ridingtheox

have been away from tdb  site for some time.   Interesting to see all the new 'monikers'.    

My practice has changed some.   Doing  different qi gong forms as they attract my attention.   Have completed a couple of 100 day gongs since spring solstice including the 5 short form 2 times daily for 108days.   Yi Quan,  basic 'song' series and wu ji standing.  in the same period some intense  'peng, lu, chi, an'  left side right side minimum 16 reps.   I lost my advanced seated FP disk and am only doing #1  & #3.  Most often these are done at 2 or 3am, when i waken unexpectedly.   I love the ba duan jin done by Li Yuen Fei, it has been taken down off youtube,  but i have a copy downloaded by a friend.   It has suddenly become super intense.  

So  a couple days ago I had a bad sleep night and a spike in my bp after months of steady low readings. 

Immediately i began work on long form standing FP as well as mirroring Sifu Dunn's two youtube performances.

The qi flow and relaxation has been quite intense.   today  I just finished a 30 min routine of long form standing FP.  

I guess I should not have let my practice slip!

Peace to all beings

two days to go ...  today  I added a  determinedly slow long form to the 5 short forms   Still only 37 minutes for the long form and very nearly the same for the series of short forms. 

Tomorrow is Friends Meeting for Worship ... I am carrying a heavy sense of injustice for the separation of asylum seekers and their children.   May  we find compassion for all beings.

Hoa binh  tat ca sinh vien

now at day 95 ...  of 108   this has been a great journey  still running about 35 min / 5 practices mostly divided into two sections

3 - 4 of the 5 very early am time then finishing the last 2  around mid morning

i admit that i am ready to complete this 'gong'  and take an eclectic break  ... more 5 element practice,  some marrow cleansing, etc

plus m y  long form has not been quite as regularly  performed as perhaps it had been in the past ..   as recently noted there have been some sensation experiences during long form even with the situation.

the regular practice has been a relief to the world / nation event  so that has been an unexpected benefit

day 76 ... yesterday's practice especially energizing,  when i finished i brought up youtube 10 min version of Sifu Dunn's performance of the standing long form.   I mirrored the performance,  changed the speed to .75 and mirrored it again,  changed the speed to .5 and completed it again ... 45 minutes ( + short breaks in between).   By the end of this period FIRE ...  and METAL .    Later in the evening I did the long form normal style 30 min ...

lots of energy 

currently at day 65 ...  standing short form 5   yesterday i had a short period of right ear hearing near loss to some sort of eustacian tuber issue ... today  back to near normal

 peace to all

right   90  sec nominal   in other posts I have given example times ...  much longer than 90 sec in fact

2 hours ago, BluePhoenix133 said:

Riding the ox, what meditations are you doing? Do you mean the short form 90 seconds power meditations on volume 5?

I myself was thinking of only doing 3 meditations a day but always different so i cycle through all of them, that way i dont put a burden on myself to do too much but also because i have trouble sleeping too much fp probably doesnt help. But perhaps i should give what your doing a try.

Yes i am doing the short form 5 ...  I do all of them  every day ... sometimes 2x.   on the days i don't do 2x  i try to do  the long form

the time is about one hour broken into two sessions  in either case ... as noted here previously  i have hit 40 min on the long form a couple of times recently but mostly 30 min

Sleeping is a bit of a problem for me still 'old man bladder' issues and that has decreased in frequency of late .      I credit FP for this

btw  i also occasionally do a couple of the seated  forms   50 20 10 and 70 50 20 10  most often late evening or middle of the night when i can not slip right back to sleep.

good luck  persistent practice pattern  pays off  with FPCH

On 4/20/2018 at 9:05 AM, zen-bear said:

In addition to these "normal" effects of FP practice, I also experienced these salient effects, which I don't believe I've written about and I recall anyone posting about yet:   hair on the head, beard, fingernails and toenails growing noticeably much faster--in fact, growing like crazy.  With hair and beard thicker.

yup  and my hair is darker  the white receding in most places.   beard?  i meam suddenly getting beard where none grew  not lots but some and my nails are definitely growing faster especially toe nails. 

