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I thought your post was pretty interesting. Funny how the golden language was in a double helix just like DNA. Perhaps these are projections of experiences from your ancestors? If I go under the presumption that it wasn't an alien thing, and also accept that you had these since birth, that is my only explanation. I really don't think it is likely aliens exist. Of course it could be aliens, I wouldn't discount that totally, but let's think of it this way -- Perhaps an ancestor like 2k-100k years ago tripped on some mushrooms, like in the stoned ape theory. Then that ancestor saw a lizard, hallucinated it to be a lizard-person with specific traits, and then that mental object somehow turned into coding in our dna. Later, that mental object would become an aspect of the brain, and it would be an evolutionary advantage. And now somehow you can see the truth behind the origin of this mental object in the brain, a hallucination of a lizard person from long past. Perhaps the "silly simon" (aka psilocybin mushrooms), allowed you to see very deep into your subconscious. Yep that is my only explanation that average people wont think of as crazy, if that isn't the case then aliens are real and malicious and I'd be pretty scared

Wow I was having trouble with part of my meditation where ego pushes heavily into the mind, it turns out I was very close to "eliminating" it, I just have to trace back to the "I" that wants to eliminate the ego, and since that "I" is not based on the ego, because I have destroyed the ego, that "I' will contain no ego, only stillness. And so, the true "I" is found. Thanks for this post, it was exactly what I needed/wanted. Question: If you recognize the ego and make it into just one object of many, does this mean a person could easily meditate at any moment because they are the "still ocean" without any disturbances?

Try using the burmese position, it is just as good as half lotus imo, and there is no pinching of nerve and blood vessels. Secondly I suggest you integrate Zhan Zhuang (standing Qigong) into your regimen. It realigns your whole posture so that sitting upright is EZ PZ for your spine.

I saw someone else recommended vimeo for online distribution of FP Chi Kung, and I also very much recommend it. It is somewhat inconvenient to use DVDs, the shipping time is long and DVDs can't play on some of the newer laptops or tablets that do not have dvd players. A lot of the time now, instead of VHS or DVD, people purely download stuff straight off the internet. You can see some other people are selling qigong instructional videos on it: https://vimeo.com/search/ondemand?q=qigong Should be very easy But if you don't want to do this, no problem, just tell me and I'l have to buy the physical versions. I also have a few questions about FP Chi Kung. 1. How long do the first two DVDs typically take to get good at, on average? 2. Do the first two DVDs contain "the essentials"? Or is the full core of FP Chi Kung contained in additional DVDs? I don't have a lot of money sadly. And the Canadian dollar is so low. I made an introductory post about myself and the health issues I've been having here. My main symptom I'm trying to tackle is very bad fatigue that cannot be diagnosed by western medicine at this time. I have done some very basic stuff, such as Zhan Zhuang and 8 Brocades. They helped me quite a bit, but I relapse a lot. I notice that my tongue was white for 4 years and recently became pink for two weeks, and I feel a bit better. A problem that I've been having, is that some days I am very successful with these techniques, my qi moves very smoothly, everything feels balanced, and I have much more energy. But then I go to bed and wake up, and my whole body is in disharmony and my qi feels like it hangs up at many different spots, moves slow, and doesn't flow smoothly. And my whole body feels uncomfortable. As such, I seem to not make much progress. 3. What is your experience with people who have similar initial difficulties? Of course everyone is different, but I was wondering if there was some trends you have noticed in those that have bad health, especially with FP Chi Kung vs other meditative arts. EDIT: for the crossed out stuff, I found the answer within myself and so it is no longer relevant. For how long it will take, I already know how to do some qigong and I learned how to adapt and follow different practices. I should be able to pick up anything up to what I've already done quickly, and after that I'm just following an eternal dao with no end. There is no point of mastery. I'm an infinite distance from where I was, and an infinite distance from what is possible. As for my health issues, I'm the person who knows myself the best, and so I should follow my instinct. The only bottleneck, is making my brain work well every day so that my instinct is more precise, and I already built a foundation for that. I just need to keep trying, since I got so far already, then it wouldn't make sense that I couldn't go farther, I just need to keep applying my strategies. I think I just had a few bad days where I lost faith in myself. I need to understand where I stumbled, just like how everyone at any level needs to understand where they stumbled. It isn't a secret, it is just part of the ongoing process of cultivation. I've stumbled like 1000 times already, if I always relied on others then I wouldn't get anywhere.

Yeah, at least that is pretty much the only diagnosis in the west for fatigue lasting 1+ year. It is synonymous for "no idea what is making you ill". >< They know nothing about it at this moment really. In fact my doctors wont even give me a diagnosis other than depression, but my mental health is pretty good unless you consider the extreme low energy. Honestly from an Eastern perspective, I probably have something wrong with my liver and maybe poor qi flow and reoccurring blockages. I benefitted a lot from very basic zhan zhuang and 8 brocades stuff. In particular, my tongue turned pink when it was very white for 4 years. But I feel my qi just keeps on going back to how it was mostly, like there is something pushing me back down. My main symptoms that I can "sense" are almost completely stagnant qi flow around my liver and right side of heart. In fact, my right side has a lot of problems, especially along my liver meridian I guess, and along the right side of my spine. Especially if I eat fatty peppery foods, I get massive inflammation of nerves around these areas, which leads to a lot of damage. I hear that this is a sign of liver fire in TCM? I also often wake up around 3-5 am and have puffy inflamed eyelids, signalling that it is probably a liver issue. It all started when I had a very bad virus 4 years ago, I didn't have a lot of viral symptoms, mostly bad gas, uncomfortable sensations all over that were like burning without heat, and extreme lack of energy so bad I could barely get out of bed. I missed multiple important exams for university and ended up dropping out. I ended up having bad depression for a long time due to this. I also had a shoulder injury from something at this time. All this together completely destroyed my health. I don't think qigong will solve everything. Most likely I will have to fight every day to optimize my health so that different forms of qigong will even have a chance of working. I probably will have a harder time with it too, but hopefully once I practice it enough it will become easier.