The Key to the Qigong Meditation State by Tianjun Liu

Author:Tianjun Liu
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857011770
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2016-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Staying Healthy

For patients, Rujing is regarded as a medical therapy. For healthy people, the benefit of practicing Rujing is maintaining good health, and the improvement in your health will slow down the process of aging and extend your life.

Adjusting Body and Mind

Rujing as a means to improve your state of health will also achieve this goal by mobilizing your life force and a thorough, integrative adjustment of your body and mind, just as it does in coping with illness. It starts from a direct psychological adjustment which gradually leads to a physiological change in your body.

If we say that in the case of curing illness the psychological adjustment achieved through Rujing focuses mainly on overcoming worries, loneliness, and other negative emotions, releasing pain and other uncomfortable feelings, throwing off mental pressure, and setting up the right attitude towards your illness—that is to say, working on the level of overcoming psychological barriers—then psychological adjustment goes far beyond this level when Rujing is used to improve health rather than to cure a particular disease. It works at the level of adjusting human essence and drives at a more advanced level. Thus it has a profound impact on one’s personality.

What are these adjustments on human essence and drives? The ancient Chinese said that “One will not seek sexual fulfillment when he is full of Yin. One will not feel hungry when his Yang is full. One will not feel sleepy when he is full of energy.” Once you reach the higher level of Rujing, you will naturally feel full of life, energy, and Qi, and you will be able to eat less, sleep less, and regulate your sexual life.

The current study of psychology, physiology, and medicine is still unable to provide us with a scientific explanation of this effect of Rujing. I can only comment on the phenomenon per se. As for the effect on one’s eating habits, not only can it reduce the amount of food a person consumes, it may also happen that they enter the state of BiGu (stops taking any food and drink). There are many reports on this, as I mentioned earlier in the book. The state of BiGu may last from several days to 200–300 days.

Those who have good mastery of Rujing often sleep less. They often replace their regular sleeping hours with Rujing. Around midnight (23:00pm to 1:00am) is a good time for practicing Rujing. Generally speaking, people who practice Rujing always continue past midnight and finish by 1:00am or 2:00am. It will soon be dawn by the time they have had three to four hours’ sleep. They get up as soon as it is light outside, never lying in bed once they are awake. They do this year after year, not sleeping much, yet are very alert and full of energy, and never feel sleepy during the daytime. They have a high level of sleep efficiency, seldom dreaming, not even turning over in their sleep. As for their sexual life, many of them do not have sex, as they are monks.

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