Chi Kung Question

[Jack Squat]

I agree with Sifu Ron.

IMO, it was most likely a bad reaction to the flu shot x2 (hitting bone and bending needle also never helps!).

Don't think it has anything to do with qigong.

The real question is why did he even get a flu shot in the first place? At the very least it is a waste of time and money, and at the very worst, complications and a whole new set of problems can arise.

[RonH]

I agree with Sifu Ron.

IMO, it was most likely a bad reaction to the flu shot x2 (hitting bone and bending needle also never helps!).

Don't think it has anything to do with qigong.

The real question is why did he even get a flu shot in the first place? At the very least it is a waste of time and money, and at the very worst, complications and a whole new set of problems can arise.

Even if the qigong practice wasn't the cause, there's obviously an energetic imblance stemming from the other symptons. The important thing is that the energies are overall spinning clockwise/positive (up the right arm and down the left).

The importance in energy body work is balance, including qigong. Troubles in the material form are caused by either an underaccumulation or an overaccumulation of energies. Having a single dose of a flu shot causes an increase in energy with the increased accumulation of energy that causes its desired effects. For him, if it really was the second shot and not the qigong, the second shot was too much for him to handle, espcially if nerves are struck and damage is done to bone and the like. This causes an even higher overaccumulation that sets off more problems. Adding more herbs and medicines increases the overaccumulation.

Adding things like energy healing, while deigned to make things better can screw things up because the receiver is just thinking 'add more, add more'. It continues the downward spiral. Each cause for each symptom on the risk of qigong page is gonna be either an underaccumulation or an overaccumulation, depending on the lack or overproduction of the material thing that causes that sympton. That corresponds to whether that sympton is from an over or underaccumulation of energy.

Take confusion based on insufficient neurotransmitters in the brain. This would be an example of underaccumulation of energy. You stub your foot in the dark on wooden furniture and it swells. This is an example of overaccumulation. Problems with the brain that are caused by a decrease as well as an increase in chemicals are combination problems, where each thing that is wrong is specifically an under or an overaccumulation problem.

I would say to have your friend stop the qigong, there's no rush, and get him to an accupuncturist, so his work is supplimenting the medical doc. Meditating never hurt anyone, so he should keep that up. He should use it to try to bring his balance under control.

Is it really necessary for him to hug and lays his hands on trees, or has he misunderstood this tradition?

You don't need to hug every **** tree you come across. Hugging them can be fine, but there's something else that works very well.

Have him sit or stand and image roots are coming out from under him and going into the earth and conntecting to the earth's energy core. Have him hold his arms up and imagine branches coming out of his hands/shoulders that reach up to the divine, connecting to its energy. Energy from the earth rises up through the right side of his body and reaches the divine. It comes back down the left side of his body and back into the earth.

It works real well for balancing, but I wouldn't use just one method to balance.