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The physical exercises are part of it. Then there is the mind, so do you feel a tendency to tense up? If so, that needs to be cleared out (completion and release).

This is an area which relatively recently have got well-deserved attention in the field of physiology. People are starting to chart how the organs affect functional networks in the brain, which is at the level of the most rudimentary basics. It will take a long time before WM align with the TCM view, but it is actually moving in that direction.

When you are out of sync with the light/dark cycle, you are more likely to have a poor sleep architecture, a bunch of your genes will not express in a timely fashion, your cortisol levels are more likely to be non-optimal, and you are more likely to get a chronic low-grade inflammation. Translate that into more likely to feel bad, less likely to feel good. Go up early, eat a good breakfast, be physically active and get as much sunlight as possible before 2 pm, and possibly add some slow rhythmic breathing exercises in the evening. That is a regimen to enable the brain to heal itself.

That is one dragon in need of refreshing his physiology.

Ah, a beginner 😁 Talking about jing, qi and shen is actually a focus on the direct experience of things, verbalised in a qualitative way which is in line with what is taught as qualitative science at universities. If you have a good method to work with, you can see that you are working with a lot of physiological processes: Lymphatics Glympathics Arterial baroreflex Exercise pressor reflex Cerebral autoregulation Diaphragmatic stretch reflex Peripersonal space And so on... The problem is, while these explain most of the health benefits you get from quite a few traditions, there are traditions that don't seem to utilize them. And, more importantly, these physiological processes have a low explainatory value when it comes to the sensations related to the meridians, dantians, and so on. But keep up the studies, physiology is an interesting subject.

@pitisukha The Chia version is commercially available, but you might as well print out a black and white version and have a go with crayons. I would recommend finding a high-resolution photograph. Wikipedia (russian or greek, I think) have one online. Most of the drawings have major flaws in them, including the bloody expensive printed scroll peace of crap I bought from China a couple of years ago. That is, if you want to actually study it...

No self-nominations allowed!

Technically, as you have formulated this, this is not true. Direct control of your breath do control both the quality of your mind and the quality of your awareness. There is a lot of research on this. That might not be a permanent shift, nor the largest shift, nor even the shifts you had in mind, but still...

Too late, another one lost to the Dark Side. 😁

Didn't write that, and unless you are dyslexic you could not interpret that from what I wrote. But using "racism" in new contexts waters out the nasty meaning of the term.

Do you have a home-made definition of "racist"?

It doesn't work like that. Or, at least, not in my experience. Which is also professional. As a general recommendation, start with re-claiming the body. You would do well not focussing on qi at all. But, as stated above, talk to a qualified therapist that understands both the condition and how to use practices tailor made for you.

This is already commented 🤪 Since few get on meds without a reason, the reason you started on them might be where to start. Fatigue? Sleeping problems? Although ReturnDragon might be right and you have a lack of oxygen, that would imply lung disease (go and see a doctor) or perhaps a heart condition (doctor, again). But if that is not the case, and this is based in any kind of mental health issue, fatigue (fatigue syndromes has a lot of symptoms) can have its root in several dysfunctions. Low grade chronic inflammation, Low levels of vitamine B6, 12, or D. These are usually checked up, and while taking them might not be enough, lacking them might prevent you from returning to health. A lack of proper circulation in the brain is one of the things that tend to show up in medical research. Breathing exercises might do the trick, but there are more options that should be utilized just to make sure. Actually, yuan qi is a part of it. Depending on your definition of yuan qi, and your sense of humor. A medical practitioner (no matter what tradition) skilled in your kind of problem (that probably narrows it down) might give you some pointers for some active rehabilitation, but even with that help it might be hard to get results.

I tend to go to the source material, research on physiology, rather than books. To make sure I get the info in the actual context of the research, which often narrows it down in terms of what it means. But thanks 😊

Proper diaphragmatic breathing combined with proper awareness will do more in the way of creating functional networks in your brain, modulating reactions and emotions, than any other technique that there is a body of research on. Second up is slow, rhythmical movements. And these still are correllated with reactions, because working with issues is a nasty business. As for the rest of the available methods, as of now it is mainly anecdotal, meaning you really can not separate the useful from the not so useful in any other way then trusting your teacher.

Practice can improve mental and physical functions, rejuvenate and improve longevity. That's what we are taught, and experience shows that it is a possible outcome of proper practice. But why is it so? Years ago, Roger Jahnke wrote an excellent essay on the subject of physiology as it relates to the internal arts. You can find it in one of JAJ's really big and thick books (like that narrows it down 🤪). Now, 2020, that essay is outdated. Physiological research have moved on, new mechanisms have been found and understood, and quite a few of these relates to what you do with proper practice. It's all in the basics: Proper alignments Proper breathing Proper attention If done right, you will entrain several systems that normally do not work together, and this will potentially affect your brain in a major way. If done right, some of the functional networks in the brain will reverse their temporal behaviour. Even the creation of ling sui/amrita can be (partially) explained by this entrainment. Including how it drips down from the soft palate. @Earl Grey wrote about the necessity of intent and micro movements in another thread. That aspect, called nei gong principles by Frantzis, becomes really important if your purpose is to develope entrainment to the max (see my NEW video series Entrainment to the Max, now downloadable at sendmeyourmoney. com). One of these days I will write more about this in a PPD near you, including references so you can read the source material. That might be a slightly dry reading, physiology for the initiated tends to go that way, but you can at least see that I am on the subject.

So you are saying that these people with the real abilities learned to develope those on forums like this, and not in some kind of school? Cool.

Doesn't matter. This is just a forum, nothing here matters. We just chew the fat and/or insult each other. The important things happen in the active schools, where dedicated practitioners keep traditions alive.

I don't want to be a wet blanket in this discussion 😁.

And it needs to be posted often, because the likelyhood that you will stumble upon all important principles on your own is rather small. As for the basic process in my OP, you only need the methods. To truly accomplish a rewiring, you need so much more than just a method, the five pillars summons that rather nicely.

Seems like TDB is politically correct, but no longer functioning. I had a plan to recapulate the latest physiological research in brain functioning and how that relates to meditation and neigong (as defined by Frantzis Gods playing in the Clouds and the creation of the small medicine as described by Wang Mu). But that can wait. Let's in the meantime pretend that knowledge about mitochondria separate internal arts from, lets say, low impact aerobics (a hint, it doesn't). I'm sure I have might have me one of those private playing grounds later on. 😁

And if someone is approaching zz from the point of affecting PTSD, these two aspects might become gamechaingers. I would recommend not only a skilled teacher but a teacher with some understanding of the area of interest. @Dalmat Self-study in this area leads to purely random chances at doing what you, as an individual, need.

I'd be surprised if wuwei is antithetical to reversing from post-to pre-heaven practice (isn't that how reversal is defined?). I'd be even more surprised if someone posted a clear description of this, thus clarifying the issue. I like surprises though, so please... 😁

So working through Wu Xing qigong is going along, but easing the passage? While working with the five lights would be a reversal (an earlier stage) and this would qualify as working with the Ming?

MW: Gods play in original chi. So: Different methods.