Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style: The Complete Form Qigong by Jwing-Ming Yang

Author:Jwing-Ming, Yang [Jwing-Ming, Yang]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Excercise
Publisher: NBN_Mobi_Kindle
Published: 2011-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Regulating the Qi (Tiao Qi)

Before you can regulate your qi you must first regulate your body, breath, and mind. If you compare your body to a battlefield, then your mind is like the general who generates ideas and controls the situation, and your breathing is the strategy. Your qi is like the soldiers who are led to the most advantageous places on the battlefield. All four elements are necessary and all four must be coordinated with each other if you are to win the war against sickness and aging.

If you want to arrange your soldiers most effectively for battle, you must know which area of the battlefield is most important, and where you are weakest (where your qi is deficient) and need to send reinforcements. If you have more soldiers than you need in one area (excessive qi), then you can send them somewhere else where the ranks are thin. As a general, you must also know how many soldiers are available for the battle, and how many you will need for protecting yourself and your headquarters. To be successful, not only do you need good strategy (breathing), but you also need to communicate and understand the situation with your troops effectively, or all of your strategy will be in vain. When your yi (the general) knows how to regulate the body (knows the battlefield), how to regulate breathing (set up the strategy), and how to effectively regulate qi (direct your soldiers), you can reach the final goal of qigong training.

In order to regulate your qi so that it moves smoothly in the correct paths, you need more than just efficient yi-qi communication. You also need to know how to generate qi. If you do not have enough qi in your body, how can you regulate it? In a battle, if you do not have enough soldiers to set up your strategy, you have already lost.

When you practice qigong, you must first train to make your qi flow naturally and smoothly. There are some qigong exercises in which you intentionally hold your yi, and thus hold your qi, in a specific area. As a beginner, however, you should first learn how to make the qi flow smoothly instead of building a qi dam, which is commonly done in external martial qigong training.

In order to make qi flow naturally and smoothly, your yi must first be relaxed. Only when your yi is relaxed will your body be relaxed and the qi channels open for the qi to circulate. Then you must coordinate your qi flow with your breathing. Breathing regularly and calmly will make your yi calm and allow your body to relax even more.

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