Question & Answer - Practice

• What are the characteristics of chikung?
• What are the major elements of chikung practice?
• What are the differences between taichichuan and chikung?
• Why is using visualizations dangerous?
• Isn't it good to send chi to other people?
• Is it good to practice chikung outside in a park or up on a mountain?
• At what age can we begin to practice chikung?
• How can we improve our concentration in the practice of chikung?
• How should our practice change during the different seasons of the year?
• If I can't practice for several days in a row, what will happen?
• I have heard that subliminal recordings are very helpful in improving one's ability to concentrate during meditation. Will listening to subliminal recordings help improve my chikung practice?
• Sitting in a zen-style of meditation or doing hatha yoga suits my personal style more than doing chikung exercises. What does chikung have to offer me that neither zen meditation nor hatha yoga does?
• Men and women are physically different. What differences are there in chikung practices for men and women?
• Should men breathe differently than women in practicing chikung?
• There seem to be so many different hand positions used in meditation. What is the difference between them?
• How much sleep do we need when we practice chikung?
• How do we avoid being so emotionally distracted by external factors which cause a lot of desires in us?
• Many books and articles on chikung techniques go into great detail about how we should move our chi to specific points on our body as well as tell us to visualize our breath moving around the outside of our body. In your teaching of chikung you do not tell us these specific details. What are the advantages of your method?
• In your teaching of chikung you do not tell us these specific details. What are the advantages of your method? Many special intensive workshops promise to teach the secrets of chikung in a comparatively short time. What do you think of these?
• Some teachers say that it is imperative while meditating to stay awake during the meditation. In the meditation portion of your chikung classes people sometimes fall asleep. Which is the more helpful practice in meditation: to stay awake or to fall asleep?
• The New Age movement appeals to many people. Can we use New Age ideas to speed up our Chikung practice and achieve a higher level more quickly?
• Why can't some people sleep after practice? Some people can't concentrate in the morning. What can they do?
• What do we need to do in our practice?
• In the journey to enlightenment, we must let go of our ego and self-respect, and throw away our knowledge and experience. On the way, however, it is possible that after we let go, we lack enough energy to be reborn before we find our real face and real self.  This may result in our lacking self-confidence and being unbalanced.  When faced with such instability and uncertainty, how can we create more power for ourself and what should we do to improve this situation?
• Does our practice change the longer we practice?? How can we convince people who are doing chikung practices which are different from ours that they are doing the wrong practice? Shouldn't all students practicing chikung be practicing in the same way?
• Why is it important to have a positive or optimistic attitude when practicing chikung?
• Please discuss the state we enter in meditation and our original face/mind. Are they the same thing?
• Taiwan's Olympic Gold medalists have returned to Taiwan. Both of them have already attained the ultimate goal in their sport, and they have earned masters degrees, too. So, what's next for them?

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