presence/active awareness
With the intention of someday fully, true healing... and shortly afterwards publishing a book on how... I want to begin documenting the various ways qigong has been helping me. Qigong is by far the most effective technique I have ever encountered for gaining body awareness, identifying injuries/tensions/stagnations and healing them by stimulating healthy movement and healthy energy flows.
Perhaps the most important, fundamental concept/technique in qigong is that of body presence. Sometimes I call it Active Awareness. To be aware with, not of your body. I often (verbally, if I'm having trouble focusing) invite each and every cell of my body to come alive with awareness and contribute to my composite consciousness.
For example, my shoulder hurts... somewhere in my body there is a regional crisis, serious enough to send pain signals... to get my attention. Pain awareness is important, but just the beginning. Active awareness is based on the belief that my body has all the information it needs for full, complete, robust health. From the qigong perspective... or perhaps more precisely, from a self-healing perspective... diagnosis is a matter of listening.
So now I'm past pain... I'm standing, practicing... amplifying the volume of my invitation to every cell in my shoulder to share their story. Very important, IMO, to never have an agenda beyond energy flow and health. Very often pain in my wrist stems from tension and blockages closer to my neck.
The way I discover this is by being present with the friction between healthy tissue and stagnant tissue. This friction announces itself as pain in extreme circumstances, but as soon as I tune in and expand my awareness to include subtler levels of sensation, the pain fades. Actually, not so much fades... from the generalization of pain emerge details of sensation that are much more informative than simple pain.
Let discomfort be the guide... and awareness be the catalyst for cure. Inviting, maintaining and expanding the holistic, simultaneous, distributed awareness of my body has become my daily practice...
Perhaps the most important, fundamental concept/technique in qigong is that of body presence. Sometimes I call it Active Awareness. To be aware with, not of your body. I often (verbally, if I'm having trouble focusing) invite each and every cell of my body to come alive with awareness and contribute to my composite consciousness.
For example, my shoulder hurts... somewhere in my body there is a regional crisis, serious enough to send pain signals... to get my attention. Pain awareness is important, but just the beginning. Active awareness is based on the belief that my body has all the information it needs for full, complete, robust health. From the qigong perspective... or perhaps more precisely, from a self-healing perspective... diagnosis is a matter of listening.
So now I'm past pain... I'm standing, practicing... amplifying the volume of my invitation to every cell in my shoulder to share their story. Very important, IMO, to never have an agenda beyond energy flow and health. Very often pain in my wrist stems from tension and blockages closer to my neck.
The way I discover this is by being present with the friction between healthy tissue and stagnant tissue. This friction announces itself as pain in extreme circumstances, but as soon as I tune in and expand my awareness to include subtler levels of sensation, the pain fades. Actually, not so much fades... from the generalization of pain emerge details of sensation that are much more informative than simple pain.
Let discomfort be the guide... and awareness be the catalyst for cure. Inviting, maintaining and expanding the holistic, simultaneous, distributed awareness of my body has become my daily practice...
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