DirectorHodl on Nostr: If you do something like qi gong or taiji or even the subtler aspects of yoga but ...

If you do something like qi gong or taiji or even the subtler aspects of yoga but have not gone through a specific process of opening the body, soaking the mind into the tissues and fascia, followed by consilidating the yin field around your lower abdomen to gather Qi, which is a multi-year process, you are pretty much just waving your arms around and it is more it less totally pointless aside from it being a light form of physical exercise. You don’t automatically have these things, it’s like someone going to the gym and trying to bench 300 pounds. There is a long process of conditioning and preporation to find the Qi and thicken it. Then when the channels in the hands open, the arm movements drag the Qi through the body, tonifying the organ systems