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I have recently noticed this. I have lifted weights on and off for the past 10 years or so. I have been doing QiGong for around 6+ months and recently have been taking it more seriously and I recently just started to lift weights again. I have been back lifting weights for about 2 months and for my squats and dead lifts I have put up personal bests. I have never been able to lift as much and it seems like it happened quickly. I still feel like there is a lot of room to go so it is going to be interesting. I don't have as much control with my Qi as it sounds like you did but I am definitely noticing a significant difference.

So he is gone for good then or what? Thats really to bad.

Where has Drew been?

Does anyone have any experience with being able to reduce the amount of sleep to 4 hours or less and still maintain optimal energy for life? There are so many things I want to accomplish in my life and I just don't feel like there is enough time in each day to get everything done. I would love to be able to only sleep a few hours a night and still function optimally. There are so many articles and varying opinions on the subject of sleep and it is heavily debated in the medical field and on the internet. I am not looking to create a debate on the topic of minimum required amounts of hours of sleep. It won't be very helpful if all you have to share is "study says 8 hours is key to good health", "study finds that people who only sleep 4 hours a night live shorter life span." One thing that I have learned about "studies" and "opinions" from the medical and science field is that things change very frequently, so today a study says XYZ and everyone goes crazy over it and then a year later, "new evidence shows XYZ is actually I,J,K." There are plenty of examples from history and current that illustrate this. THE LESSON THAT I HAVE TAKEN AWAY FROM THIS PATTERN IN THE MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY IS THIS: WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY THROUGH OUR BELIEFS! (If you would like to debate the topic of changing scientific/medical field study findings, I will post another topic and we can do that there). All I am looking for is this: 1. HAVE YOU REDUCED YOUR SLEEP TO 4 HOURS OR LESS AND STILL HAVE GREAT ENERGY FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME LASTING MORE THAN 1 YEAR? OR, IS THERE SOMEONE THAT IS VERY CLOSE TO YOU THAT HAS BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS? 2. IF ANSWER TO QUESTION 1 IS "YES", HOW DID YOU DO THIS? HOW DID THEY DO THIS? 3. ARE THERE ANY TECHNIQUES, SPECIFIC DIET RITUALS, BELIEFS, PATTERNS YOU CAN SHARE? THANK YOU FOR BEING AWESOME!!!

I simply want to experience as much life as I possibly can. When I am doing the above things I mentioned in my post I am very happy. I wish I had time to do all of them. I am most unhappy when I can't do the things that I love to do, like work a desk job in a cubicle for 9 hours a day. I am determined to create a better life for myself and to do that I have to think differently than the masses. Most people "settle" for the 9-5 job and that is why successful people are rare. Successful people make it a habit to do the things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. The size of your success is determined by the size of your beliefs. I understand what you are saying that "life just happens" and we don't have a choice, I get that. I get it that in the end everything I listed is just attachment to materialism, I get that. But that is why the qigong, meditation, yoga etc. will be so important to my journey. It will keep me grounded. For when I am most centered will I realize my true power and true potential. The true power and potential that makes me unstoppable. So you have the idea and concept that everything is nothingness and all we see is only of the material world and yada yada yada but none of that stops you from making your water, car and house payment now does it? You don't stop working because everything in the end is just nothingness do you? I get it that some people are on such a high spiritual plane of enlightenment that they do actually have no payments of any kind and survive of the land and live very happy and are very free. But that is not my reality. That is not the reality that I want for myself. So although I understand that I start at point A and can't know for sure if I'll get to point B, I still have power to set the sail in a particular direction and I do that through my beliefs, choices and actions etc. The way you and Owledge speak it sounds like in some ways you have "settled" in to "only limited set number of possibilites" and thats just not the way I choose to live my life. Enough things have happened in my life to know that the power of thought is very real and your thoughts control your reality. At least for me it is real. My thoughts control my reality. I simply want to get the most out of life. As much as I possibly can. And sometimes that means taking a step back and forgetting about all my desires, but many times it means taking actions that will make me feel good and take me towards doing things I love and having many types of experiences. All I said in most of those goals was to be "accomplished", meaning, my own definition of "accomplished." I'm not talking about being famous. Yes, I do want to be Tony Stark in a sense. But more importantly, I want to unleash MY OWN potential and do things that I love doing. I am obviously not going to get my points through to you guys so we can politely agree to disagree and no worries. I wish good things for all of you! Thank you for taking the time to write!

This helped me so much. I just did the Small Universe Meditation after I read this and it was one of the most breakthrough sessions I have had yet. I could feel lots of pure healing electromagnetic energy being developed. The last time I felt it was when I got a healing from Jim N. Thank you!!!!

How do I take Cayenne? How much, how often? With lemon and maple syrup?

