Dog Walking Qi Gong

                      

I often do this qi gong exercise while walking my dog, Barran, which is why I call it “Dog Walking Qi Gong. It is very healing and strengthening for me. You can do it walking or sitting or even reclining. The key is to do it often and for at least 10 to 30 minutes. Many of you who try this exercise and do it often will be very pleased with the results, inshAllah.

1- First you make your intention clear, that being to place yourself in alignment with the Universal Energy Field or the Unity of All Things or God or the Universe or whatever name you like to give it. You can for instance say and mean and feel things like, “I am one with Heaven and Earth”. You can also say for instance, “I am in the Universe. The Universe is in my body. The Universe and I combine together.”

2- Now feel the top of your head and the space above and around the top of your head. As you inhale invite the most beautiful, loving, nourishing and healing Heaven energy to flow down through the top of your head through Bai Hui down through the center channel (a flow of energy that runs through the center of your body from the top of your head to the area between your anus and your sex organ Called the perineum) into you lower abdomen about two inches below your bellybutton. This area is called lower dan tien.  As you exhale see and feel the nourishing Sky energy as it flows through your whole body (including your energy body that goes beyond your skin) like a gentle explosion, loving, healing nourishing, and strengthening your whole being.

3-  Move your awareness to the bottom of your feet. Feel the bottoms of your feet. Feel the earth beneath the bottom of your feet. As you inhale invite the most loving, beautiful, nourishing, healing, and strengthening Earth energy to flow into your feet, up your legs and into your lower dan tien.  As you exhale feel and know that the Earth energy is flowing from your dan tien like a gentle explosion through your whole body. It loves, nourishes, heals and strengthens as it flows all the way through and out your skin and into your energy field surrounding your physical body.

4- Repeat the pattern. Observe that as you inhale the Heaven qi flows effortlessly down through the top of your head into the center channel and down into your lower dan tien. As you exhale notice and feel how the Sky energy explodes gently out of your lower dan tien and flows through your whole being.

5- Repeat the pattern. As you inhale notice the Earth qi flowing into your feet and up your legs and into your lower dan tien. As you exhale notice and feel the Earth qi as it gently explodes from your lower dan tien and flow effortlessly out through your whole being.

6- When you are comfortable doing “Dog Walking Qi Gong you can do this next step. As you inhale imagine the Sky qi flowing down your center channel to your lower dan tien and at the same time, Earth qi flowing up into your feet and up your legs to your lower dan tien. Feel or imagine Sky and Earth qi alchemically mixing in your lower dan tien. As you exhale know, feel and imagine the fusion of Sky and Earth qi gently exploding and disbursing through your whole body being energizing, healing and strengthening you. Repeat the pattern as long as you desire. I recommend at least twenty minutes. But do as you see fit.