Quiet Sitting 24 Hour Qigong Method To Maintain A Calm Mind

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Quiet Sitting 24 Hour Qigong Method To Maintain A Calm Mind

by Janice Tucker

Type

talks

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

This is a very sophisticated practice and part of the “24 hours Qigong method”. If you were to ask an experienced practitioner how often they practice Qigong they would say, “24 hours per day.” You may find this surprising and imagine the practitioner practising formal Qigong movements and breathing all day and all night! What this actually means is that they are maintaining a constant “Qigong state” (of mind). Often this is as simple as breathing intentionally into the lower abdomen. This is fundamentally important to your practice. The more you can do this during the day the more you will be able to remain in the Qigong state. With Qigong, the important thing is not movement but mental and emotional relaxation. The mind is used to “kick start” the Qi to get it moving. Sooner or later, these events will "link the Qi together", allowing you to be in the Qigong state 24 hours per day!

Qi Cultivation Qigong Meditation Energy Mental Relaxation Posture Energy Regulation Posture Alignment

Meet your Teacher

Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Meet your Teacher

Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Transcript

Welcome back everybody. This exercise today is extremely simple but very powerful and it's part of a simple routine that we're going to put together in the next video. It's very easy to do at home, You can actually do this anywhere and it helps you to stay in a regulated state of energy the whole time. It's just called quiet sitting. So quiet sitting is a very sophisticated part of what's called the 24 hours Qigong method. And the way in which you do this is you connect to events during the day and you regulate your qi to carry you throughout the day. You can do this anywhere and whenever it comes to mind you can just practice it. If you can manage to do this between 3 and 5 times a day This will help you to stay in the Qigong state. And with Qigong, Remember that the important thing is not only the movement, But the mental and emotional relaxation that you feel at the same time. So sometimes we need to give the tea a little bit of a kick to get it moving and the kick can often come from the mind. So you're using your mind just to sit and do this quiet sitting. To push this button a few times a day. And sooner or later, If you do this, The amount of times that you link it together, Will actually coordinate together and keep you in that state, In that Qigong state for the whole day. So the position for this is just as I said sitting. And you just make sure that you're in a position that doesn't impede the flow of chi. So in a similar way to the standing position, You have straight posture, The back is nice and straight, The arms are relaxed and there's just a little bit of a gap underneath the armpits. For this exercise, You can have your eyes either closed or open. And you stay in this quiet state for just a minute or two. You can integrate this exercise into your daily activities whenever you get the opportunity. So again, It's not something you can overdo, But just by bringing your mind into thinking about what you're doing. Will help to keep you in the Qigong state and help to keep you regulated during the whole day.