tao stillness

For those who live outside the USA who are interested in downloading John Alton's new Ebook, he just wrote to me explaining that Kindle is going to soon remedy a technical problem that they overlooked but John just discovered. The Ebook then will be available in Germany and other countries in about 48 hours. The download for the new video is a different matter. John has recently made an effort to get Amazon to make it available outside the USA and he is expecting to get a reply from them next week. He is also trying to get the video on Itunes but he said that could take a few months. HIs method sounds exciting since there is actual research on it and it claims to allow you to send healing energy to whatever area of the body needs it and from a scientific explanation, you realize how that can happen. John is great to communicate with and really has much knowledge and experience in China. His sincerity to share healing with others is real.

Jeff, glad that you asked that question of Sifu Terry since it has larger implications. The question is, is it ever wise to deviate from the exact mechanics of any qigong method that has a long lineage? Is the sensing of qi what we are looking for, or is it the benefits that come with doing the movements in a prescribed, specific manner more important than how strongly we feel the qi? I have heard some qigong teachers say that it is not important whether or not you are feeling qi, you will experience benefits anyway. And I have heard a few teachers say that if you are not feeling qi then you have not been taught well. I prefer the way Sifu Terry has answered this question in the past.

An additional comment to my previous post. You will notice that I have done only one type of meditation, TM, for the past 43 years. So when I do find a method that gives me what I am looking for, I do not keep seeking. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened.

LOL, I ask that same question myself! Seriously, as you probably know from what I have posted, for some unknown reason I usually do not feel much qi from any of these methods so I have always been looking for something more powerful to allow me to feel qi like other people do inside of their body, etc. Part of the problem is having the services of a gifted medical clairvoyant. I stumble upon a new qigong method and as you guessed, out of curiosity I have Eric test it and then it sounds like it will be more beneficial than the methods that I am currently doing. Almost like a drug addict chasing after a bigger high, LOL. Another reason is that when I actually start doing some of the ones I newly acquire, they might prove too difficult for me to learn, or they just do not feel enjoyable doing them, or I am feeling nothing from them so I stop doing them. Having been single until a year ago, it reminds me of when I was dating women. I would always be looking for the right one for me and I did not want to settle for anything less. Same way with my relationship with qigong. But Longevity Qigong by Simon Blow is a keeper with its very simple, gentle, slow, flowing tai chi like movements. The rest I have been trying on for size to see how they fit. But I do tire of the endless searching.

Better that the mind stands still than the earth stands still, LOL. Aeran, I just got Damo Mitchell's Heavenly Streams book yesterday and what a complete difference it has made in doing his Wu Xing compared to doing it from just following along with the youtube video. Doing the first two elements the way he teaches in the book I was able to feel huge amounts of qi in my hands and then when in the static position following doing an element I could feel qi also in the feet. Just like Damo states, after awhile the qi will be felt coming up from the ground into the body. If this is just day one, I look forward to learning the rest of the elements and becoming proficient at it. They are very easy to do but putting the awareness where he tells you to in the book is the key to feeling the power from the form. So thanks again Aeran!

Brian, you are right on understanding that there are literally physical changes to the brain resulting from some types of energy work. The avatar, Sri Ama-Bhagavan has stated for example that his Oneness Blessing energy transmission quiets the parietal lobes of the brain while enlivening the frontal lobe. People on the courses in India where participants become permanently awakened who are clairvoyant have seen higher Beings working on the brains of the participants while they slept as part of the rewiring to produce Awakening. My best friend was on that course and related that story. Bhagavan was asked about this and he said that those Beings who hang around the temple who became enlightened long ago in past lifetimes and are now assisting in the awakening process. For those who only believe what they can experience from their own 5 senses, this probably will sound like science fiction.

