Moving Qi
In order to move Qi you must put your mental intention in front of it. In other words if you can sense Qi in your feet an calf area of your leg just gently let your mind go to the area around your knees and imagine you feel the sensation there. In a very short time you will feel the tingly feeling grow and move to this area.
WARNING!
If you have a particular problem, say a stiff neck or pain in the shoulder, after a little while you can start to learn how to direct this energy to the area in pain. However you should not move the Qi straight from your feet to the neck in one swoop. If you do this you will probably feel a great surge of energy which will rush up into the head. A bit like a sudden rush of blood to the brain. This can cause discomfort and even lead to a mild head ache. It won't do you any harm though. It is better to learn to move Qi around the body in small stages.
So if you wanted to move Qi from the feet to the neck it would be best to start by letting it rise to the knees then move it gently up into to the hips/stomach and gradually through your chest into the affected area.
Once you have collected the energy in the right area just let it rest there. You can now imagine your body healing itself and rebuilding damaged cells or sore muscles. After a while let the Qi move and go where it wants to naturally. If you are perfectly healthy the Qi will move wherever it is needed. Your mind and body knows what is best. However a little experimenting now and again is good fun. Next month I will give a some other ideas on meditation and moving Qi but this will do for now.
Please note that by imagining that you are healing yourself you are not ignoring pain which is natures warning signal that something is wrong. Simply killing the pain is only desirable once you know what the problem is and once the healing process has started.
lf you have a particular medical problem and your doctor has diagnosed what the problem is you can use the above technique to speed up your recovery.
IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITION PLEASE SEEK PROFESSIONAL ADVICE. THE TECHNIQUESMENTIONED HERE ARE NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE ACOMPETENT MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS BUT RATHER TO COMPLIMENT IT!
If you have a diagnosed condition and are using pain killers then using Self-Hypnosis to dull the pain, it is probably a good idea. We do have a special Hypnotic tape which you can buy from us if you think you might need some extra help. (Price £9.95 include p&p).
The tape included with this release is primarily concerned with selfhealing. You can use the above technique in addition to the tape The tape does use some other ideas as well which might be useful.
What follows are some basic breathing Qigong exercises as promised. It is impossible to explain the subtlety of these techniques by simply writing them down, however they serve as a small introduction to this ancient and wonderful art. I would say even following a video would only convey a fraction of their true power so consider this a way of wetting your appetite. I have absolutely nothing to gain whether or not you decide to take Taijiquan /Qigong lessons. The point is you have a great deal to gain. It is not necessarily expensive either some adult education departments offer classes which are subsidised 1
This first set of exercises are ideally to be performed a few minutes before you start your trance session. The benefits of Qigong exercises are essentially those of providing balance and harmony. These exercises are always to be performed in slow motion. Some beginners find this very strange and can't see why you we don't just speed them up and rush through them. This is because in our modern existence speed and a hectic pace of life has become the norm. This is why most peoples' central nervous systems are in a constant state of hypertension. This undermines the bodies natural energy reserves which then undermines their health and shortens their lives.
By performing soft, slow, movements while doing deep diaphragmatic breathing you switch the autonomous nervous system over to the parasympathetic mode from the stressed sympathetic mode .By doing this your body can rejuvenate itself, and harmonise all the vital functions, and produce vital essence like hormones and neurochemicals.
Diaphragmatic breathing means that you draw the air deep down into our abdomen. This means that your lungs fill with air from the bottom upwards in this way you use all of your lung's capacity. Most people are shallow breathers and only use about 40%. If you study how young babies breath and copy them you will not go far wrong.
Stand with your feet shoulder width apart with your hands by your side. Make sure you tuck your bottom in so that your spine is as straight as it can be. It is important that when you do these movements you don't sway out of line but let gravity simply pass through you into the floor. See fig 2(A). The idea is to support your body's frame without using too much effort. Try to relax all the muscles in your legs and don't lock the knees. Don't make yourself stiff. You probably will not get this right over night, it will take a bit of time.
- Fig 2. (A) Fig2 (B) Fig 2 (C) Fig 2 (D)
Now breath in deeply and slowly, as you do bring your arms up in front of you as shown in Fig 2 (B), (C).
Hold the air in your lungs for about three or four seconds, but don't force it, and lower your arms. As you lower your arms, see Fig 2 (D), breath out slowly and empty your lungs. Now repeat this process for about five minutes or so.
An important point to note. When you bring your arms up they should feel very heavy like lead weights and have as little tension in them as possible. As you lift them up keep your shoulders low, don't raise them. Feel yourself getting support from your feet which are rooted to the ground. Let the movement of your arms co-ordinate with your breaths and just let your mind relax.
After a while you should feel your mind calming down. Try to let the breathing flow naturally, don't force it. Also make your movements slow and graceful and not jerky or sudden.
