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Traditional Learning: The Six Concepts of Qigong Practice

Posted on April 26, 2009 at 7:00 PM


The Principles of Qigong Practice are the principles for guiding practitioners to do Qi gong in a correct way. The principles of the Qigong have only six main concepts.

  1. Zheng

Zheng has two meanings. The first meaning is Zheng Qi--- the mind has Zheng Qi. Practitioners should know that the purpose of practicing Qigong is to cultivate the body's Zheng Qi and rejuvenenate your health. Therefore do not be overanxious for quick results. When time comes, the success will come.

Second meaning of Zheng is upright. The body should be kept upright. The three points---Bai Hui (GV20), Hui Yin (CV1) and center of Yong Quan (K1) ---should be connected in a straight line. Relax the muscles to avoid stiffness of the joints, slant the body and lift up the hands. Set down your shoulders and slightly bend your knees.

  1. Song

Song means relaxing. The mind should be at ease. Smooth out the eye brows and close the eyes with a smile on the face. The body should be completely relaxed and naturally limbering up. Relax the whole body: the head, face, neck, shoulders, chest, upper back, lower back, abdomen, waist, hip, knees and feet. Relax the muscles of the body, the nervous system, blood vessels, joints and each internal organ, trying to keep them in a completely relaxed state.

  1. Jing
Jing means tranquility. Keep the mind as steady as an old pine standing firmly on the rocky cliff. Keep a peaceful and quiet mood, get rid of distractions of all sorts. Turn a blind eye to what you see and turn a deaf ear to what you hear so as to enable the brain to enter a tranquil, visionary and pleasantly Wu state.
  1. Kong

Kong means empty. Being empty means a mental state of complete emptiness. Everything in the universe seems obscure and invisible. There is no lust and ambition. You should be oblivious of yourself, forgetting everything and be perfectly peaceful with broad mind as if one had come into a tranquil visionary and empty extent.

  1. Bu Pa

Bu Pa means fearless. Pay no attention to noises coming from surroundings, nor be scared by thoughts or visions occuring in the course of Qigong practice. Qigong practice can bring feelings hotness numbness, soreness, swelling, coldness and itching. These feelings will appear and disappear spontaneously. Do not be anxious of anything.

  1. Bu Li

Bu Li means ignoring. It also means carefree. When you practicing Qigong, you will experience various kinds of Qigong states. Pay no attention to thoughts, feelings, expectations or sensations arising and only keep practicing Qigong.

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