WHAT PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED

Some experiences from Jingang Qigong students are gathered here. People can have different experiences based on their own health condition, and the extent of concentration during practice. Also, the same person can experience different feelings and outcome at different practices. To achieve self-healing, daily practice is required. The very common experience is increased energy after practice, especially when the concentration is good during the set.

Second time practitioner
“I can feel a ‘force’ around my hands, much like opposing magnets, during certain movement. I also get very hot. I find it surprising since the movements are so slow.”

Second time practitioner
“I’ve been feeling better with my upper part of the body, but my legs and feet seems to hurt towards the end. I do have sciatica (lower back to back of legs nerve problem). Will this exercise help?” (He did mention after class that his legs felt hot. He felt ‘so good’ when finishing practice at home last week.)



Second time practitioner
“I noticed it was much easier to breath slowly and deeply. I also noticed much heat being generated from my body. It was also easier to keep my balance this time.”

Second time practitioner
“Tonight I really enjoyed the opening and closing of my hands. The energy was extremely powerful! It felt like a solid wall pushing up against my palms. The feeling was very welcoming and warm.”

Second time practitioner
“I felt taller! Stretching and breathing keeps improve my posture.
Also felt tighter in legs, as resistance and standing seems to firm up legs isometric ally = Good!”

First time practitioner
“Aside from the pain in my already sore shoulder, the experience was all positive. I felt the energy strongly there most of the two cycles. My heavy breathes became slower and more easy as we moved the end and my overall breathing, which is not that good, was quite easy and relaxed. The pace was good for me. I usually move quickly so it will take a while to be comfortable in low gear, my feeling tonight tells me I will be there soon.”

First time practitioner
“During the exercise, I feel so relaxed and so sleepy…Only when my knees got so painful because of my arthritis that I sort of woke up and got myself a chair. Then I went back to relaxing and almost fell asleep again…”

Multi-times practitioner
“better-best-focus- lots, strong energy around hands and arms, same whole body (warm feeling) little and warm energy inside
breathing deeper focused in breathing, posture, heels- worked hard in breathing deeper”.

First time practitioner
“As we did breathing through the cycles, I could feel energy going down my body, dropping down to my feet. I also felt very clear afterwards. I liked noticing the rain just as we completed the practice. It was good to go slow, move the energy and feeling the breath inside.”

Third time practitioner
“It was challenging to focus at beginning. Felt the energy light and then more strong when I paid more attention , more focus. Felt relaxing. Felt imbalance in my posture, bow back. After, felt balances and energized.”

First time practitioner
"During the practice I felt heavy legs, I saw flashing moments of blue color, moments of tingles, moments of fullness between hands, question if or what I was feeling, distracting thoughts and refocusing. After practice, immediately it was difficult to move-effort walk to the house, calmness, and strength. ”

Third time practitioner
“I felt full with chi and relaxed and feeling of roots from my heel…”

First time practitioner
“In chigong I felt deeper-deeper relax, centering - Felt it was a little too long for 1st time beginners - After I felt happy to have taken the time today to center with a beautiful group of people! Aloha for your presence!”

Second time practitioner
“During the exercises, I felt comfortable and warm in my body, no aches or pains that are usually eroding, away the edges of my consciousness, magnetic energy between hands burning in arms during lifting heaviness above –lightness from below armscan feel the weight, yet @ same time they feel as if they’re working by themselves hair raising on arms numbness in heels sometimes dizziness as if part of me is expanding or floating away (kind of like being in elevator of carnival ride) tickling sensations when breathing breathing through different chakras of body awareness of sounds around me near and far hot in center of palms”

First time practitioner
“Feel ‘light’, very clear-headed when through with exercise. During process, shoulders (left) became sore, stiff. Also experience heel pain-something that happens to me when standing still for long periods.”

First time practitioner
“When session was over, I felt very relaxed. I did have some difficulty with thinking I might loose my balance. I also thought of just sitting down at one point, but in continuing the thought went away. I am looking forward to learning to channel my energies to better accomplish my goals. Thank you.”

First time practitioner
“Experienced 1. numbness in legs. 2. aching (bottom of foot). 3. peace in the beginning, but tired towards the end.”

