ridingtheox

I have viewed that knee  video and commented that it is nonsense ...  I have done the knee rotation exercise as demonstrated by Lam KamChuen  for over 30 years. I learned it when first studying TCC in Vancouver, BC.    It was part of my practice as i recovered from knee injury  (jumping out of pick up bed at age 71!!).   If done as shown by LKC  it is a basic positive exercise.

btw  i documented this in detail on youtube and my comments were erased ... Hmmmm

day  38 of planned 108 experiment.  currently  2x long form daily   morning and evening  standard and mirror image ... awesome ...

almost every day I do  teach  the long form TCC  to neighbors also in their 75 / 77  yr range.    Jimmy has to have a rotator cuff surgery (old injury),  the Doc was amazed at his flexibility during the pre-op examination,  J reported his TCC and the Doc was truly impressed.

thank you  Sifu ...

now at day 31   twice daily  morning and evening  

made it thru thanksgiving and the family visit here,  now i am starting to worry about xmas  .... practice that is not the gifting !

I hope to do some back to back  sessions this week or next

Hoa Binh

stubborn as the ox  

i am now at day 23  the last days doing long form 2x daily,  usually one of those is mirror image.

Warm ups ... are reallyimportant for beginners,  but skipping them occasionally is not nearly as important as NOT having time then to do your chosen FP meditations.   It is quite important to do the breath percentages.   Again there are exceptions,  sometimes when i am just working on the forms, revewing them,  refreshing them,  watching and imitating Sifu on dvd or now sometimes on line,  I skip them.  And yet feel as if I had all the benefits of a more formal practice.

If you have a chronic condition healing may come slowly.   On the other hand a crisis may well, as noted by tao stillness, respond to a very intense practice regimen in one session  or one day etc.

Note that i consider other qi gong and TCC practice as a part of my health program  (ba duan jin, wu xing, and some silk reeling).

Peace  for  all  sentient beings

hmmm  the thread gets loonier and loonier ...

i am a strictly  practice  is  healing and spirit  opening   process ...  

currently i am in the starting phase of 108 day journey .. (day 19) for long form  for the last 5 days I have done 2x daily standing

this morning's mirror image practice was very near 30 min duration.  The holidays and family wil be on us soon keep hoping the journey flows thru those days ...

My tcc practice has also taken another rise to new plateau.    Li YuenFei'  Ba Duan Jin has also been quite rich experientially.

My advice is not to speculate too much or believe too easily,  but to practice with an open heart-mind.

Enjoy

today I have avoided election news and views.

7:30 am  teaching practicing Long Form TCC ...beginning w Zhan Zhuang finishing w ZZ.  One hour.

Moving hay and feed from town to barn ...Long Form 22 minute right side (original)  nap  LOL

Walk 2 miles.  Long form left side also about 20 min.  

Supper.   25 min Zhan Zhuang.   18 min  Ba duan jin .  

Guided meditation Thich Nhat Hanh ...

Peace to all beings 

thanks to Sifu Dunn for pointing new directions and intensities..

musings:   breath, breathing is the central element of all  qi  cultivation.   awareness of breath is key to progress in tcc and all the qg exercises.  by extension respiration at the cell level, the delivery of oxygen to all body is life,  no breath no respiration no life.

If breathing is not a central part of your practice ,  you need to reconsider how / what you are doing.  If you are doing FP but not breathing smoothly and with awareness throughout,  then your practice is not correct.   The focusing breaths and breath regime are key to the efficacy of this practice,  however,  the breath must continue to be in your awareness and intent as you do the forms.  This is one possibility of doing the FP  ' wrong'.   One can do the physical sequences correctly and still not be doing the practice efficiently.  I think that this is true of all internal arts.  The breath is critically important .. chu y  pay attention. Cultivate and store in the dan tien,  but always come back to the breath.

mho

sitting ... i sit on a simple chair toward the front edge ...  my old knees  just  not  yielding as they once did ...

in fact I find the advanced seated meds quite powerful without worrying about pain;  I am quite careful for posture.

It may be true that I am missing some subtle advantage,  but  my body says I am accumulating strong chi in dan tien and feel vibrant energy along meridians and into hands fingers.

if you are young keep trying to stretch,  for sure  but do the exercises as demonstrated concentrating on moving the chi with intent.

i tried to vote thank you on that post,  but received and error msg  something about a reputation vote

the practices listed on 21 June ;

i differ only in the advanced seated  II b.    (btw  i  don't have disk available but believe 80 70 50 30? )

instead I do 60 70 40 5 immediately followed by 20 40 90 10

I have all the sensations listed  except  NO  blue light ... once or twice i have had a purple flash 

also  esp in the last I have an intense opening sensation in bai hui ..

peace

Hi Charlie,

The speed at which I'm doing the Long Form Standing Meditation is not the optimal, super-slow, speed-of-a-shifting-sand-dune,  but is about as fast as one should do it.

 

As I explained on the post, I was inspired by the majestic scenery and dynamic, roiling elements elements to jump out of the car and practice a few forms on the spot.  The energy of the environment was such that I moved accordingly.

