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still going strong!!!

LCUPCD Method 45 minutes
3-Centers Merge Standing Method 18 minutes
Practiced in the evening

Contu.. LCU&PCD Method. 45 Mints
3-Centers Method .1/2 Hour

LCU&PCD Method . 1Hour ( Only Today )
3- Centers merged Method . 1/2 Hour

Sunday - Church; Pal Dan Gum at 7:00 a.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.

Started my day with Pal Dan Gum. Continuing to wear my pedometer and make sure I get at least 10,000 steps per day. I am just starting to learn REFLEXOLOGY, and think this would work good with my Qi Gong. Later today I will do another "8 Silken Moves" series. I feel good and I continue to focus on Abdominal Breathing....silent and deep.

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interesting... for the past 4 days i have had what appears to be an ordinary head cold...running what looks
like may be the 5-7 day cold thing/ i'm not usually sick
so it's just a bit odd that a 'cold' would hit around the
time of starting my 'la chi' gong. maybe my mind is making
an erroneous connection :~) blessings of the full moon to
all...our community will do the full moon gong friday since
this is when we get together. peace,erin

Greetings gong community...this is the start of my third gong. The first, Lift Chi UP, Pour Chi Down was about
2 years ago after a bicycle injury left me pretty imobile.
My second gong, was Six Directions which I started after practicing different sets with our teacher and small community of practitioners. This gong took me almost 200
days to complete as I broke it 90 days in to the practice.
I must have needed more practice with this set ! I have
just started a La Chi gong. I look forward to learning from
people who have done a variety of gongs about your experiences. peace,Erin

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I feel great after I do Chi-lel, but still have a hard time motivating myself to do it everyday. My motivation is not to break my gong. I know it is having a cumulative effect though, I can feel it. It is also good to see what it feels like when you really don't feel like doing it. I wish there were more people on this gong site.

Pain from what I think is arthritis in my knee is much diminished. Yesterday and today did chi-lel but not as much as normal.

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Only did half an hour

It's 20.08pm and I just completed my exercises for today.

After feeling so tiered yesterday I decided to do them in the evening (instead of first thing in the morning) in case it had the same affect. I am currently doing a lot of study and I didn't want to feel tiered the whole day and find study a struggle..

I enjoyed the exercises and found them very beneficial. After a day sat at my computer I was starting to get lower back pain and general aches and pains, having just done the exercises they have gone. I was also starting to tire and not taking in what I was reading, I now feel able to continue with my studies.

During the exercises I had brief moments of feeling like there was a 'current'. I also experienced feeling of 'love' a supporting softness, these feelings were very similar to ones I've had before whilst meditating.

Diet not going so well had cheese today, and not as much raw as i would have liked.

Just completed one hour of qigong using a cd by Luke Chan. I performed half an hour of six directions la-chi followed by half an hour of haola-hula (turn waist, move kwa, second level).

I was feeling a little bit sore in my arms and legs last night and this morning but only very slightly. Whenever my arms started to complain whilst i was doing the half an hour of six directions la-chi i just tried to relax into it more and correct my posture if it had slipped. I turned my concentration to the lovely positive things they were saying on the cd which I find really beneficial.

I have also drunk a blended raw fruit and super food drink for breakfast. I think that raw food has more chi in it and I am going to eat as much raw food as I can whilst doing my gong. I am going to try and achieve eating all raw whilst doing my gong, I will update my process daily.

It is now 13.51pm I did my session this morning between 7-8. I have been very tired this morning and I am only just starting to feel more energised now. I have been feeling felt very heavy, I think this is because I have been using muscles that I haven't used for sometime or it may just be because this is new to my system. Maybe it's because I am more centred and less wired?

erreur

Every ending is a new begenning

Common, you can do better than that!!

Wrong smiley! I did do my Gong today!

Not bad, but I can do much better than that!
Keep improving. Self discipline is not strong enought...

I do practice every day, but something is missing.

It's so hard! I do not know if I will be able to make it, but I have to! The temptation are always coming back, but I have to keep doing! Only trough this I will be able to get the complete control of myself in my destiny. Gongfu is only about self-control, that's only what it is. It's hard, but only trough this can we acheive the real freedom.

