Shibashi Qigong Newsletter - Issue V.13 Fall 2009
 

North American Workshops:

1. Comprehensive Tai Chi Qigong Instructor Training Course
   (Toronto, Canada on October 17,18 2009)
2. Comprehensive Tai Chi Qigong Workshop
   (Organized by The Villages Lifelong Learning College, Florida on November 14,15 2009 - Please email workshop@taichi18.com for further details)
3. Comprehensive Tai Chi Qigong Workshop II
   (Saddleback College, California on November 21, 22 2009)
    

Achieving the most harmonious condition described by I Ching with Internal Alchemy Meditation

According to I Ching or Yi Jing, one of the best Hexagrams is number 63, where Kan (water) is on top of Li (fire), it is also called jì jì in Chinese.  See diagram below.  It describes a harmonious condition.  When it is applied to our body, this condition is described as the heart (fire) interacting with the kidneys (water) according to traditional Chinese medical theory.

Fire energy has a natural tendency of travelling upward, while water energy naturally flows downward.   However, our heart is located on top of our kidneys, so these two energies will have a difficult time mixing with each other, thus cannot achieve the harmonious condition described by Hexagram 63 where Kan is on top of Li.  Water energy is generally cold and fire energy is hot.  That is why people who are not healthy generally have cold feet (water energy going down) and / or lose their temper easily (fire energy goes up to our head).  On the contrary, having a cool head and warm feet is what we want to achieve.

Chinese medicine and qigong always talk about maintaining the yin/yang balance.  In a more macro scale, jì jì is the yin/yang balance that we want to achieve.  That is because many of our sicknesses are caused by the kidney energy not being able to communicate with the heart energy.  They go their own separate ways.  However, once you achieve jì jì, the symptoms of many chronic and degenerative diseases will gradually disappear.

The first step in the internal alchemy practice is to develop our lower Dan Tian so that we can build up enough Jing (sexual energy, kidney energy or water energy). The second step is to turn this water energy into steam (qi) and bring it upward to meet with the fire (heart energy), thus achieving the perfect condition of Hexagram 63.  This process develops our middle Dan Tian, and at the same time builds up the spiritual energy (Shen) which we will discuss in more details during the workshop.

Beside the internal alchemy meditation, there is another technique that can connect your heart energy with your kidney energy which I will share with you in the next newsletter. 

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