The next breathing technique can be performed after a session of selfhypnosis or meditation. As before stand with your feet a shoulder width apart with your hands by your side. Place the right hand gently over the back of your left hand at about waist level. Now raise your hands up in front of your chest and then above your head and stretch. During this stage you will be inhaling. Now separate your hands and bring your arms down either side of you, while exhaling. You can repeat this circular breathing motion for about four minutes.
Just in case you didn't know it already I hope you appreciate that Chinese medicine is a very complex area and it takes many years to grasp all the complexities that are involved. Some ignorant people consider Chinese Physicians to be nothing more than quacks, however they probably don't know that it takes around fourteen years to train a traditional Chinese Doctor compared to around five or seven in the west.
When western medicine was only just beginning to raise itself a little above basic superstition and leaches Chinese medicine had already enjoyed a successful track record for at least four thousand years. Various physicians down the ages had refined and catalogued various recipes and cures for a wide range of disorders using various herbs, mineral and animal extracts. By the time western medicine had diagnosed illnesses like beriberi and goitre the Chinese had already found a cure hundreds of years earlier. In fact the west were starting to borrow or steal many cures from China. Quinine as a cure for malaria was taken from southern China by a Jesuit Priest who then passed it off as his own discovery. Similarly the technique of taking vaccines from cow's blood was first perfected in China and also brought back to Europe by Missionaries.
I know of many people who have turned to Chinese medicine to cure their ills because western medicine cannot help them. This does not mean that western medicine is in some way inferior. In many of the cases that I have personally heard of those people could have avoided their conditions by taking simple preventive means!
Because Chinese medicine is a part of a whole way of life it is but one segment of the whole. Yes it is holistic in nature, in that it treats the whole body, not just a small area that appears to be affected, but it works best when other aspects of life are also taken into consideration. The emphasis is on prevention rather than cure.
Until this century rich Chinese households employed a physician to regularly visit the family in order to monitor the health of the whole family. It would be his job to give advice on their diet, personal habits, and generally regulate their life style to ensure they remained in good health. Should anyone fall sick, the family would suspend his salary until he had restored them to full health, at the physician's expense.
In Taoist philosophy if you live following the certain irrefutable and immutable laws by living in harmony with, instead of against nature, you will not get sick. This is because the bodies natural defences will repel any invasion from attack. If an individual takes care to maintain his or her level of health and immunity then it follows that they should not be vulnerable to disease.
"Health is easier to maintain than it is to acquire." Doctor Russ Jaffe
The Doctor who made the above statement is a specialist in the treatment of AIDS. It is his assertion that healthy people should not contract the Disease.
You have already taken a huge step in improving your own bodies well being if you did but know it. By having one or two Self-Hypnosis sessions each day you are giving your mind and body a badly needed rest where your heart beat can slow to a murmur. Your blood pressure can reduce and your brain can have a break from all the cacophony which is now modern daily life.
If you went back a few hundred years what do suppose would be the loudest sound we would ever hear? Until gun powder was invented it probably would have been a thunder storm or a large water fall. Think about what most of us have to put up with every day.
Without being consciously aware of it our minds are bombarded by a constant stream of stimuli every minute of the day from when we wake up to when we go to bed. There is electromagnetic and noise pollution, not to mention all the other types of pollution, from radios, television, telephones, mobile phones, faxes, motor traffic, computers the list goes on and on. This is not natural.
This is why people today feel so stressed. This is why it is so important that you have a few precious moments each day when you can calm your system down and let it just be. We all need a time when we can forget about all our troubles and simply exist.
I can personally recommend the techniques described in this release and some others I will tell you about later on. I cannot remember the last time I HAD to go visit a doctor although, because I move around a lot, I sometimes have to register with a doctor and have a compulsory check-up. It amuses me to see the look on their faces when they take my pulse and blood pressure. It is always way below what they would normally expect. I not saying I am perfect I still get the odd sniffle, but very rarely, and they never last long.
I have never known my Taijiquan teacher miss a night because of ill health. The Grand Master of our particular form of Tai Chi, and his wife, are both in their hundreds. They both teach and train every day. There is a Qigong teacher I know who returns to China every year for a month to retrain with his master. His master is a lady who is at least 105 and also teaches, and practises, Qigong every day. What is more I heard she was considering a visit to Europe to give demonstrations! I know that I can feel very tried before a Taijiquan session but after two hours of training I feel greatly invigorated. It works!
What I have tried to do here is show you that our state of health is largely in our own hands, or more accurately in our own minds. Some people are very sceptical about alternative methods of health care and have negative gut reaction to them. It is for this reason I have used Chinese cultural and medical examples in this release because their theories are firmly based on research and observation over many thousands of years. I wanted to show you a different way of looking at yourself and your body. You can use Self-Hypnosis to improve your health. Each of us does have a life force, or Qi, within us which can be strengthened and used to keep us healthy. There is a lot more on this subject that I must tell you about, however for now this will have to do.
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