River's Chi House

My intent for this blog is to be a non-commercial free space where people can come to learn chi kung a.k.a qigong  and other healing techniques, inshAllah. It is dedicated to helping people find and share information about how to help themselves and each other through difficult life/death situations. A big part of this blog is dedicated to chi kung (pronounced chee kung) in general and medical chi kung in particular But chi kung is only part of what is here. It is also includes information and access portals via numerous links to many other helpful and effective paradigms and techniques which I believe can be of great benefit for people in various forms of distress. So it is my wish and  hope, inshAllah, that many of you reading this will find in my blog a place where you can deepen your understanding and experience about some of the things I think are helpful to study and practice in relationship to healing and transforming yourself and others, if that be your interest and...

   The middle dan tien is located in the area of the heart. This exercise takes place there. It can ease anxiety and sooth distress of the soul. It's really rather simple, easy and effective for most people myself included. If you are good at visualizing it is even easier. You can do it anywhere and as long or as short and as often as you please. Some people do it here and there all through the day and even trough the night. It is accumulative in its effect. The more you do it the easier and stronger it becomes. There are no wasted efforts. So here goes.    I love Quan Yin so I start off inviting her into my middle dan tien. Many people invite Mother Mary or Jesus or Buddha or a Saint or some other holy being from a tradition that touches their heart. It doesn't matter who you call you will eventually be able to see or feel their presence in your heart. Belief is not required. I find that beliefs are not our best guides because they seem for most of us to come an...

   I was just looking at how many times this blog has been visited and was surprised. I am bringing the site up to date so I had to go into the edit section to change my location and other things and I stumbled on a section that showed the number of visits to RiversChiHouse since day one. My site meter went down years ago and I had no idea about the current count. The last time I looked a number of years ago it was about 25,000. I just forgot about it because the numbers didn't change. It turns out the company I used went out of business.   When I went into the stats on the site Google kept I was shocked to see I have had 42,332 visits since I started it on July 30 2009. I had no idea. I thought the site was basically being ignored for the last few years. The biggest reason I abandoned the site was I figured since there seemed to be no significant numbers of new visits why waste my time posting very much. So I found another visit meter and placed Googles numbers in it a...

   On September 24th I decided to renew my commitment to qigong exploration and practice. For a number of years I let this blog go and have only posted periodically. I did that because I felt I posted everything I knew or could find relative to qigong practice and healing. I was very comfortable with my choice.     Times change. Because of a car crash in July that totaled my car and sent me to the emergency ward and into PTS  I have decided for my recovery to practice what some in Qigong call the 100 Days. That means you commit to practice a form of qigong twice a day everyday for 100 days. I have decided to start posting again because I am approaching Qigong like a new student and at the same time an old student. Martial arts sometimes call that practicing with a White Belt Attitude. A White Belt is a new student who full of passion and commitment to learning martial arts. A White Belt Attitude is when a veteran student decides to approach the arts with a f...