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• HAPPY NEW YEAR OF THE FIRE HORSE !!! • May New Year's blessings and good karma come to you with freedom, speed, high intensity, and great and blissful duration!

Hi DanC, Sorry to take so long to reply. I've been traveling a lot between CT and MA since I got back from Hong Kong (and my family's ancestral village of Ping Shan) in mid-December. I'll be posting some Youtube videos of some martial form demonstrations that I had videotaped at the Tang Family Ancestral temple (Yang Tai Chi, Chen Tai Chi, and Liu He Ba Fa). Answer: Yes, I have a book on both Flying Phoenix and I have a book on the TTP-31 Basic Meditations, which is the onlly level that can be safely. I have been working off and on for years on the FP Qigong book, and hope to have it done sometime late this year. The TTP-31 Book is actually much easier to write because (A) the instructions are very straight forward and can be easily illustrated and (B) I've been doing Tao Tan Pai the longest of all the arts that I preserve--since 1974. Thank you and all fellow FP practitioners for your patience. Happy New Year of the Fire Horse!! --and may it speed me to complete these worthy book projects! Sifu Terry https://taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html https://terencedunn.substack.com/

Hi Boreas, I'm glad you've completed your treatment and have resumed your FP Qigong practice. Here are answers to your questions (in bold): 1) Should I keep a gentle focus on the lower abdomen while doing opening 3 breaths and during breath formulas? • Yes, it's always optimal to breathe diaphragmatically, expanding the lower belly on the inhalation. And for most practitioners, that calls for a gentle focus on the tan tien (dantien)--not only during the 3 priming breathes, but also during the performance of the breath-control formula. And this is true especially for those who do not have a kung fu or Tai Chi background already. 2) Regarding formula part in itself, after inhaling my 100% and exhaling X%, do I need on the next inhale to breathe in same X% and exhale 100% at same speed? Said another way, should I keep "counting my potatoes" ? Or do I just breathe in and out calmly without counting? • Yes, after you exhale X%, you then inhale the X% for the same duration (at the same speed). The exhale 100%, inhale 100% --both at the same speed-- and the the next percentage exhalation. yes, keep counting "potatoes" with each full (100%) breath and each X-percentage breath exhalation and X-percentage inhalation. You're most welcome. Happy New Year. Sifu Terry https://www.taichimania.com/chikung_catalog.html terencedunn.substack.com