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Qigong :
Qi Gong (pronounced Chi Kung) is an ancient Chinese energy (Chi)
practice. It originated in China over 1,000 years ago. In ancient times
healers were extensively trained in Qigong.
Qi means energy.
The Chinese character "gong" represents the effort placed into Qi practice as
well as the power gained through such practice. Qigong literally means the
meditation practice of Qi energy.
It is based on the concept of Chi, energy which flows through the body.
There are 460 movements to learn in the Qigong and related Tai Chi
programs. Breathing techniques help the chi flow. It is a self healing practice
that can lead to the connection of mind, body and spirit.
Certain images and symbols can be mentally used to help the patient these
have to be learned.
What we now call qigong was not actually named qigong. It originally came
from the cultivation way practiced singly by ancient Chinese practitioners or
religious cultivation.
You would never find the term "qigong" in all the texts of Internal Alchemy,
Tao Tsang or the Tripitaka. Qigong existed long before religions came into
being. It has lived through a period when religions were in embryo at the
stage of the development of this human civilization. Only after the
appearance of religions was it coloured with those religions to some extent.
Qigong was initially called the Great Cultivation Way of Buddha Dharma -
or the Great Cultivation Way of Tao. And there were other names such as:
Nine fold Internal Alchemy, the Way of Arhat, and the Dhyana of Vajra.
Qigong is not an invention of this cycle of mankind. Its history goes back to
the remote past. Then when did it come into being? Some claim it has a
history of 3000 years and became popular in the Tang Dynasty. Others say it
has a history of 5000 years and is as old as the Chinese culture. Still others
believe it should be 7000 years old according to archaeological finds.
I hold qigong was not created by modern humans, but is prehistoric culture.
People who possess supernormal capabilities have found that the universe in
which we now live is a reconstructed entity after nine catastrophic
explosions.
Now we have discovered a lot of things which are beyond our modern
civilization. According to Darwin's theory of evolution, men evolved from
apes. The history of civilization is estimated to be no more than l0000 years.
However, archaeological findings reveal that the frescoes discovered in a
stone cave of the Alps date back to 250000 years with remarkable artistic
value unmatched by contemporary works.
It is known that Galileo devised the telescope with 30 powers in l609, some
three hundred Years from now, How could there be a telescope 30000 years
ago?
A rod of iron in India reaches above 99% iron purity, Such high purity of
iron is beyond the modern smelting technology. Who was it that created that
civilization?
How could human beings have possibly produced such things at a time
when they themselves might have been micro-organisms?
Such discoveries have drawn the attention from scientists in all countries in
the world.
The scientific level varies from cycle to cycle. The scientific level in some
cycles was very high, even higher than that of our modern mankind. But
those civilizations have been destroyed.
In some western countries like the United States and England it is called
"magic art" rather than "qigong".
By doing so, many people would want to see and believe that he was
performing the magic. He had to perform this way because he knew that
there were so many well-accomplished qigong masters in China, and he was
afraid of being interfered with. Therefore he covered himself with a piece of
white cloth before he was walking into the wall. When coming out, he held
out a hand to push up the sheet and then walked out of it. Just as a Chinese
saying goes: "An expert sees the knack of a trick while a layman just
watches the performance."
This 6th Century B.C. inscription was found on twelve pieces of jade
which may have formed the knob of a staff or rod.
According to Anna Baldino - who has been studying Qigong since 1993 -
"Qigong is the fastest and most powerful energy practice on the planet. The
key to success with Qigong is finding a genuine master teacher.
Note:- I will not be held responsible for any injuries or suffering if anyone tries any of these
techniques. All of these techniques require special guidance from a qualified instructor. I doubt
you will find many instructors that know any of these techniques as they are very old
techniques and are only usually taught to special students with high potential , respect and
patience.
Coil soft silk around your forehead about ten times. Now wrap one or two iron pieces around
your forehead on the outside (you could use something like chain mail etc). Bump your head
against a wall two times only each day. While training you MUST lift your Qi to fill your brain.
