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I recently broke through what appeared to be a chi blockage. I didn’t recognize it at first, until I felt Chi move through that part of my body. The result was not exactly Physically painful, though there was resultant soreness after chi began moving through that area again, but it was certainly a psychologically distressing event. The place was about 2 inches beneath my right collarbone, on my back.
What worries me is that I feel three more (and seem to encounter more as i try to feel my energy move through my body. Two of them are deep in the downward flowing yang energy path, and the third is very close, right at the start of the pathway. I have a hard time feeling past it, and it is directly connected to some poor energy flow in my left foot. I don’t want to forcefully break any chi blockages, though I don’t know if I even could do that, but I wonder if there are some ways to ease energy through these places without the distress that was associated with the first one. I’ve actually become sort of concerned with it, though I have a hard time relating why the concern is so prevalent. it aroused some emotional distress that is hard to verbalize.
I guess what I”m asking is for any advice or anecdotes about Qi blockages, so that i might be able to increase my understanding for how they work.
Sounds interesting. I haven’t got to that stage so I can’t really offer much insight other than what I’ve read.
My presumption is that physical chi blockages are nervous contractions, which are controlled by your subconscious mind. In order to free a contraction I presume that you have to put your mind intent into the contraction, and have enough mental focus to release the point.
Does that sound reasonable? That’s the angle I’m taking at the moment. I figure that if I can have that mind intent then I’ll be able to go a lot further with releasing tension.
You’re right, but it sounds so complicated the way you said it.
In essence, when I had finally calmed myself enough to understand the source of the tension in my left side, I relaxed it. it was a tight muscle that spanned my whole torso, from my shoulder, to my lower abdomen. it was as simple as relaxing a balled fist, or relaxing into and out of a stretch.
It was directly related emotionally to anger, and the center of my consciousness has shifted away from that emotion as a default reaction to situations. (which, since you don’t know me, says a lot)
It seems that you experienced the first time that a chi movement in the shoulder area amounts in chi reactions all over the body perhaps induced also by your awareness on it.
Such reactions are quite normal and part often of acupuncture treatment.
That a spanned muscle on the back is hindering the free chi flow is likely but less a permant blockage since long but presumably a rather fresh process.
What you see as a poor chi flow may be a yin quality in the leg to the yang quality on the back.
Axel
Well since you mentioned acupuncture, do you think that it’s beneficial for a beginner, or is is better in the long run to dissolve everything yourself?
Surely the long run way as you in many ways acupuncture by Qigong opening these channels also by hand movements in the surrounding etheric body havinng its branches also inside the body. Dragon and Tiger Qigong clearly draw the three main channels, left and right and the central channel. But the eagle claw and flicking the hands move not only the 6 channels in the hands but, often forgotten also on youtube in a connection of the downward hanging and sideward moving hands to the kwa arouse also the 6 Channels in the toes and move them upwards by the hands on the torso. Slow execution more clerly show these connections as such especially powerful Qigong, Energy Gate Qigong shall be stikk stronger but I don`t know it yet.
Axel
@ Axel
I think the finding the muscle took me 3 months. I didn’t just feel it at first, I noticed tension in my body, primarily on my right side.
But yeah, it definitely feels like that first movement resulted in other movements I am still unaware of.
Tension on the right side and finding a tensed muscle on the left side and finding a poor chi stream in the left leg.
As you are doing Tiger and Dragon Qigong do you see a relation to this experience?
Axel
HI Dave, it sounds like “Anger” is the main emotion you feel along with “Anticipation”. “Anticipation” is also “Expectation”. In Bruce’s “Songs of the Tao” he describes Anger & Expectation as both emotions coming from liver issues. In the 5 phases liver/wood is created from “Water”. So letting go will involve being like water – letting things flow like nature. Knowing that all things must change. Yes, I know that it isn’t easy. Don’t intellectualize/think about it too much. Just “Be”. Let the flow of your life gently wear these emotions down just as water worn down the Grand Canyon. All things are possible in nature. Your healing is coming. Just let it happne when it can – remmember it didn’t accumulate over night so it will take time.
I only began doing Tiger and Dragon this week. But I think the left and right channels of energy are what I’m working with. that is why the soreness felt like a muscle, but it was in the front and back of my torso. or, the center of the torso.
What I’ve noticed is that the three places in the Dragon and Tiger illustration, the lowest being the kwa, and the two above them, reflect the problem I’m feeling in the Yang energy path. so I saw a problem on the left channel, and at the middle of it to the bottom, it seems.
relaxing to let something be is actually more difficult than it sounds. it requires a certain distance from the results of a process to let a process be, and though I’ve worked at it, I don’t know that I do it well. Thank you for the words of advice, though, I feel like they are a genuine sentiment, and I’m glad to have them.
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