OK, this is a weird one, but I thought it would be interesting to get your reactions to it.
I was practising qigong last night. I was doing a version of standing post meditation and circulating my qi through the microcosmic orbit… if you don’t get this, it’s not that important. Yoga folks would call it raising the kundalini if that helps. Basically, I was circulating my qi up the back and down the front!
Anyway, completely involuntarily and without warning (as I was kinda immersed in it) I farted. Stop giggling at the back! As soon as I farted, my qi orbit was instantly disrupted and I was kinda “jacked out” of my meditation straight away. I even staggered slightly (although probably not enough to have been noticed by an observer had there been one.) It wasn’t even a particularly big fart!
So what think you all of that? Any similar experiences?
(If you can’t crack the forum censor, by the way, you won’t be able to type fart, so use any euphemism you like, or maybe using f@rt or something!)
well when i train hard qigong, we ‘swallow’ a lot of air very quickly… well, i was training outside in the park one morning aorund 6am and then i gave the loudest burp i have ever heard it was basically coz i was doing it slightly wrong, and not used to the training.
it scared the dogs that were being walked more than their owners
Originally posted by dezhen2001
[B]well when i train hard qigong, we ‘swallow’ a lot of air very quickly… well, i was training outside in the park one morning aorund 6am and then i gave the loudest burp i have ever heard it was basically coz i was doing it slightly wrong, and not used to the training.
it scared the dogs that were being walked more than their owners
dawood [/B]
A friend of mine once scared a goat off of a table with a huge burp. Does that count as a qi blast?
I have not heavily trained internally for 3 or 4 years now but
would both burp and fa rt. The burping stopped after a couple
of months but the ****ing would get worse.
If you were moving your chi up and down the front midline then
that is what caused the gas. If I remember correctly (and I may
not ) in TCM the accupoints on the Ren(?) could be used to
correct digestive issues. So, I would gas that you just got your
colon all excited and it just had to tell you.
bet you could post on the interal forum and get a better answer.
we’re too preoccupied with much more important stuff on this
side of the hard drive.
never had that happen from qigongs.
i’ve gotten the burps from doing iron body and muscle tendon exchange, though.
there’s an anecdote that, while i don’t remember where it comes from, goes something like this:
a couple british women in china were watching a tai chi class in a park one evening and approached the teacher. not knowing what they were doing they asked, and they asked what was the point of doing it.
the teacher replied, “faht. burp. faht more.”
basically, abdominal breathing helps to massage all the organs located there. thus, if you have gas, it will help peristalsis along and make you faht, burp, then faht more.
i found especially hard qigong really helps to make everythng ‘clear’. so if i have a cold, it brings it out and its gone. if i have a gimpy stomach, it makes me **** then its gone lol
the only thing i have noticed, especially when doing meditation is that the concentration can easily be lost. so usually i do the finishing (shou) gong and bring my thoughts to my dantian again.
try using the “mula bonda” slight anal lifting while doing chi kung, it will help. fa_rts during chi kung or prana yamma are usually from bring a breath down to your root and not returning it back up. With good prana yamma a person can learn to breath out of any hole in the body. when I was a few years younger, and a little wilder I would blow smoke out of my ears, and a couple times out my but, neat trick but not very healthy.
other thing, when I was staying in the ashram someone always made the comment about “please no fa_rting” before morning meditation and pujah. Those wacky vegitarians and their high fiber diets, talk about blow hards,woof!
it was basically coz i was doing it slightly wrong, and not used to the training.
