Cleansox

Need, or want to? Yes, why not.

Seems like the forum needs an active moderator or the like. Too bad all were disbanded.

In my practice we do both, and in my experience they do different things. But that might not be the case in every tradition.

You will strengthen functional networks in your brain by breathing through your nose.

Risky business, over-simplifying. Mostly because someone can get the notion that working with Ming is as easy as doing some qigong. And while that is partially true, in my experience working with Ming also includes replenishing it. And when you can do that, you will probably move on with the five lights. Efficiency, good key term!

I have had a stack of them, translations by Wong, Cleary, Pregradio and so on. Most I gave to the local used book store, some are still on a shelf. I just don't use them as a base for my practice, they mostly collect dust.

There is no way you could infer that from my posts.

In general, not knowing which questions you are referring to: I do not think I know everything. Other people here have more experience or a different experience than me, and knowing more of that will enrich me. Also, asking questions is called interaction, and is a social skill which I need to practice more.

What question do you refer to?

Being critisized in thread after thread, with the critique having the same theme, should tell a person something.

With proper practice, not generally just practice. I have a teacher and a method. I do not have to resort to books. And proper practice leads me to interesting places. Books in this genre are mostly confusing, but when you know what you are looking fore you can interpret the gibberish from your own experience. But this area is just like the feedback you have got in other recent threads. There is more to these practices than what you learn at the introductory level.

No. Yes. Not specifically, unless you are very skilled. Yes, but see above. And read up on your favourite nei dan book, or one of the few TCM books that are nei dan derived. You will see the difference.

Perhaps, I would not put it in those words but that doesn't mean you can't. If you are better than me in using the vocabulary, you can frame the process in a better way than I can. The method I practice leads to the practical understanding and experience of the process, and the words I use to explain it are more directed to the process itself rather than the entire reversal-to-yuansomething terminology that people with more complete training have an understanding of. And, like most, I would have to say that I am not supposed to talk about the process. That noone does that used to annoy the crap out of me, until I got a practical understanding of it and now I know why.

Yes, but that doesn't automatically lead to how to cultivate the Ming, since that is not cultivating the body in general but rather one specific process. Actually, it if fairly well described as a process, it is just the how of it that requires a method.

The intent should manifest in the movement. When I learned the sabre in the 90-ties, I was told that it was a f****ng weapon and I should treat it like that. It is not a dancing partner. The pointy end goes in to the opponent, and the edgy part removes tissue from the opponent. My interpretation of the comments, put in a less analytic way and with less accuracy and style, is that this cannot be seen in the vid. I might be mistaken here, since I quit doing the martial side 20 years ago.

He won't tell. Neither will MIchael80, who definetly knows. And I would avoid going in to details of how it is defined in my practice as well. Traditional styles guard this like it was important... But doing a bit of qigong and getting some heat in the LDT is not it.

Well, there were a director that thought something like "hey, if people will watch one can't-act-bodybuilder, two will have the crowd flocking. So he hired a pair of bodybuilding twins, took a bunch of women (remember the 80-ties perm) and dressed them in furs and added some fantasy to it. Can't remember the name, but definetly the worse in the genre I have ever seen. 😁

What? Well, he did have the hair. And access to a camera, and to internet. Could use acting lesson though, looked like a crappy fantasy clip from the early 80-ties. One of the Conan rip-offs, without Arnold.

I guess it might feel intimidating when someone, referring to lineage and 10+ years of practice under supervision from a teacher, totally invalidates someones prized practice. But it is also useful, since it shows beginners that there is more to these practices than whats on the surface (hence "internal"). Btw: Loved the thunder magic clip. Was it cosplay?

I thought it was directed at @Earl Grey as a response to the analysis of Returndragons vids.

JAJ puts it in his book though, so...

Men dom som misslyckas fastnar i frustrationsträsket.

Walker stated the same in the thread going on about daoist tradition.

I did not claim to remember that any of the articles measured from the heart, HeartMath speak about that but I haven't gone through their material. Yes, at least two of these articles had qigong masters in them, one explicitly mentioned in the article and one coming out of the closet years after the article was published. That would place them within context, except from perhaps a recollection bias from Starjumper about the heart. I haven't gone back and checked his exact formulation, so some here might be slightly out of context. I find modern medical research more interesting, and more useful for the average practitioner. I plan to get a ppd activated and do a thread about this. With references for you that enjoy those. The physiology behind heart rate variability and baro receptor sensitivity has an immediate use, as does how gastric rythms entrain functional networks in the brain responsible for, among other things, body awareness. The whole "qigong masters are the greatest" area is less useful, at least to me.

I think they focus on HRV biofeedback, which is in abundance right now. But I don’t read much of their work, I prefer sources that have less financial interest in the subject. I am not sure if they actually measure magnetic fields from the heart or if they just like images of torus fields centering on the heart.