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Well. I am still going to try....I think my nervous system is just really weak right now.....I keep beating it with alcohol on the weekends..going to practice tomorrow ....maybe I am not bringing the energy down properly like another poster said.

Hey, thanks for all of the replies....I will try that madras....I believe the stances that we practice make the chi sink....but for some reason it feels like it has been getting stuck in my head.....I have never felt the same about it after this Chinese doctor inserted some needles in my crown area on my head...but perhaps that is coincidental.....I really respect my kungfu instructor, but at the same time, I feel like he can't identify with my problems because he tells me he has never had one ill effect or feeling from chigung.....so he always just gives me a blank look and says if you feel bad practice more and more...but in the same breath tells me he never felt bad once in 15 years....maybe he is just more pure than me or something....but I feel like his knowledge of qigong is restricted to his own personal experiences only...

I'm not using anything as an excuse......but its hard to ignore the fact that I had zero feelings in this area before qigong....my main concern is where is the chi energy coming from....is it from dark entities??? I have noticed a trend that most practitioners only believe in themselves and the universe...and many end up hermits at the advanced levels...isn't this a form of selfishness? I came across a website called China for Jesus...its written by a guy who reached advanced levels in 4 years or so and how his life and temperment took a turn for the worst....and how believing in Christ saved him...and he said at the beginning of his practice any negative experiences his instructors would say that is the chi cleaning your system or doing its job you have to bear this to really experience the later bliss or benefits...it strikes a chord because I have been told the same thing by my instructor and others...my question to anyone reading this have you ever had doubts about it? Do you feel like you are becoming a better and mote compassionate person or more ego driven?

I have a teacher.....he is a kungfu instructor....we practice a very simple form of qigong which he also teaches to kids. He tells me that if i feel bad then do just do it more and more until i feel good because the chi will readjust my body. my forms are like this.....one form i imagine a pulley system connected to my dantien and my breathing...i make a circle in from of my stomach with my arms pals up and raise them up to my face or haed as breathing in and lower them while breathing out.......then the next one i do the same and then raise them above my head in the ir whiloe breathing out and then lowering them while breathing in and then lowering them more while breathing out......nothing fance...just beginning stuff...however, i guess i am really sensitive to it because i feel huge amounts of energy when doing this going up through me and my body even trembles a little when doing the last one above my head...it feels great when i am doing it but then i feel all messed up the next few days and stuff...i dunno, but i realie that qigong is powerful stuff one way or the other...i might just stop it and put my faith in god...i just have too much to risk with my family and all.....i can't risk becoming an evil person...

Hey everyone...I have been practicing Qigong along with Kungfu for the last 2 months or so....began Kungfu almost 4 months ago but Qigong about 2 months ago. I was doing very good with tyhe qigong but decided to go on a drinking binge last 2 wednesdays ago....why is this significant? Because i was addicted to Benzos...Ativan for a sleep problem for a year and a half and going off of it was hell even though i tapered off. I stopped 5 months ago but am not fully recovered yet and drinking always sets my progress bvack. Well, i had uncleared my blockages with qigong but after the drinking binge it has not been so great. Last Friday I did qigong and felt pretty good afterwards but went to a chinese doctor here in Taiwan because i hadn't been sleeping good....this was right after qigong practice....he inserted three needles in the crown of my head and some more in my neck...after he did that, i felt very weird and spacey headed the entire day and saturday morning... saturday after noon i felt like fire was deep inside me especially my back tickling my entire body and it was powerful feeling...overwhelking it scared the crap out of me i felt very weird and sick...i panicked and took some more ativan not much....and calmed down but still felt the strong energy deep inside my body ticking the insides of my bones especially my lower back...so i didn't practice anyhting on sunday and felt normal this mornbing but gave in and practiced qigong this morning and again go the same spacey head feeling...no mental clarity...and still have the feeling tonight as i type this..its a really bad feeling... so now i am not practciing tomorrow until this fades...my question is how to i prtevent this feeling or intense mental fog and disorientation? i know its related to my gaba receptors healing from the dirnking and the ativan...but before i went on that drinking binge i felt like superman after qigong practice and saw everything in slow motion with intense mental clarity...it was awesome....... now i feel ;like i am stuck in mud after qigong....i only praqcticed today for 3o mintues holding my dantien and breathing in and out 6 secondes each imagine a rope of energy following my breathe down to my dantien..and then the same style only with my arms in a cirlcle position moving up to my head with palms up and down to dantien with palms down...this one is always strong feeling to me....should i slow down my practice??? i feel like that chinese doctor really messed with my system........ even after the drinking binge right before i went to him i didn;t have the intense spaceyt feeling...it bagan right after he put those damn needles in my head...