At first do not over exert force otherwise you will damage you not so tough skull. Gradually
over time bump the wall with your head a bit harder. Slowly increasing the force. After more
than one year later use seven or eight pieces of silk instead of ten. Then after hundreds of days
more practice, decrease the silks to four of five rounds. One more year later you can bump the
wall without using silk. It is very painful for a trainee to bump their head straight against a wall
but step by step your head should now be as hard a brick. One must first cultivate one’s
character before practicing this skill.
3. Arhat Arts
Shut your eyes while waking up. Massage them gently with your thumbs fourteen times. Keep
your eyes closed and rub them from left to upper-right, to upper-front, then to downward-right.
Then from right to upper-right to right and downward-right. Then from downward-right to
downward-front , to downward-left and then to the left. Do this seven times. After massaging
your eyes leave them closed for at least a few minutes and then open them wide suddenly.
Silence while doing this exercise is essential. Use the back curvy bone of the thumb to press the
small acupoint (Zhuan-Zhu Acupoint) in the tip of the eyebrow. Do this seventy two times.
Then rub the cheekbones with your hands rotating the Eardrop Acupoint for thirty six times.
Rub the forehead in the reverse direction, beginning in the middle of the eyebrows towards the
back of the head for seventy two times (se your fingers to massage like you would when your
washing your hair). By doing this you will find that your swallowing lots of saliva. Now paste a
light green piece of paper onto a windlamp which is burnt with sesame oil, and the flame of
which must be small. Put the lamp in a dark room. Stand away from the lamp about 6 metres
away, cross your legs and sit on a bench using intense concentrating of your will. Withhold
your Qi and watch your lamp intently for about fifteen minutes., then close your eyes making
your eyeballs rotate around thirty six times (from left to right). Now rotate thirty six times in
the opposite direction (from right to left) . Now open your eyes wide again and watch the lamp
intently. Five to ten minutes later close your eyes again and pactice the the "Open-Close Eyes
Arts" on the left and right, then vice versa. Each night, practice for about two hours. After three
months you can deepen the colour of the windlamp paper a bit and the position of the lamp can
go back further by about half to one metre away. Gradually over time you can deepen the
colour of the paper from light green to dark green and the lamp can eventually go back to 33
metres away. The size of the flame at this distance will be the size of a small bean. You should
now be practicing for about four hours in total. When you have practiced this for a while you
will be able to see people / things in the dark up to 33 metre away. If you perfect your "jujube"
( the symbol of eyes), you can gain extra advantage in combat. Eating sheep liver will also
increase your internal energy which will help your vision / eye sight.
To start with lay on your back on the ground. Bend your forearms at your elbows with your
fists closed. The punching surface of your fists must be facing upwards. Straighten your legs
with your feet flat on the ground. Lift your body off the ground with your elbows. Now direct
your energy to your elbows and continue to hold your body up with them. You must hold this
position for 15 minutes then take a break. While you are suspending your body in the air you
must breathe regularly to aid you in concentrating. Do this 10 times in the morning and 10
times at night. The second stage is to use just 1 elbow and 1 foot to suspend yourself. Try your
right hand side then when you need to rest go back to both elbows and feet. Now try your left
hand side. Do this 10 times on each side. Do this for 1 year on earth then use smooth stone
against your elbows and feet. Do this for 2 more years then do the same on rough stone. Do this
for 1 year then dig a trench 3 feet in width and 6 feet in length and put small and large cobbled
stones mixed with mud and sand into the trench. You must also put water into the trench to and
let it harden a bit to form a cobbled board. Now practice the above inside the trench on the
cobbles. You will feel pain so you will need to treat your elbows with medicine. Keep
practicing until you feel comfortable with the exercise. Now add crushed stone, mud and sand
to the trench with some water to harden it up a little. Do the same until your elbows and heels
are hard. To achieve this skill it requires at least 3 years of practice.
