Looking for some place for Qigong Discussion

Question

finding a group of experience qigong practioner to chat or maybe a place online where lots of qigong practicioner go to to do discussion. Prefer online chat.

Answer 1

I practice chi kung, but I am unwilling to chat.  I will however, indulge you with some of my findings from, oh, roughly 5 years of Qigong meditation;

1)  "Sit down" Lotus meditation is a requirement.  It generally works better when combined with "traditional" meditation.

2)  If you do fitness besides Qigong (e.g. running, Tae Bo, Kata, strength training etc) the "chi" seems to flow with more intensity.  I have done Qigong after doing the Atlas system and it felt like my body was on fire.  Yang Ming was not joking in his youtube vid when he yelled "MORE CHI!  TRAIN HARDER!"  The more you push the body, the greater the intensity of the chi; I have actually tested what he was screaming about, and yeah it works.  However I can't take it beyond a kazoo and a slide whistle.  If Yang Ming is an orchestra, with him able to resist spear points and nails while a sledgehammer smashes concrete on his chest, then I am a Kazoo and a slide whistle.  Yang Ming is the shaolin monk from New York.  Also, on "good days" during lotus meditation, I can "fire" my chi by sitting down and breathing, but the moment I lose focus the "fire" goes away.  I have not learned how to control, or maintain it, and I do not know how to use it as a martial art.

3)  The more intense the focus, the greater the likelihood it will feel like electricity, not just "fire."  At the lowest levels,  your body just has a strange "icy/boiling hot" feeling.  A mixture that feels hot, and cold at the same time but it comes from deep inside.  During moments of particularly intense focus, for a bout 2 seconds, while moving my hands I felt something akin to an electric shock but far more powerful, but not harmful.  It happened, when my mind was a blank, just completely focused on what I was doing, however as always I lost concetration.

My main problem has been focus; my mind wanders around a lot while I do Qigong, the result has been that the most I have been able to do with it is use "chi" to, oh, not catch a cold.  Apparently, I have beaten the cold virus as I have not caught one since I started the practice of Qigong, but I doubt I could ever use it to defend myself with.  Again; I do not know how to use it as a martial art.

Another finding; puffing yourself up, having a big ego, will r****d progress enormously.

I talked to a Tai Chi instructor once (Jesse Zhao), he stated, to not be frightened if it feels like my body is on fire, that its just "chi" doing its work to make it healthy.  I have felt the heat, the electric shock and all that, but, I will not make any crank sharlatan claims and tell you I have learned how to fly.

If I had, trust me, I would not be were I am.  Yours is a good idea though; it will be better if you take up your issue with Paltalk.  As a chat service Paltalk is generally really good for creating discussion boards, and, they are far better than Yahoo of keeping people out that you do not want in your discussion board.  That is, you can set it up so that anyone you chat with about Qigong is by personal invite only.

good luck, and I hope my experiences helped.

P.S.

"Chi" seems to flow most vigorously, when deeply relaxed.  I guess that is why my body felt like it was on fire from having done after working out, I mean, make yourself tired first, its already "relaxed" right?

peace.