ChiDragon

FYI Tai Chi is a form of Chi Kung. BTW It is the best form of Chi Kung. It is a combination of hidden forms of Chi Kung and Kung Fu. It takes the inner intuition of the practitioner to realize them. Practicing Tai Ji is quite awake and alert, thus it is not just meditation at all.

That didn't sound right....!!! Did you do it correctly.

OK. What is the possibility of the Wood sucking up all the Water. Well, under normal conditions, it is not possible because the Metal is constantly feeds the Water, and so on, one element feeds another in the Five Elements Cycle. Therefore, the Insulting sequence defeats the feeding cycle which made it invalid. If one of the elements does not feed or accept the Chi from another, then, it is an indication that an organ is dysfunctional.

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"凡夫": ordinary man, Copy 凡夫 and paste it into the window in the site below. Chinese translation into English

The key to Chi Kung or meditation is not to fight anything in your thoughts. I recall that you do practice breathing in your meditation. Just remember, even if you see a naked woman teasing in front of you; when you inhaling you just concentrate your inhale; when you exhale, you just exhale. Then you will see nothing and hearing nothing. That is what mind cultivation is all about as part of Chi Kung practice. PS.... This sound so simple, but no one knew how power that was....!!!

Since we know something about the yin and the yang, here is one way to interpret what is kidney yin & yang deficiencies. Each organ has its characteristic or function, in general, they are referred as "Chi". When the kidney is in the ultimate state, it was said to be it is in the extreme Yang state. The kidney must be maintained in a state of balance. In the initial state of the kidney, the Yang Chi is in the fullest state. When the kidney starts to provide some Yang Chi for the liver, at the moment, the Yin Chi state becomes active and comes into the picture. At the point, when the Yang Chi and Yin Chi are 50/50, it was said to be that the two chi are in balance. However, when the Yang Chi becomes less than 50%, then, there is more Yin Chi than Yang Chi. Hence, it was considered to be that the kidney is Yang deficiency. In other words, knowingly, that the liver chi must be maintained in the 50/50 balance state. If the Yin chi is too high, then, it was considered to be "Yang deficiency". Hence, the kidney must provide more Yang chi for the liver to offset the Yin Chi. Furthermore, for the confusion, when the liver Yin Chi is less than 50%, it was said to be that the liver is Yin deficiency or the Yang Chi is too high. Therefore, some of the Yang Chi has to be withdrawn to offset the Yin Chi deficiency and put the liver back into balance again. PS..... This is the scenario for explaining how the concept of yin-yang was applied in the TCM.

Tao is Zero(Wu) to begin with. Then, Tao engenders One(You) .

hmmm..........brain orgasm...!!! If not brain orgasm, then, what else could it be....??? Without the brain, can one still gain an orgasm....???

When the mind is in the "State of Serenity" which is "emptiness". Emptiness is "at the Zero state".......

If it was said that the "creation of the creator" I would be able to totally agree.......

Okay, I think I understand what these sayings are all about. It was just an extra step of saying something in a different way. Here is my understand of interpret the Five Element Chart. For example, the Water feeds Wood by the Green arrow, in the diagram, only has one direction. What that indicates is that Water will feed what it has to the Wood until water runs out. I think the insulting sequence says, in another way, by stating that the Wood was sucking all the water out of Water. Since Water is active and Wood is passive, I think the proper way of saying should be "the Water was ran out and has no more to provide for the Wood" instead of blaming that "the Wood was sucking up all the Water". What do you think.....???

Hi, oreothecookie..... IMO You have taken the right approach to correct your asthma and allergy conditions. Please keep in mind, Chi Kung is a cure for your illness but in doesn't happen in one day or two. It needs to be taken some preliminary steps in practice before getting the final result. In deed, you should be expecting some unpleasant moments at the beginning. The tingling feeling is normal for beginners which means the physiological effect was taken place inside your body. The feeling of suffocation will go away after your diligent practice. It will take some time depends on your determination and patience. Since your questions were addressed to Sifu Terry, I will say no more until he responds to you. Good luck......

