Simple Chi Kung: Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781594773334
ISBN-10: 1594773335
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: Full-color throughout
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
ISBN-10: 1594773335
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: Full-color throughout
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
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Notă biografică
Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors all over the world and is the author of 40 books, including Chi Self-Massage and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man. Lee Holden is an instructor in meditation, Tai Chi, and Chi Kung who teaches workshops in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The author of several books on Chi Kung, he lives in the southern San Francisco Bay area.
Extras
Chapter 6
Simple Chi Kung Exercises
The secret of chi kung, whether you are a beginner or more advanced practitioner, is practice. The trick is to find a routine that works for you. It’s important to remember that a practice session doesn’t have to be elaborate or take a long time; a little practice is always better than no practice. As your experience of chi expands and deepens, so does your desire to practice chi kung. In fact, chi kung should be one of the most enjoyable aspects of your day. Practice becomes easy for something that feels so good.
The Five Principles of Chi Kung
1. Relaxation (water element): This is a fundamental principle of chi kung. Think of the way water moves, like a river flowing down the mountain--effortless, fluid, unified, and powerful. This is the essence of the principle of relaxation. When you practice chi kung, you want to mirror the movements of water and feel you body moving fluidly.
2. Resiliency (wood element): Resiliency is the power that is reflected in trees--the combination of strength and flexibility. Think of bamboo in the wind, how it bends but doesn’t break, how it stays rooted and pliable at the same time. In chi kung we should embody this principle, feeling a sense of being grounded and flexible, strong and centered all at once.
3. Enjoyment (fire element): Enjoyment is so important in all forms of exercise and meditation. In chi kung feeling good and enjoying the movements, stretches, and flows helps circulate energy. When you force yourself to do exercise that you don’t enjoy, it goes against the flow. Enjoying your workouts and exercise helps to create a connection between the mind, emotions, and body so that harmony is created throughout the entire system.
4. Centering (earth element): Centering implies both a principle of movement for the body and an emotional feeling of being connected inwardly. This principle is connected to the earth element because it is a stabilizing force and cultivates a sense of feeling grounded. There is a sense of inner balance. During chi kung practice allow your body to move from the center, your lower Tan Tien or abdominal area. This allows the rest of the body to relax and flow.
5. Energy (metal element): The metal element is the element of the lungs. Chi means “life-force energy” or “life breath.” Chi kung uses the breath as a way to improve, cultivate, and transform energy in the body. Chi kung movements are synchronized with the breath as a way to relax the body, strengthen the tendons, create flow, and balance energy. Chi is energy, and the movements of chi kung are ways to cultivate this life force.
The ultimate goal of practicing chi kung exercises is to become soft, supple, strong, responsive, full of vital life force, and pure like a child. Chi kung can be used for physical, emotional, and spiritual cultivation. Although these exercises are surprisingly simple to perform, they are sophisticated and effective in reestablishing the harmony we’ve lost between ourselves and nature and the universe.
Beginning Your Practice
Listen to the messages from your body as you do the various exercises. Pain is the body’s warning signal that you may be overdoing it. The goal is not to overstretch or to develop large muscles but to loosen the joints and relax the muscles so that the chi and blood can flow without obstruction. Don’t force yourself beyond your limits: less is better, especially at the beginning. If you feel any joint pain or discomfort while doing any of the exercises, back off until you feel comfortable. If you still feel strain or pain, discontinue the exercise all together.
Be especially respectful of any injuries, chronic problems, or physical limitations you may have. If you are kind and gentle to your body, it will start to trust you and relax by itself. You will find yourself starting to loosen on a deeper level without having to force the issue. In this way you will develop naturally, gradually, and safely. When you do chi kung you learn to reorganize the way you stand, sit, and move. In particular you discover how to use the power of the lower tan tien, the perineum, and the spine to stand in a strong, stable, integrated way. You will see that many warm-up movements focus on training the waist for this reason.
Bouncing
Bouncing the body can be compared to a brief ride on the subway. For those of you who commute, this can be practiced on the way to work as well.
1. Just relax the body while concentrating on opening the joints and bounce on the floor without any tension.
2. Let the vibration in the heels work its way up through the entire skeletal system: from the legs to the spine to the neck to the skull. Shoulders and arms should vibrate as they hang loosely by the sides of the body. To enhance this, you can hum a vowel to hear the vibration make the voice tremble as well.
3. Rest and feel the chi entering the joints.
Foot and Hand Kicking
1. Draw out your leg and opposite arm and kick out, letting go of any tension, pain, and stress. Repeat 30 to 60 times.
2. Then do the opposite leg and arm.
Knee Rotations
Standing with feet together, hands on your knees, knees flexed, rotate both knees together, exercising your ankles and knees with clockwise/counterclockwise rotations.
1. Place the feet together. Bend the knees and place the palms lightly on the kneecaps.
2. Slowly and gently rotate the knees to the left.
3. Rotate the knees to the back.
4. Rotate the knees to the right.
5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 eight more times.
6. Now reverse direction and repeat nine times.
Simple Chi Kung Exercises
The secret of chi kung, whether you are a beginner or more advanced practitioner, is practice. The trick is to find a routine that works for you. It’s important to remember that a practice session doesn’t have to be elaborate or take a long time; a little practice is always better than no practice. As your experience of chi expands and deepens, so does your desire to practice chi kung. In fact, chi kung should be one of the most enjoyable aspects of your day. Practice becomes easy for something that feels so good.
