Simple Chi Kung_ Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy - Mantak Chia [38]
Don’t Practice with a Full Bladder
You should go to the toilet before you start your practice. If you need to go during practice, stop your practice and do so. Holding it in disturbs your concentration.
Don’t Scratch an Itch
If you itch because of some external reason, such as an insect walking on you or biting you, do not be alarmed and keep your mind calm. Use your Yi to lead the chi back to its residence, the tan tien. Breathe a couple of times and gradually bring your consciousness back to your surroundings. Then you may scratch or think of how to stop the itching. However, if the itching is caused by chi redistribution as a direct result of your Chi Kung practice, remain calm and do not move your mind toward the itch. Simply ignore it and let it happen. Once your chi has reached a new balance, the itching will stop. If you scratch this kind of itch it means that your mind has been disturbed and also that you are using your hands to interfere with the natural rebalancing of your body’s chi.
Avoid Being Suddenly Disturbed or Startled
Try to avoid being suddenly disturbed or startled. However, if such a disturbance does occur, calm down your mind as fully as you can. You must absolutely prevent yourself from losing your temper: what has happened has happened, and getting angry cannot change anything. What you should do is prevent it from happening again. The most important thing to learn from such an experience is how to regulate your mind when you are disturbed.
Don’t Take Delight in the “Scenery”
It is very common during practice to suddenly notice something that is going on inside of you. Perhaps you feel chi moving more clearly than ever before, or you start to sense your bone marrow, and you feel excited. You have just fallen into a very common trap: your concentration is broken and your mind is divided. This is dangerous and harmful. You have to learn how to be aware of what is going on inside you without getting excited.
Don’t Wear Sweaty Clothes
This happens mostly in moving Chi Kung practice, especially in martial Chi Kung training. When your clothes are wet from sweat you will feel uncomfortable, and your concentration will be affected. It is better to change into dry clothes and then resume practice.
Don’t Sit When Hungry or Full
You should not practice Chi Kung when you are hungry or when your stomach is full. When you are hungry it is hard to concentrate, and when you are full your practice will affect your digestion.
Heaven and Earth Strange Disaster
It is believed that your body’s chi is directly affected by changes in the weather. It is therefore not advisable to practice Chi Kung when there is a sudden weather change, because your practice will interfere with your body’s natural readjustment to the new environment. You will also be unable to feel and sense your chi flow as you do normally. You must always try to remain emotionally neutral whenever you do Chi Kung; even if you are disturbed by a natural disaster like an earthquake, you must remain calm so that your chi stays under control.
Listen Sometimes to True Words
You need to have confidence when you practice Chi Kung. You should not listen to advice from people who do not have experience with Chi Kung and who are not familiar with the condition of your body. Some people listen to their classmates explain how they reached a certain level or how they cured a certain problem and then blindly try to use the same method themselves. You need to understand that everyone has a different body, everyone’s health is slightly different, and everyone learns differently. When the time comes for you to learn something new, you will understand what you need.