Chi Kung
Written by Luci Johnson
Chi Kung is an aspect of the Tao that actively cultivates the body, the mind, and the spirit. Chi means “energy” or “life force”; kung means “work”. We cultivate chi for the purposes of healing and manifestation. We learn to use the forces of nature, human will, and cosmic particles to transform negativity stored in the body. The two forces, electricity and magnetism form what is called bio-electric magnetism, chi or “life force.” Human beings have two types of chi: Prenatal chi, which combines chi and ching (sexual energy), and postnatal chi, which is the life force a person cultivates in his lifetime. Taoist practitioners of Chi Kung align with cosmic forces, becoming a conduit through which we can absorb and digest these energies through the body, mind and spirit. To the Taoist, the root of most physical ailments is stuck or stagnant chi. Chi Kung clears these chi blockages by connecting to earth and universal forces and conducting stronger, clearer, more positive energy to move the negative or blocked chi. There are 5 steps to learning chi kung…. 1. Conserve Chi To have more chi, we have to maintain control of the gates through which energy normally leaks out and drains our life force. We leak energy through our sexual organs, negative emotions and constantly turning our senses outward. 2. Balance Chi Imbalanced energy tends to make us go to extremes. We must balance yin and yang flow in our body. 3. Transform Chi We can transform sexual energy into life force chi. We can transform negative emotions into positive making it a basis for spiritual development. 4. Increase Chi It is important to master the first three steps, conserve, balance and transform before we increase our chi. Imbalanced and negative chi must be under control. 5. Project Chi Using chi to heal self and others by projecting from your hands. This research has taken place at the Menninger Institute. Mind, Eye and Heart Power= Yi With our mind we control thought processes. With our eyes we control sight, hearing, smell and taste. With our heart we control all of our organs and their related emotions: *-liver (kindness/anger) -heart (joy/impatience) -spleen (openness/worry) -lungs (courage/sadness) -kidneys (gentleness/fear) Yi (yee) controls all these things, it is the mind-eye-heart power with pure intention.
Foundations of Tao To attain skill in chi kung, one should know 6 Taoist basic meditations: Warming the Stove, Cosmic Inner Smile, Six Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, Iron Shirt Chi Kung, and Healing Love. Warm Up the Stove- Week 1 This meditations activates chi and ching (sexual energy) in your Lower Tan Tien, a pool of energy in the lower abdomen. Practice this exercise for a week before progessing to the next. 1. Sit on the edge of your chair with your hands clasped together and your eyes closed. 2. Breathe 18-36 times, moving your abdomen in and out quickly. Now rest covering your naval and feeling nice and warm. 3. Begin inner laughter so that you feel your abdomen vibrate on the inside. 4. Rest now, and use the mind-eye-heart power to gather chi into the lower Tan Tien. Picture the Tan Tien as a stove with burning fire behind your navel. Feel nice and warm. 5. Smile down toward your “stove” and sexual organs. Women should bring chi to the uterus and men should bring chi to their testicles. Feel the chi as sun shining down on the water, the ray of the sun purify the water until it becomes rising steam. This transforms sexual energy into chi, and this chi rises up the spine into the brain, helping to activate the crown and mid-eyebrow energy centers. 6. Focus your awareness in the sacrum. At the very tip of the sacrum is a hole, called the sacral hiatus, in the coccyx. Breathe into this hole until you feel some activity like tingling, numbness or pulsing there. Activating this point will generate suction. Feel the suction force pulling chi through the sacral hiatus into the body, breathe into it until you feel it become activated. When the sacrum is activated, you will feel the suction easily, as well as breathing in the cranium and mid-eyebrow. Keep smiling and breathing into the Lower Tan Tien and feeling the suction into the abdomen from the sacrum. Feel the connection between the Lower Tan Tien, the sacrum, mid-eyebrow and the crown. Breathe like this 36 times.
Chi Kung Etheric Spell Once you master the above exercise, we can begin to use this visualization for the purpose of spell casting. Now decide the type of spell you want to cast….(love, money, business, career, weight loss, beauty, peace in the home). For instance take the word “love” and immerse the word into the pond, now allow the sun light to steam the pond. The energies of love will be carried with the rising steam. See the steam rise off your head, hands and back for as long as you like. If you are familiar with the use of herbs and gemstones. You can also place rose quartz and clear quartz into the pond with rose petals and essential oil in visualization of course. Do this everyday for a week to really get it fully. This exercise will really enhance and empower your spell casting abilities.
Chi Kung Week 2 Cosmic Inner Smile This exercise uses color and positive emotions like love, compassion, happiness and kindness to communicate with the internal organs. Each of your organs are associated with an element and a color. 1. Heart-Red-Fire 2. Lungs-White(pink)-Metal 3. Liver-Green-Wood 4. Kidneys-Blue-Water 5. Spleen-Yellow-Earth The practice aids the transformation of negative emotions into positive virtuous energy. A genuine smile transforms negative energy into positive, loving energy that has the power to relax, balance and heal. The Inner Smile begins at the eyes and the mid-eyebrow point and moves down to the heart. As you activate the heart, loving energy will flow out and you will feel the energy of your Inner Smile flow down the entire length of your body like a waterfall. This meditation counteracts stress, tension and negative chi. 1. Focusing you attention on the mid-eyebrow, close your eyes and imagine that you are in one of your favorite places in the world, a place where you feel safe, relaxed and happy. Recall the sights you saw there, the sounds you heard, and the scents, sensations and flavors you associate with that place. 2. Imagine that one of your favorite people is standing in front of you, smiling to you with loving, happy, radiant, shining eyes. Smile to your own face, slightly lifting the corners of your mouth. 3. Feel yourself responding to that special person’s smile with a smile of your own. Feel your eyes smiling and relaxing. 4. Smile down to the thymus gland and picture a white rose blossoming. Gently inhale into the thymus gland, connecting your breath to the olfactory organ. Smell the good fragrance. 5. Aim your attention to your heart. Picture your heart before your inner eye and smile to it. Smile until you feel the heart smile back to you. Picture your heart like a red rose, gradually opening. This will activate the love and fire of compassion in the heart. The heart’s red light and loving awareness will, in turn, activate the cosmic red healing light or mist from above or around you. 6. Smile at the red light or mist and very slowly, with a soft, long, deep breath, draw the red mist, love, and compassion into the mid-eyebrow, down through the mouth and throat, and into the heart, where it gradually overflows to the small intestine. Retaining the red light and the love and compassion in the heart and small intestine, exhale the cloudy black or negative energy. Repeat this breathing 18-36 times, or until the heart becomes bright red before your inner vision and starts to radiate lovely red light out to the tongue, mouth, nose, ears and eyes. Allow the red light to whirl around you and form a red aura. Feel your skin glowing with red energy. 7. Do the same exercise with all of your other organs and visualize the corresponding colors displayed in the above chart*. To enhance the life force energy use a Chi Generator** of your choice and draw a diagram of the internal organ in your body that you want to send chi to, or draw all of your organs on the same piece of paper. Put a happy face on each organ. Now place that picture along with a link of your hair that you tape unto the diagram. Place these items in front of the output terminal of the Chi Generator and feel the joyful energies working on your organs. Keep the items connected to the Chi Generator for as long as you wish to do the meditation, preferably a half hour. **For information on how to obtain a Chi Generator contact Luci Johnson, through Alizon via email. Generators range from $150-$10,000, and come with free Reiki Attunements.
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