I am now at day 51 of my short standing meditation 'gong'  half way point.   This year my allergies are virtually non-existent compared to a few years ago and other folks are saying this is a particularly bad year in Arizona.  I am hurtling toward 78 yr and have number of people asking how is that possible 60's max! 

Right now I am also doing some bone marrow cleansing exercises along with simple 5 element ...  practice intensely people this WORKS. 

Peace please 

ridingtheox ...

where did everyone go?  last post 3 weeks ago today.  i am  at day 24 of daily practice of the 5 short form almost 1/4   enjoying the journey... a new comer has joined my small tjq /tcc class.  He is older than I am! He is unable to lift his left arm much above his waist and his left shoulder must be 'stuck' at 2 inches higher than the right.    However,  he is already making progress restoring  movement and the shoulder is gradually returning to normal level.  (One of my students noticed this confirming my observation without my input.)   At this point we are doing a little Zhan Zhuang and some warm ups he can execute.   Then  the short form 24 Tai ji .  Ending with a silk reeling exercise the class is now learning and closing ZZ.

14 hours ago, Aeran said:

As an interesting aside, a side effect of this is that I simply cannot practice FP while listening to certain pieces of music, because they draws my attention in a way which breaks this tight-rope concentration instantly. I tried practising to Glass's Metamorphosis once, a piece of music I otherwise enjoy, and it ruined my attention so thoroughly that I took I think 3 attempts to get through the breath sequence, and even then it was an ordeal to try and relax and go through with the meditation with the music playing.

Interesting i just completed 5 standing short forms practiced to  Glass' Metamorphosis 39:50 total time,   I have also practiced to the score of "The Hours".   Music that somehow expresses a repetitive pattern like the breath and heart basic physiological rhythmic processes.  For me it was an extraordinary practice. 

I hope this is the beginning of a hundred day  gong for the short forms ...  currently day 7  keep your fingers crossed for me 

Peace ... Hoa Binh

charlie

after completing fed income tax today   practiced  5 standing short forms.  38 min  #1 5.5 min, #2 5.75 min, #3 8.8 min, #4 8 min and #5 10 min.   #3 may have a time issue ... did have to start it twice  ... long distance phone from son interrupted at the beginning

comment on five standing short forms:   Mid- year 17 I started a period of doing all five forms intending to do 100 days.. various interruptions ended that effort at about 70 days.   During that period,  however,  I did set a goal to move toward slower practice.  By the end  of  the period  almost all practice periods were longer than 30 minutes.  In general  #1 was about 6 min duration, #2   the shortest at 5 min, #3 6 to 7 min,  #4 - 8 min and # 5  at 8+ the longest.  The order of practice changed  1,3,5,2,4:  2,4,1,3,5  3, 1, 4, 2, 5 and 4, 3, 2, 1, 5. If the length of first breath is ranked  then 7 , 8, 8, 9, 9 is  1,3,5,2,4 !  During that time i also practiced  #5  alone as an occasional warm up  for the long form. 

Currently  I am doing a little more yi quan /zhan zhuang and chen style silk reeling .  This has been a nice change of pace and resulted in several slow and long practice of the long form as noted recently.

Peace and energy and health to all contributors to the spread of Flying Phoenix qi gong.

ridingtheox

finished a 39:30 minute long form tonight ... longest since I did a 40 plus a few months ago ... 

long trip tomorrow this will certainly build the reserve of energy for driving 500 +  miles

my hypertension is long gone bp av 115/70  w  pulse < 60  resting  mid morning ... I do this almost daily

thank you Sifu Dunn!!!!!

i had an acquaintance / short time student  ask about the Jeff  Primack qi gong.  His presentation is rather off putting to me,  but a number of reviewers on Tao Bums  have positive response to getting so much 'wow qi' from the experience of his $100 group class.   I think this is just the large group experience of Werner's 1970's EST.   My parents did that to some good effect,  it offended me mostly.   

