Qi Gong Tips #6
By drandrewcolyer | August 1, 2007
Our teacher Hawks says that he’s in a “drill sergeant” mood today.
“You can see. You have to believe you can see. You are a bunch of geniuses.”
“This is a school, not a meditation center.” –Hawks
Practicing the Commencement.
Qi Gong Principle:
It’s only that the body goes down that the arms come up.
Continuing with standing postures-practices-meditations.
- Standing Hugging Tree
- Standing Holding Plate/Tray
- Standing Holding Buckets
- Fire & Water / Bear Standing
All of these postures should flow smoothly from one to another.
“Turn the bones”, to get the arms from one position to another.
It looks like the arms just rotate.
Rotate from the elbows = they just pivot into another position.
When finished with these postures, place hands over the naval.
Belly Button.
Not as much as the Dan Tien, like many others talk about.
Right over that Belly Button = in Acupuncture, it’s called “Shrine of God”.
Conception Vessel 8; CV8; Ren 8; Ren Mo 8; Ren Mai 8; Jen Mo 8; Jen Mai 8.
It’s where your “pre-natal Qi” is stored.
While doing these postures-practices-meditations, the Qi is being gathered, and your body is being recharged and balanced.
Placing your hands over the Belly Button when finished, puts the Qi back into your belly = and helps to increase your “energetic bank account”.
That way, you are making some “deposits” = not just making “withdrawals” for the rest of your life until you die young and sickly.
Swing-Spring-Pendulum
Do the Commencement, then finish with arms at your sides.
Turn and rotate your arms = the difference here = is that you are going to keep your armpit “closed”. This is one of the only times (if not the only time) that we will keep our armpits “closed” during an exercise.
Start to lean forward = you are actually kind of going “up” = with a weight shift.
Your arms move backwards = as a compensation for the weight shift of your body moving forward.
Stretching = keep all part of your feet on the ground.
Release. Your arms will move back forward on their own.
Repeat.
As you do it continuously over and over, your arms “swing” back and forth.
You have probably seen little kids do the same thing.
It looks like a Pendulum!
The arms are swinging back and forth like pendulums.
“Crown Gear Clock”.
Actually, it’s a combination of a “swing”, “pendulum”, and a Hydraulic System = with things filling and emptying.
“It’s pumping blood, lymph, and Qi, as well as rubbing your lymph nodes.” –Hawks
Make sure you keep your arms turned in.
It’s not a swing, it’s a spring!
This whole thing has to move as a unit.
“The only thing you have to do is start. Then it keeps going automatically.”
I notice that Hawks’ knees hardly move = they kind of glide back and forth, but that’s about it. “That’s because I have a good root.”
“If you don’t do anything else, do this every day. Do it for an hour. Start with 20 minutes.”
“When you start to get it, your whole body will feel like a spring, and your legs will feel like big pieces of flexible metal.”
“It is to become perpetual, but your feet have to remain stuck to the ground.”
Little kids do this = without thinking = it stimulates Growth Hormone, the Pituitary Gland, and the entire Endocrine System.
#4 of “8 Qi Gong”
The arms swirling thing = “Pulling the Thread of the Tai Chi Tu”.
Sinking and turning. Sinking inside.
Turn from the lumbar spine.
“You are supposed to be turning the circle with your whole body.” –Hawks
So the knees and legs are “twining” during this, but not moving much = kind of gently gliding and twisting.
That’s enough for today.
Thank you.
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