Lazgrane

How can a person meditate without a meditation method? As One live their life their inborn nature will be obscured by acquired experiences. In order to find your purest nature state it is necessary to "clean away" all learned instincts that you have internalized upon yourself, including trauma, preconceptions, even words and languages, leaving behind only still emptyness. Because since each person's life trajectory is different, dealing with your own past is a deeply personal matter that you yourself may not know how to handle, let alone expecting someone else to give you the answer. Which is why the best someone can tell you is to quiet down and observe. Once the surface of your pond is settled, you will be able to see what kind of bad things is infesting it and figure out how to deal with it.

What's inside your hard drives? Just a bunch of protons, neutrons and electrons. But they're arranged in a certain way that give you access to these things called "data". That's the way I see it. Just a bunch of biological processes arranged to give you the illusion of having the substance "Jing" inside your body. Which is why I like to call them "meta-substances". They simplify the relationship between your consciousness and your biological body. Like the code behind a program. Or the 0s and 1s underneath it. See metamaterial for reference.

It's a chance for you to permanently cast off your trauma and achieve inner peace. Just saying.

If only we can just blast ourselves with radiations and get easy superpower like in those Hollywood movies Too bad we'll only get supercancer instead

There are many mental flaw that came about through energetic system flaws which are results of an unhealthy way of life. For these no amount of mental gymnastic will be able to heal you. Hell even simple posture fixing/light exercises can improve blood circulation and brighten your mind up

Hey I feel roughly the same. I figured those contract/expansion meant that there is a clog somewhere so I spent a lot of time trying to find and unblock them. And it worked! Whenever I unblock one of those I felt a very pleasant sensation, like a weight got lifted off my body. I also felt Yang Qi in the form of buzzing on the skin/flesh and then prickling burn/shocks which I assumed it's when the Yang Qi got clogged.

tldr: Fire Deviation. No the qi would not be released into the environment. It will get clogged up inside you and fry your brain, burn your nerve, keeping you in intense discomfort and eventually drive you insane. Refer to this guy as a cautionary tale

Well his choice was deciding that all these qi stuffs is bunk and people here should agree with him.

Afaik visualization is entirely in the mind. It's ok if you are developing your mind, but trying to do qi gong with it is like trying to train yourself to swim by sitting home imagining yourself swimming. Not very productive.

I think if it sink when undisturbed then its natural tendency should be sinking down isn't it? And mind movements disturb qi to stir and rise which is against its natural tendency and bad things happen?

Yeah I get it, yi and willful focus is different which is why i was trying to ask if the methods of forcefully directing qi with intent like "strongly focusing on LDT" was in fact 'using willfulness to focus yi then qi will move to where yi are focused'. I'm guessing it's because willful thinking start in the head, it will cause yi to focus there which in turn stimulate qi to move upward to where yi are focused, which is the head isn't it. In order to stop this from happening you must prevent yi from being focused, which meant stopping willful thoughts in order to release yi

I think it might work better if you explain to them why it is harmful? After all qi-stagnation-and-why-it's-bad-for-you should not be too hard a thing to comprehend isn't it?

So the natural qi flow in human are also caused by yi isn't it? In that case the qi-follow-yi-directing-stuff practice is basically using willful mental focus to affect yi which will then stimulate qi movements am I correct? If then does moving practices work the same? using physical movement to stimulate yi which will then stimulate qi? This is a classic noob trap I think. I wonder how many noob traps there are in qi gong

Imo the qi follow yi thing usually doesn't work because the qi movements stimulated by yi will interfere with your natural qi flow, resulting in a chaotic qi movement in your body and end up doing more harm than good. Unless you have a way to quiet down your natural qi flow and ensure your yi-qi movement remain unhindered, you shouldn't try using yi to direct qi. It's also why you shouldn't try moving practices and yi-qi together because their stimulated qi will hinder each others Edit: On OP question, I figured if you are waving your arms randomly you will just produce random qi movements so of course you wouldn't feel a thing?

What are the differences between Hold Breath and Cease Breath?