How to Create Relaxation and Emptiness by Tricking the Nervous System

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    The Lake Palm is the culmination of the art of Bagua. One of its stated goals is to help the practitioner find emptiness.

    All of the Bagua is based on a yang movement. At a fundamental level this starts with a stretch. Bruce calls it lengthening. Believe it or not, I can describe the entire system of Bagua as being built on this one principle and basically upgraded systematically to an extraordinary level of sophistication which culminates in the Lake Palm Change. That one principle is symbolically represented by a single yang line.

    The body has millions of sensory receptors that respond to the stretching of surrounding muscle tissue and contribute to the coordination of muscle activity. There are no chi receptors. One of the functions of these stretch receptors is to regulate the muscles. One function is to make sure you don’t constrict muscles too much. They also regulate the relaxation of the antagonistic muscles. So, when the bicep contracts, the nervous system tells the tricep to relax.

    If you stretch the tendons on the two ends of a muscle, you can trick the nervous system and it will start to tell the antagonistic muscle to relax. If you can stretch the tendons on both sides of the muscle on both sides of the antagonistic muscle pairs, you can trick the nervous system into telling the muscles on both sides to relax. The stretch is on the ends and the relaxation is in the middle – symbolically represented by a yin line.

    Do this really well (with virtually every muscle in the body simultaneously) and you can find emptiness in the middle. Effectively you are relaxing into your being. You can’t describe the qualities of emptiness because there aren’t any sensory receptors for detecting emptiness. The body just feels an incredible sense of relaxation and well being while you are extraordinarily effective with directing your movement while acheiving maximum performance.

    This may or may not be emptiness. It could be another interpretation of the yin side of the eight palm changes, the 16, but it is doable and it does meet all of the criteria. Who knows?

    #136737

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    “There are no Chi receptors”

    IMO there are.

    It’s a definitional problem.
    (I can’t read, write or speak Chinese.)

    But I do know that
    Chinese is a pictographic language; they use characters, pictures.
    Chinese characters are compound—a basic radical is combined with different other pictures within.
    The ancient radical for Chi is 3 wavy lines.
    (It has about 8 meanings: air/breath/spirit/influence/bearing/smells/anger)

    When the Chi radical is combined with the fire radical you get a meaning for Qi of internal energy being heated and rising,
    like a fire boiling water in a kettle producing steam.

    So the meaning of Qi X can be tangible.
    In a Chinese dictionary there are over 400 composite characters for Qi,
    like air in a tire for “air pressure”
    or
    Qi shu shu = gasping for breath

    So why not a character for “Qi receptor?”
    Qi G-protein G-protein G-protein

    Therefore, there should be many types of Qi receptors.

    A receptor has a function—Qi that functions as a receptor,
    controlled by the Yi (mind) and associated with the Li (blood and muscle)
    Chinese character might look like wavy lines with a circle with gaps underneath filled with gaps/blobs of protein emitting & ~ radio signals)

    Hey James I’m just having fun with semantics.

    #136738

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    :)

    #136739

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    I just got access to the last month of the Standing Qigong Mastery Edition.

    In the Standing Qigong Mastery Edition Month 12 Qigong Session 05, Bruce describes a lot about the stretching I’m talking about in this post and he talks about how it unifies the body. He doesn’t talk about the crosses but he does talk about the two sides. Once you understand all of the stretching, you can easily recognize whether someone can do it or not. It is really obvious. More importantly you know how to fix anything that isn’t working correctly.

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