Ya Mu

Bless you! and YEAH! Now I can FINALLY take down my ads, quit posting, and take a trip to the Bahamas - can taste those goombay smashes and conch fritters already!

My suggestion is to be honest with your teacher and ask him, as he knows you. The "Lighting the Fire" is contingent on your continued practice of Stillness-Movement. I actually think you already have this. But attending would certainly give you a bump up. The 3rd day I am asking for folks to have studied anatomy and physiology IF they wish to do the Taoist Medicine part. I am allowing folks who have previously practiced qigong to take the 3rd day and do the wai chi liao fa part, but OBSERVE only on the Taoist Medicine part if they have not formally studied anatomy and physiology.

PhD, per website, is in health sciences - not medicine; no mention of where. May be the same thing in other countries but not here. Dang, Kumar was sure busy in 1981, certified in 3 MA's. Same time I was studying the healing arts with my Taoist teacher. For anyone else desiring to know his published credentials see http://www.energyarts.com/content/bruces-bio

Yes, the "opening" is listed. You know, I have never really liked the term "closing" as it implies, to me, a certain distancing or separation of a technique. Stillness-Movement is a system that contains many components. The "closing" is just as important component as any other component, so it never should be separated. The only time it could be separated is, if someone chose to do it as it's own qigong. This "closing" procedure that we do is powerful and could indeed be utilized as a qigong method in itself. But then it would be a body oriented qigong and not Stillness-Movement. The Stillness-Movement system itself includes sitting, standing, walking, sleeping, running, dreamtime, tree and wai qi liao fa.

Are you coming to the seminar? In Monday's class we will be doing Clinical Applications.

Taoist Medicine is a specialized treatment subset of Medical Qigong. When one is a healer, he chooses whatever tool needed for any particular task. In many cases, wai qi liao fa and Taoist Medicine techniques are utilized together. IN other cases we may choose to do one or the other. It is really impossible to compare any particular technique in the way you are asking. No two headaches are the same - no two knee pains are the same - ALL folks are different. All situations are different.

I thought I would address a couple of questions that came up on other threads but would be beneficial to all who practice this method. Concerning practicing "from the book" before attending a workshop: It is OK IF you do the closing. When you get to a workshop you will find the practice to get a large bump up. Reading a book, talking to someone, or being in Nature, and receiving a "transmission". This is usually not really a transmission but a resonance. When we hear, read, or experience a truth then, due to our raising of the energy body's vibrational rate from the Stillness-Movement practice, we feel this resonance. On a side note we are halfway to filling the London workshop; we will not accept numbers beyond published in the flyer, so if you have an interest don't wait to register.

Most of humanity has sunk well beneath their heritage and have forgotten who they really are.

Nothing I do is mysterious - just part of being normal. Most folks can obtain normal abilities (our heritage) through practice. I am actually just a simple country boy trying to make my way in the world. Don't talk about others - of course that was not this person's real name in the book. And don't, other than perhaps an occasional mention, discuss my wife. She does support my work.

It is certainly the expression I tried for.

Hmm, I will try to answer as best I can but forgive me if it is not exactly what you are asking. It means that the cultivation will not be at a proper point unless one at least reaches the "saturation" and again, the term "saturation" is used because I can not think of a better term right now; another way of looking at it is the "soup is not done" until this point. I Best I can put it is one hr = good, 2 hrs = better, 3 hrs=better than 2. Do I think a person can progress doing only one hr of Stillness-Movement per day. Of course. It depends on on's goals. A healer has to have MUCH OOMPH, so I tell students who wish to be healers to practice 4-5 hrs per day. Now if they were only seeing one patient per day they could get by with a good bit less. But if they are seeing really sick patients all day long they BETTER practice a lot; healers absorb sick qi - Stillness-Movement shakes it out. But optimum is really going to depend on oh-so-many factors. WHO YOU ARE (defined previously) is one of the largest factors. When sitting better with eyes closed - one can go deeper. So obviously there are levels of efficiency. Eyes closed more efficient than eyes open. Then efficiency will vary with the experience of the practitioner. There really are too many variables to give a nailed-down answer to your question. So, for a non-healer, the idea is to get at least an hr of the concentrated neigong in - then everything else is gravy. Well, I will tell you a story. I was at a qigong convention and one of my students stopped by the table that I had in the vendor's area. I told him to watch what happens when people walk by my table. After an hour of this I asked him what he saw. He said that people were coming by and it was as if they could not see me or the table. But every now and then one person would come up and be very interested. Now I will say I did NOT do this on purpose, although my wife has accused me several times of using energy to run people off that I didn't want around. (hmmn no "halo" emoticon) It all has to do with vibration and I will probably not expound on this any further. Will say that when I first began teaching I had many phenomena seekers and don't much anymore. Other Stories? Wait for 2nd book. I think you are what I call a "natural" and any amount of Stillness-Movement will be a good thing.

I teach "Sorcerer's Vision" or "Soft Vision" at every workshop. But what is amazing to me is that, simple as it is, only a small percentage remember it afterwards. And an even smaller percentage actually practice it.

Surrender, Surrender But Don't Give Yourself Away...Awayyy

Don't know about the qigong you mention so I can't answer. I will say this; I have tried many qigong systems; everyone I have tried pales in comparison to the Stillness-Movement neigong.