Light an oil lamp or a candle and place it onto a table. Stand about 3 feet away from the candle
in horse riding stance. Channel your Qi down to your dantian and concentrate on yourself.
Thrust out your fists towards the lamp or candle for about half an hour. Practice this every
morning and evening. Once you can put out the flame you have successfully passed the first
stage. Now move yourself back 8 paces and repeat the same exercise. Once you can put out the
flame from this distance you will be successful. It is said that once you have accomplished this
that you can hit a person without even touching them.
Stand in front of a well or a big tall container of water. While in horse riding stance thrust your
fists towards the surface of the water 100 times. Do this during early morning or after midnight.
You will seem like you are achieving nothing for a long time. After 1 or 2 years your fists will
cause the water to stir slightly. Lots more practice will cause the water to become agitated and
noisy. More practice will make the water sound like waves. At least 6 to 8 more years practice
will pay off as the water will sound like the rolling of waves and your punches will be
devastating.
On a daily basis stand in horse riding stance. If you get tired take a rest then try again. When
you can stand in horse riding stance for two hours you have achieved the first stage of this art.
You must now start to run long distances, this will make your legs very strong and tough. It
says in the old texts that your legs will be invincible. For the next stage bury wood stakes (at
least 6 inches in diameter) in the ground and continually kick them with your feet and legs. At
first your legs will hurt a lot and will become bruised, but within a few weeks your legs and
muscles will become tough and you will not feel the pain. Once you can shake or even brake
the stake, bury bigger stakes into the ground and resume practice. It says that after three years
of training, your kicks can shake the branches of big trees or brake the trunk of a small tree.
Sit cross legged and strike your knees 72 times with your fists. Now loosen your fists and press
the plams of your hands onto your knees. Now massage then 36 times from outwards to
inwards and then 36 times again from inwards to outwards. After massaging repeat the above
again 8 times. Do all of this before you go to bed and when you get up in the morning. After 1
year your knee bones will be very hard. Now get 2 wooden hammers in the shape of a ball with
soft ratten handles. Hit your knees simultaneously 72 times with your wooden hammers.
Massage them as before but only 9 times. Do this for a year and your knees will be extremely
tough. Now use 2 iron hammers about the same shape as the wooden ones. Repeat the same
training as with the wooden hammers and after 1 year you will accomplish this art.
While you take a walk try to kick stones or bricks with your toes. After a long time the muscles
in your toes will become elastic and tough. You must now attempt to kick bigger stones or
bricks with more force. When you can kick the objects far away, practice kicking them at a
target. Practicing this technique will result in very good gripping stances.
First, make a hard wood "Pai-Brick", this must be one foot in length, 6 inches in width and one
& half inches in thickness. Holding the center of the brick, beat each part of your body with the
edge of the brick. At first you should beat lightly then start to beat more heavily. Start by
beating your upper then lower arms at least a hundred times each section of your body. Now
beat your thigh and shank in the same manner. When beating the left side you must hold the
brick in your right hand. Now beat your abdomen and chest and lastly on your shoulder blades.
At morning and evening execute the beatings one hundred times on each of the above
mentioned body parts. After one year use a kiln baked bricj instead of the wooden brick. Half a
year later use a metal brick. You will accomplish this art after half a years practice with the
metal brick.
Practice this art step by step and without rushing. You must concentrate at all times. First use a
block of stone or a weight of some kind **********UNFINISHED***********
You first have to find a piece of long soft cloth and bind it around your chest and back, several
times.
Give yourself a forceful massage all over your body. Hurl your arms forwards and backwards,
opening your chest right up, then closing your chest. At night sleep on a hard wooden board,
this will make your muscles and bones tough. When your muscles and bones feel tough you
should set up an iron bar (like a chin up bar) in your garden.Dig a pit around a foot deep in
front of the bar and fill it with sand. In the morning and night, practice hanging from the bar
and tossing yourself into the sandpit. When you land in the sand pit practice landing on your
shoulder / back / chest / abdomen and arms. Do this for three years then remove the soft cloth
from around your chest. Now you must beat your body with a wooden hammer, When you are
used to the wooden hammer use an iron hammer to beat your body. Concentrate and use your
Qi to withstand the beating of the iron hammer. After another three year your upper body will
be as pliable as cotton and you will have been successful in the Iron Shirt Art.