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The weather is turning colder and usually my practice tends to wane. However, making a commitment to keep going. Have found myself wanting to go deeper but still missing having a group to practice with. Have been doing an excellent job of maintaining the jing energy the past month and a half and but I'm still unsure of how to properly cultivate that energy. Perhaps three centers merge would be a great gong to start.

I have to maintain my discipline. Usualy, pass one week I am satisfy of my work so I want to take it easy little bit. This is a big mistake wich is slowing down my progress.I should always pratice more and more.

I have to keep my qigong journal. Write my undersading of qigong theory and concept. Integrate the qigong concept into my learning of chinese medecine.Keep reading and stugying Pang Laoshi's work.

Hunyuanlingtong!!!

I am studying acupuncture. So it's veru difficult to combine study, work, and practice. But I am still practicing every days. I have to maintain a good schedule, not loose any time. Also, the gong will be effective only if I can avoid sexual life during practice. Otherwise, all the newly gathered qi will be lost. I must solidify the jing qi in the lower dantian and kidneys, avoid temptation, be focused on my practice. Never give up! Keep doing, keep doing, keep doing!!!

Hunyuan lingtong! tong! tong!!!!

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Clicked the wrong thing. ONly starting a new gong today. Didn't do much at all over the last few months - since March. New work regime helping a lot with the routine. Squats.

Almost half way through my first gong. For the gong I decided to do 1/2 hour of "stretching qi" each day. I have been doing zhineng qiqong for several years and each week will do the 1st method 2nd method and 3rd method several times in classes and alone (3 centres merge gets done less frequently). Also done are the basic exercises. I chose 1/2 hour stretching qi for several reasons. Firstly during one of the first conversations I had with Bin Liu's translator, Melissa, she suggested I do so and over 2 years later I am! (Bin Liu now calls himself Yuan Tze and is a Chinese qigong master who has been resident in New Zealand for several years. yuantzecentre.co.nz). Secondly it seemed the right exercise for me to be doing for 30 minutes. (30 minutes of squats would've been too much, and 30 minutes of 3 centres merge would not be physical enough.)

After 40 days what have I noticed? Shoulders and neck feel they are in much better condition with movements being able to be done with fewer 'clicks'. I am feeling the cold of winter less than I have in recent years.

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Started doing 3CM today. Hope to do 100 days. Continuing the squats. Hoping to do Body-Mind Form twice a week. I have lots of time off work at the minute so when I go back it might not be so realistic - but I'll try. Felt so good after it today and squats were much easier because my back felt more open.

Didn't do 3CM today. Start again tomorrow.

Staying down and curling forward winds me these days, particularly around the solar plexus. Maybe the next phase of practice can focus on staying curled up for a little bit longer. Also, gradually trying to bring the feet closer together and keeping the knees straight.

Not enjoying them one bit for the last month or so. A real chore. Must start practising something nice.

I completed that gong but my heart wasn't into it much of the time. I'm hoping I'll come around and find that feeling of being absorbed in my practice. I miss feeling absorbed in the moment. I am going to continue the same gong and try to move my practice time to the morning. The stretching chi gong has brought incredible benefits and now I am actually looking forward to expanding that practice to both morning and evening. I also think I am going to wait until the spring before my next step up the chi ladder as I don't feel ready right now.

I'm having a huge amount of resistance against squats the last couple of weeks. But it's weird that one night I really didn't want to do them and it turned out to be the easiest practice I've ever had. Felt a lot of qi in my arms tonight when practising.

This morning, I was up entirely too early; but with good results. I stood for probably half an hour, shifting between all five positions of Lam Kam Chuen's Zhan Zhuang. It felt great.

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Still hanging in there--but on some days, honestly, just barely. Don't know why I feel I must persist, but I do...

Squats are feeling much easier in the last week. I'm more relaxed, especially when I'm curled up at the bottom and this really helps a lot. I can feel things opening up. Another thing that helps this is that I'm trying to spread my weight more evenly on my feet, leaning forward a bit more. My toes have a tendency to strain up, leaving all the weight on my heels and this causes cramp in my toes. Spreading the weight more evenly feels much better and much more solid.

I find that concentrating on weilu on the way down is the easiest for me, rather than dantien or mingmen. It helps to keep my back straighter. Still a little imbalance on the way up between the two sides of my body. Leaning more to the right - have had muscular pain in left leg for about 10 days now (knee and top of leg) so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. I wonder if the squats may have helped me ward off the 'flu that's going around in work. We'll see!

