Qi work, was: Welcome to Claude

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On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:15:08 Greg Goode wrote:

>Sounds interesting. I'm studying a form of Chinese Energetic healing work,

>based loosely on qigong.

 

My impression of Qi gong and the other

Chinese Qi arts such as Tai chi is that

it is a gentle way of working with the

energy, very beautifully flowing...

Some paths call themselves the water

paths... sounds great. )

 

For a short time I studied with a Cantonese

Kung fu teacher. He taught very forceful

punches and kicks, combined with light

meditation (which I didn't get at all that

time ) and flowing Tai chi exercises.

It was a great combination of water and fire,

martial arts and healing.

Yet he also had some truly horrible exercises.

One was a stretching exercise in which he would

be squashing me down towards the ground, putting

the pelvic area under a great deal of pressure.

This was supposed to be combined with deep and slow

breathing and this was the only way to get out

of the pain of muscles being forcefully

stretched. I'm sure the stress of this alone

was a way of increasing the chi. Not the

best of ways, though. Ouch.

>>> Last weekend, I bought " Be as you are - Teachings of Sri Ramana

>>> Maharshi" and I find this reading very inspiring and liberating.

>

>I think this is probably the best short book on Ramana!

 

I agree with that very much.

I find his "method" of self enquiry being very

interesting and helpful indeed, as is the

rest of the book, as you say, very inspiring.

 

Welcome to us, Claude. I do hope you

will like it here. Your English is nothing

you need to be embarrassed over, it is very

good.

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

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