Stagnant Chi Can Be Felt As PAin

Combing or brushing out stagnant chi.

One of the many causes of physical and mental pain as defined by the Chinese paradigm is stagnant chi. The strong, smooth flow of chi through the body is vital for health, happiness and natural physical/emotional/spiritual development. Stagnant chi means that the smooth flow of chi through your body becomes interfered with and the area of interference cause all kinds of manifestations, including but not limited to, pain.

One of the most difficult aspects of Chinese chi medicine for most people to grasp is that a person is seen as a dynamic energy field. And, that we as energy fields exist within greater interpenetrating fields of dynamic energy. If we do not begin to comprehend this reality our understanding of how energy healing works will be very, very limited. As a result of our ignorance we will doubt the reality of the work and either ignore it or give it only a half hearted effort for a very short period of time. Mark Twain once said, "It is not what we know that will hurt us, it is what we know that ain't so." We think we understand who and what we are. We do not. We act or do not act on our understanding and the results are sadly predictable.

I would like to add here, that I believe nobody really understands completely what "it" is all about. However, those with better understand can produce better results in any field compared to other who understand less. One of my teachers once said that we are to young as a species to have any real deep knowledge about who and what we are and where we are. Fazal Inayat Khan once said that we are like pioneer explorers. We follow certain paths of other explorers and soon we are where the paths fade into animal trails and than we find ourselves confronting the wild wilderness. Our work is to explore and create new paths and give the gifts of our exploration to those who come after us. Than one day our species will have the possibility of real self knowledge. We will probably never really understand very much in this lifetime but the effort to understand is in itself worthwhile and our greatest gift to our world and our species.

Now back to stagnant chi. If you begin to see not with just your eyes and feel not just your physical body than you can begin to understand how and why chi or energy healing works.

Remember energy flows from a high gradient to a low gradient. And energy is responsive to intent and can be led by your moving awareness. Now take an area in pain. Visualize the area in like a stream that has rocks or other things inhibiting the free low of water. Imagine you can increase the flow of water through the blockage. With enough strong flow of water moving into and through the blockage most of the debris will be sooner or later cleared and the flow of the stream will once more be smooth and strong. Another way to picture it is to see the painful area as a dark cloud and project enough strong flowing wind light into the area to disburse the cloud and let the sun shine freely through the whole river of your being.

Now perhaps you can see and understand a little better why chi healing can work. As you move your hand or hands over an are of pain or other types of medical problem you are dissipating blockage of stagnant chi. Than as you move your hands to another area or away from the body you are directing the stagnant chi from the blocked area to move to areas that needs strengthening or out of the body and into the earth. You can see the movements as like combing knots out of your hair after a warm vinegar bath.The earth will turn any toxic chi into healing chi so do not worry that your bad chi will hurt hurt the earth. It will not. If you are treating anyone you must be sure to clear yourself after you are done with the treatment. You can do that in many ways. A simple one is to imagine that you are standing under a warm wonderful waterfall and it is flowing through you clearing cleaning and strengthening you for at least three complete breaths.