Thanks! & My 2007 In Review

I’d like to take this time to thank you all who have helped me out this year on this forum, including Michael Winn and Julian. A belated Merry Christmas to you all (especially my friend Paul Zistl). I’d also like to thank the life force and the Tao Immortals who seemed to have helped me out of late. I’m also posting this to share my experiences, which I hope may be helpful to someone, pose some questions to the members of this forum, and solicit any advice if you care to offer it. Your postings have all been valuable to me.

At this point in time I’ve been practicing Qigong for about a year. What a period of discovery it has been. I’ve worked my way through Fundamentals 1-4, as well as Fusion of the 5 Elements on DVD/CD. I’ve started the Healing Love course on DVD as well. Here are some of the things I’ve learned:

Relax, Play with the chi (thanks Julian and Michael!), Take your time, let the life force unfold you,
Open up to the life force and any helpers who are willing to assist you, Be persistent, the life force wants to see if you really are interested in growing, Smile!
I learned that there is a great deal of Qi stored in emotions, especially stuck emotions. This was a surprise to me, emotions were always something that needed to be controlled or suppressed.

There have been some great high points in the last year:

My blood pressure dropped over 30 points this year- my Dr couldn’t believe it (what have you been doing, it seems to work??). I stopped taking the drugs he prescribed, which can induce kidney and liver damage. I now feel many years younger a majority of the time.

My flexibility is greatly improved. I can lay my hands flat on the floor. That may not seem like much to you all, but it does to a man in his fifties! I was able to lift a heavy object the other day and used Qi to assist my muscles. That was very cool.

On a humorous note, I applied Michael’s teaching on grounding to win a friendly wrestling match with my 22 year old son and 25 year old son in law (yes I know, too much yang energy at that family gathering). Grounding their pushing forces into the earth was kind of amusing…..

Fusion practices allowed me to discover and integrate several separated parts of myself. Both times my energy level went up demonstrably. I am no longer terrified of public speaking.

Fusion practices will give you emotional stability and help you get rid of stuck emotional patterns— No joke! People can be all emotional and out of control around me and I’m much more stable, centered and grounded. I’ve had numerous people at work comment on my new lack of reactivity. You will be calm like never before!

The sexual energy cultivation practices work! I can still hear my wife of 28 years saying , “what’s gotten into you?” 🙂

I learned that energy cultivation, especially sexual energy cultivation can be very powerful and that we must be careful to use it responsibly and in harmony with the life force. The other day I had gone Christmas shopping with my wife. That morning I had been circulating sexual Qi in the Orbit, and following up with circulating golden Qi (fused pearl of the 5 organ spirits coupled with original presence) in the Orbit. This all generated a tremendous release of energy as we were shopping. I was pulsing and radiating sexual Qi like never before. I noticed that my wife was rubbing up on me like she used to when we were dating back in the 70’s. About the same time I noticed that the female sales staff and other lady shoppers were unusually friendly, even flirtatious. It dawned on me that this form of power needs to be balanced and used responsibly, it can have unintended consequences.

The bottom line is Qigong works. I’m an engineer and quite a skeptic. Part of me really did not think it would work, but it does. In an very strange way I was drawn to it, and I’m still not quite sure why.

Have there been frustrating down times? You bet. There are times when I just don’t feel any Qi in motion. I’m not sure why. Several times the down cycle seemed to correlate with fragmented parts of myself absorbing Qi or stopping the flow. Fusion helped with that several times. There were other times where nothing at all helped.

Question: In your opinion what causes the times of low Qi? What do you do about it in your practice?
Question: What forms do you do in your daily practice and for how long? What do you recommend?

Peace and Harmony

Bob

PS if you don’t want to post this, please feel free to correspond with me at bobmayberry@hotmail.com