 

Peace,

 

Sifu Terry

landscape and location have always  had  an importance  so  I  understand that energy  well

thanks again for these video posts

interesting thread  too bad it seems inactive ...  ZZ  has been an important part of my practice for at least 30 years  with one rather extended  gap '96 - 09/10.

1. I do 5 min.  everyday  5 min of each of 5 postures 2x weekly,  and occasionally a 30+ min of one of the postures.

super energizing   mostly

peace

Hi Gary,

I just checked out the link using both Safari and Firefox browsers (from a Mac) and it works fine.

You can also see it by entering this link using any web browser:

 

 

or search under  "Flying Phoenix Heavenly Healing Chi Meditation Terence Dunn".

 

A few more videos coming.

 

Best,

Sifu Terry

Have just discovered this ..

watched it,  then i did the mirror image while watching the performance i.e., eyes open ...

It is faster than I have ever done the form,  not as powerful to me as my daily practice of course it lacks the breathing so I was not expecting it would be.

However,  it was quite energizing enough that I immediately did it a second time,,  that too was very 'hot'  

Thanks for this video.   

Now i have to watch and study the Eight sections videos...

Peace Charlie

ditto  for Tao Stillness

another welcome to this site ...

it is a good place to find encouragement for your practice ...  especially when you hit slow periods (which you will).  My sense is persistence in practice is the key to progress 

for some people a real live group is helpful,   but you can do this on your own mostly.

For me  i started TCC and various groups have contributed to my experience including Sifu Dunn most recently

good luck in your qi gong

peace

charlie

great bike stories ...  i rode a bike to and from  grad school and work  for 23 years starting about 1972  I did not start TCC until 77.   I had numerous great rides that produced profound 'spiritual' sensations.  Many of them early on while living at 7000 ft alt. near Flagstaff AZ and attending NAU,  living 10 mi south of campus.  I  really loved my Swiss built Super Mondia?   When we moved to Cascabel on a 20 mile dirt road i stopped riding there is just no good way to ride on wash board dirt roads.  I still hold dear the years of commuting and fun rides of 20 or more miles.

Bike on!!

About 2 nights ago I was doing Adv. Seated  4.    Almost immediately  i felt a familiar pressure/buzz at the crown point .. bai hui?

Years ago after a 90 day standing process I regularly felt this sensation for several months.  It left after a period of low tCC practice frequency.  I have often tried to bring it up again,  but with relatively low frq and low intensity when it did occur.

It was like sensing an old friend.  It has been present in almost all of my qi gong.  It also has the characteristic that it does not distract from my focus on dan tien energy 'glow'.  I just completed Adv Seatd 5 and it was continuously present for the short 15 min +  practice.

Peace friends

We are traveling; visiting daughter's family.   Two young boys absorb a great deal of energy.   It is difficult to maintain a regular schedule of FP/TCC   

Let me just say the FP has moved into a phase that in standing long form  energy moves from the root is guided by the dan tien and expresses itself in the arms/hands.  It has taken a long time for this to feel  like the normal practice condition,  but now it is well established even if I do have periods where daily practice is interrupted.

so  keep  practicing and move into disk 4 Long Form with confidence that it will be an energy changing experience

peace

psychologists and psychiatrists have a much larger probability of confusing correlation and causation than most 'hard scientists.'

I have not read the article thoughtfully,  but that's what I think sifu dunn is exposing.     Some people who beginto meditate come to the process with extant psychoses or an insecurity that leads them to psychoses   ... perhaps.  I have met a few meditators who seemed to have problems   but   causation    not    proved maybe not proveable .

Hypothetically,  I can imagine individuals with mystical/magical beliefs  drifting deeper into delusion by  spending much time alone and in their own  mind.  But are they meditating?  How do you demonstrate that if the only evidence is that they sit/stand/lie quietly for periods of time? 

enough  this may be deeper water than i thought 

btw  have had a bad lingering headcold ... but practiced daily   . Adv. seated 4, 5,  standing 1,2,3  some TCC   plus some wu xing  did not cure the cold but sure felt good to do these mediative arts ..   did not do the long form most days ...  that was disappointing as I had planned a 100 continuous period.  Now I have to start over  

also my experience of FPCH is probably suspect

I have been a fraud all my tai chi teaching is invalid ... i am not a master nor interested in martial art  (Quaker, pacifist, Vietnam Veteran) ...

btw one of my students (78yrs) has been experiencing rotational qi in his solo practice of TCC  which I had never discribed to him ...

today  I completed a week of 'mirror image' long form daily with two days of practicing it twice ...

it has been very revealing of remaining imbalances and removing some energy blockages

a very interesting experience 

opening new windows for this student ...

Shazan wrote ..

I read about "mirror image long form" on this thread. What is it? Is is done the opposite way of normal long form as in the dvd? what are the benefits?

I have practiced 'mirror image long form'  intermittantly for over 2 years.   It seems to balance / harmonize body posture.  I may do it once and not again for weeks.  Or I may do it for a week or more at a time.   

Since I have always been strongly right handed,  I get the feeling quite clearly where I need to work on movements.  It also seems to balance right brain / left brain issues.  I was a scientist mathematician / forest ecologist / linguist ... all heavily left brain so the mirror image has been 'refreshing and stimulating'  That is my experience.

I suggest if it interests you that you 'play' with it from time to time.

peace