easy taiji?
hello,
i was talking to my girlfriend, she used to study taiji somewhere other to where i have done, and listening to what she tells me it sounds bogus - but who am i to say? its raisning cool questions though...
she tells me that they used to do a standing meditation, all standing in a circle, shut their eyes, and their hands would all float upwards as if by magic, then they would hold this position a while and then all swallow the big balls of qi they had built up into their dantiens.
Now maybe, i just practice totally wrong but this sounds too easy! she made it sound as if everyone could do it no problem and that the energy in the circle was huge.
i wonder if its all in the mind and the people doing this secretly open their eyes a little and raise their arms because they think they are supposed to... i was always taught that you had to do alot of practice before qi would move your limbs.
so maybe its all in the mind - but then doenst the mind direct the qi? and qi is always there, so even if it is bogus there would still be qi going on...??
reminds me of seeing derren brown and other 'magicians' using minc control to affect people in various ways, suggesting that a good mind controller could look like a great qi master, but even then, hypnotists and magicians must be using energy in some form even if they dont realise it right??
i just worry if she never learned any real taiji... or if i never learned any real taiji....
how can you tell if what you do is real? sure my laogong points open alot doing taiji, but maybe thats my mind subconsciously tricking me??? the only way i know of to tell if you are doing it right is to touch hands with another and see if you can control them, if you can feel their energy, if they can feel yours... but i havent done any puch hands yet and neither has she... or maybe she has (in only 1 year of taiji..???)
help!
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