If you’ve been following my return to #Qigong journey on the bird app, I’m pleased to say I finally worked through that last layer of deep tension—it took a few days, and it was a brutal one, but I did it
Now the only #Qi blockages I can sense throughout my body are little disconnected pockets of localized trapped tension, which I can focus on one at a time
@lispegistus I originally learned a weird mix of New Age and Martial Qìgōng, but then stuck with the martial variant as part of #XingYiQuan training. Since restarting it, I practice the #XingyiQigong set morning and night, and #Qigong meditation midday. I’m working my way toward advanced #Yijinjing and #Xisuijing training, Dámó’s classics, but the training is extreme and at least 11 years long, so I want to make sure I’m prepared for it at every level of my being.
In terms of books, I recommend first reading The Root of Chinese Qìgōng, 3rd Ed. by Dr. Yáng, Jwìng-Mǐng for a comprehensive foundation in the history, theory, and practice of the discipline as a whole and its many variants. Then you can decide for yourself which variant is right for you—health, martial, religious, etc.
I particularly love the rules of Qìgōng. One of the most important is to never injure yourself—it’s all about balance, pace, and focus on incremental progress one day at a time, adapted to your specific needs as an individual.
@lispegistus I would expect so. I don’t have any problems with my Vagus nerve, that I know of, so I can’t speak from experience here—but IIRC (and I’m really not sure I do), I think that would tie in to “Liver” organ training, as in the extended Liver system according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Qìgōng Theory is defined in terms of the integrated mind-body system, so it doesn’t line up exactly with physical, biological, neurological, or psychological systems—but an abstraction over the way they all interact.
All of my anxiety is a direct result of forcefully suppressing my Fight trauma-response (I’ve never successfully suppressed Fawning, much to my chagrin)—but geez, if you have a pinched Vagus nerve that has got to be brutal.
“the Phoeron” Colin J E Lupton
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