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You are making progress, just continue with what you are doing. Your breathing will be much deeper and deeper. It will become your natural breathing habit. Just breathe like that normally, then, you won't have to be concerned with breathing as you would have before you practiced qigong. Best of all, your body will carry out all the biological functions to keep your body in tune. FYI The metabolism is the healing system. It will repair any damage to the body cells to keep your body in tip top shape. That is progress from the long time practice of qigong. Progress is not accomplished by the hours practice per day. Rather it is by the diligent practice every day for many years to come.

Think of a camera and a lens, if the lens is dirty, then everything the camera films will also be dirty. If we explore it further, the world you see is defined by your evolutionary level. In the magic paradigm, it is called AP position. Different people will see - build a different reality. A more cultivated person would be able to interact with and perceive higher energies, subtle planes, and spiritual reality that will reveal itself above the physical reality. Things like Qi, Aura, Energy Fields, become visible to your eyes like any other physical object. You could say that the physical world is the tip of an iceberg.

Definitely not to much to ask, and I have given it five stars, but for some reason I am not qaulitified by Amazon to leave a written review.

Jane Alexander (SFJane here on at the bums) was of the opinion that psychosis was caused by far too much chi in head centers wreaking havoc, and that getting that energy down helped heal it. She was bipolar and occasionally psychotic and used qigong and meditation to heal that, with an emphasis on dissolving blocks and sinking energy. I observed in forums over the years that those who got psychotic, or near psychotic, through meditative practices seemed to get out of it if they just grounded enough. My own experience of extreme chi deviation bordering on psychosis had the same cause and cure. The cause was too much energy rushing to the head and what reduced the symptoms was getting the energy down. This all made me very curious if grounding practices could be especially important in the healing of regular psychosis, not just the meditation and qigong induced varieties. So, once when I ended up in conversation with a woman in Starbucks that was in and out of psychosis frequently I explained this to her and asked her what she thought about it. She said she found it very interesting because she had once gotten out of a psychotic episode by combining going for an extremely long walk with constantly paying attention to the soles of her feet and their contact with the ground. I also talked about this with a psychologist that worked with people that were recently committed to a psychiatric hospital. She liked the perspective and said a lot of what she does to get those who are lost in psychosis to a place where they can start working in a normal therapy type way was through having them do lots of exercises with their bodies to get them back into reality and in contact with the here and now through their bodies.

I would say that Michael Winn at least approaches it quite a lot better.

I mean it has a picture, bullet-point list and uses science to legitimise the practice. Does it get any more legit than that!? My thoughts: The aim of the practice seems to be to open "the third eye". It also seems to want you to move your awareness all over the place. A lot of "energetic work". In some places it seems a bit too non-specific, may be because it isn't a starter/beginner practice, but then why use the kind of explanatory language that's used to begin with? To me the document seems to be made by somebody who isn't an expert. Who has a basic understanding of the language used within daoist and yogic traditions and maybe the person even learned a practice much like the one described and are now sharing it. My conclusion: If the main aim of the practice is to open the third eye, there's probably better and more stable, tried and true practices for that purpose out there. As for whether it'll lead to qi deviation... no idea.... even legit tried and tested practices can lead to that. Which is why people tend to recommend having a teacher.

Wow! That is so good to hear. I'm glad you liked it. My inspiration is really a combination of Daoist practices, Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmir Shaivism. I love reading story-based texts that have mystery and a deeper/spiritual meaning. Somehow, I enjoy them more than dry texts (either scriptural or academic)... If it is not too much to ask, could you please rate and/or write a brief review so that other readers can find it?

I was aiming for three messages (although a longer post could aim for more.) 1) Any practice falls on the foundation of who you are. If you are a person with a sense of responsibility to yourself, aka self discipline, you are likely to transfer this attitude onto how you go about practicing qigong. That's the message I derive from Person A's experience. 2) You don't have to "believe" in it -- just give it a fair trial period and your results (or lack thereof) will speak louder than any pre-conceived ideas. Positive ones are likely to keep you coming back. Like Person B. 3) Different strokes. Some like rock, some can't stand it and only want opera, which rock aficionados might find extremely annoying. Many people have to watch their diet because they want to lose weight -- but I, for instance, have to watch my diet so as to avoid losing weight. Qigong can be "metabolized" (or not) in a similar vein -- individual preferences (ideally reasonable and sensible rather than whimsical) are allowed a say in what we seek and what we avoid. Person C in my example practices taiji neigong, which makes qigong very optional, and not wanting to practice it, quite reasonable.

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