Hi Brian, I am a recently retired psychologist who started working in the field in 1973 and I have used NLP at times and have healed phobias with it in about 15 minutes. I wonder if those people who deny that it works have ever tried using it to help people? Many people do not believe in reincarnation, yet I have helped people by doing past life therapy with them. There was a time when most people did not believe that the Earth was round. I just saw a poster advertising a local lecture to be given by a man who has written a book about the myth of the Holocaust. He claims it never happened. I guess my ancestors that were killed in Poland because they had the misfortune to have lived in the town that became Auschwitz may be actually alive since that author claims the Holocaust was a hoax. I give these examples to show that the beliefs or disbeliefs of other people might not be based on direct experience or truth, but just opinion. And this is how I view this blog. Like life itself, it contains people sharing information that in some cases is based on opinion, experience and/or truth. It is my responsibility to separate the wheat from the chaff and to not throw out the baby with the bath water. I have gained much from Daobums over the years. I just wish they would go back to spelling it Taobums.

I believe like Edgar Cayce stated that whenever you see a prodigy in any field, it is due to having first mastered that particular skill by a soul in prior lifetimes. I have started to watch one of Damo's lectures and I agree, his knowledge is amazing and much of it probably comes from his direct experience. Today I exchanged several emails with John Alton, creator of the Reflection Response Qigong. He has recently gotten rid of his United Fitness website and created a new one since he has updated his method and has written a new book. Anyone who has an illness might want to look at John's website and watch his 3 minute video explaining his method and why it heals conditions. He no longer uses the Three Emperors Qigong form as part of his method. Instead of the dvd he sold, he now has a digital download video to learn his method along with a new E-book which I downloaded and was excited from what I read so far in his introduction. This seems to be taking qigong to a new level of healing effectively. He said his methodology is accepted by the highest qigong authority in China.

Thank you Aeran! I did have one of Damo's books 3 or 4 years ago but never finished it. Now that I am doing one of his methods I will order Heavenly Streams since I think the book I had was his Daoist Nei Gong. I will not do Ji Ben Gong as it tested not good for me. The test report said that it would take years of practice before I would gain any benefit from that method. Too bad because those movements look really nice. Do you know if his 3 dvd disc that has been redone contains his Wu Xing Qigong form? Hard to believe he only wants something like $24 for 3 disc set. I suppose he makes his big money from his online courses and workshops.From reading one of his books it is apparent that he is very knowledgeable and I assume that he is a reincarnated Taoist priest.

The Falu Dafa master used to teach that one should never practice two different qigong methods because each style of qigong creates a unique energy field for the person and that energy field would be corrupted by conflicting energy signals from the different styles of qigong. He said that even if someone did not want to do Falun Dafa, they still should only do one qigong method. I never was able to follow this warning because when I learned Falun Dafa I had to do Spring Forest Qigong while running a daily qigong group where I worked. Same situation when I did Flying Phoenix for 2 years.

Happy birthday Jim and congrats on such a fine young catch! I just got married for the first time last year. I held out for finding a woman who would share my interests in qigong and Transcendental Meditation and knew how to make me feel loved. She took to both of those energy methods immediately and her initial experiences probably were better than my current results from both of those methods which shows me how evolved of a soul she is. She is younger than I so I have to keep up with her hormones. I find that taking the ayurvedic equivalent of ginseng does the trick beyond what I would have ever thought. It is called Ashwaganda. An adaptogen which means it sends energy to the cells. The name in English is Winter Cherry. Or it could be qigong that is creating the stamina. I have more stamina than I had 10 years ago, so something is working. I could ask my medical clairvoyant what is causing the increased stamina but I guess I am a bit too embarrassed to do that.