The masters say that this skill is one of the most important arts in Gong Fu.
You must first make a hammer out of cloth and beat your whole body with it. At the beginning,
it may be painful but time will make it feel less painful. Once you feel ready to move on beat
your body with a wooden hammer instead. After lots of training you will not feel pain from the
wooden hammer, this is when you should move onto the iron hammer. When you can finally
feel no pain from the iron hammer you must start to learn the other following arts:- Somersault
Arts / Iron Shirt Arts and Iron Cow Arts. After two or three years of training you should
develop muscles in your back and chest as hard as stone. It is said that after this final stage is
attained that no form of kick or punch will harm these areas of your body.
In the swimming skill , there are eight different types of stroke. They are as follows:-
1. Treading water - Using your feet. Also projecting your upper body out of the water.
Also as a separate exercise you should lift up your Qi and using your feet and hands
tread water. Resisting – Resist crashing waves with your shoulders slanting
forwards.
2. Stamping – Unknown.
3. Floating – Unknown.
4. Diving – Unknown.
5. Sinking – Unknown.
6. Sitting – Practice sitting on the bottom for as long as possible.
7. Plunging – Unknown.
Meditation is often one of the hardest parts of Tai Chi for beginning
students to want to learn. It can be a difficult thing to just step out
of our fast paced lives and all of a sudden go into a still and quiet
place. We’re not used to it, so the lack of being involved in
external stimulus can seem boring - at first. However this boredom
doesn’t last for long.
3. There is a gentle, relaxed bend to the knees and they tend to push
lightly outwards as opposed to collapsing inwards.
5. The shoulders are loose and relaxed, not raised up, hands hang loosely
at the sides.
7. Breathing is done through the nose and is slow, soft, and deep.
8. Eyes are either closed, or are slightly parted but not focused on
anything.
1. Follow your breath with your mind, feeling where it goes inside of you.
2. Slowly scan your body from head to feet looking for any tension or
discomfort. If any is found, use the mind to gently guide the breath
there and as you exhale, imagine the tension flowing down and
releasing into the Earth, dispersing.
1. Become aware of your feet and their connection to the Earth. Imagine
that you are inhaling strong, clean energy from the Earth into the
Bubbling Well points of your feet, and exhaling used, turbid energy
back into the Earth. Do this for 8 to 36 breaths.
2. Next let the energy from the Earth travel up the legs and into the lower
dan tien located beneath the navel. This is our center of inner strength
and power. Imagine that you are inhaling pure, healing energy into
your dan tien, letting it fill your entire lower abdomen. Exhale, purging
any unclean energy from this center. Do this for 8 to 36 breaths.
3. Change the focus of your mind to the heart center located in the
middle of the chest. This is our center of love and compassion. Imagine
that you are inhaling purified energy into the heart center. Exhale,
cleansing the heart and surrounding yourself with the feeling of
compassion. Do this for 8 to 36 breaths.
4. Change the focus of your mind to the 3rd eye center located between
the eyebrows in the middle of the forehead. This is our center of higher
consciousness. Imagine that you are inhaling clear and focused energy
into the 3rd eye center. Exhale, cleansing the mind and connecting with
the consciousness of the Universe. Do this for 8 to 36 breaths.
5. Now bring the focus of your mind back to the lower dan tien, below the
navel. Imagine a warm flow of energy filling this center. As you both
inhale and exhale, imagine a channel of energy extending upwards
from the dan tien to the heart center, and continuing up to the 3rd eye
center. This connects our body, spirit, and mind. Maintain this
connection for 8 to 36 breaths.
