qigong and schizophrenia

The yang practice is a nice practice to balance out the yin practice.
Both definitely have their benefits.

Cigarettes put the liver to sleep, while amplifying the heart fire.
So you could have gotten some genuine amplification from the smoking.
It definitely opens up the heart, and gives you an expanded consciousness.
No question.

Of course, as you know, this comes at a price.
Continually putting the liver to sleep, prevents a natural release of anger.
Repressed anger (liver) is the energetic vector for cancer.
And the excess artificial heart fire damages the heart.

S

Yeah, and it is actually the liver that keeps the addiction going.
The liver gets used to be sedated, so when the “sedative” wears off,
it gets hyperactive and starts sending warning signals throughout
the body that “something is wrong”, and tells the brain to send
the message that you need to smoke and it will make you feel better.
This is the addiction cycle.

But continually keeping the liver asleep in this way, anger that
normally would diffuse naturally . . . does not. It builds over time–
repressed and stored in the liver (you are not aware of it).
When this reaches critical mass, it triggers cancer.
The energetic mechanism of cancer is repressed anger.

This is why when people quit smoking, they get really angry,
short-tempered, and irritable. This is simply an expression of
all the stored anger finally starting to be released.

It is actually the nicotine (chemical) that represses the anger.
They have done studies showing how never-smokers who were given a
nicotine patch, and then had them do frustrating/anger-invoking
tasks, did not express the anger that those in the control group did.
The problem is, is that the anger isn’t being relieved, it is being
repressed and pushed down into the sedated liver.

S

The nicotine provides false fire; artificially stimulating the
heart beyond what is healthy for it to do normally. It is the
same problem with caffeine (e.g. coffee). All stimulants damage
the heart. Heat and smoke from the actual cigarette smoke just
amplify this external addition of artificial fire, so it is a
double-whammy. This is why you see so many smokers die of a
heart attack in their 50s (or earlier).

Expanding the heart fire naturally via the Inner Smile is safe,
because it is ultimately the body that decides how much to increase
it, rather than an external source. This heals the heart, rather
than damaging it. This is because you are doing the opposite:
allowing rather than forcing. Allowing aligns you with the Tao,
forcing is trying to resist the Tao.

Most drugs interfere in the body’s natural wisdom,
which is nourished by the Earth. Consequently, by their
nature, they tend to be ungrounding. This causes energy to
rise up into your head. This is effectively why it is called
getting “high”. In your case, high on tobacco . . . which
is just another drug. Fire, whether it is false or not,
is a radiating energy. It is the five-element version of
expansion. Putting the two together, you have overall
movement of energy into the head and radiating outward.

Smoking does a wonderful job of expanding your consciousness,
and if you are mindful of it, it can connect you to a deeper
level of understanding. I won’t deny this in the least.
This is why the Native Americans fell in the love with it.
The trouble is, is that you are performing a trade . . .
trading your lifeforce for this benefit.

Some qigong and associated meditation, when done deeply and
over a long period of time, can achieve some of the same
positive benefits, without the negative payment.

S

or the modern day Native Americans that smoke, for that matter.