Qi Permeation Technique from Master Liang Shou Yu
Step 1. Stand with feet a comfortable width apart. Keep head upright, body straight but relaxed. Arms at your sides.
While inhaling, move your arms out to the sides. Turn palms up. Raise the arms up over the head while stretching gently upward. Then turn the palms to face the top of your head. Visualize gathering pure, healing, heavenly qi.
While exhaling slowly lower your arms down in front of your body. Visualize the qi flowing down the front path and three feet into the ground beneath your feet. Visualize stress, pain, and illness flowing out the bottoms of your feet. The pace should allow you to follow the path with your mind. People with high blood pressure should lower the arms slower than raising them. People with low blood pressure should raise the arms slower than lowering them.
Step 2. Relax your arms at your sides. Relax the whole body step by step from head to toe and then down the arms to the fingers. Mentally focus on each area as you relax it.
Step 3. Swallow your saliva and follow it with your mind down the Dan Tian. Pause for ten seconds and then repeat steps 1-3.
First work on clearing the front path. This may take some days. Start slowly and try to work up to nine repetitions during each training session. Be careful if you have low blood pressure or are weak because you may become faint. After you have cleared the front path, clear your middle path, then clear the back path. When you feel that the qi is flowing freely in all three paths, you can do three repetitions of each path for your daily practice.
The front path begins at the bai hui gate at the top center of the head. It divides and goes down past each ear. It unites at the top of the throat and goes down to the collar bone. There it divides and goes down each side of the chest through the nipples to unite again at the navel. It goes from the navel down the center of the front of the body to the hui yin point at the bottom of the torso. There it divides and goes down the inside of the legs and three feet into the ground.
The middle path begins at the bai hui and goes down the center of the body to the bottom of the torso. There it divides and flows down through the bone marrow of the legs and three feet into the ground.
The back path begins at the bai hui and goes down the centerline of the back of the body until it reached the ming men gate, which is at the same level and the navel. There it divides and goes to the outside of the hips and down the outside of the legs and three feet into the ground.
|