12-09-2014, 02:39 PM
Aha Boy, well I am quite sensitive to "ki" or energy which I tend to see and feel as a sort of moving and shifting electrical pressure within my body. I can pretty clearly distinguish where energy is concentrated in my body, usually of course for the purpose of reaching an equilibrium of sorts. Places with excess or too little energy destabilize the structure which can be seen as similar to the way electricity will cause an object to stand "upright" I can feel where some parts of my body are more stable in regards to gravity.
Like right now I have some excess energy in my throat center and then using intent plus effortlessness (what they consider as relaxation in qi gong) I can even out the energy by a sort of mental formula. So, in this case to release the energy upwards I will say "open the throat and let the ki flow to the head (shen), and flow down to the base (jing)" and I can instantly feel pressure begin to release in my throat and it feels like water is flowing on the inside of my body downwards, and upwards it's like water has turned in to steam or vapour and is rising. (Qi is often compared to steam in qi gong.)
It's all pretty dynamic and a unified system so I will feel a lot of these sensations at once. My emotional state tends to shift as my consciousness changes based on the energetic balance in my body. My work with emotions is more focused on releasing and integrating emotional charges rather than dwelling on whatever particular emotion it is as I see emotions as the result of the "configuration" of the field.
After I have done some qi gong I usually feel rather light and kind of "see through" as well as feeling a pulsing field of energy around my whole body and flowing around it, which then usually also extends to the environment. My hearing opens up, my breathing opens, my sight improves and all sorts of things as I fill myself with energy and circulate it around and through all the channels and nerves of the body. Sometimes I'll also do exercises creating circulations on the outside of my body or between my hands and it's pretty easy to create a circulation and feel it as it flows around in the space between my hands or along my body. I consider myself very fortunate that I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time doing internal meditation just after high school which trained my energy sensitivity quite a bit.
I would add that I don't use any exact traditional form of qi gong and I frequently make use of my Reiki (I am developing a sort of Reiki Qi Gong actually) during it, and sometimes magical invocations or mantras.
Like right now I have some excess energy in my throat center and then using intent plus effortlessness (what they consider as relaxation in qi gong) I can even out the energy by a sort of mental formula. So, in this case to release the energy upwards I will say "open the throat and let the ki flow to the head (shen), and flow down to the base (jing)" and I can instantly feel pressure begin to release in my throat and it feels like water is flowing on the inside of my body downwards, and upwards it's like water has turned in to steam or vapour and is rising. (Qi is often compared to steam in qi gong.)
It's all pretty dynamic and a unified system so I will feel a lot of these sensations at once. My emotional state tends to shift as my consciousness changes based on the energetic balance in my body. My work with emotions is more focused on releasing and integrating emotional charges rather than dwelling on whatever particular emotion it is as I see emotions as the result of the "configuration" of the field.
After I have done some qi gong I usually feel rather light and kind of "see through" as well as feeling a pulsing field of energy around my whole body and flowing around it, which then usually also extends to the environment. My hearing opens up, my breathing opens, my sight improves and all sorts of things as I fill myself with energy and circulate it around and through all the channels and nerves of the body. Sometimes I'll also do exercises creating circulations on the outside of my body or between my hands and it's pretty easy to create a circulation and feel it as it flows around in the space between my hands or along my body. I consider myself very fortunate that I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time doing internal meditation just after high school which trained my energy sensitivity quite a bit.
I would add that I don't use any exact traditional form of qi gong and I frequently make use of my Reiki (I am developing a sort of Reiki Qi Gong actually) during it, and sometimes magical invocations or mantras.