First time practitioner
“I felt trembling in my legs and extremely heavy arms. Sometimes dizziness as well. Strong feelings of resistance when trying to lift my arms up overhead. When I concentrate on relaxing and loosening, my shoulders, hand and knees, then I feel calmer, like floating through the air. Thank you for the session.”

Multi times practitioner
“I felt light with energy. Most energy going through hands and leaving through upper part of body, ie head. Feet, bottom of feet felt pressure from standing. Trying to balance feet to ease pressure.”

Multi-times practitioner
“Very warm in the beginning, opening and closing palms in frond of the abdomen. However, by the second set, when my knees began to feel the strain of constantly holding the slightly bent posture, and my attention was drawn to reliving the strain, I also noticed my body temperature dropping.”

First time practitioner
“Stiff joints, sore shoulders, numb toes, both feet, heavy arms, very challenged, but glad I have ‘survived'.
felt very warm towards end-hot flash?”

First time practitioner
“1. Lightness of body-like floating, almost wanting to fall over, but a good feeling.
2. Breathing slowly was somewhat difficult
3. heels of feet were tired
4. arms felt heavy, esp. when lifting upwards
5. hard to concentrate on the light and chi because of the physical discomfort
6. could feel the heat in palms
7. my whole body feel hot, like the air conditioning was off.”

First time practitioner
"During the exercise, I felt as though I could move my limbs just by thinking about them. That is, I didn't have to concentrate so much on the act of movement, but rather on simply on thought of movement. The slight pain in my feel and shoulders at first distracted me from concentration, but later it seemed to enhance the exercise because it allowed me to realize how I could overcome the pain just by wishing it to go away. Afterwards, I wanted to continue the slow movements since they felt more natural and came easier to me than before. I felt warmth all throughout my body that I have not felt before. Though strange, I would like to prolong this sensation."

Multi-times practitioner
"Lots of energy between and around the hands- good feeling-secure, esp. on exhalation. Bursts of feelings of gratefulness and happiness. Occasioned distraction by sounds and people around us-magnified. Feet hurting toward the end, knees feeling weak
Very good afterward, face feels different (face looks different after wands at home)"

Multi-times practitioner
“In the year since I have begun practicing both the active and meditative forms of Qi Gong, there has been a dramatic improvement in the quality of my life. The improvement has been mostly what Western knowledge might consider unquantifiable--including an increase in concentration and energy level, kinder relationships, and a happier outlook.

When I am faced with seemingly onerous tasks--dealing with an “attitudinally challenged” student or an irate parent--I hear our teachers’ voices saying, “Melt your heart,” and “fan song,” and the burdens disappear.

Recently, I also experienced a more quantifiable form of improvement. I’d returned to the mainland winter after several months in the islands, and with the shift in climate and the stress of travel, moving into a new apartment, and preparing for a new term of teaching, over the course of a very few days, my resistance lowered and I came down with the flu. I was able to continue practicing throughout the illness, however--one hour of active Qi Gong (focusing on the heart wheel) in the morning and an hour of meditation in the evening.

Being a properly trained skeptic, I cannot claim that it was because of practice that I never developed a fever during the illness and that the symptoms were not as bad as they usually can get, though I have my suspicions. However, being asthmatic, the illness eventually turned into bronchitis, and this is where I found a measurable benefit.

Each morning, on waking, I measured my lung capacity on a peak flow meter. At its lowest, my peak flow was down to 280 out of (for me) a possible 400. After an hour of Intensive Healing Practice, my peak flow was up by 20 to 30 points, and this was a onsistent result.

Gradually, during the course of the day, this number fell, unless I also used anti-inflammatory drugs. Some of these caused a significant rise in heart rate, and if I did a few minutes of relaxed meditation or healing practice (without willing a particular result), my heart rate quickly fell back to normal and evened out. Further, I was able to keep my dosages of anti-inflammatories much lower throughout the asthma flare and get off them several days sooner than I ordinarily would.

From these and other experiences, I have become “hooked” on practice. I believe that its benefits not only increase over time, but also with daily persistence and the attempt to integrate its principles into our ordinary lives.”