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Nice stuff. I have yet to play with making videos, maybe because I'm a tired old man... Are any of the photos or art work your own?

Honey is a good source of energy because your body converts everything into sugars during the digestive process. Honey is a good source to boost your immune system because it's made from the pollen of local flowers. The trick is to buy honey that comes from the area where you live. Honey that has been pasturized or made far away will not have the same healthy benefits. Also, when you move to a new place geographically, eating local honey will help your digestive system adjust.

" When God wants to destroy an ant, He gives it wings " - Idries Shah

The late Paul Krassner invented the defensive martial art called Run Fu back in the 70's. \he claimed that it worked every time...

Falun Gong is a bunch of exercises cobbled together from different sources, not much to be impressed with compared to other traditions. It was begun by a Chinese military guy, and he began making paranormal claims which run counter to the anti-religious and anti-mystical Communist theories.

Yeah, anxiety only makes trying to meditate worse. The best way to calm down is to go for a long walk, at least 2-3 miles, followed by a hot shower. Especially the hot shower, as hot as you can stand it. When you are trying to meditate the mind doesn't want to relinquish control and will try every trick to distract you. It's why it's called the monkey mind. The only way is to work your way through it, sit for only a couple of minutes one day, add a couple more the next. Don't judge yourself or feel like a failure because that only feeds the monkey mind. It's said that each journey begins with the first step, and any training practice feels like one step forward and two steps back. Don't expect immediate results, the rewards are ten, twenty years down the road. Good luck.

Depends on the translations you use. Kwan is the same as Guan. Kwan Yin is the guy. Quan Yin is the lady .

There is no best medical qigong. A specific qigong exercise or more is prescribed by a Traditional Chinese Medical doctor, according to a diagnoses. It works with herbs and acupuncture to help change a patient's energetic situation. There are hundreds of medical qigongs. You usually learn them or a basic set, from a TCM college. There are many in the USA, my favorite is Five Branches TCM in Santa Cruz, California.

No offense, but you guys are into a lot of misconceptions and gobbledegook... Bone Marrow Nei Kung and Iron Shirt Chi Kung have nothing to do with rooting and grounding exercises, where would you pick up the idea that they are? Rooting and grounding is part of what you learn from your teacher after you have been practicing and show a certain level of proficiency and understanding. It's not rocket science and involves simple physiology. You have no problem with jing stuck in your head. That is a combination of anxiety/fear that you have associated from an unusual experience you had during your practice. If you can't find a good teacher who can guide you out of this, then go to a psychotherapist. If you were here in Colorado I could help you, no problem. It's not something that can be done over a telephone or internet. You have to be helped in person. I've been all through this crazy shit, had my dark night of the soul and confronted my own demons. It's part of the process. Get the book The Way Of Energy by Lam Kam Chuen, it's available from Amazon, and it explains very clearly how to practice standing meditation, has lots of good pictures.

Your right side is built up more muscular than your left side because of your right-handedness. The muscles are more dense and it often feels less sensitive.It's just as sensitive, but your perception is not. Most of your martial arts forms are biased towards right sided development. It's said that the right hemisphere controls the mathematical, logic part of your brain, while the left side deals with the intuitive, more artistic side. people who are right handed are usually dominant in the left side of their brain, so your snake whipping up your right side and into the left hemisphere of your head symbolizes that energetic connection. I still have problems with balance on my right foot thanks to a motorcycle accident over 30 years ago. You just keep practicing and working at it and you improve bit by bit. If you can practice for 10 years you may get a basic understanding of what you are doing. That's why many practice well into their old age, because they never stop learning...

I learned the Kwan Yin Stroking Beard from Jerry Alan Johnson, it's considered a medical qigong. you might try contacting the International School of Medical Qigong for a downloadable explanation with pictures... It's a simple exercise, you are in a standing meditation posture, and bring the left hand up to the chin, palm facing you about 6 inches from the body, and let it slide down to the tan tien. Then do it with the right hand, and continue making the slow elongated circles with your hands until you feel calmer, 2-5 minutes. It's safe and can be done at any time, and is a variation of cloud hands.

