How to start learning Qigong by yourself?

Qigong is the first stage of human cultivation, and practicing Qigong is not as simple as everyone imagines. It requires not only constant faith, but also the ability to do it. Qigong has been very popular in recent years. If you can practice Qigong successfully, it can not only strengthen your body, but also prevent the occurrence of many diseases. It has many benefits to the human body. However, you cannot give up learning Qigong halfway, you must persevere.

Introduction to Self-Study Qigong

1. First of all, we should pay attention to the action posture:

A naturally relaxed posture is a prerequisite for successful Qigong breathing and inducing mental relaxation. Different postures have different physiological characteristics, and the posture itself also plays a certain therapeutic role. Commonly used postures include sitting flat, free cross-legged, single cross-legged, supine, side-lying, standing, walking, etc.

2. Calm down:

Entering into tranquility (adjusting the mind) Entering into tranquility refers to a stable state of quietness, without distracting thoughts, concentrating the mind on one point, that is, keeping the mind in the Dantian or paying attention to the breathing. The sense of external stimuli is weakened, and one enters a state of neither awake nor awake, neither aware nor conscious, that is, the cerebral cortex enters a state of protective inhibition. There are five commonly used methods to enter a state of tranquility, namely, focusing the mind, following the breath, counting the breath, silent recitation, and listening to the breath.

3. Pay attention to breathing:

1. Breathing (breathing control) Breathing is an important part of Qigong therapy. Through exercise, you can change chest breathing to abdominal breathing, shallow breathing to deep breathing, and finally develop spontaneous Dantian breathing. There are 8 commonly used breathing methods, namely natural breathing, forward breathing, reverse breathing, stop-and-close breathing, nasal inhalation and mouth exhalation, Qi through the Ren and Du meridians breathing method, latent breathing, and true breathing method.

2. When practicing breathing, you should follow the basic principles of gentleness and naturalness and gradually make it deep, long, fine, even, and slow. Do not rush for quick results.

4. Action:

Sitting cross-legged is the most basic skill in practicing meditation. The quality of cross-legged sitting directly affects the depth of meditation. This is a very important exercise for a beginner. Many beginners have no idea how to do this, which brings great difficulties to practicing meditation. In order to practice meditation better.

Additional information:

1. Qigong originated in China. Qigong has a long history in China. In ancient times, the contents related to Qigong were usually called breathing, moving Qi, distributing Qi, breathing, guiding, alchemy, practicing Taoism, sitting in meditation and so on. The classical Chinese Qigong theory is based on the health-preserving and fitness theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has been passed down since ancient times. A part of the original Qigong is called "dance", as stated in "Lüshi Chunqiu": "The muscles and bones are contracted and unable to function, so dance is used to promote them."

2. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, part of Qigong was summarized as "Daoyin Anqiao". The Chinese medicine monograph "Huangdi Neijing" records such cultivation methods as "lifting up the heaven and the earth, grasping yin and yang, breathing in the essence, keeping the spirit independent, and making the muscles as one", "accumulating essence and focusing the mind", and "keeping the spirit within the body". The "Tao Te Ching" mentions the breathing exercise of "either hissing or blowing".

3. "Zhuangzi" also has a record that "blowing out and breathing in, exhaling the old and inhaling the new, stretching like a bear and a bird, all for longevity. This is what those who practice qigong, those who cultivate their physical fitness, and those who lived a long life like Peng Zu like to do." Among the cultural relics unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan are the silk book "Quegu Shiqi Pian" and the color silk painting "Daoyin Tu". "Quegu Shiqi Pian" is a book mainly introducing the breathing method. The Daoyintu can be regarded as the earliest qigong atlas, which contains 44 images and depicts how ancient people used qigong to prevent and treat diseases.