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. It feels judgmental and deconstructive.

This really hit home for me, you are right about the burning out trying to do this by sheer willpower alone. I need to have this goal be the RESULT of my practice, diet, beliefs, habits, patterns, etc. Thank you for this wonderful post!!

Yes this makes sense and I really appreciate your response but I am still on the fence on what I believe about all of this due to the fact that we are constantly being shown "breakthroughs" in the medical and science fields. That on top of what I have learned spiritually about the power of the mind shows that beliefs hold a lot of power, at least for me personally.

Thank you for that response! The whole stress thing seems unclear to me though. I for a while believed that it was bad for me but now I'm questioning if it is actually bad or if its just the fact that I believe its bad. My experience thus far says that our beliefs control our reality in many ways. Would love to get your opinion on this video: Kelly McGonigal's Ted Talk on Stress

Fascinating findings here on Stress. So the studies from the past say that stress is bad. Now, here they say that its not stress but the belief that stress is bad for you. Do we need any studies to tell us anything or can we simply believe something and count on that belief creating and shaping our own reality? The studies and findings from the scientific community are constantly changing and contradicting themselves for any topic you choose, so... What does one make of all this? Kelly McGonigal: How To Make Stress Your Friend

Yes I like what you are saying, and I do not care about having money to buy materialistic "show-off" items but I do want my freedom to be myself and express myself without being a corporate slave. I feel like it requires a lot of effort to break out of the 9-5 job game and create the reality that you want and I would very much like to try to accomplish this. I have mixed views on stress as well. I am not sure whether or not stress is actually bad for health. Here is something to watch and consider. Again, stress, like sleep, is a heavily debated topic. Kelly McGonigal's Ted Talk on Stress

Yeah I agree with what you are saying but I have trouble seeing this and understanding how to balance the Buddhist perspective with the fact that I have to get up every morning and go to work. I mean if I reduce all my desires does the fact that I have to pay bills go away? I realize the nature of life and reality may actually say that this is all just an illusion but I am not past a highly advanced spiritual stage where this is comprehendible, so its like how to I balance not wanting to sit in a cubicle working on a computer my whole career with the letting go of my desires? Ya know?

Yes thats why the meditation/yoga/spirituality will be so imperative to keep it all balanced and flush out some things if necessary.

This is great guys, thank you!! How many hours a day would you say would be the minimum to be able to reduce sleep to this low of a level? More than 2 hours a day of daily meditation? I have researched the polyphasic sleep method and I think it would be a little difficult to pull off since I work a 9 To 5 job so there would be about a 10 hour span in the day where I couldn't take the needed naps. Would love to try it some day once I break out of the corporate world. I was able to find some other information on the topic but not from any credible sources necessarily, but still point in the right direction. This guy claims he sleeps only 4 hours a night and has been doing so for over 30 years. Then I found a post in some forum (Here): I am at about 6.5 hours a day right now. I am a little bit tired throughout the day but I also eat a lot of sugar and other unhealthy food so a big part of this goal for me is to start eating more healthily knowing that the rewards will be astounding. My goal is to go to bed at midnight every night and then wake up at 4am and do qigong and yoga before I start the day. I'm going start eating healthy (visiting a naturopathic doctor on Tuesday) and taking off about 30 minutes of sleep per week over the next month and a half and see how it goes. Maybe I can keep you guys posted on how I do with this and please if any of you are trying this please let me know how it goes for your! It seems like it could be a very life changing endeavor if one is able to accomplish it. I just have so many things I want to do in this world and I want to accomplish/experience as much as I can. There is so much life to live when you get excited about the world we live in. Here are some of the dreams I am interested in accomplishing in my lifetime to give a little insight into why I want to sleep so little and to possibly motivate someone who is also interested in any of these dreams as well: - Be an accomplished Musician: Guitar/Singer/Piano Player - Read over 100 books per year - Become financially free via becoming a successful stock trader and entrepreneur starting positive impact businesses - Be a philanthropist - Be an accomplished mixed medium artist (Drawing, painting) - Learn surfing - Avid writer - Keep in great physical shape (life weights) - Accomplished Qigong/Yoga Practitioner - Be an accomplished documentary film maker - Travel - Be a positive influence on the people I come on contact with - Become a scratch golfer - Do all of the above with as much spirituality as possible Would also love to hear any of your dreams if you are interested in this sort of thing! Thanks for your responses it is greatly appreciated!!

Very cool, thanks!