One of my teachers used to lecture on how the internal martial arts are the back-assward way towards enlightenment. You first deal with the physical body and learn how to harmonize the muscles with the breath. Then you learn how to harmonize the body with the emotions. You release stored emotions that were usually stored from childhood so they look big and evil and frightening. Then you practice harmonizing spirit with the body and emotions, and hopefully, create wisdom. I usually have to go for a second cup of coffee... The goal of meditation is to observe your thoughts and emotions as they come up into the mind, and to see them for what they are, not to pass judgement on them.

It sounds like a good way to fuck up yourself, and take years trying to repair the damage.

Energy properly flows down the front of your body. The k1 point is used to dissipate energy into the earth, the heel is used to bring it back up. Creating an energetic circuit is what we call rooting, and yes, you know when it is there. If you are practicing the water method of meditation, it is used to melt energetic blockages in a gentle, systematic way, not to create rooting.

Both the kidney1 point and the heel are used. The k1 point is used to dissipate energy into the ground, the heel is used to bring energy back up into the body. If you do this correctly, an energetic circuit is created and we call that rooting. It is essential to create this if you practice I Chuan or macrocosmic meditation.

The best book in explaining yiquan is The Way of Energy by Lam Kam Chuen, available through Amazon. I Chuan teaches rooting very well, and is applicable to all martial arts, like Red Bull... When someone is going to strike you, tai chi and I Chuan teahes you how to neutralize the energy of the strike and direct it into the ground. If your root is good, you won't be moved, and can then take that energy back up through your body and reflect it back at them.

Physicists have mathmatically figured out there are at least 11 dimensions that we know of. If you meditate a lot you will have astral traveling or OBE, it's best to have a teacher to guide you through the rough and crazy spots. Your 6 dimension universe is based on subjective experience and is incomplete. From a physics point of view, read Parallel Universes by Michio Kaku. Stuart Wilde may help you make sense out of your OBE experiences, but a really good meditation teacher is better.

Never practice qigong without an experienced teacher. If you have delusions the cause may be from many sources, including experiences with beings from other levels of reality. The earth is considered neutral energy, and you typically discharge excess energy into the ground at the end of a qigong session. It's not a good idea to suck energy up into you from the earth as it can cause a reverse flow up the front and down the back, giving way to hallucinations and anxiety. Having said this, I watched a guy do this in Golden Gate Park; the grass all around him in a circle was dead. A park employee said that he would go from spot to spot killing the grass, and they would have to go and replant after the asshole... A good way to stop this is an exercise called Kwan Yin Stroking Beard.

If you can breathe, you are working with chi. Chi is an abstract concept given to the different energetic principles involving the body.

Qigong is used in all martial arts. Before the 1970's we just called them warm up exercises. If you are going to learn healing, then medical qigong is an essential part of the learning process.

If you want eastern secret societies, they are all criminal organizations now. China got rid of the religious ones, eradicated them all by 1955. There are still some sufi societies in the middle east.

The best book for studying I Chuan ( yiquan ) is The Way of Energy by Lam-Kam Chuen. I have studied with Jerry and took some of his medical qigong courses when he was first offering it. His textbook is good if you are studying to become a certified Chinese Medical Doctor at an acupuncture college. If not, don't bother buying it.

You are right-handed, yes?

You are right-handed, yes?

Tai chi is based on the tai chi symbol, a figure eight within a circle. It was created on close combat grappling moves. Hsing I is based on the circular within a straight line, and generates a lot of power. Pa kua is based on creating a centrifugal force in walking the circle, and the power generated in changing direction. I Chuan is a good complement to all practices, as it involves energetic meditation and then taking that awareness into movement. The best way to learn is Hsing I first, then tai chi, then Pa Kua, with I Chuan added to all. If you add the internal aspects to them, then all can be pretty devastating. Tai chi is based on the tai chi symbol, a figure eight within a circle. It was created on close combat grappling moves. Hsing I is based on the circular within a straight line, and generates a lot of power. Pa kua is based on creating a centrifugal force in walking the circle, and the power generated in changing direction. I Chuan is a good complement to all practices, as it involves energetic meditation and then taking that awareness into movement. The best way to learn is Hsing I first, then tai chi, then Pa Kua, with I Chuan added to all. If you add the internal aspects to them, then all can be pretty devastating.