Very astute observation and question. John Alton in his book answers that question. In fact, he changed some things up since he published the book and now adds some physical workout to the qigong method and calls the new system Unified Fitness. But there is a difference, and as I said, he covers that in his book. I have seen different methods of Neigong, not all of them use muscle resistance. The guys who have martial arts backgrounds and then do neigong dvds seem to like the hard neigong. I commented elsewhere that I don't see many of these famous qigong or tai chi masters living past their 70's and 80's. My mother is 91 and has never done any exercise since she was in high school gym class. Her grandfather lived to be in his 90's at a time when most men were dying when in their 60's or early 70's. The only exercise I do is walking our dogs and doing qigong which is so slow that I don't consider it exercise. I am 68 yrs old and my BP is usually 110/71. Never been on any Western medicine except for the need for an antibiotic for an upper respiratory infection once in awhile due to the harsh climates I have lived in and not getting enough sleep at those times. So I don't really know what it takes for longevity other than the luck of the draw when it comes to genes. I use qigong as preventive medicine. There are probably some types of qigong that can even change things at the level of the genes. Who knows? But let's hope so.

Any one ever worked with any of the dvds from Grandmaster Zhang Yuanming? His lineage is amazing so I suspect his qigong is authentic. I watched a clip of his Dragon Qigong which was way beyond my level but I just ordered his 5 Element dvd for the liver since that is my weak point. I want to give that area extra treatment and add it to Damo Mitchell's Wu Xing Qigong which tested very well and is so easy to do and I felt Qi flow in the hands from the very first movement. That video is available on YouTube and only takes 6 minutes to do all 5 Elements. The test report from the medical clairvoyant: Wu Xing Qigong. pronounced woo sheeng chi kung. ———Looks very good. Purifying and cleansing and it should move the kundalini energy up the spine to the higher centers. What I like about the above test results is that when Kundalini reaches the higher centers and remains there, you are then in the Awakened state of consciousness per the current avatar for the planet, Sri Ama-Bhagavan of Oneness University in Golden City, southern India.

I just watched 2 youtube videos by Damo Mitchell doing Wu Xing Qigong 5 elements and also Ji Ben Gong which is neigong. They look easy to follow him. Has anyone on here learned any of his methods? He is offering a retreat in Sept. in Maryland where I live but there is no description of what it will be about. It seems to require some kind of membership called ACG which sounds like some kind of ongoing certification course.

One man's meat is another man's poison. Different strokes for different folks.

Very interesting experiment Sifu Terry. I have known the importance of a full night's sleep ever since I began doing meditation. Whenever I was fatigued from lack of sleep and then did my Transcendental Meditation session, it just went nowhere. Thus proving that the nervous system needs adequate sleep and rest to function properly. Sad to see this society marketing so many energy drinks to substitute for proper sleep. It is just not the amount of sleep we get that matters. Ayurveda, the oldest health care system on this planet, teaches that most healing and rejuvenation of the mind/body takes place when we get to sleep by 10pm. The sleep cycles need to coincide with the energy cycles of he universe. Same thing for eating. The most digestive fire is available when the sun is strongest from 12pm-2pm and that is when our largest meal should be consumed. When the sun sets there is very little digestive fire/energy left to properly digest food. So proper natural sleeping and eating habits should make a difference in our chi kung and meditation practices. So many different sources of TCM talk about just doing chi kung is not enough. They mention things like getting enough rest and eating pure food. At the recent strong urging of my medical clairvoyant I have made more of an effort to eliminate wheat, gluten, dairy and sugar even further from my diet. I would like to eat more organic foods to avoid adding toxins to my system but that would require an income higher than mine to be able to afford that. That says a lot about the state of consciousness of our society that pure foods cost so much more than foods that have toxins added to them. I wonder what those Taoist hermits living in the mountains of China eat? I was glad to recently learn that the Whole Foods store chain now buys some of their organic produce from the Transcendental Meditation organic produce farms located in Fairfield, Iowa. Their crops are grown according to the ancient ayurvedic farming principles. Now all we need is for the Whole Foods company to listen to all of those complaints about their high prices.