Well, i practiced Qigong yesterday afternoon and felt high as a kite (in a bad way) almost all day today and last night. Now I am feeling better. I have noticed that qigong brings my mental problems up for me to face and i don't like that because it is pretty intense and scary. For example, i have always had an OCD problem and think horrible thoughts at time that i don't want to think.......like other people close to me dying or the thought of me losing it and hurting someone for example. The qigong has been bringing these horrible thoughts up left and right lately to the point where i feel really really bad about myself........and also my behavior and desires get more intense at times....i always used to chase women a lot...but lately after qigong i become obessesed with the idea of hooking up with some random girl......to the point where i feel like i am not in control.......it is making me face all of these dilemmas deep inside my brain.....so i am just going to take this really really slow..........also last Saturday.....at the train station...i felt really messed up and had this sensation that there is a another reality co-existing with ours that we cant see and that i could almost step through this world into that world. Am I supposed to be having all this cray stuff only 2 months into practice??? But also what is weird is that I didn't have any of these intense sensations or problems until after i visited that Chinese doctor. Before i went on that drinking binge and visited that doctor....my qigong practice was nothing but positive and I felt great afterwards and would even use it to get better if i felt bad that day.

So you are saying the stories are all fake??? No one has ever lost it from qigong? I heard hospitals in China have entire departments devoted about this. About the doctors, I just assumed that if they are registered doctors then they all must be good.

No, not to the same doctor. I am worried he will do something similar again. He is very young...i find the older ones are better. TCM doctors are a dime a dozen here in Taiwan. What about qigong phychosis??? That is my biggest fear with qigong because i have an OCD problem where i always think disturbing thoughts ...especially if my nervous system is weak. Is that a real thing to worry about? I keep reading about stories in china and such of people practicing for a a year or so and going crazy. That is why these symptoms scare me so much.

But my nervous system is currently weak because it is still reeling from my drinking session. Maybe you are right...I could just try and push through it. Everything was fine until i visited that Chinese doctor. Do you have any idea of why i git so messed up feeling when he put the needles in the crown of my head? Everything was fine until he did that.

I'm not giving up but i also don't want to lose my sanity. I am just want to wait for my nervous system to heal a little first.

Thanks for the replies. I am not touching alcohol again...and certainly no benzos...i only need to take a benzo if i slip up and drink too much and my nervous system goes haywire. So given that I never drink again....how should i go about my practice? I feel like i need to take one week off to allow the blockage to clear up. Is this too much time off?? I just hate feeling dopey headed and sick when i have to work 6 days a week and be very focused and jovial acting at my job. I hate to take that much time off from practice because i love Kungfu and always practice qigong at least 5 days a week if not 6 or 7........it usually makes me feel euphoric and nice and slow after i practice....that is why this weird feeling after practice is so concerning.....i feel like i may have finally found what i have been searching for my entire life (kungfu) and the thought of quitting or even just slowing down is depressing. How many days a week should I practice until this problem clears up????

Once again...thanks for all the help guys. I am scared to do the chigong before kungfu because i know will feel rushed to finished it quickly and won't able to relax.. kungfu takes at least an hiur and a half and i like to knock it out first.....will just try qhigog today with no kungfu.

I quit the drugs 4 months ago. They are long gone from my system. But my gaba receptors in my brain (the things that release chemicals to make you calm and relaxed) are not working at full power so to speak. I was getting better but i decided to drink alcohol again on the weekends and alcohol also makes the gaba receptors weaker if they are already weakened....so i am back to feeling withdrawal symptoms and sometimes the kungfu and qigong makes those symptoms feel worse. Today i had a rather intense kungfu practice....grueling stance work..followed by qigong. I have felt very very disorientated all day today at work after and felt spacey headed and nervous. How long should I expect this to last at the longest??? I could barely do my job today. Also, i visited a chinese doctor today and he said the problem is that my chi is not flowing smoothly. He gave me some accupunture on my neck and a massage on neck and shoulders and gave me some herbal medicine. Perhaps I should slow down the kungfu and qigong practice???

Thanks so much everyone for your help and replies. I woke up this morning and upon walking outside realized i feel horribly sluggish and spcaey headed to day...each day i wake up lately i always have this strong hangover feeling like i got drunk the night before or something......am am going to practice kungfu and qigong with my instructor though and will drink some noni juice...so hoepfully i will feel good by the time work rolls around... How long will this cleansing process last? It's like a roller coaster ride.

I want to begin sexual retention but have a GF who I see every weekend. If we have sex, is it ok for a little to leak out here and there in pre cum as long as i don't ejaculate??? It seems impossible to have sex with no pre-cum. Also, does qigong replenish lost chi or jing energy from daily ejaculation? And does qigog become more affective when done daily during a period of sexual retention as opposed to practicing daily and ejaculating daily? Many thanks for any input.

