Understanding Qi Gong Development

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Here is an hour-long talk given by Damo Mitchell in June of 2022. The talk was filmed as a part of an event held in Maryland, USA; an event which ran for 10 days. The talk was given to help direct the understanding of the students in attendance who were already familiar with Qi Gong practice. For this reason, some of the terminology may be difficult to understand for total beginners.
In the talk Damo discusses:
- How and why we develop the body
- The Dan Tian in practice
- What are Yin and Yang Qi
- Some guidance on (Zi Fa Gong) or Spontaneous Qi Movement which is a common phenomena within Qi Gong and other internal arts such as some Yogic systems.
- Downplaying the importance of the emotional state in Qi Gong practice.
We shared it here in case it is helpful for anybody on here studying Qi Gong or Nei Gong who may like some guidance on the fundamentals of Qi Gong development.
Lotus Nei Gong site: www.lotusneigong.com
Online Training: damomitchell.com
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@dabblerdeluxe775 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you put this here, I could listen to you talk for hours about this stuff

@FredericZolnet Жыл бұрын

More, more, moooore! :-) Thank you. Always a joy to listen to.

@riptiz 11 ай бұрын

I witnessed a guy in India after shaktipat. Next day during practices he was crying due to memory releases.

@antiprismatic 6 ай бұрын

Thank god for this teaching! Thabk god for this teacher! You help set straight just with your words so many misconceptions! Its not about be soft and fluffy!!!! I can feel myself build internal 'tendon' just by shifting focus from that corrupted teaching.

@adamedison6831 Жыл бұрын

Super helpful! Thank you!

@Paws3 Ай бұрын

Very informative for a beginner, thank you!

@JulesMorrison Жыл бұрын

As far as releasing emotions is concerned, I think the distinction is: are you grabbing hold or letting it fall through your grasp and dissipate? Grabbing hold causes the intensity, the emotion piles up rather than passing through.

@stevesala101 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the free content. If someday you can do a video for the opening of the kua would be amazing.

@johnblouch1544 7 ай бұрын

❤ I've spent years and years fiddling around with Mantak Chia books and Llewellyn nonsense and am very late to the Damo Mitchell party. But it definitely helps me understand alot of his very in depth explanations alot quicker so I guess its not that much of a loss. I even wasted alot of time and hurt myself with that mo pai debauchle, so sad really that whole mess im glad I had the sense to jump ship before I did irreversible damage to myself. This is so nice :-) to have this. Maybe one day ill make it in person to one of Damo Mitchells classes that would be really cool.

@mw7851 6 ай бұрын

What's wrong with Mantak's approach? I'm just starting to get into Qi manipulation so it would be great to understand what to avoid. Thanks!

@johnblouch1544 6 ай бұрын

@@mw7851 Eh 🤷‍♂️ Honestly Mantak Chia has alot if hidden gems you really can't find anywhere else, AT ALL in some of his books. I'd say my biggest problem with the man's teachings is that he refers to the dantian as 'the pearl' and encourages you to 'give it' to one of your organs after you form it every session, and that he also encourages you to keep the dantian empty. Damo dislikes visualization, for fair reasons. I'm not trying to be disrespectful on his page and I know he has his reasons, although I visualize like a megatons worth. It's generally draining on you if you don't replenish the energy you use while doing it, and it does as Damo voices in his books sometimes force things open when you may not be ready for it. Alot of what Mantak Chia teaches seem to be confirmatory signs that you are progressing along the path(s) correctly rebranded as actual exercises. (Damo has discussed this type of thing in a few of his videos) Which, they actually can be used that way in some cases but in others I feel the man genuinely doesn't know what he's going on about. It's like pouring water into a bucket with a hole at the bottom (which may be something Damo said) I mean yeah its cool for awhile but if you haven't built up enough energy yet the path won't stay open and it's generally not as productive as just building up the energy reserves till these paths Crack open on their own. Then the progress will be yours to keep, not just experience for a short while. I personally tend to lean toward building the Dantian above all other things, and the exercise I use is called "the golden flower meditation" although there are plenty of similar exercises which have similar results. Also definitely study the microcosmic orbit. Without that thing you will be In a boatload of trouble. Tldr: Mantak really likes visualizations which can be effective but also dangerous by forcing things along before you and your body are ready, visualizations are also very draining and you must replace this energy or you will actually lose chi and become unhealthy even though your pathways are open. Mantak encourages you to leave the dantian empty, very very bad that will make darn sure you don't have enough chi to power your body and you will definitely get sick. Mantak has made exercises out of things that were actually just signs that you've built up enough chi for certain phenomena to occur naturally, and some of these exercises will probably be damaging to you because they were never meant to be exercises in the first place. BUT! some of the stuff in his books you and I as laymen may not have the resources to find anywhere else. So buy them at your own risk. Damos teachings are much safer and won't make you crazy or sick. I know this response was very long winded, but hopefully it was more helpful than boring lol.

@JimTempleman Жыл бұрын

This is the clearest overview talk I've heard from you yet, after listening to about ten talks (which were all informative). You might want to put this video where new people will come across it early. (FYI I'm an American, and that might have had something to do with it, since you were addressing an American audience.)

@alexallison7904 Жыл бұрын

Thank you ta

@JeanFrumen Жыл бұрын

Awesome, nice talk. Thank you.

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

🙏

@mary-anncarleton7578 Жыл бұрын

Had to laugh at the depiction of the stiff body; I can relate. Hahaha thanks for the chuckle, soooo much love.

@Gongchime 7 ай бұрын

Your vids are great.

@diegobrito7905 Жыл бұрын

Dear Damo Mitchell, thanks for all the insights, for what I understood we need to start with the yin chi because without it we can't have the dantian and hold the yang chi there. To gather the yin chi we need to sit still with the right posture, breathing and state of mind, is that it?