Any how search Primack on dao bums or just let me hear from you if you have experienced it.

Music is an important complement to my qg tjq practices.  I definitely will give the Oliver Shanti a trial run.  

My recent accompaniment have been  Tibetan bells,  Bach Cello suites,  Carlos Nakai native flute,  and a few failures OM Advaita / Dvaita which sounds Arabic / Near east.  

I have a long love affair w Judy Collins.  So thanks for that posting.  Also Stephen Sondheim has interested me,  but only Send in the Clowns really captures my heart.

Finally  Philip Glass has taken up residence  for lots of reasons,  not the least that i had that amazing 40+ minute long form Flying Phoenix practice while listening to Metamorphosis ...  unfortunately it is too short!  I went well past the end of the piece.

Recently times  for  LFFP  have been  mostly in the 35 min range.  

Slowing down Sifu's long form on youtube  ( the 10 min performance) is really worth doing mirror image  ...  slow the player down to 0,5  speed  is a nice practice ... I do the breath control first then pause open eyes and follow Sifu  ... have not successfully done the 0.25  so far

practice peace with every form

charlie

after a wild thanksgiving weekend   ... the grandsons  3 and 5 yrs  are just too cute and too m u c h  fun!

yesterday and today i easily broke 35 min practice of the long form  right side yesterday  mirror image today.

Sunday I fell on some rocks climbing a short slope and put a nice welt on my right shin ..  I can feel it pulsing ( in a good sense )

in several of the positions.   Seems like it is healing rapidly.   at my age that is pretty remarkable ... (just turned 77 )

long term consistent practice pays dividends!

Peace to all beings   

charlie

I have been away on a 'spiritual' quest ... to visit my 91 yr old cousin in the nursing home  Coos  Bay OR,  to visit a student of my period in New Orleans 20+ years ago,  and to visit my high school friend (60 yr ago) who first introduced me to the idea of Tai Ji / qi gong /  et al.  physical practices of spiritual development. 

 At that student's home I had another extreme practice of the standing long form .... 36+ minutes followed by nei gong / horse stance low  30 min practice.  The whole experience is still vibrating as I complete a home coming mirror image w  Sifu Dunn's youtube video  ... extremely deep though only 15 min!  (i slowed the video to 75%).

I reiterate  just keep doing the form ... you will be amazed

Peace

( it also gives some release to the bombardment of current events )

On 9/24/2017 at 2:34 PM, zen-bear said:

 When one brings the palms up the centerline with back of the hands touching and turn the palms clasped in "prayer" position, you actually bring the fingertips up to the third eye (brow chakra) for a split second, and then slowly lower the palms back down to the heart level.

 

See what that does for you.

Weil  I have incorporated the 3rd eye move ...  as is sometimes the case nothing new has appeared,  but I will continue to practice as there is often a 'lag' in the appearance of effect ..

this exercise has been one of the few resistant practices ...  i feel drawn to it,  but there is a resistance that is not present in the standing exercises.  

to be open about this I must also say that seated meditations are always less productive than are the standing exercises .. that has been true throughout my 40 year acquaintance with tai ji / ba duan jin / nei gong / qi gong ..

Jumping to another issue i continue to get  violet  flashes rather than blue ??   Recently i ran across Mantak Chia youtube which touts  the centrality of violet in Taoist teaching ...   what the difference is i am still not clear about .. though I am comfortable with my experience ...  remember as in earlier posts  any color image/flash is rare and uncertain for me  

peace   hoa binh  

just keep doing the forms!!!  

