Health Qigong Yi Jin Jing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37rBA8H-lSA

#Qigong #Video #Yijinjing

Over the last week, the effects of #Yijinjing #Qigong have become significantly more pronounced

Cross the Hundred Days threshold and it goes from the subtlest of inner arts to in-your-face double the #Qi

Something changed in my #Yijinjing #Qigong session tonight, that I wasn’t expecting—although maybe I should have—for the first time, it triggered a mild euphoria not entirely unlike an overflow of #FireQi yet flowed out from my core more like #WaterQi

I wasn’t in any rush to move on to the next stage of the exercises at the 100 days mark, but it seems most correct to keep pace with the #Qi itself

Edit: just for reference, my 100 days for the first stage of training completed on January 27th; I’ve been maintaining the same practice these past few days anyway, because I find the mild euphoria an intriguing side-effect. Although now I should probably make a point to use it to start the second stage.

There are so many things about #Yijinjing #Qigong I want to share, but if there are words to express such subtlety of process and purpose in the Will, I have never learned them

I suppose I’m finally learning at least one meaning of “ineffable”, though—and never imagined it would become a fundamental component of my daily life

I continue to be impressed and surprised by the subtle power of #Yijinjing #Qigong

Day by day, it doesn’t feel like anything is being accomplished—just a lot of time spent on a trivial and repetitive chore that oftentimes feels pretty silly.

Then all of a sudden you have rock-hard abs again. Your breathing is deeper and smoother. Even without any weight to lose, your core tightens so much that you need a tighter belt. You can feel how much your core has strengthened already and know this is only the beginning.

So you’ve gotta wonder—how the hell did Dámó figure this shit out in the first place? 9 years of meditation be damned, this is not an intuitive method—but it sure as hell works exactly as advertised.

I still don’t know what to say about my experience with #Yijinjing training so far, other than repeating what I’ve already said

It’s a subtle art, so much so I’m not even sure I would have been capable of appreciating it before this time in my life

#Qigong

Now that it actually feels like spooky season is in the air, I’ve officially started my #Yijinjing training today

It’s weird… it both feels like #Qigong and doesn’t

My first observations are that “huh, okay NOW I can directly sense which abdominal muscles the literature was referring to”, and “wow this 90-minute stomach massage significantly changes the way I perform reverse abdominal breathing”

And lest we forget—for every day I fuck up my training, I have to add two to make up for it; so there’s no turning back now

Last week I noticed alternating days of just two #TuNaSiBa #Qigong forms was still too much, so I switched to just one each day, and have been experimenting with doing them in the morning or evening, to find the right time for cultivating the #OriginalQi as well as keep my #Qi balanced as the four breathing forms have been doing.

But it also occurred to me: hey, I have narcolepsy, and Master Li, Gui-Chang’s system is a synthesis of the #Yijinjing, #Xisuijing, and #RouShu. Maybe I’m sleeping so much and so well BECAUSE it’s accomplishing exactly what it was meant to accomplish.

So yes, take it slow, because I do need to learn how to better cultivate, store, and protect my Original Qì—that’s an on-going process—but I can feel the strengthening of muscles and tendons, the nourishment of my marrow and brain, the softening of all my joints and fasciae. Listening to my body and my Xīn (心), it feels like the last thing I should be doing is fighting a good night’s sleep every night.

I slept for over 10 hours last night, and felt so emotionally and spiritually drained when I woke up today… and if I’m being honest, this whole week was far too exhausting for me to tolerate

I don’t think I’ve managed to cultivate and store enough #OriginalQi in my #LowerDanTian to keep going with #TuNaSiBa yet—at least not every day; this should be no surprise, it IS a synthesis of #Yijinjing #Xisuijing and #Roushu so what is true for them is true for it

So, I decided to take a step back (as I usually do when I push too far), and just completed the #XingyiQigong set for my middle-of-the-day slash effectively-morning #Qigong session; now my coffee is perfection, and I feel alive again

Gotta keep focusing on the fundamentals and not get ahead of myself

Got this book on #Acupuncture as an essential reference for my #Qigong practice, as I continue to work towards #Yijinjing and #Xisuijing training. I need to be able to correctly visualize every component of my own anatomy and psyche, and distinguish them from the abstractions of the unified Mind-Body system in which TCM, Qìgōng, and the Inner Arts operate.

It was the right balance between price, authoritativeness, and rave reviews from verified purchasers on Amazon. But honestly? The reviews didn’t do it justice—it’s comprehensively illustrated with both photographs and graphics, and meticulously researched with all the hocus-pocus superstition stripped away to emphasize what can actually be demonstrated.