Sitting and standing are both considered in the hour, as long as one continues the Stillness-Movement. Other tasks qigong, carrying it forward to other tasks, is accomplished through the awareness gained in the sitting/standing, so it is the state that is carried over into other tasks. But this state is based on the standing/sitting. WHat I notice is, that when one first begins practice, it may take an hour to "saturate" (and I use that term loosely). After a few weeks or a couple of months, depending on the practitioner, it seems to settle into around 40 minutes (not an exact thing) to reach that "saturation" level. Now, let me stress this: One hour is not enough for those that wish to manipulate energy for healing others. Once this "saturation" level is reached then more Stillness-Movement is a good thing, as now it is not only "saturated" the body, but is working toward raising the energy body vibrational level. So for self-healing qigong, I always say one hour minimum. For healers I say 4,5 hours minimum. Now you may find it "boring", and for a few weeks or a couple of months, it may remain so. But eventually instead of HAVING to sit and do the Stillness-Movement it will be "Oh Goody! I GET to sit down and do Stillness-Movement."

If that ever happens I am going to build a house way back in the woods from the house where I tell everyone I live... Really, I don't want phenomena seekers, sensationalist seekers, guru worshipers or smart asses that already know everything; only genuine seekers that wish to learn authentic neigong, medical qigong for helping others, and a highly energetic movement system. It is a shame, though, that the medical qigong techniques are not being utilized more - this IS IS IS future's medicine.

Gift of the Tao is as much "water method" as it is "fire method" as it is "wind method" as it is "earth method" as it is "heavenly method". It is all of them depending on the circumstances, intent, how fast it is done, environment, WHO YOU ARE, your particular needs, etc. IMO there is no pure water method nor pure fire method and you seldom ever see me using these marketing terms. When I do Gift of Tao it can be fiery as the depths of hell, smooth as the gentlest streams, Light as the Highest Heavenly levels, Cool as the Mountains, Earthy as the holes Shamen travel through, inter-dimensional as... In your case I would suggest rebounding as the ideal starting point followed by walking and even running, and squats with light weights. Follow your heart. Do what works for you. Really, rebounding is the one single thing that usually helps anyone who does it.

Concentrated sitting Stillness-Movement IS the key practice. I suggest a minimum of one hr per day. Without this there is no carrying over the practice into your daily life. This is an internal neigong form. There are many benefits; read back through the thread and you will find many of these benefits not only listed, but personally described by those that practice the form. The Gift of the Tao is a movement qigong form. Of course the practice of Stillness-Movement enhances the practice of this form as there would be no form without the practice of Stillness-Movement - that is where it came from. Both forms contain the benefits that are subscribed to all qigong. I suggest to anyone that says they don't have time to do a concentrated sitting practice for an hour to just practice the Gift of the Tao. It can be done in one pass inside of 15-20 minutes. HOWEVER, IMO there is no such thing as not having time to practice as the practice itself enhances the time spent doing anything else so that the improved efficiency of the other tasks are more than offset by the concentrated practice. You are already "enlightened". You just aren't aware of it yet.

Ah Ha! Good question. Now, you have observed me doing Taoist Medicine on someone while at the same time talking about anything whatsoever? Yet getting immediate results? It is a matter of separating the first and second attention. One attention is the brain-body and the other attention is the energy body/soul. Now, when one gets this, then it is easy to utilize various aspects of the energy body, brain, and body simultaneously. All this ties in with everything else that I am attempting to get across to my students and requires time&effort. Some people find it easier than others. For me, it was at the same time very difficult while at the same time very easy. I am not speaking in riddles; the BRAIN made it very difficult; the process is easy. So the non-indulgence is a chosen thing; one can choose the degree of immersion and walk a fine line between indulgence and non-indulgence. I enjoy the movies and my qigong does it's thing while I am watching through this process of separating the first and second attention.

Absolutely. The key, as Friend correctly suggests, is non-indulgence. When I do movie qigong I can tell you everything that happened but I never indulge in being the character or being in the story, which is what most movies are trying to do - get one immersed inside the story. So this concept can be applied to virtually anything, hence 24/7 Stillness-Movement. But ALL that is still not the same as the concentrated sitting Stillness-Movement. It really is the matter, as Friend suggests, of translating the Stillness-Movement over into other activities.

Yes, this is one of the things I mean about "these movements are BIG". Your question: I do Stillness-Movement when watching a movie and while doing the myriad things. Methinks Thou Dost have Goodly Understanding! You will do well with this.

It is ok to do it indoors, it is just that the physicality needs "big" (as you discovered). You can find a natural vortex outside if you look - these are great to do Gift of Tao. Also, if you choose a certain spot and practice there it will become a place of power after you shift enough at the same spot. If I understand you correctly, the Beings of Light that you were running into were drawn to the vibration, as in they are curious when they encounter these Higher-Level Light vibrations, so when you shift they follow you back.

The heat is good, especially at first session. To answer your question, keep awareness on dan tian , not mind-focus.

We have been fed a bunch of lies, and "told" to laugh at anyone that takes it serious. I knew back in the 60's that we are not alone. So did a lot of other people. It is totally amazing to me that nothing has ever "come out" mainstream.