On 9/30/2017 at 3:57 PM, Aeran said:

it just felt like that's where the body wanted to rest, so I left it there until the session ended. Whatever was going on definitely got some juice following - my whole body was tingling by the time I stood up. Even now I feel incredible, just sitting here typing this. FPCK never ceases to amaze

 

Thanks you are certainly on point for my experience ...  misquoting Quakers   that Daoist speaks to my condition!!

just a practice update ... inspired by the eastover videos... i finally exceeded 40 min long form practice Tues morning!!!

Mirror image done very early in the morning ... the only interruption of the silence was the coyote's waking up,.

my previous day practice had been limited as we went to see  Walk with Me, documentary on Thich Nhat Hanh / Plum Village in Tucson..  So at the end of the day  I did  follow the youtube of Sifu Dunn long form ... 10 min version in mirror image. and followed that with "preparation for 8 sections combined" short form  (12 min ).  An d Tuesday morning at 4:30 am broke the 40 min barrier.   Since then i have done 36 min and 34 min right side/normal long form on Wed. and Thur.   On both days I have also done the five standing short form.   tomorrow I will be on the road to So Cal to see my grandsons so I may  not get to practice quite so seriously.  I continue to do my Tjq class and some 5 element qi gong.   I am trying to encourage my wife to up her commitment to qi gong now that she has good mastery of Tjq long and short forms.  She continues to have a slight tachycardia and Afib.  

enough  i have to pack for trip, prep car, and take time to feed the cows  ...

try this:

go to sifu's youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlVGrCW0QqI

it is 10 min duration  on the control reset the speed to 0.75 or 0.5

it will be in mirror image,  but try it ...  obviously it is eyes open also  

i found it to be quite stimulating ...

of course you should do the breathing schedule 

at regular speed it also works  

So  Aeran  I am certain i am not your model devout european christian, however I am a Quaker ... Religious Society of Friends ..

so out of the Jesus school is how I think of myself.   Currently I am daily reading a verse of the Tao Te Chinh (today 18th) Lao Tzu.

FP  certainly works for me.   I am 76 do Tjq  5 times a week with a small class in the desert ... Arizona.   

Today i just completed the long form meditation 36 + minutes.   I keep aiming at 40 but so far seem to have hit a mesa (SW Arizona ...plateau).  

Peace among all  beings.  Sanctuary ...

ridingtheox

I have mentioned previously the condition  synesthesia and persons ... synesthetes.   My first encounter was reading Nabokov's Speak Memory  a fascinating encounter at about 30 years old.  It was (is)  a color  connection among mental stimulae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia  

Nabokov shared the sense with his mother,  but the color / letter correspondences were not entirely the same between them, e.g.,  if she had green  for one letter he might have blue or violet.   

So my take on the color is that it is not necessarily the same for all sensate beings.  And in some cases there is NO correspondence in across senses.   FPCH  is rich in sensations of body, mind and healing and combinations of these processes, it is rich to have cross sensate events or relations. I admire the creative ability of players here to describe and relate to these phenomena in whatever terms come to them.    BUT in my opinion it is not required to reach ever richer value of the FPCH practice for an individual.  And the breath,  heart and health benefits are incredible on their own.

tonight's long form 37 minutes ... broke a sweat early and continuously to the end,   also i have a strong sense of 

'gauntlet'  about 2 inches above wrist point wrapping both forearms almost the entire form  ... very satisfying energy altho without any color visualization tonight.   This is not my longest form practice,  but close to the 39 min  ... performed against Philip Glass Metamorphoses   

i will be reading I Ching ...

peace to all sentient beings

On 8/27/2017 at 2:38 PM, Songshou said:

I put purple in bold, to highlight her connection to that color, which is also generally an important color in Chinese alchemy and meditation, both Daoist and Buddhist. (There is also the mention of her blue clouds and blue birds. And as we know, FPCK has a blue energy.)

I have never had 'blue'  energy  only 'purple' in my FPCK  practice.    Since I had no reference to purple energy (except one distant memory of a purple ball surrounding qi gong sitting practice) I kept silent ...  so now at least I know there is a purple energy