Nei Gong Notes, May 20, 2025

This week’s lesson was the Taiji one on Stringing the Arms. As you’ll see below, I’ve done very little Tai Chi this week, so I haven’t actually practiced this one, but I honestly suspect I’m probably already in okay shape with this quality? Could be wrong, though, certainly I should give it a try.

Anyways, an unusual week, mostly because my kid is in town so I’ve been doing extra activities on a bunch of days, but also I was on the edge of getting sick on Wednesday and Thursday so I took it easy those days. Anyways:

Wednesday: Feeling on the edge of getting sick, so I didn’t do anything.

Thursday: Spent the day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium (and I still wasn’t feeling 100%). I did the Hunyuan 48 review in the evening, at least.

Friday: 45m Wu Ji; was going to take it easy and only do 30m but I liked the internal stretch. And 30m Anchoring the Breath.

Saturday: The belt channel exercise and a short advanced Dantian Gong session..

Sunday: 20m Ji Ben 5, a bit of Wu Ji, 45m okayish Calm Abiding.

Monday: 1h Wu Ji, 30m Anchoring the Breath.

Tuesday: 1h Calm Abiding, 20m Wu Ji, rewatched the Pushing the Tides video, 10m Wood Wu Xing (plus some Wu Ji before / after).

The other thing I’ve noticed is that I’m getting more distracted than normal during the longer sessions, and also that it’s been a while since I’ve felt the mental Song really kick in during Calm Abiding. I was hoping it would kick in today because I got a decent nap before then, but it didn’t – the session wasn’t bad but it wasn’t unusually good, either. Maybe those are both related (and also maybe they’re related to the fact that it’s taken a little while longer to fall asleep than normal recently); at any rate, that’s why I threw in the Wood Wu Xing today, because it might fix some of that?