Three Healing Forms of Chi Kung
Healing Chi Kung
The first thing to do before starting any chi kung practice is to move into a comfortable position. This can be sitting, standing, or reclining. Start to relax all your muscles from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. Regulate your breathing so your belly goes out on the inhale and in on the exhale. Above all else smile. During a chi kung practice try to keep a smile in your heart and let it often flow to your lips. Place smiles in your brain, in your heart, and in your lower abdomen just below your bellybutton. Remember to be very kind and patient with yourself. But also remember to stay focused. Of course you will lose focus during the exercises because your mind and emotions will tend to take you away from your intention to practice. When this happens as soon as you notice that you are thinking instead of doing the exercise, just let go of the thoughts and emotions and gently return to the practice. This forgetting and then returning to the exercise is normal so do not worry when it happens. But do keep returning to the practice. The first chi kung exercise I am going to show you is called Sky Nourishes Earth. I urge you to practice this exercise until you can do it with very little effort. I do Sky Nourishes Earth before I do any other chi kung exercise. It prepares your mind/body/energy field for all other exercises.
Sky Nourishes The Earth.
This exercise is good for relieving or preventing the harmful effects of stress. It is also good for eliminating or preventing headaches and many kinds of pain. It is also a good way to monitor and release unnecessary muscle tension and bad breathing patterns.
First feel the area around the top of your head. Feel or imagine you feel your brain. Imagine your brain is smiling. Feel your heart and imagine it smiling. Fell your lower abdomen and imagine it smiling. Feel the bottoms of your feet. Notice that they are smiling and happy.
Now we start. The intent of this practice is to bring Heaven energy down through the top of your head and out through our hands and feet. It is important to understand the intention of any chi kung practice before you do it. The Universe responds to our intentions. The clearer and stronger our intent the stronger will be the Universe's response. There is a saying in chi kung that “Chi follows yi." That would mean in English that energy follows disciplined intentional actions. In practice that means if you want chi to move in your body you must bring your awareness to that part of the body and move your awareness in patterns that you want the chi to move in. Thus "chi follows yi." There will come a time when you will pace your internal movements through your body with your breath. When you first start to practice chi kung do not worry too much about pacing with your breath. Just breathe naturally making sure you are belly breathing. Now let us start. Bring your awareness to your hair and top of your head. Fell the top of your head. Let your imagination and awareness guide Heaven chi through your head and body and out through your hands and feet. If you can, imagine that Heaven chi is flowing like warm water, down through the top of your head into and through your body.
From the top of your head move down through your smiling brain. Release any unnecessary muscle tension you encounter as you journey through your body.
From your neck move through your shoulders and down your arms and out your hands. At the same time moves down through the trunk of your body (notice your smiling heart and smiling lower abdomen as you pass through them) to your pelvic floor. From there flow down your legs to the bottom of your smiling feet and out into the earth.
As your intentional awareness guides Heaven chi through your energy/material body intend and know that it is cleaning out any toxic energy that has accumulated within you. Imagine that the chi of the Heaven is strengthening and healing and loving you. Know that as the chi from your body enters the earth any toxic energy is transformed into healing energy for the mother earth. As you move through your body you will find areas that are tight and pulled in and up with muscle tension. Just gently relax and soften these muscles and feel them sinking down towards your center of gravity in the lower dan tien.
You might notice a subtle current like sensation as you move through your body from top to bottom, skin to the core. The more you can feel and pay attention to that current the stronger your ability to cultivate chi. Do not worry if you can not feel the current at first. Sooner or later, as you practice more, you will feel it.
Feel yourself as you go down through your body from your skin to your connective tissue to your muscles to your tendons to your bones. Try to feel your organs as you pass through your body from head to foot. Notice the smiles in your brain, heat and lower abdomen. When you can, smile at the smiles you meet as you flow through your body. Be aware of your breath as it enters and leaves your body.
As you breathe in remember to feel the lower abdomen expand and as you breathe out feel it contract. If this is not happening, please pay more attention to how you breathe until it becomes natural for you. This will take time for most people. You must learn to breathe this way to rid yourself of headaches and reduce high blood pressure. Notice what areas of your body you can feel easily. These areas are called "awake." Notice areas of your body you cannot feel. These areas are called "asleep." Every time you pass through your body try to wake up more of the parts of your body that are "asleep." Do many passes of Sky Nourishes Earth.
Another thing you can do is to place smiles in any area in your body that is hurting or feels uncomfortable. When you pass through these areas during Sky Nourishes Earth smile at the smile you see in the areas of pain and discomfort. Often times the pain and discomfort will ease or disappear as you continue rounds of this exercise.
Golden Sphere of Energy. It is good for pain relief and energy.
Imagine a beautiful golden sphere of radiating energy moving and spinning and glowing in your abdomen just below your bellybutton. This area is called the lower dan tien. If you can, imagine the warmth and the feel of the golden radiating spinning sphere.
If you are feeling tired and need more energy just imagine the golden sphere radiating and spinning faster and faster in your lower belly i.e. lower dan tien. If you feel like you need more mental clarity imagine the golden sphere in your brain i.e. upper dan tien. The key is to really FEEL it radiating and spinning and in your mind eye SEE the golden sphere radiating and spinning. Keep it going as long as it takes. Sometimes it will be quick other times slow. But persevere.
The golden sphere can be used in all three dan tiens, either one at a time or in all three simultaneously (lower dan tien in the lower belly, middle dan tien in the heart area, upper dan tien in the brain area) and can be used anywhere there is pain or discomfort in the body. The KEY is to do it often enough to know it works and then make it a part of your everyday life.
If you have pain anywhere in your body, just imagine that the pain is a dark cloud of energy. Imagine the golden sphere is in the dark cloud and let the radiating sphere spin and as it spins it gets brighter and brighter and disperses the dark cloud.If you have many areas of pain you can place a golden sphere in each area or you can do one area at a time. Continue working with the golden sphere or spheres until the pain is gone or much reduced. If the pain returns call the golden sphere back and use it to disperse the dark cloud of pain.
Whole Body Breathing.
Good for most sickness or weakness.
Start with about five Sky Nourishes earth movements. Now feel as much of your skin surface as you are able. Feel especially the bottoms of your feet, your palms and finger tips, and the top of your head. Now imagine that the pours of your skin are little noses and your lower abdomen is your lungs. As you inhale imagine that you are breathing though your pours and through your body to the lungs in your lower abdomen also called the lower dan tien. As you exhale imagine you are breathing out from your lower dan tien through your body to the pours and into the sky. As you breathe in and out from your skin to the lower dan tien and back again to your skin, try to be aware of your connective tissue, muscles, tendons, organs and dan tiens as you go through them. We know that when you pay attention to a part of your body with intent you can increase circulation and energy flow to that part. So try to feel as much of your body as you can as you breathe in and out. Intend and imagine beautiful healing, loving, energy entering you with every inhalation. Intend and imagine any sickness or weakness leaving your energy/material body with every exhalation. Know that any weak or unhealthy energy will be transmuted by the Universe and used for good, so do not worry about breathing this energy out. This exercise is very good for sick people. It is also good to use when you feel weak. You can do this exercise as long or as short as you like. For better results I suggest about ten or twenty minutes.
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posted by River Gibeaut @ March 05, 2010
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