Lisa Leong doesn't do things by halves. If she's worried she might not be getting enough sunlight in the dead of Melbourne winter, she goes out and buys an infrared desk light, and if she learns cold therapy might be beneficial, she jumps into a sub zero cryotherapy chamber. So when the ABC broadcaster started feeling a disconnect between her mind and her body, she didn't just start practicing key Gong, a meditative martial arts practice similar to tyche No. She wanted to learn it from the master himself, Robert Peng. Lisa shares why she felt compelled to learn key Gong and what she learned from Robert Peng and how it helped her find peace and presence of mind. My name is doctor amanthe Imber. I'm an organizational psychologist and the founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium. This is how I work, a show about how to help you do your best work. On today's quick Win episode, we go back to an interview from the past and I pick out a quick win that you can apply today. In today's show, I speak with Lisa Leon about how qigong transformed her emotional and mental health.

Lisa Leong doesn't do things by halves. If she's worried she might not be getting enough sunlight in the dead of Melbourne winter, she goes out and buys an infrared desk light, and if she learns cold therapy might be beneficial, she jumps into a sub zero cryotherapy chamber. So when the ABC broadcaster started feeling a disconnect between her mind and her body, she didn't just start practicing key Gong, a meditative martial arts practice similar to tyche No. She wanted to learn it from the master himself, Robert Peng. Lisa shares why she felt compelled to learn key Gong and what she learned from Robert Peng and how it helped her find peace and presence of mind. My name is doctor amanthe Imber. I'm an organizational psychologist and the founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium. This is how I work, a show about how to help you do your best work. On today's quick Win episode, we go back to an interview from the past and I pick out a quick win that you can apply today. In today's show, I speak with Lisa Leon about how qigong transformed her emotional and mental health.

The last thing that I do well of this, like I basically do ten things, but this is the fifth and final one that I'm going to share with you is a practice called four Golden Wheels, and that is part of my chigung practice. So chigong is like a cousin of tai chi. I mentioned that I find it hard to do meditation sitting down cross legged, so this is a practice that I do to basically stretch my body and get myself back into my body. I've been doing that since June. I used to do tai chi, but now I'm doing chigung, and I have noticeably made a difference to my headspace I feel as a result of this.

The last thing that I do well of this, like I basically do ten things, but this is the fifth and final one that I'm going to share with you is a practice called four Golden Wheels, and that is part of my chigung practice. So chigong is like a cousin of tai chi. I mentioned that I find it hard to do meditation sitting down cross legged, so this is a practice that I do to basically stretch my body and get myself back into my body. I've been doing that since June. I used to do tai chi, but now I'm doing chigung, and I have noticeably made a difference to my headspace I feel as a result of this.

I remember you telling me after it because you'd gone to America hearn from a master yes practitioner, And I remember you saying when we caught up after that that people close to you in your life, your family, have noticed a difference in just how like your personality. Almost Yeah, I was.

I remember you telling me after it because you'd gone to America hearn from a master yes practitioner, And I remember you saying when we caught up after that that people close to you in your life, your family, have noticed a difference in just how like your personality. Almost Yeah, I was.

I think i'd lost my joy actually at the beginning of the year, and sometimes, you know, I spoke about being stuck in our heads. I knew I was stuck, but I felt like a prisoner I could not get out, and I was really stressed, and I was feeling really sort of I was moping around and not myself, and I couldn't buy a hack my way out, Amantha. I'd really tried. I tried everything, and I was stuck. And there I read this book and it was in January about a guy called Robert Ping. Now he's an Australian citizen. Actually, so what happened was Robert Peng. I was in China and former Prime Minister Bob Hawk happened to be visiting as a diplomat and got injured, and so Robert Peng sort of helped him, and Bob Hawk was so amazed. He said, actually, my daughter, Susan, she's been sick for seven years, bedridden, kind of like my story, bedridden. Can you help? So he flew Susan all the way to Robert Ping in China. Robert Pen worked with her for six months and basically she was able to walk again and get her life back. She flew back to Sydney and not only was she healed, but she looked younger, and so all her friends thought amazing. And Women's Weekly did a story on Robert Peng and the fact that Susan Hawk looked younger, and so he became super popular. They flew him out to Australia and he lived in Australia for a long time and taught chi gon in Australia. But unfortunately I missed that because he went to New and so I decided there and then, and this is part of my you know, sometimes I do these things. I thought, I feel like I need to go to the US to spend ten days learning chigong from Robert Pan and I did. And do you know what?

