ChiDragon

For being with a scientific oriented mind, it is hard to follow this advice. IMO All definitions, facts, and theories should be followed in order for things to be fallen into place. Everything should be cleared in one's mind with no doubt to reach a conclusion. IMO To practice an art, one must know what the goal is. How to go about it? What are the intermediate stages during the practice. Know what to expect when the highest realm of the art has been reached.

To make it simple, from my recollection. There are pigments beneath the skin layers that respond to sunlight. If there is too much sunlight, then, the pigments will come up near the skin to darken the color of rhe skin.

Karma can also be used to describe a fate or destiny, or the good or bad emanations that someone or something generates. For example, someone might say "This place has bad karma".

I agree! Karma by itself shouldn't be differentiated it is good or bad. IMO It is the effect that determines it is good or bad.

One will not feel proud before. If the Jing was strong, then one would feel proud afterward of doing it. However, if one does it too often, the Jing becomes weaken. Since the damage has done to one's heath, to regain one's heath is good to practice any form of qigong. Taji is the best form of qigong. Most people didn't know that deep breathing is the key factor in qigng. Please note that without deep breathing, one may practiced many years of qigong still not gain any heath benefit from it.

Since he posted here, and we live in the same area. I thought we meet in person to talk is better. I told him not to do it as often and practice Taiji to regain his heath back to normal. I hope that was ok! 😀

In traditional terms: it burns up your three treasures: Jing, Chi ,Shen. In modern terms: One will over work the reproductive system. If the reproductive system is constantly reproducing the sperms, then it will use up most the energy and not much more left for the other organs to function properly. It also weaken the immune system that will make a person become very weak. It affects the pituitary gland. Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH): FSH stimulates sperm production in people assigned male at birth. FSH stimulates the ovaries to produce estrogen and plays a role in egg development in people assigned female at birth. This is known as a gonadotrophic hormone. Please read more about the pituitary gland ere https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/21459-pituitary-gland

Isn't weaken the body is the energetic aspect about it?

As you said! Do it but not too often is good for you.

More than twice a day is too often. That will be weaken one's soul and body. There was a male teacher came here for help to understand the effect of masturbation. We had met in a park. We shook hands, he felt my Taiji handshake, he was so weak and almost cannot resist my hand grip.

Yes, the key word is frequent. The question is how often has one done this. Too often is habit forming. That is where the problem lies.

It will burn up the three treasures: Jing Chi Shen, 精氣神. It will weaken your mind and your physical body. You will lose your will power and your physical strength. It is a worse thing that can do to a teenager without guidance. PS We had many people came to TDB asking for help with this kind of problem.

Counting the circles is just a number, but actually, it is the movement that really counts!

It was due the duration of exposure to the skin. It has nothing to do with Chi.

As far as I know, it doesn't if you can breathe perfectly and more than normal.

Apparently, you heard wrong!

I know why I am here but some don't know why I am here. So, I get rejected! However, I do appreciate and thank those with the acceptance of who I am!

Welcome! Your questions are welcome and will be answered! Nice to see you here!

Chapter 14 The invisible Tao­ 1. 視之不見,名曰夷。 2. 聽之不聞,名曰希。 3. 摶之不得,名曰微。 4. 此三者不可致詰， 5. 故混而為一。­ 6. 其上不皦， 7. 其下不昧， 8. 繩繩不可名， 9. 復歸於無物。 10.是謂無狀之狀， 11.無物之象， 12.是謂惚恍。 13.迎之不見其首， 14.隨之不見其後。 15.執古之道以御今之有。 16.能知古始， 17.是謂道紀。 Translated in terse English... 1. View it couldn't see, name and call it Colorless. 2. Listen to it couldn't hear, name and call it Soundless. 3. Touch it couldn't feel, name and call it Formless. 4. These three are inseparable 5. These three objects blended in one. 6. Its top is not brilliant. 7. Its bottom is not dim. 8. Its continuance is unnameable. 9. Returned to being formless(state of invisibility), 10. Is called a form of no form. 11. An image of formless, 12. Is called obscure. 13. Greet it cannot see its head. 14. Follow it cannot see its back. 15. Grasp the presence of Tao to see all existing things, 16. Able to understand the ancient origin, 17. It's called the Principles of Tao.

@Cobie什么是超越的超越？

Go get a blood test and urine test too for verification. Nowadays, a good herbalist do read the western test to determine for herbal treatment.

Welcome! Please make yourself at home. 🙏

In that case, I am willing to step out of the thread if you would like me to!

I got you. So visualization is 意(YI) , the intend. I see what you are saying. You are following the traditional explanation that I am not so fond of. I believe that oxygen was delivered to the cells by blood circulation. The glucose from food was decomposed by oxygen into energy. The body system do it automatically. It does not require any will power. It was known as metabolism and self healing is part of the process too. Self healing does not require any will power. Just provide oxygen and food to the body will do.

I don't think this is the case in the human body. It was not a good analogy!