Jailhouse Tai Chi Form, front view - 10/23/10 (Autumn)
MIND FORMS
Speaking of compact tai chi forms... doing tai chi in a limited amount of practice space...
I remember a rare occasion when I was not feeling well. I was lying down in bed, trying to fall asleep. I believe I was coming down with a cold, and one of my lungs was starting to feel congested. I couldn't breathe easily, like I normally do.
I began focusing on that spot in my lung while I was lying down in bed, almost in a semi-conscious state, half dreaming. I began seeing Prof. Cheng Man-ch'ing doing his tai chi form - - inside my lung!
He was about 3 inches tall. About the size that I see him in a YouTube screen, when watching his videos. But I saw him in three dimensions. Like a hologram, moving inside my lung. Doing the tai chi form he always does
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8P-ZCG1ysDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxptpyw0SCI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VeFpu3cDcUY
It's like my mind was playing back his YouTube video, in 3 dimensions, inside my lung!
Then I saw myself, about 3-inches big, doing this same tai chi form inside my own lung. It was no longer Prof. Cheng's body that I was seeing, it was my own body. I felt a "little me" was doing the form inside my lung, right in the space where the lung was feeling congested, where energy wasn't passing through easily. I felt my body energy condensing in that 3-inch "hologram me," and flowing just the way I feel my energy flow when I am actually standing up and doing the tai chi form. But it was all condensed into a 3-inch space, inside my lung. An "energy body me" that I was projecting into my lung. I did the entire form, from beginning to end, in that 3-inch spot inside my lung. Facing in different directions during 4 Corners. Feeling the chi expanding and contracting with each breath, just like I feel it when I do abdominal breathing during my normal form. Only I was lying down on my side, in bed, eyes closed, almost asleep.
I did this "mini form" inside my lung several times, from beginning to end, sending my mind and chi into this little 3-inch projection of me inside my lung. Sometimes I was upside down, sometimes sideways, as if "scrubbing" all the sides of my lung with my moving arms and legs.
An amazing thing happened - - my lung began clearing up! Suddenly I could feel energy passing through that spot normally again. It was as if all the arm and leg movements of that "mini-me" cleared out the cobwebs in that part of my lung, and energy began flowing smoothly through those tissues again. I could breathe easily again.
I was tired, but I felt something had changed significantly for the better inside me. I fell into a deep sleep after doing this "mind-projection" form. The next day, after a good night's sleep, I was up and feeling normal again. Whatever had bothered my lung the night before was gone.
After that experience, I learned to project my mind into any part of my body, and send a "mini-me" into that spot to do the entire tai chi form, whenever I need to get energy flowing smoothly again in any part of my body.
I haven't come across this method of doing tai chi in any of my studies. It's just something that happened in my brain one night, and I learned what powerful healing my mind is capable of!
It's a form of meditation - - projecting an "energy body" from my mind into some part of my body that needs healing.
All part of this important principle: - - Where mind goes, chi goes. Where chi goes, blood goes. Where blood goes, the immune system goes... and healing takes place.
ChiGuy396
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ChiGuy396 8 months ago
I have chronic fatigue syndrome. I have practicing Yang 103 for 2 years. I am trying to develop the feeling of ch'i using prescribed exercises from Jang Jwing Ming and Wayson Laio, as well as other writers on the subject. I have a bad knee so I am doing the three ball or tree stance. What does it feel like when you begin to feel the chi collecting in your tan tien? Your form is excellent. How long have you been practicing?
lebarosky 8 months ago