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By the way, I am only speaking for oolong. I don't like greens personally.

Rainbow Vein, This is just my own way of doing it. Everyone should have their own way, right? I add water (have a special temperature that I use with my kettle, just after you can hear the kettle begin to boil but not anywhere near the time when it starts to squeal) to dry leaves and within a few seconds, dump it out. Just to wash and open the leaves...then I wait a few seconds to let the magic happen. Patience is a virtue. Then I add the water and wait about 20 seconds. I do a special thing, where I watch the water that spilled on the outside of the yixing pot dry...when there is no more wetness, it's ready. I pour it slowly, so that I can hear it trickle in the cup, so that adds about another 10 seconds or so. Drink that cup...then repeat and do it for a little longer, like 30+10... Towards the end, after like 5 cups, it's like a minute and a half wait time. I despise any bitterness in tea...so this method is perfect for me. Just extracting the essence. With this way, I don't notice any wakefulness/jittery effect, to which I'm really sensitive. In fact, it relaxes me so much that it can actually help me fall asleep. To each their own!

The problem with dry needling is that you have to precisely locate the trigger point. Most aren't so palpable, and aren't actually in the painful area.

Alexandrov, Try doing it where you only steep for like 30 seconds. It makes it taste better and also you don't get the caffeine effects. Any good (and in season) kind of oolong will work for this.

This is a sticky subject, but I totally disagree. Students pay the most by having to cultivate themselves. It's like...these practices are tools. If the manufacturer (teacher) sells a shovel (a practice) for thousands of dollars, it won't make any difference for your crops (your progress). Might as well just buy it for 1 dollar...because where anything pays off is in its correct application over time. And the manufacturer or tool doesn't do that for you. These days people are selling all sorts of broken shovels, glued together, for too much money. It's a huge waste. And some of these manufacturers don't even know what they're selling (like Matt Furey)...if they're good salespeople, they might motivate you for a little while. But does that actually help in terms of the quality of the shovel (it might be a piece of crap), and your own hard labor spanning the whole season? Nope. If you gain motivation, you're bound to lose it...especially when it doesn't truly come from within. So, teachers should stop ripping people off. There are other ways to make practices seem to be worth more.

Dry needling for trigger point therapy is very iffy. Spray and stretch seems to be the best method.

The thing is...you can! But you don't know how. I don't think the instruction in the video is enough to learn how. It's more of a way to train the skill once you do know. It could be easy to do the wrong thing, which would make the whole exercise a waste of time.

That is a lot of info!!!! Thanks to Michael Tse.

Funny how some of the simplest and weirdest looking practices are some of the most powerful. Also funny that it costs so damn much.

By the way, the thing about the technique in this video...how does someone "force open their third eye"? That would need to be explained for people to be able to practice this.

That Guy, I'll just put it this way - it's my desert island qigong book.

Haven't tried it, but Baolin Wu's Qi Gong for Total Wellness is extremely interesting. I recommend it.

Yup. It's good to cry. In Taoist Yoga, I think it's in the outer alchemical agent chapter where he discusses his own practice of looking at the lit tip of an incense stick. TY...what a book!

That was an amazing story! So true. Here is something cool I saw last week, on Silver Needle tea...funny host...

Same here.

I was taught that this is a good area to massage for menstrual cramps in women. The points could be BL26.

Lots of masters die young. It's good to look at why this could be. To truly know we'd need to look at his lifestyle besides qigong (did he get enough aerobic exercise, did he eat well)...his family history (is it normal for people in his family to die at a younger age)...etc. Basically, who knows.

Yeah!

Really? Like who?

The only thing that's limitless is garbuock.

I really like The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine by Maoshing Ni. It ties it all together in a very Taoist way, although to really put any of these books into use as a clinician, you will need personal instruction.

Personally, I'm always affected strongly for like a week before the full moon. When full moon comes, I tend to balance out.

Damn clouds!

Drew, I reported your post.