A Good Chi Kung Exercise

Stagnant chi is a problem for everyone. And our channels and meridians get clogged up just like silt accumulates in rivers and streams and harbors. The following chi kung exercise is good for clearing stagnant chi and dredging our channels and meridians and strengthening our whole energy/mind/physical body. You can find the locations of the channels, meridians, and acupoints at the following link; http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/locations_theory_and_clinical_applications

This chi kung practice, indeed any chi kung practice, will take time and effort to learn. But it is worth it. I recommend moving through your body as directed while you read it. In other words, read a section and move your awareness through the area of your body it is referring to and then go on to the next section. The idea is to ground the experientially in your body. Sit in a comfortable position. Ladies place your right hand over your lower abdomen. Place your left hand over your left hand. Men place your left hand over your lower abdomen. Place your right hand over your left hand. Open your mouth slightly and relax your jaw. Place the tip of your tongue on your upper palate just behind your front two teeth. Place a smile in your upper tan tie. Place a smile in your middle dan tien. Place a smile in your lower dan tien. In chi kung every step must be consciously intentional. Your first intention is to root yourself in Heaven and Earth. Bring our attention to the top of your head. Intend for Bhi Hui to be open and receive the Heaven energy. Imagine Heaven energy flowing though Bhi Hui and into and down your Center Channel to your lower dan tien. Inhale and exhale three times paying attention to your lower dan tien. Regulate your breath so your belly goes out on the inhale and in on the exhale. After three conscious breaths too and from the dan tien you are ready to start any internal chi kung practice. First an important note. The Center Chanel is an area of energy that flows from Bhi Hui thought the center of your body to the area between your anus and your sex organ, the perineum. In the middle of the perineum is an acupoint named Hui Yin. Now let us return to the top of your head and back to Bhi Hui. Remember yi or intentional movement leads chi. Your intention is to first lead Heaven energy into and through your body. Next, to consciously send your energy roots into the Earth and therefore place yourself consciously in the energy fields of Heaven and Earth. So let us root ourselves between Heaven and Earth. Bring your awareness to the Heaven above your head and lead Heaven energy through Bhi Hui down your Center Channel and fill up the first third of the trunk of your body called the heart area. Be aware of your middle dan tien. Next, move your awareness down to the second part of the trunk of your body to the belly button and fill it up with Heaven energy. Now move your awareness down to your lower abdomen and fill your entire lower abdomen with Heaven energy. Be aware of your lower dan tien . Move your awareness from your lower dan tien and fill up your upper left leg. Move your awareness down and fill up your lower left leg. Fill up your left foot being aware of Kidney one or your Gushing Spring. Let your awareness flow into the Earth and imagine your have energy roots that are sinking deep and wide into the Earth. Return your awareness to lower dan tien. From lower dan tien flow into and down your right leg, filling up the upper right leg. Fill up the lower right leg. Fill up your right foot and flow through Kidney one, Gushing Springs and root yourself deep and wide into the Earth energy. Bring your awareness to your upper left jaw. Let your awareness flow down and fill up your left jaw and continue down through the left part of your throat and into your left shoulder. From your left shoulder fill up your left upper arm. Than flow down into and fill up your left lower arm. Fill up your left hand paying attention to the middle of your left palm an area called Laboring Palace. Move back to your right jaw. Flow down and fill up your right jaw, throat and right shoulder. Fill up your right upper arm, Flow into and fill up your right lower arm. Now fill up your right hand paying attention to your right Laboring Palace. Move back to your jaws and let your awareness flow up and over your forehead and fill up the rest of your face top of and back of your head. Fill up your brain cavity paying attention to your upper dan tien. Bring your attention to Bhi Hui. From Bhi Hui move down the last part of your Governing Chanel or Vessel to the start of the Conception Vessel where your tongue touches your upper palate just behind your front teeth. This is where your Concepton Channel starts. Let your awareness flow down and fill up your Conception Chanel. I will refer to this vessel as the front channel. The front channel ends at Hui yin to the middle of the perineum. From Hui Yin move your awareness and fill up the Governing Channel or back channel. The back channel starts right after Hui Yin and flows up between the skin and the spine, over the top of the head and to the tip of your tongue. Now go back to Bhi Hui. From Bhi Hui flow down and fill up your Center Channel. Back to Bhi Hui and inhale and exhale down your center Chanel to your lower dan tien filling it with chi. You have now rooted yourself between Heaven and Earth and filled yourself with chi. You are ready for the next step. From Bhi Hui, inhale and guide chi down your center channel to your lower dan tien. Exhale from your lower dan tien and as you do so imagine exploding the chi from your lower dan tien throughout your whole body like a sun going nova. Repeat this step for about five minutes. Inhale and guide the chi down the center channel to lower dan tien. Exhale and explode your awareness and the chi from your lower dan tien to fill up your whole body. After five minutes return your awareness to Bhi Hui and you are ready for another step. When you are good at this you will inhale down the center channel to lower dan tien. From lower dan tien go up and circle you waist or girdle channel twice from left to right and return to the center channel and move the rest of the way down your center channel to Hui Yin. My Tam called it "Down Around and Around, Down and Back Up." From Hui Yin, exhale up the center channel back to Bhi Hui. Eventually you will do the entire movement in one complete breath. For now use as many breaths as you need. Your intention is to move from Bhi Hui down the Center channel to lower dan tien. From lower dan tien move up and circle your waist twice. Pay attention to your Ming Men on the middle of your spine parallel to your belly button as you circle your waist. After circling your wait twice from left to right return to the center channel and go down to Hui Yin. From Hui Yin return up the center channel to Bhi Hui. Repeat this pattern for ten minutes. Return your awareness to Bhi Hui. Now, move down your awareness down the last part of your Governing Channel to the start of your Conception or Front Channel. Inhale down your front channel to Hui Yin. Exhale as you move your awareness up your Governing or back chanell to your front chanell, where the tip of your tongue meets the roof of your mouth. . Repeat for ten minuted. Inhale down your front Channel, exhale up your back Channel. Pay attention to or be aware of Ming Men and Bhi Hui as you pass them. After ten minutes return your awareness to your lower dan tien. During a chi kung practice you generate a lot of excess chi. It is important that you always store any excess chi in your lower dan tien. Bring your awareness to the tips of your fingers and the top of your head. Now from those areas, bring your awareness through your body leading excess chi back to your lower dan tien. Repeat this movement three times. You can pace it with three complete breaths or just do it with your awareness without pacing with your breath. The important thing is to do it. You have now completed your chi kung practice. I urge you to do this practice once a day, every day for at least 100 days. More about this later. I urge those who want to get the most