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Tien Shan Chi kung Radar Hands
One of the things we focus on in our Chi Kung is feeling energy. When you focus
on this feeling as you do the various exercises you increase your sensitivity to
energy little by little. At first most people begin to feel energy in their hands.
Later it spreads to more and more of the body.
As we learn to feel energy in our hands the exercises we do increase the power with which it
radiates outwards from the hands (makes the aura bigger). We do some exercises which teach us to
feel the energy from our hands after it reflects off a wall and then back to the hands.
Your ability to project energy with your hands grows in power as does your sensitivity so
eventually you can feel your energy reflecting off a wall from several feet away, you will become
able to feel the energy of some large trees from many feet away. When you learn this, of course,
you can also feel the energy that other people give off. Energy healing techniques allows you to
scan another person's body with your hand six inches away and feel where there is inflamation,
injury, sickness, broken bones, and more. This sensitivity can become very acute. My teacher, for
example, can feel the interior of a person's bones, and know whether their bone marrow is young and
juicy or dry.
Another example of this ability at it's higher levels is this: My Chi Kung
teacher has so much energy and my Yang Tai Chi teacher, Andy Dale, is so sensitive to energy
that if my Tai Chi teacher is standing around inside a big building he can feel
the energy when my my Chi Kung teachers is standing around outside, and he can
follow this feeling to locate him.
Tien Shan Chi Kung has a lot of training for increasing the energy sensitivity of your hands and
the power with which you can project Chi from them. There are experiments we do often to see how
many feet away another can feel the energy from your palm. We practice energizing spots on the
floor and then scanning for the spots with the hand held palm down at waist height. Later there is
practice to see how much thickness of wood a person can project their Chi through.
Energy sensitivity spreads over the body in a fairly predictable pattern, at least in
Tien Shan Chi Kung. It starts with the hands, first the palms and then the backs of the
hands, then the forearms, then usually the forehead. After that the face, then neck, first
the front and then the back, and then shoulders are able to sense external energy. As you can
see, these sensitivities evolve first in areas that have the highest priority for self defense.
I don't know whether this is due to the way Tien Shan Chi Kung is taught or is simply due to
human instinct.
As we learn this sensitivity to energy we also learn to let the energy move us, which teaches
us to yield to energy.
An example: One day I was walking across my back yard and I walked under a low branch
on my cedar tree. This branch is not low enough to hit my head on but it's close. Anyway, I
forgot about the branch but as I neared it I felt it's proximity due to feeling it's energy
on my forehead and I ducked instinctively, without thinking.
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