Looking forward to 2 weeks on holiday with plenty of time to do more practice.

Coming up, there is now more balance on both sides. Before it was as if I was pushing myself from the bottom up and often my weight was carried by one leg or the other. This imbalance seems to be improving as I really concentrate on lifting up from baihui - it's very noticeable when this lifting doesn't happen and a push from the bottom up does because I feel heavy in one leg and there's much more of an effort. Lifting from baihui is so much easier and feels much better.

Got advice from the Yuan Tze centre not to be too concerned at this point about keeping my feet parallel. It's OK to keep my feet pointing out slightly. It's something that should improve over time with more practice. The big advice is to relax. This information felt very strong in the next practice I did, yesterday, and the squats were a lot easier. I felt like my lower back was being pulled open from the two opposite sides. Today's practice was a lot harder - not physically but very unsettled in my thoughts.

I'm doing 30 squats a day for this gong (50 at weekends) and try and concentrate on keeping my feet more parallel. The solar plexus feels a lot clearer since the weekend (Amma). I feel taller and straighter in my posture. The qi flow is much better and no doubt the squats will help sustain this.

Not sure if it's related to the stretching chi exercise but I've noticed that my memory seems to be getting better. I'm seeing things clearly in my mind, especially numbers. Also, my golf game is better than ever since starting the stretching chi. I feel more fluid with less tension in my arms. Headaches still gone, but still having urge to yawn when I start the stretching chi.

I really, really, really, didn't want to do qigong tonight!!!! I did it anyway. It felt great.

Headaches gone now. Pain gone from stretching chi and now thinking of increasing time. Curiously, I find myself yawning when I start the stretching chi exercise. It lasts about 5 to 7 minutes. Also, strange tingling in my index finger on my right hand today and yesterday. Well, more of a vibration.

ever since starting the stretching qi I've been getting these bad headaches. Today wasn't as intense. I'm sure I'm just going through a opening process. Also, I am getting sick after doing 20 minutes or more of cranes neck/dragon's horns. I just get a bit queasy for a spell. Yet overall I'm feeling great and I look forward to more and deeper benefits form qi gong.

New gong: 100 wall squats, 15 mins+ Stretching chi/chan chi. First few days of stretching chi were exceptionally difficult but I had a break through last night. I kept telling myself that I love doing it and I love the way it makes me feel and it seems to make it much easier. I will try and build up to an hour again like before. This last gong was rather enjoyable and I'm looking forward to continuing the 100 squats per day.

New experience today. It's as if my chest has become very wide and the qi was flowing much more noticeably (to me) from middle dantian to the two shoulders and down the arms - it was as if the qi was the driving force behind the movement there rather than a conscious decision from me to make the movement. It was a wonderful feeling of circular, flowingness and being massaged along the back of the shoulders and lower neck. Who would have thought that squats could be stress busters after all the stress they've induced!! Wonder if it has anything to do with the Journey session I did this evening.

Getting easier in general with some tired, difficult days in between. Finding that my toes point out slightly in opposite directions as I descend but I'm not too worried about this at this stage because when my feet are like this, it's far easier to get down lower. The lower I go, the more I can feel the lower back opening. However, I will write to Yuan Tze about this.

Finding them difficult again!!! Perspiring a lot as I do the squats. Generally feeling very tired after work since I started the stretching qi gong. Wonder if it's a reaction. Even if it isn't, same rule applies - do more qigong!!!

Generally feeling very tired after work since I started the stretching qi gong. Wonder if it's a reaction. Even if it isn't, same rule applies - do more qigong!!! A lot of tension in the front of the head as I battle with the pain, which isn't really pain, more tiredness. I'll try and follow the advice of Yuan Tze next time and bring my consciousness to the pain, rather than trying to avoid it and fight it.

I love the feeling when the volume of the music starts to decrease at the end!!!

Working on swirling and turning in my dantien..... Not having a good vision or feel for it yet.

I did 75 squats at one go! It was fantastic, feel glorious now.

