Looking for a good book on Chinese Energetics

[Ruth]

Hi everyone~

I'm new here and I have been looking through all the threads, there are allot of them!

But does anyone know of any books on Chinese Energetics?
I'm totally fascinated by this!

Thanks!

[noises]

The Energetics of Food: Oriental Wisdom in the Western Kitchen by Daverick Leggett if you're just talking about practical application of traditional therapies and modalities in every day nutrition. There is a book to buy, but the core information is given freely online, you just need to study and apply it.

If you're talking about the things like the Yuen Method and other get healthy quick schemes, I have my doubts it'd be easy to get that information without having to cross people's palms with silver. And there's a lot of people who know there's an interest who'd seek to exploit people's interest without actually satisfying it, if you know what I mean.

Kam Yuen is a student of qi gong. If you want to begin to understand the energies he's working with, study qi gong for a few years, instead of books written by other people about what he does, as they understand it. A lot of the core canonical knowledge of qi going gets hijacked by get rich quick shiesters who're just out to exploit the buzz in the western hemisphere about it. I don't have a problem with people selling a product or a concept or a course, as long as they are truly masterful in the practice first. Sadly with a lot of chinese stuff, that's just not the case, and the people claiming the get healthy quick, cure cancer with your mind style of chi energy practices have no idea what they're talking about, other than telling you what you want to hear, which is unfortunate because even just understanding how to breath properly can change your health. It's not that the stuff doesn't work, it's more what's getting sold isn't the real stuff. If you're really interested, most of what you will need to learn won't actually come out of a book, but in training, study and practice.

I really wouldn't want to put anyone off the study of qi gong and other chinese practices of nutrition and mind/body/spirit wellness. I would just caution anyone with an interest that it's an intense and deep study, and to be suspicious of people claiming to have all the important answers for you in a book or dvd. There's simply too much subject matter for such claims to be legitimate. I think a good place to start is to learn how to get your belly involved in your breathing, habitually, and to just go on from there with more and more study.

[noises]

YouTube - Master Duan Zhi-Liang Wuji Qigong

Here's a segment from a documentary on Sifu Duan, one of the many masters alive today. The video explains qi gong is passed down master to student, and shows master duan actually training with young people, moving with them, explaining the subtleties. The related links might lead you to some videos on actual qi gong forms you can practice, but my understanding is there's subtleties at play in the forms that can only really be described and brought into focus properly by initial training with a practiced master and years of subsequent daily practice.

The good news is, firstly most of the true masters are generous, benevolent souls like Sifu Duan, and earn a modest living but tend to share what they know for the greater good. You can go and train with them in parks in China, or perhaps, train with someone closer to home who's traveled to China to train with the masters themselves and come back to share what they know as freely as they learned it. Secondly, it's nothing magical, clap your hands together into the position for prayer (palm to palm, fingertip to fingertip,) loudly five or six times, then hold your palms about an inch apart with your fingers cupped like you're holding a small ball of empty space between your hands. That tingle you can feel in your hands is chi, the raw stuff of true chinese energetics, it's in everyone and everything.

[Ruth]

Thanks, I saw that book. Yes interesting in Dr. Yuen methods.

I'm a reiki master but never used enegry like this. I don't have the privledge to go to China nor do I know of anyone around me that uses this. I am searching and sending out emails.

I appreaciate the replies!

thanks

[noises]

Maybe visit some chinese traditional doctors and ask if they know any people practicing qi gong in your area. About 80 people do it at sunrise three times in a week in a park near where I live in Australia, so I have to say where ever you live there's a good chance you'll find somebody who could introduce you to qi gong, chi kung or tai chi.

Something I love about the idea of this form being passed from master to student is that it teaches us to respect, to value and to interact with our elders. I think it's fantastic that you could walk into a Bejing park at sunrise one day and meet someone who began training in qi gong 83 years ago, inside the forbidden city, and have the honor of being one of those who passes on what they passed to you one day, and thus become part of a lineage of master-student relationships that goes back 2,000 years. That sort of legacy blows my mind.