I had a flu like illness last week with a high fever and puking some....this was just several days after I began qigong....could this have been a healing crisis? Also, I feel pretty good so far today after my kungfu and qigong practice...finished about 10 minutes ago only, though.....feel a slight euphoric and warm feeling in my lower back and stomach area.....and feel much higher spirited than yesterday and when i first woke up this morning. Maybe this stuff isn't so bad afterall. Also, i am naturally OCD...i have obessessive worrie and thoughts at times and sometimes thing negative thoughts while doing chigong like am i forcing myself to breath too deeply? Am I doing it right? Will this hinder or runin my practice...sometimes i am able to feel great and concentrated while practicing others... i start worrying about every little detail.

The easiest way for me is to set an alarm clock for an hour or 2 before you usually wake up...when you wake up to the alarm get up and read some OBE material for about 15 minutes to saturate your mind on going out...then lay back down on your right side and don't move at all...anything as you fall asleep...for me about 1 out of 3 times i will become aware in the middle of a dream and the dream will break up and i will go back to my body sleeping in bed only my mind is fully awake...at this point just twist or roll out of your body and you will go right out. Also, you don't have to get up any read anything if you don't want, but waking up and then falling back asleep without moving anyhting is very key to this to work...if you do this several times successfully pretty soon you will start having OBEs in the mornings without even trying. I find this way much much easier than through meditation.

We already do those movements in Kungfu naturally for the opening one in some of the basic actions first learned...but the closing one looks useful....how does that get rid of chi stuck in your head, though? I am really worried about getting chi stuck in my head. Should I just skip the second qigong technique that he taught me???? I don't want any stuck in my head. Also, a lot of kungfu...the foundation really is static stances....and in my form we do them low to the ground such as the horse stance we are taught to put the thighs paralel to the ground..knees bent at 90 degree angle back straight relaxed...ect. We do 6 static stances...i do them Monday through Friday...hold the horse for 2 minutes about to go up to 2 and a half minutes and then transition into the rest of the stances one after another holding each for a minute or 30 seconds...depending on the stance....at first i hated this but now i kind of like it because i link them and that though a lot tougher on your muscles at first saves time and takes your mind off anyhting bad you are thinking.........but i feel as if these stances are very very important based on things i have heard and felt from them...at first i was feeling sick and bad from them but now i usually feel better after a set of them......and i can feel myself sticking to the ground in the horse and another stance in particular if i am focused in the right way. How powerful are these stances for building chi????

Thanks. The purpose of the 2nd one is to help feel your dantien with air or chi for beginners....if it gets chi stuck in your head than no thanks...i will avoid that one like the plague.....that is the last thing that I want...2 years of smoking weed already did that..........i just want to learn qigong that makes me feel very calm and like my old happy self.

First off.....greetings everyone...i am a 30-year-old from the US living in Taiwan. I have meditated to hypnosis and binaural beats for about 5 years now nightly to help fall asleep or just to meditate. I recently took up kungfu under an instructor who has studied for over 18 years here under his master who has studied for over 40 years. Part of the kungfu is daily qigong practice. I have some questions about qigong sensations after practice..i just started the qigong practice last week. Sometimes after practice i feel great but this past Saturday I practiced for about 45 minutes or so and felt like i was a little high in a bad way all day long...like my mind was thinking wayyy too much about everything like an obsessive circle and things looked a little depersonalized...like everything felt uncomfortable and things looked a little distorted. These feelings acre me as I recently quit a prescription medication knows as a benzo...a very powerful drug that messes up brain and gaba receptors up...the things in your brain that make you feel good....i quit this drug after daily usage for a year just 4 months ago and still feel weak from it...like i get panicky feeling and that horrible paranouid feeling like after you smoked too much weed or somehting and even recently i had this feeling like everyhting was breaking...my mind...felt like i was going crazy this was from a bad a reaction to a medication a doctor hear recently gave me....i take no meds on a regular basis here...just tried it for sleep one night. Anyways...my goal with kungfu and qigong is to simply feel normal and mentally healthy once again....is qigong safe for me to practice in my current situation or should i wait until my body and brain recover more from the meds that i were on....many thanks for your insight......also i practice the horse stance everyday just once a day which is supposed to cultivate chi as well and can feel it pulling me down sometimes and my sleep has improved greatly from it......but i also have strange sensations after doing it from time to time.

Thanks.....I will repost in the general section....and yeah...i withdrew pretty slowly cutting back amounts each week of the drug Ativan.....but it just messes with your brain chemistry big time and takes a while to go back to normal.