Good question. There is only one guy that I know of who had been involved in researching qigong in terms of Western physiology and that is John Alton who is connected with University of Virginia where they put his qigong class under the Nursing Dept. He would be the guy to ask about the Amygdala and nervous system. You can hear his 2014 lecture to the Google people where he discusses qigong in terms of the Western view of the body. He created a system that he learned from a master when he was in China using The Three Emperor Qigong form also with what John calls the Reflective Exercise Response which consists of learning to feel a pulse in your lower abdomen and then being able to send that pulse to whatever needs healing in your body and it is supposed to heal almost instantly. I recently ordered the dvd but John must be in China or elsewhere since he did not send confirmation of the order and did not ship it so I recently cancelled the order. It did not test very well for me anyway when I had the medical clairvoyant check it out. John wrote a book in 1997 about his qigong experiences in China and his subsequent research. He shows just how qigong is able to improve health. It works strongly with the lymphatic system. I think he also covers the CNS, I have not finished reading it.

Our people became so good at Spring Forest Qigong that I often did the entire half hour session in total silence with my eyes closed. We always played good Asian themed music with the form.

Some of our patients were so aware of what I was demonstrating that if I scratched my nose during the routine, they scratched their nose thinking it was part of the form, LOL. A lady around 80 years old did that and I burst out laughing. They took correction very well and tried hard. I wish I could say the same for the staff that was supposed to be joining in that group too.

Wow, that video brings back memories! That is a nice gentle looking and easy to perform qigong method. I will have to look it up online. To answer a question, there were no known bad side effects from our severely mentally ill people doing qigong. Some qigong masters had advised us not to teach them any movements that would bring chi to their heads. That made sense since they already have too much energy there anyway but we never bothered to avoid that. What was gratifying was some of our most disruptive patients actually embraced qigong and they turned out to be model students while in the group, their behavior was well controlled and some had family members order them a qigong dvd so they could continue after discharge from our facility. Spring Forest Qigong is especially good because the movements allow most people to feel chi flowing in their hands quickly. I remember that after several months I could eventually feel some degree of chi flow in my hands from every one of the movements. So it does build up the chi. I stopped doing it at work because I retired and no longer worked there. I stopped doing it at home before that because I found other qigong methods that Eric found that gave more benefits to me. Flying Phoenix was one of those, and if you do Flying Phoenix Chi Kung, then you really don't have time to do any other method.

Wow, Lucifer sounds like he is right out of one of the Marvel Comics tv shows that I now watch, Gotham or the Flash or The Arrow. That is great that at 70 you can still do it. I began my career in 1973 and retired last year. The interesting thing is that everyone on this planet who is not Awakened is not in their right mind, myself included. I am too lazy to fly to southern India to take the course for a few weeks and come back Awakened. And just think, people used to trek across India, China and Tibet seeking a master and now all we have to do is fly to Oneness University. I will wait till the course is offered in the U.S.

According to the Avatar of Oneness University in Golden City, India, the stillness that is mentioned in almost all scriptures is produced when the parietal lobes of the brain are quieted and the frontal lobe is activated. That is the science behind the effects of Kundalini rising as portrayed in the TCM model symoblized as steam rising up the dan tiens as shown in the picture on my posts. The stillness from this literal rewiring of the brain results in the spontaneous disconnect from the ego and then person experiences life from being in the moment instead of filtering all perception thru past experiences and social conditioning. Thus, the mind cannot heal the mind. It takes a higher form of energy which happens to be Kundalini or Prana or Chi. At least that is how I currently understand this. For most, Awakening has to happen before Enlightenment. 2 different types of functioning of the nervous system. So thank you Jim D. for the phrase Be still and know... Knowledge is structured in Consciousness.

LOL! I was thinking, "One is the loneliest number you will ever do....". The paradox being that loneliness is from separation from the Self and the only cure for that human unawakened condition is Oneness with all.

I think I will leave it up to the group, "Three Dog Night". They said it best.

And you are trying to communicate indirectly what message? Or should we just fill in the blanks and try to guess?