What are your experiences with internal alchemy? Have you seen any results from it?

[الضفدع الحكيم]

I am interested in Taoism and inner alchemy, so I would like to know about your personal experiences with inner alchemy and whether you have seen any results from it

[ChiDragon]

Good luck!

[الضفدع الحكيم]

18 minutes ago, ChiDragon said:

Good luck!

Thank you. Do you practice Neidan and Qigong? Have you noticed any results or had any personal experience with it?

[-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-]

3 hours ago, الضفدع الحكيم said:

I am interested in Taoism and inner alchemy, so I would like to know about your personal experiences with inner alchemy and whether you have seen any results from it

I’ve been practicing qigong and neigong for around 4 years now.

 

My results are an active dantian, which heats up a lot during practice, and sometimes my wife has felt electric when she places her hand on it.

 

In terms of being able to emit qi myself, nothing major yet, just a little heat from the hands.

 

The eventual goal will be to emit qi and be able to heal like these masters:

 

I have met two masters who are able to do this, one is a TCM doctor in Singapore and the other is a Sufi healer and Sheikh in London.

 

Here is a video of the Sheikh emitting qi into my wife:

 

 

Here he is providing treatment to one of his students:

 

 

Edited December 30, 2025 by -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-

[Apech]

4 hours ago, -ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- said:

I’ve been practicing qigong and neigong for around 4 years now.

 

My results are an active dantian, which heats up a lot during practice, and sometimes my wife has felt electric when she places her hand on it.

 

In terms of being able to emit qi myself, nothing major yet, just a little heat from the hands.

 

The eventual goal will be to emit qi and be able to heal like these masters:

 

I have met two masters who are able to do this, one is a TCM doctor in Singapore and the other is a Sufi healer and Sheikh in London.

 

Here is a video of the Sheikh emitting qi into my wife:

 

 

Here he is providing treatment to one of his students:

 

 

What exactly is your wife placing her hand oh?

[-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-]

2 hours ago, Apech said:

What exactly is your wife placing her hand oh?

Lower dantian

[Gerard]

You are wasting your time with "fairy tales."

 

Those who follow this path are bound by their egos, and the "ego" is one of the biggest hurdles of this path. 

 

The key to successful practice is to loosen up the entire body, then you'll access EVERYTHING contained within yourself. 

 

Ba Gua Zhang plus foundation work (grounding exercises) did it for me. 

Expect a lot of hard, consistent and disciplined work though. 
 

Finally, you'll need to find a competent real life teacher, not books and online courses. You won't go far if you don't. 
 

Good luck. 

 

[idquest]

12 hours ago, الضفدع الحكيم said:

I am interested in Taoism and inner alchemy, so I would like to know about your personal experiences with inner alchemy and whether you have seen any results from it

 

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.

[TaiChiGringo]

I’m not sure my experience fits neatly into how inner alchemy is usually categorised or transmitted, but at a personal level it absolutely feels like an inner alchemical process.

My background is primarily Chen Taijiquan, and what I value about that context is that internal change isn’t happening in isolation. Standing, silk reeling, and form all reorganise the internal landscape, but pushing hands in particular provides constant external feedback. If your internal organisation is off, too tense, too vague, too collapsed, too disconnected. it shows up immediately. That makes it much harder to drift into imagined states or self-confirming perceptions.

Over time, the practice has led to things that overlap strongly with how inner alchemy is often described: a progressive quieting of internal noise, clearer interoceptive perception, spontaneous changes in posture and breath, and a sense that movement and force arise from a more integrated, whole-body organisation rather than conscious effort.

What’s also been important for me is that this hasn’t been purely “meditative” in the narrow sense. There have been clear regulatory and therapeutic effects as well; changes in baseline tension, emotional tone, and how old holding patterns (both physical and their psycho-emotional correlates) unwind. Some of that feels less like cultivating something new and more like allowing previously embedded patterns to reorganise once enough safety and clarity are present.

So while I’m cautious about imposing labels, I’m comfortable saying that for me this has absolutely functioned as a form of inner alchemy, one that’s grounded in sensation, constrained by physical reality, and continuously tested through interaction rather than imagery alone.

I’d be interested to hear how people with more formal neidan or Daoist training recognise (or don’t recognise) these phases within their own frameworks.

Edited Saturday at 09:49 AM by TaiChiGringo

[cake1234566]

Without getting too much into it (as its a bit taboo to talk about the later stuff) there are very tangible results from successful neidan practice

If you find a proper teacher you should develop the capabilty to feel the "real" lower dantien 24/7 fairly quickly, once you're past that point you'll always know that what you're doing is real