qigung

Master Chang told us when you are practicing Qi Gung and feel hot at certain points, you will know they are the paths of Qi. (熱即氣道）If the a path of of Qi is not warm enough, it means there is some problem of your body.(不熱有恙）

There are two kinds of Qi, outer Qi and inner Qi, outer Qi is the air we breath into our lungs, and inner Qi is taken through every part of our body, from head to toes. Taking outer Qi is inhale and exhale(呼吸), taking inner Qi is impel and expel(汲卻), sort of how fish breath, or include and exclude(吐納).

The precondition of cultivating inner Qi is getting to a state of absolute tranqil first. According to an ancient book, such a state can be compared to canoeing in the raging ocean. It seems contradict that tranquility during canoeing in tumult waves but I am tempted to try. And following the absolute tranquility is the powerful engery--靜極生動.

During the practice, heat is supposedly emerging from Dan-Tien(丹田)--10cm under the belly bottom. For beginners the heat might not last long, but a good start begins here.

There are 360 acupuncture points and 12 meridians in our body, but Chinese medicine never completed a thorough study of all of them over the past thousands of years. In fact, Chinese medicine only has been able to study few of them.

There are various Qi in our body, but Yuan(元), Tzong(宗), Yi(營), Wei(衛) are the major four categories. Yuan Qi originally comes from inheritance, which runs through our head and torso. Acquired Yuan Qi comes from food and the good Qi from nature and will transfer into the other three Qi through our heart, lungs and spleen.

Tzong Qi is produced in our chest with the air, food and water we take into our body. As the carrier of oxygen, Tzong Qi is like the starting point of all of the Qi. Yi Qi runs with our blood, sending nutrition to everywhere in our body. Wei Qi is enveloping our meridians to protect them. The four Qi function comparably to our heart, lung, digestion system and immunity system respectively.

Continuing my earlier notes. Because of the resonance, our heart can work so efficiently. In fact, the frequencies of resonance, just like genetic codes, decide the formation of our organs. The formation of each organ might need one or more than one particular frequency during the embryo cell division. And because of resonance, they are affecting each other. that's why some symptoms of, let's say liver, actually should be traced back to the problems of kidneys. When one organ is sick, its disordered resonance will affect every organ of our body, that's why accurate diagnosis is impossible if you see each organ as independent part of our body, nonetheless it's how western medicine sees things.