I think i'd lost my joy actually at the beginning of the year, and sometimes, you know, I spoke about being stuck in our heads. I knew I was stuck, but I felt like a prisoner I could not get out, and I was really stressed, and I was feeling really sort of I was moping around and not myself, and I couldn't buy a hack my way out, Amantha. I'd really tried. I tried everything, and I was stuck. And there I read this book and it was in January about a guy called Robert Ping. Now he's an Australian citizen. Actually, so what happened was Robert Peng. I was in China and former Prime Minister Bob Hawk happened to be visiting as a diplomat and got injured, and so Robert Peng sort of helped him, and Bob Hawk was so amazed. He said, actually, my daughter, Susan, she's been sick for seven years, bedridden, kind of like my story, bedridden. Can you help? So he flew Susan all the way to Robert Ping in China. Robert Pen worked with her for six months and basically she was able to walk again and get her life back. She flew back to Sydney and not only was she healed, but she looked younger, and so all her friends thought amazing. And Women's Weekly did a story on Robert Peng and the fact that Susan Hawk looked younger, and so he became super popular. They flew him out to Australia and he lived in Australia for a long time and taught chi gon in Australia. But unfortunately I missed that because he went to New and so I decided there and then, and this is part of my you know, sometimes I do these things. I thought, I feel like I need to go to the US to spend ten days learning chigong from Robert Pan and I did. And do you know what?

It was?

It was?

In the middle of the week. Amantha and I had been walking through this flower garden to get to the Chigong hall every single day, and on that day, it was a Wednesday, I saw this cute be dancing on in between these flowers, and then I realized, I'm back because I noticed.

In the middle of the week. Amantha and I had been walking through this flower garden to get to the Chigong hall every single day, and on that day, it was a Wednesday, I saw this cute be dancing on in between these flowers, and then I realized, I'm back because I noticed.

I hope you enjoy this little quick Win episode today. If you would like to listen to the full interview, you can find a link to that in the show notes. If you're looking for more tips to improve the way that you work, I write a short fortnightly newsletter that contains three cool things that I've discovered that helped me work better, ranging from software and gadgets that I'm loving through to interesting research findings. You can sign up for that at Howiwork dot com. That's how I Work dot co. Thank you for sharing part of your day with me by listening to How I Work. If you're keen for more tips on how to work better, connect with me via LinkedIn or Instagram. I'm very easy to find. Just search for Amantha Imba. How I Work was recorded on the traditional land of the Warrangery people, part of the cool And Nation. I am so grateful for being able to work and live on this beautiful land and I want to pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging. How I Work is produced by Inventium and hosted by me Amantha Imba, and a big thank you to Martin Imba who did the audio mix and makes everything sound better than it would have otherwise

I hope you enjoy this little quick Win episode today. If you would like to listen to the full interview, you can find a link to that in the show notes. If you're looking for more tips to improve the way that you work, I write a short fortnightly newsletter that contains three cool things that I've discovered that helped me work better, ranging from software and gadgets that I'm loving through to interesting research findings. You can sign up for that at Howiwork dot com. That's how I Work dot co. Thank you for sharing part of your day with me by listening to How I Work. If you're keen for more tips on how to work better, connect with me via LinkedIn or Instagram. I'm very easy to find. Just search for Amantha Imba. How I Work was recorded on the traditional land of the Warrangery people, part of the cool And Nation. I am so grateful for being able to work and live on this beautiful land and I want to pay my respects to elders, past, present and emerging. How I Work is produced by Inventium and hosted by me Amantha Imba, and a big thank you to Martin Imba who did the audio mix and makes everything sound better than it would have otherwise