Internal arts take time to cultivate and you cannot rush it.
When I began to study internal arts, after a period of time I got what is called Chi sickness.
Chi sickness blows the big one but it is worth working through. Patience and a good understanding teacher will get you through.
It took me two years to get through it and I am still learning about it.
Reiki is GREAT....Herbology is another thing that is GREAT. Acupunture and the study of the nervous system will help you greatly in areas outside the dojo/training hall.
If you really want to surprise your teacher....light touch knockouts are always interesting as well as poison hands training. Both Poison hands and LTKO's were hidden in a number of external and internal arts training and only taught to higher level practioners of many differnet arts with no explanation of what they were learning. The phrase "it just is what it is" comes to mind.
Poison Hands is found in an art called Quan Li K'an and a man named Bruce Everett Miller does seminars on it all over the country. See if your Sensei / Sifu would mind sponsoring a seminar or get the video about it ( a much cheaper alternative) for your teacher to evaluate. The book was published by CME Enterprises in 1990 so I do not know about it's current availability. I have had one copy stolen from me and I now have a spare just in case. It is explained more from a medical perspective than an eatern philosophical perspective.
The other book I recommended before and will do so again is The Encyclopedia of Dim-Mak by Erle Montaigue and Wally Simpson. The first book is the Main Meridians and the second much thinner book is about the Extra Meridians. I like it better than the other boks on the subject because of it's depth and clear explanations. This book will also help you understand what is going on to make your chi sickness period go easier.
Dr. Glenn Morris also has a book on Dim-Mak Technique but it is more esoteric in nature and can be hard to understand at times. At least for me at the time it was...now I understand it just fine.
A long time ago when I started training and looking into different arts I found that the hard Styles teach the soft but only after 5th Dan for the most part. The internal arts teach at a completly different pace but concentrate more of perfect technique. If it takes you 6 months to get that foot right every time then it is just fine in an internal art. In a hard style if the foot is off a little it is really no big deal as long as you get the job done.
Yes that was a generalization and somewhat of an exagerations and I hope the point wasn't missed.
Patience is what is a big important virtue in an internal art.
One question T:
When you feel that heat in your hands is it like pins or electricity coming out your finger tips?
When you meditate next time ...hold your hands sleightly apart to generate your chi...concentrate and try to move it down your arm. Once you get it down to the shoulder roll it back to your hand and out your finger tips. Start to get the chi to flow to different parts of your body.
Once you start to do things like this ..try to do it when your working out...it will be difficult at first but you will feel fantastic when your workout is done.
Hope this helps,
Darius
When I began to study internal arts, after a period of time I got what is called Chi sickness.
Chi sickness blows the big one but it is worth working through. Patience and a good understanding teacher will get you through.
It took me two years to get through it and I am still learning about it.
Reiki is GREAT....Herbology is another thing that is GREAT. Acupunture and the study of the nervous system will help you greatly in areas outside the dojo/training hall.
If you really want to surprise your teacher....light touch knockouts are always interesting as well as poison hands training. Both Poison hands and LTKO's were hidden in a number of external and internal arts training and only taught to higher level practioners of many differnet arts with no explanation of what they were learning. The phrase "it just is what it is" comes to mind.
Poison Hands is found in an art called Quan Li K'an and a man named Bruce Everett Miller does seminars on it all over the country. See if your Sensei / Sifu would mind sponsoring a seminar or get the video about it ( a much cheaper alternative) for your teacher to evaluate. The book was published by CME Enterprises in 1990 so I do not know about it's current availability. I have had one copy stolen from me and I now have a spare just in case. It is explained more from a medical perspective than an eatern philosophical perspective.
The other book I recommended before and will do so again is The Encyclopedia of Dim-Mak by Erle Montaigue and Wally Simpson. The first book is the Main Meridians and the second much thinner book is about the Extra Meridians. I like it better than the other boks on the subject because of it's depth and clear explanations. This book will also help you understand what is going on to make your chi sickness period go easier.
Dr. Glenn Morris also has a book on Dim-Mak Technique but it is more esoteric in nature and can be hard to understand at times. At least for me at the time it was...now I understand it just fine.
A long time ago when I started training and looking into different arts I found that the hard Styles teach the soft but only after 5th Dan for the most part. The internal arts teach at a completly different pace but concentrate more of perfect technique. If it takes you 6 months to get that foot right every time then it is just fine in an internal art. In a hard style if the foot is off a little it is really no big deal as long as you get the job done.
Yes that was a generalization and somewhat of an exagerations and I hope the point wasn't missed.
Patience is what is a big important virtue in an internal art.
One question T:
When you feel that heat in your hands is it like pins or electricity coming out your finger tips?
When you meditate next time ...hold your hands sleightly apart to generate your chi...concentrate and try to move it down your arm. Once you get it down to the shoulder roll it back to your hand and out your finger tips. Start to get the chi to flow to different parts of your body.
Once you start to do things like this ..try to do it when your working out...it will be difficult at first but you will feel fantastic when your workout is done.
Hope this helps,
Darius
