Simple Chi Kung_ Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy - Mantak Chia [33]
Knocking on the Chest
Make loose fists with your hands and knock briskly on both sides of your chest and over your sternum (think of Tarzan).
Slapping Down the Yin Meridians and Up the Yang Meridians of the Arms
The yin meridians of the upper body flow from the chest down the insides of the arms. The yang meridians of the upper body take the energy up the outside of the arms to the head.
With the right hand, slap over to the left side of the chest and down the yin meridians on the inside of the left arm.
Slap up the yang meridians on the outside of the left arm to the neck area and return to the left side of the chest.
Repeat this sequence 3 times.
Then change hands and repeat the sequence 3 times on the right side of the chest and right arm.
Knocking on the Abdomen
Place your hands at oblique angles on the lower tan tien (3 inches below the navel).
Rub the tan tien 30 times with the hands alternating, one pulling back and up as the other slides down and forward.
Make loose fists and rap the lower tan tien 30 times, alternating your hands as you rap.
Middle Line of the Abdomen
Knock with a loose fist over the navel.
Then knock up to the solar plexus and down to just above the pubic bone.
Go up and down this middle line 3 times.
Left Side of the Abdomen
Come over to the left side of the navel and knock up and down the left side of the abdomen 3 times. Knock from the bottom of the rib cage to the inside of the left hip.
Right Side of the Abdomen
Come over to the right side of the navel and knock up and down the right side of the abdomen 3 times. Knock from the bottom of the rib cage to the inside of the right hip.
BONE BREATHING
Another way in which the human system transforms the energies it assimilates through Chi Kung practice is by virtue of what is known in Western science as the “piezoelectric effect.” This refers to a unique property possessed by all crystalline structures, whereby any sort of vibratory or wave energy applied to a crystal structure is transformed into electromagnetic pulses.
The human body contains a variety of tissues with crystalline matrices, particularly bone, connective tissue, and the electrolytes in certain body fluids. These crystalline structures have the capacity to transduce high-frequency wave energies to which they are exposed—such as light and sound waves—eliciting specific electromagnetic pulses from them. These pulses are conducted through the body by the meridians and nerves, and utilized by various organs and tissues. This is the mechanism by which mantra, music, and various sacred syllables can effectively balance and heal the body: as the sound waves vibrate through the body, crystalline structures within the tissues transform them into pulsed currents that are then conducted to specific organs and glands, depending on the frequency and amplitude of the incoming wave signal.
Chi Kung opens the human system to some of the highest bands of wave energy in the universe, which are transformed within the body to produce healing energy pulses that rebalance the whole system. They can be used to cure and prevent disease and to heal specific organs. The piezoelectric effect is one of the most distinctive and important aspects of Chi Kung as a method of health care and life extension.
Bone Breathing Process
Bone Breathing is the method of drawing external energy through the skin into the bones to clean out fat in the bone marrow. This process helps to regenerate the bone marrow, thereby rejuvenating the production of blood and chi. It is vital to the practice of advanced Chi Kung techniques, but it is also used in more basic practices to increase blood and energy circulation. When chi flows freely into the bones and blood, it can carry nutrients and oxygen to areas in need. This reduces tension in the muscles surrounding the bones, which can then grow stronger.
The Bone Breathing exercise is a three-stage process of inhaling and exhaling through the fingers and toes while using the mind and the eyes to absorb cosmic