ridingtheox

practice a little sparse so far today  ,  a long trip to town and back driving too much in traffic 

however< 

early this morning did the mirror image of long form vol. 4  27 min

and early evening  the normal  style  .. vol 4  26 min

and the qi just keeps buzzingggggg

I do not reverse hand positions for the most part ...  following the males right over left on the dan tien  idea.   However,  sometimes the yin feeling of the form does feel more like  reversing the hand positions.   I do reverse if the 'qi' seems to have a strong leading to do so ....  this is not often.   

Early on I tried alternating hand position when I did the mirror image,  (and worried about it   a good deal).   At this point the qi almost always directs the position.

today's practice so far:

long form standing 25 min  7 am

TCC teaching long form  series 3  which includes warm up with ba duan chin ..  1 hour 15 min .  8 am

Adv Seated M.  #3  ( i had to respond to spouse  after  5 reps   28 min )  11 am

lately I have been doing wu xing (5 elemnt qi gong)  a couple of times in the afternoon.

tonight: I will do  ASM  1  before bed ..  

ah  the year of the sheep /  goat  begins    gung hai fat choy  to all  Flying Phoenix  students and sifu

I have added a 5 element qi gong  to  practice  nice ...

tao stillness,  I learned vietnamese another oriental language  it is my impression (one instructor was chinese heritage)

that d is an unaspirated t  that is there is no puff of breath,  but the tounge position is the same.  Therefore in vietnamese and I suspect chinese whether on aspirates or not is a function of local speech habits  ...  therefore tao and dao are the same in the wider language region.   as westerners we often do not pronounce many sounds 'correctly' and even correctly is complex

peace

what did i miss?   when did the site change from taobums to daobums???

my morning long form 90 60 5 50 40 very intense this morning as it continues to increase movement and awareness  flow.

27 min  this morning ... 

have a dao weekend  present in the moment ...

charlie

have had more mirror practice both sides have ramped up. a break through after a long pleasant plateau.

sometimes we get stuck because the form seems to be working very well, in this case practice on both sides intensified chi noticeably on each side with each alternation. A couple of days doing mirror then when I switched back to normal, there was a surprize with that practice. Moving back to left (mirror) side again intensified. Then I had a couple of rather routine practices untll this morning's normal side ... big energy surge ...

Also my TCC practice intensity has increased. And finally the standing still nei gong I do occasionally ...

so now i expect a plateau soon LOL

I too have used visualization to good effect ...

once you have established the physical response awareness it proved very useful.

On the other hand let me warn people that if they are of the 'too much in the head' type (me and many of my scientific colleagues). Visualization can be confused with mental imaging,, which in turn can be counterproductive. People like me find it difficult to move into 'body wisdom, knowledge mode'.

So there is a potential problem for some people...

tea ... Jaio gu Lan seems like a broad tonic that I tolerate well it's stimulative property effects me intermittently

mirror image 4 ... this morning 24 min practice, the prior practices had been < 20 hence about 5 min less than the usual right side practice so now the left side nearly = right side

have now done mirror 4 times last 6 days

Peace to all creatures (creation)

hello all, briefly

I have done volume 4 long form 'mirror image' from time to time as my left hand is always different than right. So mirror image seems a balancing process.

It has been a long time since I did Mirror long form, however, the last two days I have done as the first morning exercise early. Both times I have had very intense qi flow, lots of saliva generated and buzzing at bai hue crown point.

have a good weekend and practice with focus and intent

BREATHE

Cant wait to get many more days , weeks , months and years of FP energy practice as I can only imagine where it takes you !

hmmm ... curb your enthusiasm ... can't wait? Yes the long term is what we invest our practice in.

qi gong implies a long term 'practice' not a hurry up get 'er dun

when thinking about FPCH it helps to have a long term commitment. Your early perceptions certainly agree with my experience over the last 4 with the qi gong FPCK.

if I might suggest a frame to consider might more likely be a commitment to practice daily for 100 days. Take your time to engage deeply with each meditation Sifu Dunn has presented.

The journey is more important than the objective in many respects. Cultivate qi with each practice. However, do not be surprised by occasional 'plateaus' or even declines in progress. Every day just practice. Make the time. The rewards are there.

Peace

oops long form TCC by Sifu Dunn

... and I repeat FP meditations and especially the long form continue to surprise me as the intensity of awareness of qi increases. Recently I think I reported here I have had several powerful practices that left me at a loss to believe!

One item the tinnitus i had hoped would respond to FPCH does not seem to ...

finally I seem to have lost my long form disk which i use for reference mostly

i have been doing long form for 3 years, when I met Sifu Dunn we did it together in the Goose Egg park he led the breathing as 90 60 5 50 40 ... I had been doing it that way for over a year and surely would have noticed the change ??

as to the breath I notice lots of concern about lengths and counts I suggest a metronome or as a beginning effort just an old fashioned clock that ticks loudly. That helps to maintain the rhythm and timing of the counts.