I've been noticing in the last few days that I had difficulty in squatting down and at the same time keeping my back straight. I realised today that I had been letting my knees turn in towards each other. Although this made it easier to squat down, it meant that my lower back curved forward and my tailbone stuck out rather than straight down. Today in practice, I concentrated on keeping my knees straight, not letting them turn in. This made it so much easier to keep my back straight and tailbone pointing down as I squatted down. I could also go much lower than in the last few days, which was surprising to me! It takes a lot more effort and my thighs shake and I feel puffed out after every squat, but it feels so much better to have my back straighter and the curved spine at the bottom feels more...curvy.

I do be tempted to increase my tally of squats - but then the technique suffers. I hope to stay focused on doing them properly, even if it means doing the minimum number (15 per day) and taking a longer time to do them.

Today is also happily day 160 of my semi-extended push mountain gong. I actually want to get to 500 on this one, it is just too good to give up.....

Never do chi gong in a pop-up again.

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ARGH! I was so tired today, that I just went to bed and forgot to do my practice even though I was thinking about it just before going to bed! I was so frustrated when I remembered in the morning!!! Oh well.... back at it again.

Broke off at about 150 days to change my gong.

that was a very interesting gong..... for my next gong i'm going to be more ambitious. 100 wall squats, 5 min. of hanging and the hour of lcupcd with lao shi's voice(medium speed). much chi to all.

Well, completed another gong. This one was very interesting as it has completely changed the tendons and strength of my abdomen. I feel my digestion has improved again. :)

I've been a little preoccupied with other topics these days, but I'm still "chugging" along with good results.

started classes at the Rochester Tai Chi Chuan Center. We have taken classes before but we stopped for a while and now it's time to get back into it... First class was great just like we never stopped !!!!

added a nutrition program to my practice. I wonder how soon until i'll really feel the affects. It's a pretty radical change for myself, but I can see where I want to go with it. Lately, I've been spending more time with seniors (related to a part time job) who are in nursing homes. I never in my life thought that I could handle being around "those" places. Although it's very sad, and I've known many people who have died, it's inspiring me to continue my gong. My ability to deal with some very uncomfortable situations is amazing me. My compassion for
others is growing. My friends don't get it. They don't understand qigong. But I think anyone who has practiced qigong for a while understands that depth I'm talking about..

Well, i am a third of the way through my wall squat gong and I'm feeling quite good about it. Still no headaches or back aches. My dispositiion is very relaxed and I'm feeling very grounded. I have noticed that there is something very profound happening. Yet, I can't exactly pinpoint what it is. I sometimes work with elderly people and have noticed that I am having a more calming affect on them (even the tough cases). Yet, again, it's nothing I could quantify. And neither does it seem in my conscious control. Or maybe I am just imagining the whole thing.
I must remember to enjoy what I'm doing.

We have been standing for ten minutes each morning,,, but since today is the fifteenth we are going to change and from today on we will stand for fifteen minutes !!!!!

Hello gongers,

Hope you don't mind me joining you on this site. I've been practising various styles of Qigong for many years and hopefully off to China later this year to train with Luke. Have been practising wall squats since end of November and so far, not even Christmas, New Year or 3 kids have got in my way. This is a great way to motivate and to prevent the ego mind from sabotaging (the unconscious mind will always take the pain-free way). However the projected loss of breaking a gong is a good counter in this internal conflict.

Best wishes to all
Pete

I'm now coming up to half-way. It certianly seems to be supporting my digestion and I feel I have more power walking, feeling generally more grounded, more connected, with movement being powered from the abdomen region. It will be interesting to see how the second half of the gong goes. especially since the abdomen tendons are fairly inflated and strong.
This particular routine must certainly beat those cheesy vibrating 'ab workout' devices you see advertised everywhere! :)

second day of gong. i don't feel as if i'm relaxing enough throughout my wall squats and i'm wondering to myself how different the results will be if i can get there. i'm still fighting both the technique and the patience needed. i love how i feel when i'm done, though. i'm still having that odd synchronicity with time, lately. it seems i'm always glancing at the clock and seeing 11:11, 1:11, 2:22 etc. i mean it's happening a lot! i'm sure it will pass. it's just uncomfortable to see it all the time and wonder if there's some meaning that maybe i'm missing out on. anyway, i think i'll take a clue from jerry's gong and do lots of haola hula for grounding. maybe that along with the wall squats would be good medicine. much chi to all!

Began second Gong. Couldn't work out how to show 2 gongs concurrently! This one for Body and Mind Method.

