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The Abdoment Breathing in Tai Chi PDF
The Abdoment Breathing in Tai Chi PDF
The abdomen breathing is one of the best qi gong techniques to cleanse the meridians and
balance the yinyang.
Most of us are used to chest breathing. Therefore, it may be difficult to change to abdominal
breathing immediately. But the following method can make the technique easier.
Stand upright and relaxed with your feet fairly close together.
Place one hand on your middle energy field, about two inches below your navel.
Place your other hand over it. Open your mouth slightly. Then dispel all irrelevant thoughts. It
is important to have an 'empty heart' throughout this exercise.
With both palms, press your abdomen in one smooth continuous movement for four counts
(about four seconds). Make sure that you do not breathe in as you press your abdomen. Hold
that position for two counts. Then release the pressure of your palms in one smooth continuous
movement for four counts, thus allowing your abdomen to return to its original position. Hold
for two counts.
This process of pressing, holding, releasing, holding, constitutes one breathing unit, or one
breath; and it takes ten counts (about ten seconds). Start with ten breaths for each practice
session, and gradually increase by one or two breaths. Do not worry about your breathing yet.
At this stage, it will be natural or spontaneous, but remember not to breathe in as you press
your abdomen.
After pressing and releasing your abdomen about 10-20 times, drop your hands to your sides
and stand still with your eyes closed for about five minutes. Practise this twice daily for at least
two weeks before proceeding to the next stage.
During the standing meditation, you may use Positive Visualization to solve any health
problem you may have.
Visualization in Qi Gong
The visualization technique is a simple exercise. Very often, we hear people questioning
whether it really works?
(2) Sit crosslegged in a standard meditation pose, or upright on a seat, or lean back on a
comfortable chair, or lie on a bed or a couch.
(3) Close your eyes and relax deeply. Then visualize your diseased part. Literally will it to
recover - but do so gently.
(4) Hold the image of that part in the process of recovering (and later, recovered) as long as
you can in your mind's eyes.
When you lose your image, rest your mind for a short while, still with your eyes closed.
Practise the whole exercise for about five minutes at least twice a day for between three and
eight months.
Does it really works?
In the latest discoveries of modern science, scientists have accepted the fact that at the
subatomic level the mind directly affects matter.
At the subatomic and unconscious level, our bodies constantly cure and regenerate themselves.
All the wear and tear inside our bodies, of which we are not aware, is constantly repaired in
this natural way.
All the cells in our bodies are constantly being renewed at different rates. Every seven months,
there is a total turnover of our cells. In other words, the body you have now is totally different
from the one you had seven months ago!
When the rate of self-curing and selfregeneration cannot match the rate of damage and injury,
then illness surfaces.
In the Positive Visualization exercise, we enhance our self-curing and self-regenerating ability.
We also use our minds, as we hold the image of the recovery process, to direct our cells to be
designed the way we want.