeah, you need to show that it has hope inspires people that you don't have to live with disease, that you can transform, and you don't have to live with chronic pain. You don't have to live with depression. There's things that you could do. And qigong is has been around for thousands of years and it's still it's accessible.
Lauren Abrams: [00:38:23] I think that's so.
Chris Shelton [00:38:24] Important to everybody, and especially in the mental health community where there's not the tools for mental health. I think it's really necessary, and I believe in integrative medicine, too. And don't get me wrong, if somebody is having suicidal ideologies, maybe we do need to medicate, right? Because we got to back them off the cliff, right? But at the same time, why not introduce some of these practices with them and such. And so that way it empowers them, gives them a sense of power back, and starts to transform the mess of mental and emotional issues that are creating the dysfunction. So yeah. So really exciting.
Lauren Abrams: [00:39:05] Yeah. Now I just so great. Do you have a message I hope you want to give? Even though I feel like that was a message.
Chris Shelton [00:39:10] Oh yeah, there really is that. And my new book that's coming out on Healing Back Pain, which I've been working on for ten years, will be released this year. It's going to you it's a formed book on how to fix neck and back pain yourself. And also it's a beautiful artistic book as well. So the whole idea here is the the Yellow Emperor has a message and his classic of Chinese Medicines, the ancient textbook he says that fighting disease after disease sets in is like digging a well after one has become thirsty, or forging one's weapons after engaging in battle. One of that be too late. The whole idea of our conversation here today is self-empowerment. Not waiting till that point that there is hope. That and but even if you are in that space of suffering and in chronic pain or whatever. There is hope because there is these practices that you can do that will empower you to be the best version of yourself. And they say that the superior doctor is one that can prevent disease before disease sets in. And the whole idea of this is that you become your own superior doctor, meaning that you have such an understanding of how your body functions. That would be a symptom that shows up and says, oh, okay, what can I do? Qigong practice, maybe switch diet or whatever to transform this disease myself?
Lauren Abrams: [00:40:26] I love that. This has been so great. Thank you so much for being a guest today on 52 Weeks of Hope. Well live stream some more like we did last year, and maybe we'll even do some practice live for the community.
Chris Shelton [00:40:40] Yeah, we should do a live that's together. Should come to our studio in downtown Burbank.
Lauren Abrams: [00:40:44] Oh, yeah that would be amazing. You know that’s what we'll do. We're going to do. I'm just gonna bring my microphone and we're going to do a live class. That'll be so fun. We're definitely doing that. I love that idea. Oh, thank you so much for being a guest today. All the links are right below.
