is this something, or nothing?
So I was doing my 15 min of standing qigong today but the experience was unlike every prior experience.
Normally I get pretty warm and start sweating within 5-10 minutes of beginning, and sometimes I get a tingling sensation in my hands, but I always assumed it was because of how I was holding my arms and I was probably pinching a nerve somewhere because it feels an awful lot like when your hand starts to fall asleep
But today was like the opposite... I was feeling cold... and the tingling started in my hands as per usual, but then it got like CRAZY intense... and then the "p.rickly", hand-falling-asleep feeling was replaced by like... the feeling of waves flowing over my hands. Have you ever stuck your hand vertically in the ocean as the water smashes against your palm? It was kind of like that. It was very, very intense and very noticeable. I was almost starting to freak out. Read on.
Ok so I've found that I can time my 15 minutes by doing 150 breaths. The first 100 breaths are with my hands at chest height, and the last 50 are at dan tien height (this is the recommended locations and time proportions as per Erle Montaigue's "Qigong for All Reasons" article).
So normally I get the p.rickly feeling in my hand around breath 60-70 and it's more intense by 100, and then when I lower my hands it slowly goes away during the last 50 breaths.
But this time, the pin p.ricks started around 60, as per usual, and then the wave feeling came on around breath 70, and just kept getting more and more intense. I stuck it out until breath 100 and then lowered my hands and the sensation slowly became less intense but even when I finished my session I could still feel it.
The other thing that was weird was my hands were FREEZING when I was done. It's a little colder than usual today in my place, but normally I'm always hot anyway, and qigong just makes me even more hot.
So did I just tap into the power of qi? Or did I almost just kill myself? Or was my body just cold and my hands had their circulation cut off?
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