Nei Gong Notes, July 23, 2024

This week’s lesson was Channel Opening 2. The first time I did it, I didn’t sleep at all well that night; might have been a coincidence (it was warmer than normal that evening), but I also noticed Damo being a little more explicit about closing down than normal and one of the positions felt like a Liver thing and the other was super high up, so maybe it wasn’t a coincidence? At any rate, I’ve been closing down for quite a bit longer since then, and it hasn’t recurred.

On Wednesday I had my best day of practice for a while; not shockingly good by standards of the year, but I’ve been tired for the last most of a month and it’s been warm enough that I haven’t wanted to go to the park and do a lot of Tai Chi. But on Wednesday I felt good and the weather was fine, so I had a solid Nei Gong session in the morning, I did Ping Heng Gong in the afternoon for the first time in a while, and I practiced Tai Chi for a couple of hours in the park.

My Chen Tai Chi teacher went over my Paochui on Saturday. Aside from telling me to expand more in a few moves, the main advice he gave was around relaxing while doing Fa Jin; I’ll have to play around with that to see if I can put it into practice.

Good Nei Gong on Sunday – the full moon practice, a combined Channel Opening 1 and 2 session that I think went well, and a pretty good Calm Arising.