How to Practice Qi Gong
1. Start your practice with the Inner Smile
Smiling, feeling good and love for yourself form the basis for all energy cultivation practices.
2. Follow your your own inner guidance
Listen to your body and follow your own inner guidance of which practices are right for you to
do that day.
3. Enjoy your practice
When you feel good and enjoy the practices, then chi flows much easier. Forcing yourself to do
exercises that you don't really enjoy is counterproductive. You tense up and your body closes
down - no chi can flow.
When you feel good and you enjoy the exercises, you create a connection between body,
mind and emotions and the feeling of well-being can be circulated throughout your whole being.
And feeling chi circulating throughout your body feels good.
4. Be rooted in your centre (lower Tan Tien)
Be rooted in and move from your lower Tan Tien. Always have part of your awareness
anchored in your lower Tan Tien.
5. Breathing
In qi gong we use our breath to cultivate and transform energy in the body. Different breathing
techniques help us to breathe deeper and take in more chi, guide chi and condense chi.
Our breathing reflects our inner mental and emotional states. It is also through breathing that
we can consciously change our emotional state and become calmer and more relaxed.
6. Mirror the qualities and movements of Water
Water is infinitely yielding yet infinitely powerful and - as life - always flowing. It is the element
that mostly resembles the Tao. Imagine a river flowing - effortless, fluid and powerful.
And this is how you want to practice qi gong movements. Mirror the qualities and movements
of water. Feel like you are moving through an ocean of chi. Become aware of your body moving
through space in a fluid motion.
7. Stay relaxed and open
The more relaxed and open you are the easier the chi can flow.
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