@elyzak333 Жыл бұрын

Taos!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Lived there for 23 years. Yes, you are absolutely correct and also Sedona IS very new age. Beautiful peonies 💖

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

I really like Taos, a beautiful little town :)

@elyzak333 Жыл бұрын

@@LotusNeiGong the nature is quite extraordinary. I try to get up there every now and then to get near the water and the trees.

@DevilMarshawLaw Жыл бұрын

What you said about in the 6:00min mark must be geographical feng Shui, probably? And even sutil diferences in air pressure and quality, sea level elevation, soil composition, etc. Amazing Channel :)

@timotejrajnis2137 Жыл бұрын

. La ..o

@SnakeAndTurtleQigong 8 ай бұрын

🙏

@ohmynoche Жыл бұрын

Can we access the previous day’s talk that you mention? The video on prepping the body. Thank you!

@georgetherat3345 3 ай бұрын

I'm curious if you would do a talk on what can or could go wrong.

@georgetherat3345 3 ай бұрын

Just found the deviation section. Thank you.

@udonbrine2569 Жыл бұрын

Were can I learn the projective qi techniques?

@leighblithe1175 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Damo for this lecture, makes a lot more sense now than if I had listened to this several years ago. The part that really resonated with me was the twisted or spiraling like manner that the jing takes on around the body to change it internally. One problem in my practice Ive encountered is the 'strings' that come up from the feet and elsewhere can become too tight and I feel I need to back away from certain zhan zhuang postures. These actions of the 'strings' also increase compressive forces in the abdominal area and increase intra-abdominal pressure which can affect my breathing. I did have surgery years ago on a part of the abdomen which I feel might not be as lubricated as other parts not affected and therefore lacks water/yin in that area. So my question is it possible that I could be experiencing adverse affects from the various 'strings' that wrap around the body, especially in the affected area given that the 'strongs' tend to compress the body if there is no hydrostatic pushback (such as a blockage or a site affected by invasive surgery and thus damaged or weakened) ? Do you have any ideas about how to repair such an area when breathing has become restricted? It feels like an internal plaster or internal glass rubbing together if that makes sense.

@kohaq2176 6 ай бұрын

Go to physioterapist, or work on scar ;) good luck

@kellharris2491 5 ай бұрын

I would go back to the foundations of Zhan Zhuang. Not the advanced practices. I would spend time focusing on Expanding in a general sense. Your body needs to be looser and softer.This will stretch the strings. One thing that has helped me is Ninad Music channel on KZfaq. It's amazing music vibrations that target specific areas of the body. Sound and vibrations is just another form of Qi energy. It can help you with your Neigong repair and physical healing. Good luck.

@leighblithe1175 5 ай бұрын

@@kellharris2491 At the moment its very difficult because the scare tissue is within the ribcage cavity which I am not sure I have neuromuscular control over unlike the muscles which we do have control over. I can feel a loss of 'internal pressure' within the lower left side which feels like the tendons have compressed it like braided steel. Mayve surgical intervention would be required to some how pull the ribcage apart in 3D manner to give more space and less crushing forces over the diaphragm and internal organs. Will look into th emusic you suggested thanks.

@jeffatwood9417 Жыл бұрын

The sensitivity issue sounds more like a focus issue, Sensitivity need not drop if one's focus remains in oneself. Choosing to feel others is a skill for sensitive people to cultivate, for sure. Americans trouble capping down appears to be a level of aggression. The Puritan Work Ethic did a number on our culture.

@davidsaintjohn4248 Жыл бұрын

Thank you as always for sharing, Damo. The term yinian seems to be a traditional one which captures your points about attention/intention - do you dislike it for some reason?

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

not at all. I use it often :)

@davidsaintjohn4248 Жыл бұрын

@@LotusNeiGong fair enough, I guess I just have heard you emphasize the intention/attention relationship quite a bit but didn't recall hearing those terms. Thanks for everything! 🙏🤙

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

@@davidsaintjohn4248 I tend to try and avoid Chinese terms as much as possible on public KZfaq videos and less classical terminology than I use in classes within my school :) Happy training

@marilynsagor1383 8 ай бұрын

I have discovered that the dan tien is not so much in the front of the body but is more towards the mingmen....the gate of life, towards the lower back.spine.

@LotusNeiGong 8 ай бұрын

That’s right. It’s quite deep :)

@murrik Жыл бұрын

41:10

@asfasfd7772 Жыл бұрын

I want to learn Qi Gong, but I have limited time. How can it fit into my existing strength training and cardio exercise program? Sorry if you have addressed this before.

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

Depends what you want. It’s like anything, one art can support another but you will need up focusing mostly on one :) so, the main focus you have will be where the majority of your change comes from. The other practice will support but be limited to a certain degree...

@asfasfd7772 Жыл бұрын

@@LotusNeiGong Thanks for the reply, sir. There's just so much noise out there these days about how you have to train so long for zone 2 cardio for mitochondrial adaptations, you have to lift so much for bone grow and muscle mass, etc. Difficult to choose when time is limited.

@LUshengFan Жыл бұрын

I have read this is for 18 and qbove but what to do before 18?

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

Kung Fu :)

@LUshengFan Жыл бұрын

@@LotusNeiGong There are a lot of kung fu what should i start with btw my birth day is 26th of june 2004 so can you recommend me some kung fu for my age .i had some karate training when i was from 2nd to 5th grade (just the foundations) i do not retain anything now.

@LotusNeiGong Жыл бұрын

To be honest, it really would depend upon what is in your area :) the style is less important than the quality and skill of the teacher you can access.