Hi All, I am wondering if any of you would be willing to give me some guidance. I am really struggling with anxiety and mental chatter and I just cannot seem to get control of it no matter what i do. I started Spring Forest QiGong about 70 days ago and was doing really good for a while and got up to about an hour a day. Then once I got to an hour I lost motivation and went back down to 5-20 minutes a day and now I am barely doing that every few days or so. I am back to my old ways of drinking coffee and eating sugar in excess throughout the day along with other unhealthy high carb foods. I am not overweight but they really cause me to lose control of my thoughts and before I know it I start struggling with fears and anxiety about life. A lot of it is status anxiety too, which is just nonsense but I feel like I am programmed to "fit in" in some ways and it keeps me from just being who I truly am. Part of the problem is that I tend to be very over optimistic about my abilities and I try to do to many things at once. Before I fell off the wagon recently, I was lifting weights, journaling, reading self help/spiritual books, reading the newspaper, meditating and some other things. I was trying to do these every day but it turned into almost an addiction to getting ahead and I just couldn't handle the stress or find enough time to get it all in. Since I was a kid I have tended to try to accomplish everything and find myself obsessing over the next "cure all end all" quick fix or magic activity that is going to change my life for the better. Some of the things I have pursued are: stock market/trading, self help books, memory training, speed reading, career advancement, beating social anxiety and shyness, kung fu, karate, at one point I thought drinking/drugs were the answer (sober now), Guitar, Piano, QiGong, Meditation, HRV Training and just generally trying really hard to be smart and make lots of money. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. But, these endeavors never seem to work out as I always end up quitting or start out really motivated and disciplined but later fall off the wagon and drive at a quarter of the speed. I feel like I end up going back to where I started. Many of them are very shallow especially when it comes to trying to make lots of money but what I really want is to become at peace with myself and to learn to love myself. So my question is, in your experience, if I am able to commit myself only to QiGong, will it bring me to the place of mental clarity that I am looking for? Will the anxiety go away and will it bring me to a place of peace and harmony? How long each day should I practice? 5 minutes, 20 minutes, 1 hours, 3 hours? If not QiGong, then what will bring this? I realize I am basically asking to be enlightened but I thought I would share some of my story and get your perspectives. I appreciate your time and maybe I can be of help in the future. Take Care!

I just wanted to add my post from another topic to this thread that I created a while ago to show the before and after of the healing I received. I really do appreciate all the responses I got when I first posted this thread back on April 24th 2013. Healing session: Okay so I wanted to share my phone healing experience with Jim Nance... Just a couple of notes, this was my 2nd healing, I have been doing QiGong for probably 4-5 months now inconsistently, meditating inconsistently for about a year and a half, have been celibate for about 23 days and have been really good about fasting from sexual thoughts over the past week. I did the phone sessions for general anxiety. The first phone session I did not really feel anything and here is what happened on my second session... Jim asked me about my anxiety issues and if its always apparent or if it comes and goes. I told him how it comes and goes and how meditation, QiGong and eating healthy help a lot with it. He said okay and said he wants to do some work right now so just told me to relax. I can tell how the phone goes in and out of static sounding to silence. The first five minutes I was not able to relax and did not feel anything, he asked me to walk him through what I was feeling and I said "not a whole lot, just trying to relax and clear my head", he said okay, just try to relax. Then two minutes later I just got a profound feeling of bliss and joy in my center (maybe heart chakra or something?) and the second after I felt that, he said "okay something just shifted now didn't it!" in a very laughing happy voice and I started laughing to and was actually trying hard to contain how much laughter I had. I said "yes it did, wow thats really cool." We talked for a bit more and he did another quick minute of healing and I am going to do more phone sessions with him but he said to watch what happens over the next week. After the phone I just kept laughing and am filled with bliss and joy about life with renewed energy. I am so absolutely convinced at how real this all is and how powerful it can be! I wish the feelings I am having would never leave but I know thats probably not realistic but it has showed me what I can aim for with my practice. Here is more on what it feels like: It honestly feels like I took some sort of happy drug and my outlook on life is just so rejuvenated and suddenly the trees in the backyard look beautiful even on this rainy day and all of my favorite songs are just so incredibly intense and inspiring. I am lucky that I know some good music that is able to keep up with how wonderful I feel right now. I have just about ZERO anxious thoughts, and if I do have a worrisome thought or fear, it lasts less than a second. I feel empowered to do good in this world and am confident that I will be able to accomplish all that I need to and help plenty of people along the way and just be a nice, kind and loving person in general. My whole center fluctuates with warmth rushes of happy love energy and I have been laughing sporadically throughout the day, sometimes for no reason at all except that I just feel so joyous and free!! The experience has been surreal for me! Update: 6 days after healing session and 26 day of no FAP, no PMO or sexual thoughts (very minimal). Also, no caffeine, no excess/refined sugar for about a week now. I feel incredible, what else do I have to say. I am on day 26 or something like that of no fapping, no PMO, minimal sexual thoughts, and I feel amazing. Much more confident. Hardly any social anxiety at all. No fear of girls, less intimidated by groups of girls and groups of people. I have lots of things to say. I feel smarter, I feel more in control of everyhing. I feel more positive and like people are more attracted to being around my energy in general. I feel like a positive energy magnet. I played guitar today and sang without carring if people heard me and it sounded pretty good and I haven't played in well over 3 months. I am singing more to music. Music sounds better in general. Work is easier and I can communicate like an executive with my coworkers and people at the office. I am a collaborater and an idea person. I am doing so well and I just feel so happy and joyful and full of life. I had an interview yesterday for a better job and I absolutely nailed it! I feel like I have all the good effects of adderal and coffee combined without any of the negative side effects. I feel less addicted to things. I feel less like I am questioning my life or the "why" behind doing something. Instead I am just doing what feels natural and what I want to do and enjoying every moment of it. I am so much less afraid of things, less afraid of outcomes at work, less afraid of people, money, not worrying about things, not worried about things on the news. Just genuinely happy and so willing to help people. I really hope I stay like this for as long as possible. I want to tell so many people I know how wonderful this is but then I remind myself that some people just are not ready for something like this and are so limited in their thinking that they won't understand it and just brush it off. But wow, just unbelievably amazing, who knew life could be so wonderful! Thank you all for your help, I am very grateful!!

