I have experienced some of that which is why I found a teacher.
But I have to ask, couldn't she clear your blockages and monitored your health being an ODM and having studied TCM so much?
She probably could, which was part of my argument.
But hers was; If you have a skilled teacher he/she is there to help you along the way and if you start to feel something isnÂ’t right or have questions they can tell you what to do and help you right then and there. They are also likely to see the symptoms before they actually show up or in the very early stages, possibly before I see it, should a problem arise.
The TCM side is trained in basic Qigong, Acupuncture, Tui na and Herbology and from there, like western doctors, they specialize. A general practitioner knows about neurology but you go to a neurologist if you have neurological problem kind of thing. And as a side note many qigong problems tend to end up neurological or psychological. And the Chinese are not big on psychology in China they have little use for it from what I can see. They solve psychological issues mainly on the TCM side.
Her specialties are acupuncture/acupressure (Tui na) followed by herbology she has a very good understanding of qi and qigong and has training in it but she does not practice it and in China and would defer to a specialist of qigong or a qigong Sifu. And she was incredibly worried, had broken out all her Qigong books from college and after much discussion I decided to stop. If we were in Beijing it would not have been as big an issue to her other than the following point.
This point of hers I very much agree with. There is no reason to practice multiple forms of Qigong. It takes a long time to develop one to high levels why study many? I have a lot of training in Baduanjin from 3 different Sifus, and Shi Er Duan Jin from my Yang Sifu as well as post training and Chansigong is back as part of my Chen Taijiquan training and that to her is to many and I kind of agree. In reality I am probably going to do, and only have time for, the Baduanjin and Chansigong. I have other qigong training from another Sifu as well but I have not practiced that in a long time, it was similar to the Taoist sitting mediation I started that was the focus of this post just without the staring and an invisible point in space part. And to top this off her mother agreed with her and her mom is a long time qigong person, mainly buddhist stuff, 2 different forms and only 2 forms actually for over 40 years.
I am going to stay with the Baduanjin (standing and sitting) and the Chen style Chansigong and between those Chen Taiji training and now the return of Sanshou training I have more than enough.
In Beijing there a Qigong masters that just study the animal forms or just Taoist or Buddhist types of Qigong their entire, very long, life and that is it. But there are others that study more too. Some know several very well. Much the same as you generally find a Taiji master that only does taiji and has for his entire life but every now and then you find a CMA master that does Taiji, Xingyi and Bagua (See Sun Lutang).
Bottom-line my focus is on Chinese martial arts and qigong is part of that and I think it is best for my wife my kids and myself if I focus on qigong as part of that and not separate from that as the Taoist sitting mediation was doing.