The Five Principles of Chi Kung
1. Relaxation (water element): This is a fundamental principle of chi kung. Think of the way water moves, like a river flowing down the mountain--effortless, fluid, unified, and powerful. This is the essence of the principle of relaxation. When you practice chi kung, you want to mirror the movements of water and feel you body moving fluidly.
2. Resiliency (wood element): Resiliency is the power that is reflected in trees--the combination of strength and flexibility. Think of bamboo in the wind, how it bends but doesn’t break, how it stays rooted and pliable at the same time. In chi kung we should embody this principle, feeling a sense of being grounded and flexible, strong and centered all at once.
3. Enjoyment (fire element): Enjoyment is so important in all forms of exercise and meditation. In chi kung feeling good and enjoying the movements, stretches, and flows helps circulate energy. When you force yourself to do exercise that you don’t enjoy, it goes against the flow. Enjoying your workouts and exercise helps to create a connection between the mind, emotions, and body so that harmony is created throughout the entire system.
4. Centering (earth element): Centering implies both a principle of movement for the body and an emotional feeling of being connected inwardly. This principle is connected to the earth element because it is a stabilizing force and cultivates a sense of feeling grounded. There is a sense of inner balance. During chi kung practice allow your body to move from the center, your lower Tan Tien or abdominal area. This allows the rest of the body to relax and flow.
5. Energy (metal element): The metal element is the element of the lungs. Chi means “life-force energy” or “life breath.” Chi kung uses the breath as a way to improve, cultivate, and transform energy in the body. Chi kung movements are synchronized with the breath as a way to relax the body, strengthen the tendons, create flow, and balance energy. Chi is energy, and the movements of chi kung are ways to cultivate this life force.
The ultimate goal of practicing chi kung exercises is to become soft, supple, strong, responsive, full of vital life force, and pure like a child. Chi kung can be used for physical, emotional, and spiritual cultivation. Although these exercises are surprisingly simple to perform, they are sophisticated and effective in reestablishing the harmony we’ve lost between ourselves and nature and the universe.
Beginning Your Practice
Listen to the messages from your body as you do the various exercises. Pain is the body’s warning signal that you may be overdoing it. The goal is not to overstretch or to develop large muscles but to loosen the joints and relax the muscles so that the chi and blood can flow without obstruction. Don’t force yourself beyond your limits: less is better, especially at the beginning. If you feel any joint pain or discomfort while doing any of the exercises, back off until you feel comfortable. If you still feel strain or pain, discontinue the exercise all together.
Be especially respectful of any injuries, chronic problems, or physical limitations you may have. If you are kind and gentle to your body, it will start to trust you and relax by itself. You will find yourself starting to loosen on a deeper level without having to force the issue. In this way you will develop naturally, gradually, and safely. When you do chi kung you learn to reorganize the way you stand, sit, and move. In particular you discover how to use the power of the lower tan tien, the perineum, and the spine to stand in a strong, stable, integrated way. You will see that many warm-up movements focus on training the waist for this reason.
Bouncing
Bouncing the body can be compared to a brief ride on the subway. For those of you who commute, this can be practiced on the way to work as well.
1. Just relax the body while concentrating on opening the joints and bounce on the floor without any tension.
2. Let the vibration in the heels work its way up through the entire skeletal system: from the legs to the spine to the neck to the skull. Shoulders and arms should vibrate as they hang loosely by the sides of the body. To enhance this, you can hum a vowel to hear the vibration make the voice tremble as well.
3. Rest and feel the chi entering the joints.
Foot and Hand Kicking
1. Draw out your leg and opposite arm and kick out, letting go of any tension, pain, and stress. Repeat 30 to 60 times.
2. Then do the opposite leg and arm.
Knee Rotations
Standing with feet together, hands on your knees, knees flexed, rotate both knees together, exercising your ankles and knees with clockwise/counterclockwise rotations.
1. Place the feet together. Bend the knees and place the palms lightly on the kneecaps.
2. Slowly and gently rotate the knees to the left.
3. Rotate the knees to the back.
4. Rotate the knees to the right.
5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 eight more times.
6. Now reverse direction and repeat nine times.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Putting Simple Chi Kung into Practice
Introduction
1 The History of Chi Kung
2 The Meaning of Chi Kung
3 Basic Terms and Concepts
4 The Styles and Forms of Chi Kung
5 Chi Kung and Abundant Health
6 Simple Chi Kung Exercises
7 Guidelines for Simple Chi Kung
Appendix 1. Supplementary Practice: Laughing Chi Kung
Appendix 2. Scientific Research on Universal Tao Practices
About the Authors
The Universal Healing Tao System and Training Center
Index
Recenzii
“I’m delighted that he and Mr. Holden have created this easy-to-learn, concise Chi Kung routine for daily practice. It serves as both a great starter course and an even better daily maintenance ritual. Thank you Master Chia!”
“Simple Chi Kung: Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy comes from a Taoist master and senior instructor who blend knowledge on thousands of Chi Kung practices into one easy daily routine perfect for beginners.”
“Simple Chi Kung: Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy comes from a Taoist master and senior instructor who blend knowledge on thousands of Chi Kung practices into one easy daily routine perfect for beginners.”
Descriere
Distills the many different Chi Kung practices into one simple daily routine for abundant health, calmness, and mental clarity.