Okay, based on what was being said, it should apply to all the Five Elements. If one fails, then it will be contradictory to all the other. Let's say, Water douses Fire and Fire vaporizes Water. What about the interactions between the Wood and Metal...??? Metal chops the Wood, then, what are the insulting sequences for the Wood to Metal and Water to Earth.....???

Let's hear what the western science has to say about fatigue. Fatigue was caused by the hypoxia in the muscle cells for producing the biochemical energy ATP. The glucose from the food was converted into lactic acid or lactate which cause the muscle pains and fatigue. Based on this fact about the lack of oxygen, I practice chi kung to breathe more oxygen into my body. Ever since then, I've feel very energetic and never feel fatigue again. Even after some hard work in the yard, muscles do not stiffen up like it used to be. At the time I am fatigue was due to lack of the source of energy which food. It is better not to do any more exercise until the body is recuperated and returned to the normal condition. Otherwise, one will introduce further burden to deplete the energy in the body which will cause more body exhaustion.

It is something new to me. How so foundational...??? Please enlighten me a little...!!! Thank you....

It seems that there is something wrong about this chart. The insulting sequence does not exist in to Five Elements System. Someone might be mistakenly added to the system will cause misinterpretation.

By definition, kidney yang deficiency means that the kidney need to take some supplements which it is lack of. Therefore, I don't think Chi Kung or acupuncture will help.

If it occur three to four times a week, then that is a health problem. If one time in two to four week, then you are in good health.

Well, good luck with it......

To tell you the truth, the Lower Dan Tian(LDT) doesn't generate nor store energy. It was a misconception by many people. People are paying too much attention to the term LDT by itself. LDT is just a position to be located in the body. LDT is only part of the abdomen just below the navel. It is only a location of the body which has no biological functions. LDT is so important in Chi Kung because when we breathe it expands. It is the most noticeable portion of the abdomen during Chi Kung practice. Some people may not and cannot breathe deeply into the LDT. The purpose of Chi Kung is to practice breathing until one can send the breath deep down to the LDT, so to speak. In the ancient time, when the practitioner of Chi Kung breathed deeply down to the LDT, the body energy level increased tremendously. At the time, they didn't realize that their bodies having an internal biological effect was due to the greater amount of oxygen that they breathed in. According to modern science, the greater amount of oxygen actually increase the rate of metabolism. That will enhance the functions of the organs and self healing too. Any stagnation in the body will be cleared due to the sudden awaken of the organs. Stagnation means any illnesses inside the body such partial dysfunction of the organs, bad cells, low number of blood cell counts and etc. The awaken of the organs will perform their functions more efficiently. The damaged body cells will be repaired, all body wastes will be removed at a faster rate. What is all this lead to was paying attention to and given all the credit to the LDT. It is because the LDT expands; and it was the most noticeable thing happens when we breathe. Therefore, the expansion of the LDT is the sign of enhancing the body to function indirectly. The body generates its own energy within the body cells. Our body requires food and oxygen to generate to energy. However, to generate a great amount of energy, a supply of large amount of oxygen is needed constantly. In order to provide a large amount of oxygen, it can be done by expanding the LDT during breathing to increase the volume of the lungs for more air intake. Hence, the more air intake means more oxygen in the air that the blood can delivered to the body cells for cell respiration. Now, we can conclude why the LDT is so important in Chi Kung practice.

The problem with the term "Qi", in the west, only has one definition as "energy" and refused other possible definitions. Thus that is their only hing up. "Jing" is an ambiguous term, even an ordinary Chinese still couldn't come out with a definite explanation. Before the "semen retention", the original idea was "essence retention". However, once, it was mistakenly though that 精, Jing(essence) were semen(精液) by some Taoists. Since then, they came up with the idea about semen retention. Unfortunately, somehow the whole conceptual idea about "essence retention" were twisted to become "semen retention". Note: The character 精 was used for essence(精) and semen(精液). It was easily to be mistakenly understood the difference between the two. I believe sperms were not known by the Taoists, at the time, because semen was only visible to them. Maybe that is why they came up with the idea of "semen retention".

Please explain....!!!

Yes, NE is not healthy was just a myth from the ancient Taoists who thought they were loosing Jing. Loosing Jing will cause them to shorten their lives for longevity. @ dmattwads...I believe in western science(not medicine) more than the concepts in the TCM.