Over the years I have worked on slowing and deepening the breathing during TCC and QC exercises. The rate of performance of any of the meditations I let the breath guide me. The more I can meditate (concentrate) on the breath the more intense the feeling of qi and the more cultivation of qi in dan tien.

Doing the forms too slowly at first when not associated with deep natural breathing has always seemed to miss the mark. The whole point being to cultivate qi, to cultivate awareness of one's own qi.

peace

good day practice 13th Sat

early morning Long Form

standing Dao yin yangsheng gong evening

in addtion late night 12th i did 45 min standing Zhan Zhong ... rotating thru 5 postures and finally some single finger standing 5 individual and the one triple warmer total 53 min

not so good today busy packing and hosting quaker meeting

now i will try long form at easy rhythm speed hopefully right side and left side practice

it has been a month since i did two R and L

I did complete the Big sleep night of the 10th

11th Dec

5:30 am long form 24 min 90 60 ....

9 am TCC long form teaching

5 pm Daoyin yang sheng gong 15 min

( i also did some cloud hands practice and a 30 min of Hearfield's Tibetan fire? palm )

12th

5:30 am FPCH long form 90 60 ... not timed ..

9:00 TCC long form teaching

I will have a long day's drive to Redlands 450 mi on Monday which will mean a light day re: practice lv Tucson 5 am ...

trying to imagine getting in practice that day

2:am woke up repeated ASMSW 50 20 10 at least 30 min slept the rest of the night

5:30 am two standing short disc 5 meds 70 40 30 20 90 50 40 20

10:30 am long form 24 min 90 60 05 50 40

1:30 ASMSW 80 70 50 30 30 min

2:15 ASMSW 70 50 20 10 30 min

'back to back'

3:45 Ba duan jin 13 min

I expect to do the Big Sleep (which doesn't seem to work for me) around 9 pm

5:30 am long form FPCH 27 min

today I had MOHs surgery for a basal cell carcinoma on my forehead very small last one I had removed 7 years ago ..

my BP went ballistic altho i tried meditation and qi gong in the office finally doc suggested a valium ... wonder drug successful operation no pain no 'felt anxiety' wtf??

tonight Adv seated 50 20 10 38 min

now a cup of tea and off to bed ... will I sleep???

lol

Mon. FPCH long form 28 min (5:50 am)

TCC long form teaching 50 min (9:15 am)

FPCH seated 60 70 40 5 25 min 10:30 & 5:30 pm

Daoyin yang sheng gong 15 min 8 pm

I am planning to do FPCH seated 50 20 10 before sleep

does moving 25 bales of hay while breathing consciously count?

not bad for 74 yr old dude ..

having a great challenge to get to this page and document my practice ...

have not missed a day although some days have been somewhat light since I have had a sinus thing

now if only all this practice stopped the rhinitis susceptibility i have had all my life )

my last few days have included Adv Seated FP 1, 2, 3, and 4 disk 7. Zhan Zhuang of 1 hour duration plus two shorter 35 and 45 min sessions. TCC teaching class 2 50 min sessions. Ba Duan Chin daily practice including one session of 8 reps each at slow speed (28 min duration) otherwise normally 12 minute. The long form FPCH disk 4 has suddenly moved from about 20 min to >26 min almost always first thing in the morning.

Practice of some healing after Master Yun Xiang Tseng seated ...

Today I completed one 15 min route of Daoyin Yangsheng gong

progressively breath length has expanded to 20-25 sec cycle, flow in both TCC and FPCH has also jumped intensity level if that says anything ..

thanks again for this forum

I did 0ne hour standing zhan zhuang mon night (10 min each of the five positions ).

Tuesday am did 28 min long form disk 4 90 60 5 50 40 and 15 min ba duan jin

Wed am third section yang long form TCC & late night 11:40 -12:20 seated disk 7 Adv 50 20 10

Thurs: thanksgiving today nothing so far (

two days absence from practice ... travel yesterday recovery today

my age is catching up with me ... although I did play with my grandson for almost 2 hours today so does that count as practice of qi gong ... imho sort of LOL

hurray ... nice to discover this forum ..

i practice flying phoenix almost daily ... yesterday we drove from tucson to calif ... 9 hours no practice the first time in several weeks i have not oh also today was a recovery day so no practice except for a little cloud hands ... chen and yang style maybe 15 min

i practice FP nearly daily 20 min, Ba duan jin 15 min TCC 1 hour (teaching) and some other Fp forms finally 2 -3 times a week i do some standing Zhan Zhuang up to 45 min per session.

I am trying to keep a diary and will post here when I can

thanks for starting this forum