Guest guest Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 I certainly believe in chi, although I was skeptical when I began qigong. As I've said, I focussed on the Western benefits of the deep abdominal breathing, etc. But I figured that the Chinese are the most practical people on earth--they have to be just to feed their population. If there was nothing to it, they would've chucked the energetic paradigm centuries ago. I didn't really have a tangible chi experience, outside of warmth and prickling in my palms--which can be explained away--until I'd practiced standing post meditation for a couple of years. One day an area on the bottoms of my feet, about the size of silver dollars, started pulsing with what felt like electric energy. I called my instructor in Boston; he said good: " Your yong chuan cavities have opened--that's progress. Now forget about it and get back to practicing. " These cavities pulse continously but not necessarily constantly. The skeptic in me wondered: just greater blood circulation? But I've had a couple of experiences in my body--strange " electrical " overwhelming experiences that I just couldn't explain. Feeling chi is experiencial and it takes time and practice. An old Chinese saying applies: " If it could be talked about, everyone would've told his brother. " That sentiment seems overly metaphysical in the case of feeling chi, but I have found it to be true. There is a good short article in this month's Townsend Letter (Jan. 2011, p. 20) on the scientific investigation of chi energy. I personally believe that there is something real going on and that it will be explained by future scientific investigation. I also think that it will be ignored or pooh-poohed by conventional medical bodies because it does not lend itself to being monitarized, regulated, doled out, or withheld. It takes more than good grades or friends in high places to become chi gung master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hi , I've practiced tai chi chuan for about 15 years. From time to time when I " forget " what I'm doing and simply do it, I experience good surprises. Then I TRY to repeat them and it's not at all the same. I think that that is one of the points. Mike There is a good short article in this month's Townsend Letter (Jan. 2011, p. 20) on the scientific investigation of chi energy. I personally believe that there is something real going on and that it will be explained by future scientific investigation. I also think that it will be ignored or pooh-poohed by conventional medical bodies because it does not lend itself to being monitarized, regulated, doled out, or withheld. It takes more than good grades or friends in high places to become chi gung master. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Wow ~ generation and transmission of ki energy over distance. Very cool article. All of the articles in that Townsend letter were very informative. What a great source ! Thank you for mentioning that. Interestingly enough, there's an article below it on Live Blood Analysis, and just yesterday, my new MD (who specializes in natural health and treatment!) has arranged for me to have one. Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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