joedjemal
10th September 2011, 17:04
A couple of people have expressed an interest so I thought I'd post a few exercises.
Qi gong is a Chinese Taoist energy discipline it was my main method for entry into chi or prana work. I only followed it for a while and then let my intuition take over.
Exercise 1 The Inner Smile
The purpose of this exercise is to get you into the habit of manipulating qi and to get you to start understanding what it feels like. Your first few times should take about 30 minutes and you should do it daily. Once you become familiar with it you can do it in just a few minutes and after a while it becomes automatic and you just do it whenever you need some energy.
This exercise is for beginners.
Sit on a straight backed chair, feet flat on the ground, back straight, and close your eyes. Place your right hand on top of your left hand in your lap and touch your tongue to your palate (sp? The roof of your mouth anyway) about a centimetre back from your teeth.
Relax and start breathing calmly, deeply and regularly in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Think of the happiest moment you can remember and start to bring this feeling in through your forehead about where your third eye is. Smile while you do this exercise. Keep going back to your memory and really focus on the feeling you had at that time.
Whilst doing this start feeling the smile wash down from your third eye into your eyes and around your face. Bring it down through your tongue and then hold it around your throat for a while. After each pause go back to your third eye and bring the smile down to the next place I mention pausing at each place smiling at each part I mention.
After the throat you move to the thymus which is slightly above your heart in the middle of your breast bone pause then move on to the right lung, pause, left lung, pause, then the heart, pause then down to the right to your liver then pause and across to the left side to your spleen smiling all the time. Then down to the right kidney, then the left and then to your bowels.
Then what happens next depends on your sex. There's a place just below your belly button back towards your spine called the dantien this is where you store your qi it will become the pearl that you will use in later exercises and the core of your astral body.
Men rotate the energy 9 times clockwise then 9 times anticlockwise, women do the opposite 9 times anticlockwise then 9 times clockwise. This locks in the energy.
If you repeat this exercise frequently you should start to feel the energy flow like honey at about the speed that runny honey flows.
Then relax for a while. I'll write up the next one soon.
Qi gong is a Chinese Taoist energy discipline it was my main method for entry into chi or prana work. I only followed it for a while and then let my intuition take over.
Exercise 1 The Inner Smile
The purpose of this exercise is to get you into the habit of manipulating qi and to get you to start understanding what it feels like. Your first few times should take about 30 minutes and you should do it daily. Once you become familiar with it you can do it in just a few minutes and after a while it becomes automatic and you just do it whenever you need some energy.
This exercise is for beginners.
Sit on a straight backed chair, feet flat on the ground, back straight, and close your eyes. Place your right hand on top of your left hand in your lap and touch your tongue to your palate (sp? The roof of your mouth anyway) about a centimetre back from your teeth.
Relax and start breathing calmly, deeply and regularly in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Think of the happiest moment you can remember and start to bring this feeling in through your forehead about where your third eye is. Smile while you do this exercise. Keep going back to your memory and really focus on the feeling you had at that time.
Whilst doing this start feeling the smile wash down from your third eye into your eyes and around your face. Bring it down through your tongue and then hold it around your throat for a while. After each pause go back to your third eye and bring the smile down to the next place I mention pausing at each place smiling at each part I mention.
After the throat you move to the thymus which is slightly above your heart in the middle of your breast bone pause then move on to the right lung, pause, left lung, pause, then the heart, pause then down to the right to your liver then pause and across to the left side to your spleen smiling all the time. Then down to the right kidney, then the left and then to your bowels.
Then what happens next depends on your sex. There's a place just below your belly button back towards your spine called the dantien this is where you store your qi it will become the pearl that you will use in later exercises and the core of your astral body.
Men rotate the energy 9 times clockwise then 9 times anticlockwise, women do the opposite 9 times anticlockwise then 9 times clockwise. This locks in the energy.
If you repeat this exercise frequently you should start to feel the energy flow like honey at about the speed that runny honey flows.
Then relax for a while. I'll write up the next one soon.