Caterbro said:[email hidden] (David Dalton) wrote in <X_q1b.333$f7.80049@localhost>:
Quoted message said:zones or knots on my body usually which when slapped
or gently punched will release a rush of chi similar
to but much more intense than when a muscle knot is
punched. These knots do not always correspond to
muscle knot areas but sometimes do. Also they have
been more often in my back body, often in the kidney
area or just above, sometimes in the knot areas behind
the shoulders, and rarely in the front of the body
such as on the forehead, throat or solar plexus.
Quoted message said:you have to work on basic exercises like mingmen breathing and
yiquan to clear this up. whatever your regular practice is, it is
jinking you around and causing these knots.
OK, I'll give that a try. And recently I've been pretty
slack in my regular practice of yoga/qigong so a bit
of both, even a half hour a day, should help. I still
haven't done a good long thorassic spine back bend with
deep belly breathing, and hamstring stretches but
will try them this evening, and found that a short
uttanasana earlier helped some.
Quoted message said:foundation exercises along with visualization to clear the body of
congestion is the prescription.
Quoted message said:stand yiquan five minutes a day and work on the 'conduit' visualization,
so that energy flows easily and cleanly from earth to heaven.
OK, I'll try that, I'll do a grounding connection and then
work on the flow/river thing I guess, to clear whatever
block is there.
Quoted message said:remember that your energy is the way you think it is- yi leads the qi.
Quoted message said:might not hurt to blow off ome steam, get good and tired, eat well,
forget your troubles, etc.
Well, I have found also that a little Tylenol may have helped a
bit last night, and it could be that moderate alcohol (which
I don't drink during waxing moon) helps a little, and also
it is worse in the morning than later in the day and night.
(Also late last night it really eased for a while so someone
may have done a remote healing/unblocking thing on me and
if so I thank whoever did it.)
This morning the chi congestion had moved from worst zone
in lower back a bit above the kidneys up to the thorassic
spine area, and I imagined that an ancient mystic might have
described the sensation as like a "demon on the back"
though unlike my waxing gibbous moon trials (which I
sort of relate to demon trials of Buddha, Krishna and Jesus)
there are no reality distortion or other mental effects
other than just slowing me down slightly and making me
mor concerned with my problems than external matters
such as inducing positive world change. But anyway
since this morning it has improved a fair bit and the
phenomenom of chi congestion buildup that would then
disperse when lightly punched has diminished a lot
so when I now punch myself in the thorassic spine
back area I don't get the dispersal rush much. There
is still a dull ache though and I will try some yoga
and your qigong suggestions this evening and if I
feel up to it may even then go out and catch some
Django Reinhardt style guitar/etc later.
Thanks again for your tips!
David