6. Change the focus of your mind to the palms of your hands. Imagine
breathing into the Lao Gong point at the center of your palms and also
exhaling from this point. Feel your hands filling and becoming
surrounded in warm qi. Do this for 8 to 36 breaths.
7. Finally, simply stand and follow your breath. Allow yourself to feel the
energy flowing in and around your body. Do this until you feel finished.
Variations
Seated
The above 12 Hexagrams are the Taoist Alchemical road map into the esoteric meditation
system of the macro orbital process. It traces the movement of the inner Qi, energy, or fire, up
the central channel and gradually down again through the Receptive channel in the front of the
body.
Notice how the yang line, _____, rises up through the yin lines - - . Knowing the 12 fire phases
makes it possible for the Taoist master to guide the novice. Sometimes, in their haste beginners
build up the fire too quickly, which can result in excessive manifestations of Qi in the form of
hallucinations and spontaneous movement. Such phenomenon are mere manifestations of Qi
transition from one stage of its movement into the next, but if the novice gets stuck in the
phenomenon, the buildup of Qi can become very dangerous and may even exhaust the organic
system of the body. A proper remedy must be sought out to heal the novice, allowing the Qi to
flow properly.
The diagram comes from the Yiwai biezhuan (The separate transmission of the Book of
Changes), written by Yu Yan in 1284. This work contains several cosmological diagrams,
followed by passages drawn from the Book of Changes and commented on through quotations
from the Zhouyi cantong qi.
Diagrams like this have a long history in China. They are used to show the correspondence
between different ways of marking space and time, e.g., the directions, the twelve primary
hexagrams (each associated with one month), the days of the moon cycle, the lunar mansions,
and so on. In addition, each discipline is based on the laws of cosmology and uses these
diagrams in different ways, e.g., for astronomical calculation or divination. In Chinese alchemy,
the correspondences shown by these devices are used to establish the "fire phases" (huohou),
i.e., the cycles of firing in external alchemy (waidan) and the cycles of the circulation of the
primary components of the person in internal alchemy (neidan).
Qi Breathing :
Daoist Breathing: This breathing involves you to pull in your stomach when you inhale and let
in go out when you exhale. This will get Qi to flow out of the Tan Tien.
Belly Breathing: This exercise will allow you to bring Qi into your Tan Tien. When you inhale
your stomach should expand out using the lower part of your lungs. When you exhale let the
stomach return to its normal position.
Condensing Breathing: This exercise turns Qi into Jing (if you don’t know what Jing is see the
“What is Qi” part of my web site) Visualize that you are only a skeleton. Center you attention
to your arm bones. When you inhale visualize your Qi moving inward into the bone toward the
marrow, like your bones are shrinking each time you inhale. When you exhale hold this
visualization. Repeat this as much as you want. After a while you should feel a slight heat,
tingling, cold, or vibrations in your arms, this is Jing.
Qi Exercise
Phoenix Spreads Its Wings and Dives
1. Stand with hands at side, one leg a half step in front of the other, visualize yourself as a
phoenix.
2. Slowly raise up your arms until they are horizontal at your shoulder level, like a phoenix
spreading its wings
.
3. Turn your hands outward, like a phoenix's wingtips.
4. Bend forward, with your arms behind you, like a phoenix swooping down.
5. Return to starting position and repeat as much as you want.
Effects: This exercise cultivates health and has the following effects on the practitioner. 1.
Increased endurance and vigor 2. Built-up Resistance to Disease and cold weather 3. Strength
4. Clearer Skin 5. Spiritual progress and the cultivation of Wisdom
Healing with Qi
Qi Healing Techniques
Here are some techniques I have found that really help me when I get hurt.
The Phoenix
1. Stand with hands at side, visualize yourself as a phoenix.
2. Slowly raise up your arms until they are horizontal at your shoulder level, like a phoenix
spreading it's wings.
3. Turn your hands outward, like a phoenix's wingtips.
4. Stand like this for about fifteen minutes, feel the qi coming in through your palms.