idquest

There is more of attunement to the body and to the environment. This has direct physiological and psychological benefits. As for the spiritual development - I don't know how to quantify it, and nobody really knows what it is anyway. Repeating walkers with more experience than mine, I'll say that you either have a call or you don't. If you have a call, you just do it. Simple as that.

Just can't understand why hide neidan content from general public/unregistered users. It's not like TDB is flooded with posts on neidan anyway. Also, there already exists a Taoist Texts subforum and the activity there is not huge. Making an elitist club out of neidan? Says something about TDB...

Chia-like practices come from tantra. If you are interested in such practices, you can look either into Kashmir Shiva tantra or Tibetan Buddhism tantra.