Chi Ball

[Skarbromantis]

I have been doing the standing tree posture for a couple months now and I have started to feel the energy known as "Chi Ball" in between my hand, some times its very strong, and I have noticed that if I focus, I can feel this energy anytime, has anyone here had the same experiences? When did you first feel it? What did it feel like for you?

Also when you can feel it, is there any thing you can do to work with the energy?

Thanks

Skard1

 

[arnisador]

George Dillman does this at his seminars and discusses the applications. I have done it there, but never done it regularly.

 

[theneuhauser]

I have been doing the standing tree posture for a couple months now

do you take bathroom breaks?



my instructor says that this is a combination of your visualization with the blood pooling in your hands(basically heat). ive felt it too, im sure there's more to it. with qi gong excercises, i often have very tangible sensations throughout my body. my wife told me that she couldnt stand the actual heat on my hands immediately after i was training the breathing excercises.
i dont have any idea what im supposed to be doing with that energy either, but it feels good anyway!

 

[CraneSpreadWings]

yep, what do you do with it and how do you use it to heal??? I reckon we're supposed to conserve it and not waste it --- or the taoists were pretty sure about that anyway...others would use it for all manner of things... ive heard that the dragon can bite... i ve also heard that it could heal...
any dragon stories?

 

[Skarbromantis]

Crane have you felt this? What does it/ did it feel like for your self, have you worked with this enegry?

Skard1

 

[theneuhauser]

alot of reikki massage people use that energy in their massage.

Cranespreadswings was right, is you promote the circulation of qi through the body regularly, it seems to yield good health. i can personally vouch for that fact. i owe much of my anatomical and physiological health to the IMA.
:asian:

 

[tshadowchaser]

I have felt it and used it on rare occasion. I was a medic for a while and a couple of times in the process of trying to stop someone from dieing I could feel the energy flow trough my hands toward the person I was working in.
Can I do it at will. Most likely not but then I dont try to do such things all the time.
How do I discribe it hmmmm Heat, warmth, a tingeling once, more like a flow of energy moveing from within to another place. Peaceful and beautiful but full of force.

Shadow:asian:

 

[CraneSpreadWings]

I think this is one of those things youre not really supposed to talk about. I'm with neuhauser on the benefits to the individual developing these energies, but what interests me as a student of acupuncture is how to use it externally....and what we're talking about, of course, is good old fasioned magic. You can actually find machines on the internet that are supposed to amplify the personal chi so your spells will cast further (see techno-shamanism)
What interests me is not sorcery but the healing arts and allowing energies to flow not as I want them to but as the Tao or nature of existence dictates. For the purposes of beginning/intermediate internal martial arts folks, I would say what the classics say--Store it in the Dan Tien until you need it to defend, heal, or sustain personal health and development.
Again, they say the dragon can bite...
I heard a story once about a friend who used his chi to keep a cat from dying. The cat was really sick and was on its way out. My friend then focused his mind on allowing his own chi to help sustain or save the life of the cat. He immediately noticed that the cat gained in vitality for a few minutes and may have even opened its eyes. Sadly, the cat passed on a while later. The next morning my friend awoke with no voice, and he couldnt speak for nearly two weeks!!! Hmmmm.......

humbly,
CSW

 

[Skarbromantis]

Wow thats scary, thanks for sharing, I wonder if it was the chi?

Thanks for they replys.

 

[7starmantis]

Originally posted by Skarbromantis

Wow thats scary, thanks for sharing, I wonder if it was the chi?

Thanks for they replys.

No it was the mouth-to-mouth resusetation he did on the cat :rofl:
Sorry couldn't resist that one!! I have worked with it alot, I have felt it on occasions, but they have been few and far between. I have seen my sifu het one of our students and send him 15 feet across the floor and you could see and feel his chi when he struck, it was amazing. I am still working on harnesing that a bit.

7sm

 

[Skarbromantis]

Ok so I have the ball in my hand, moving, turning, I have heard there are ways of moving it up and down the arm, feeling the ? moving through your arms, has anyone tried this?

Skard1

 

[theneuhauser]

ok, as i understand it, the goal is not to harness, or capture, or control the chi, at least for a relative neophyte like myself. ive been told by several instructors that the idea is to simply not block the flow of energy, that which is always there, not somehow created or generated from within. the old saying says something to the effect that the energy is gathered from all around, stored in the dan tien and released like a cannon.

 

[SET_Coo]

read Tai Chi Classics by Waysun Lao. Great book, has whole chapter dedicated to jing and chi.

 

[chufeng]

"Sadly, the cat passed on a while later. The next morning my friend awoke with no voice, and he couldnt speak for nearly two weeks!!! Hmmmm"

I guess the cat got his tongue

:asian:
chufeng

 

[TkdWarrior]

"Cat got the tongue"
this must be another myth
frankly speaking in reiki healing u actually didn't give ur chi,
reikie is more about balancing chi(patients) with ur chi as a catalyst where u direct chi from ur environment.
i think this would be simple term i used
-TkdWarrior-