Thank God, my enthusiasm is finally picking up again!! Feels good to "be back"! :-)))

This is an interesting gong. Haola-hula, 'turn waist, move kwa' involves rotating the hips like a belly dancer. This has the effect of concentrating the mind focus and hence qi in the dantien area. As it also massages the internal organs and strengthens the abdomen tendons, it inflates the abdomen out in all directions, this is qi filling the tendons.
This has only been a few weeks now and this is happening to me more than before (i've done this gong before). It really helps t osupport the digestion and I can feel that I am more grounded, since it draws the consciousness into the belly.
Interesting. I am enjoying it more this time for some reason.

I'm here, still chugging along... but just barely... :-( Waiting for a renewal of spirit that will get me truly motivated once again......

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I CRASHED! My practice had been suffering for days, and then I finally gave up! It has been Ramadan... a month of fasting. Doing 13 hour air fasts a day for 29 days got the best of me. The fasting, work, kids, the house, etc. was just too much. I couldn't keep it all up. Hopefully, I'll restart a gong tomorrow.

Well, I start to be more disciplined, I think it is quite important for me.

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Now seems to not be a good time to commit to 45 minutes a day, with a 3 centers merge routine. It's Ramadan and I am doing a full fast, every day. It's just too demanding and exhausting for me. I need some flexibility and some days, I just need the time, so I will keep up my gong, but I will do which ever routine I feel up to for that day for this gong.

I didn't like the La Chi tape, so I switched over to LCUPCD, Three Centers Merge, with Fa Chi today. It's much better. I think I'll stick with it.

I will start a La Chi Gong (30 minutes) today... Let's see how it goes!

Oh, and by the way, I'm doing 75 wall squats on most days now. It's a bit of a struggle, but it's so much easier if I count backward--starting at 75, rather than starting at one and counting forward.

Yay! Another gong completed!!.... Hmm....what should I do next???......

It felt so good again today that I spontaneously decided to do over 1 hours of practice!! :-))))

Did 1 1/2 hours today!

Tonight while practicing I again felt a sharp pain shoot through my right ear and then my entire body shuddered. After practicing a few minutes more, I "saw" my grandfather (whom I miss greatly--haven't seen in over 4 years) and then began weeping. After weeping for a few minutes and embracing him in my thoughts as I was practicing I felt better. I believe that this was an emotional breakthrough--a healing of suppressed grief.

Also interesting, just before this breakthrough, I became averse to practicing for a few days. I practiced, but I had to force myself to do it. It's as if I was subconsciously resisting. So, would it follow that if we don't feel like practicing, that this is a sign that we must practice even harder to reach the next plateau of healing?
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BTW, still doing 50 wall squats--most nights, they're easier, but I still find it hard at times to complete the full set.

Aw shucks! I went out of town and forgot to bring my 101 Miracles. So that gong is KAPUT! :-( But still going strong with the Push/Pull....

Still able to do 50 wall squats---have done them everyday since the first time---maybe I should see if I can make it a gong!

---Also, the push/pull gong seems to be doing wonders for me. It's really stirring up a lot of (minor)healing reactions. It's quite exciting!!

MAWHLQIB!

I have been doing wall squats all along. At the beginning, I was doing 2 sets of 25 during the course of the days. But now for the last two days, I've been able to do 50 at one go!!

MAWHLQIB!

I am transferring to a new gong page so I can easily see the number! I've decided to do a Push + Pull and 101 Miracles Gong next.

That's a bit sad! Breaking a gong on my own forum! I'll try again!

Level 1, GONG #2 + 25 WALL SQUATS GONG --BOTH completed!!

So, now three gongs completed: 3 centers merge Gong;
LCUPCD Gong; and 25 Wall squats Gong.

Have a cold, but still managed to do it. Bizarrely, the cold helped me to relax my mind, since it wasn't able to think!

My motivation, which has been lacking for the past few weeks, is improving again. I thoroughly enjoyed my practice today and the wall squats were relatively easy--thank God!!

Feeling GREAT! Thank God!

Physically better, but still emotionally unbalanced, but definitely feeling better otherwise....

I was feverish all last night, with chills. But better throughout the day...

Still feeling poorly---healing crisis???

Began feeling crummy---

This is Day 1: Level 1, Gong #2; ALSO BEGINNING 25 WALL SQUATS GONG

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