This guy's qi comes out one palm and the back of his other hand!?!?!?!?

[froggy]

Hello there,

I have a student who has done taiji for a while. There is an exercise which we do where we stand normally and put our hands out facing each other.

Then we move the hands close together and far apart. When moving close, we use the qi to repell the palms, and when moving apart we use the qi to attack the palms.

A very good exercise for guaging qi.

However, my student, who has never felt his qi, other than heat (he came to me with previous taiji training) has a good qi flow coming from his left hand BUT on his right hand, there is double the intensity, but coming out of the back of his palm, i.e. the wrong direction.

So he can do the exercise and he can't feel his qi. Ironically, he has lots of qi (I can feel it when I check with my palms).

Does anyone have any suggestions on how he can reverse the direction of the qi flow in his right hand?

Thanks

[scholar]

Ummm, I have been studying T'ai Chi Ch'uan for a long time now, including lots of work on ch'i kung, and have never done anything like you describe. Do you guys have any senior level teachers that you can ask about this?

For gauging ch'i we punch each other and throw each other into the ground, a lot, so perhaps it is somehow related...

Be that as it may, for someone to move their energy where they want is a simple choice. Have the guy decide where he wants the heat to go, and if he has any conception of self-control it will go there. If there isn't enough circulation, train some more. If there is a blockage, work it out. If you do these things and there are still problems, maybe he should take a break for a while until you can get someone who knows more about this stuff in there to check him out.

[Former castleva]

Sleight of hand.

[backbreaker]

http://www.atlantis.to/meditations/starexercise.htm

http://www.falundafa.org/eng/media.htm#EXERCISE_VIDEO

http://www.atlantis.to/meditations/meditation-techniques.htm