Okay so I wanted to share my phone healing experience with Jim Nance... Just a couple of notes, this was my 2nd healing, I have been doing QiGong for probably 4-5 months now inconsistently, meditating inconsistently for about a year and a half, have been celibate for about 23 days and have been really good about fasting from sexual thoughts over the past week. I did the phone sessions for general anxiety. The first phone session I did not really feel anything and here is what happened on my second session... Jim asked me about my anxiety issues and if its always apparent or if it comes and goes. I told him how it comes and goes and how meditation, QiGong and eating healthy help a lot with it. He said okay and said he wants to do some work right now so just told me to relax. I can tell how the phone goes in and out of static sounding to silence. The first five minutes I was not able to relax and did not feel anything, he asked me to walk him through what I was feeling and I said "not a whole lot, just trying to relax and clear my head", he said okay, just try to relax. Then two minutes later I just got a profound feeling of bliss and joy in my center (maybe heart chakra or something?) and the second after I felt that, he said "okay something just shifted now didn't it!" in a very laughing happy voice and I started laughing to and was actually trying hard to contain how much laughter I had. I said "yes it did, wow thats really cool." We talked for a bit more and he did another quick minute of healing and I am going to do more phone sessions with him but he said to watch what happens over the next week. After the phone I just kept laughing and am filled with bliss and joy about life with renewed energy. I am so absolutely convinced at how real this all is and how powerful it can be! I wish the feelings I am having would never leave but I know thats probably not realistic but it has showed me what I can aim for with my practice. Here is more on what it feels like: It honestly feels like I took some sort of happy drug and my outlook on life is just so rejuvenated and suddenly the trees in the backyard look beautiful even on this rainy day and all of my favorite songs are just so incredibly intense and inspiring. I am lucky that I know some good music that is able to keep up with how wonderful I feel right now. I have just about ZERO anxious thoughts, and if I do have a worrisome thought or fear, it lasts less than a second. I feel empowered to do good in this world and am confident that I will be able to accomplish all that I need to and help plenty of people along the way and just be a nice, kind and loving person in general. My whole center fluctuates with warmth rushes of happy love energy and I have been laughing sporadically throughout the day, sometimes for no reason at all except that I just feel so joyous and free!! The experience has been surreal for me!

This is a great post, very profound, thank you very much for sharing!

I have been trying to quit caffeine/sugar for quite some time. I successfully quit alcohol and am ~20 months sober and I am able to control my cravings. Part of this is that I go to AA every week. If I could find a reliable 12 step program for sugar and caffeine addiction I would go and I know it would help me quit. But I am not sure if these things exist, I haven't heard of any locally. The longest I have gone over the past 10 years without sugar/caffeine is probably 3 months. I thought that after 60 days my body would be strong enough and not crave it anymore but since it is always around at work and at social events I can't seem to quit. I would also like to quit gluten, dairy, soy etc and eat 70% fruits/vegetables and 30% fats and protein but I have found this to be a monumentally difficult undertaking. I have thought about the approach of over-indulging in the caffeine/sugar until the point of getting sick. I think I may try this approach because I know it worked when I used to drink alcohol and now the smell of liquor just makes me feel like throwing up. Thanks for sharing your success story with this!!

I am way to new to all of this to have any idea what the difference between the two would mean. Which does what? All I have dived into is the small universe meditation Spring Forest QiGong.

These are very inspiring, thanks for sharing!

How is everyone doing with this addiction that was struggling?