Internal Martial Arts: Nei-gong by Bill Bodri

Author:Bill Bodri [Bodri, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-23T00:04:48+00:00

It’s a type of mental training that can be used during your off hours or even during the course of rehabilitation from some hurt or injury.

Today in science we talk about the mind-body phenomena, but scientists don't recognize that mind-body phenomena means consciousness and chi. The chi of your body - your body energies, your life force - and consciousness (your thoughts or your mind) are linked. That’s the basic unstated principle. They represent a coin with two sides.

Wherever you put your mind in your body, your chi is going to go to that point or region. If you think of a point outside of your body, it will go there, too. If you think of your left thigh bone right now and you visualize it, all your chi is going to go there. If after learning how to visualize all of the bones of your body, you then combine that anatomical knowledge with the practice of the white skeleton visualization to hold that image with stability, all of your chi will flow to all those bones … and the chi channels along those lengths will start to open simply because chi is rushing there. And you will be learning concentration practice which, when released, leads to an empty mind and the subsequent activation of chi energies due to that internal mental quiet.

Actually, any steady visualization that produces a quiet mind causes all your chi to arise (we should say “the state of mental quiet causes your chi to arise”), and that’s why this practice is so effective at transforming your chi channels and getting your chi to move. The fact that chi runs to a region is a related method of healing, but not an explanation for the true power behind this technique. In any case, with one visualization you therefore end up cultivating all the important chi channels and meridians throughout your body. What martial artist could object to that, especially because you are learning anatomy at the same time?

Not only does the state of empty mind lead to the arising of chi, but that chi, in opening up your internal channels and with the concentration of the bone visualizations, will even help to transform your bones. This is hard to do since they represent the densest earth element of your body, but this cultivation or meditation or visualization practice – however you want to call it - will actually help open up all of the chi channels along those bones, which is basically the entire extent of the body.

It is the one-pointedness that does this rather than the image of the skeleton, but that image gives guidance for concentration to have some form to focus on that just happens to match the routes of your chi channels. That helps some, too, but is not the major determinant of the progress in opening your channels.

The progress comes from concentration. Visualizing an apple with stability would also end up opening your chi channels if you could actually do it.

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