Vibrations Marked the Spot in this Patient's Treatment

During a recent Qi-gong treatment, my patient reported feeling an ache in her chest, and during her treatment, as she lay face up on the massage table with her eyes closed and a warm blanket covering everything but her head, I waved my open palm of my right hand over her body to begin her assessment.   While waving my open palm over her chest, I could feel a vibration in the center of my palm as I waved my open palm over her heart.  My hand was about 10 inches above her chest without any touching at all,  but I clearly felt a vibration in the center of my palm that was coming from her heart.  

“Hmm, " I thought, “this is different.”

So I repeated moving my flat palm over her chest and once again, felt vibrations in that one specific spot on her chest.

"Hmmm," I repeated.

This time I stopped and held my hand over her chest and yes, the vibrations were a steady and constant stream of energy now hitting the palm of my hand.  It was almost as if I was sensing and feeling a laser of vibrational energy in this one exact and specific spot. 

If I moved my hand ever so slightly in a different position, I wouldn't feel the vibrations.  But right exactly here, I could feel a "humming" and sort of tactical "buzzing" coming off her body.  

I decided this was a new type of “alert” for me, some kind of message I had never experienced before.  The message was saying “this is the spot to treat!”, anyway, that is how I interpreted the information.   So this was where I started to direct Qi into her body. 

  

I stood by her side for many, many minutes with my flat palm over her heart, with my thoughts directing vibrant red energy Qi into her heart.  I was starting to get tired but still felt that vibration and buzz, so with my feet, I pulled a chair over to my side and sat down while still holding my hand over that vibration spot, and still focusing on directing energy into her heart.  

Eventually the vibrations stopped and I knew she had received exactly what she needed. 

At the end of the treatment I asked her how she felt and she said, “my heart feels full!  That pain I had felt in my chest is now gone and I now feel REALLY good.”

So in this treatment, and with this patient, I learned I had a new way of assessing where energy is needed; through a vibrational alert!  This allowed me to pinpoint my focus to the exact location to where energy was needed.  

I am still amazed how giving Qi-gong treatments are different with each and every patient.  I like the adventure of learning what works with different people and how I am becoming more directed and guided in what the patient needs.  It is still quite the mystery to me.

Vibrations Marked the Spot in this Patient's Treatment

Hearing a Buzzing Sound During a Qigong Treatment

During a Qigong medical assessment, the practitioner usually does what is called a "flat palm assessment" where the practitioner tunes into the energy field around and in the patient's body.  During this assessment phase, you can sense areas of heat, which typically means the patient's energy is stagnant in that location of the body.  Sometimes you can even feel "bumps" where your hand literally feels like it hit a rock.  These bumpy areas are where energy is VERY stagnant.  

During one of my medical assessments with a patient, the patient felt as if energy was literally missing from his body.  I had never experienced this sensation before. It was as if nothing was there.  The right side of his head actually felt “concave”.   

My first thought was, "He is missing part of his right brain!  I feel absolutely nothing here!"

When I started to give him his Qigong medical treatment and when I started to treat his head, I brushed the stale and stagnant energy away from his head in a raking manner.  Each time I placed my hands over his head to move the stagnant energy from his mind, I could hear a buzzzzzz.  

I again moved my hand to his head to again rake the energy and again I heard "BZZZZZZ."

I stopped and looked around me to see what was creating that buzzing noise.  There was no electrical equipment around me.  

I went back to his head to again rake more of the stagnant energy away from his mind and as I raked, I again heard, "BZZZZZZZ."

I turned again and nothing was there.  

I swiped again and there again was that buzz sound.  I then thought he must have a hearing aide in or some type of metal device around his head.    

He didn’t.  

I again kept swiped his head and again heard that buzz.  

I decided this was one of my "mentally hearing something" that is not physically present kind of moments and was alerting me to the fact that his brain was not firing correctly or his mental wiring was not quite right.

I then swiped and raked the energy a few more times and then the buzzing noise finally stopped and I continued his treatment.

   

The patient later shared how he had his "head bashed in" decades ago.

The Qigong treatment helped somewhat with that clearing of some of the stagnant energy in his brain, but there is some permanent damage there where no energy seems to be going. 

Hearing a Buzzing Sound During a Qigong Treatment

Balancing the Mind

One of the desired outcomes of Qigong is to balance the body, mind, and spirit.  You use energy to help you achieve this balance.

When your body is balanced, you usually feel pretty good.  You usually are free from pain and discomfort and you feel well, or as well as you can be.

When you spirit is in balance, you have a sense of joy, contentment, and a sense of being whole.

When your mind is balanced, your "ticker take of running thoughts" are not running wild.  Those thoughts are NOT filled with fear and problems.  You mind and thoughts are calm.  You are calm.  You are not creating and causing more stress.

One day my ticker tape of thoughts were filled with fear.  I thought about work.  I thought about what I didn't like.  I thought about being too old to get another job.  I thought about how long I need to hold onto this job. I then thought of how I needed to work.  I then thought of starting a new career and starting my own business. I then started to think of perhaps of what would happen if I stopped liking this stuff and then got into the same situation as where I am now.  I then started to think about how much money I would need and all the obligations I have.  I then started thinking......

You get the idea.  My ticker tape of thoughts was running amok.  These thoughts were being consumed with fear.  This was an example of my mind not being in balance.

I paused and thought, "Hey, this would be a good exercise to see how Qigong can balance my mind."

I sat down and did the Qigong meditation called "Microcosmic Orbit."  I did this for a couple of cycles through and then I when I could see and feel the energy cycling on it's own and without my focused attention, that is when things started to change.

My thoughts were now addressing each one of those ticker-tape fears one by one.  It was as if there was a rational and gentle voice in my mind calming each one of those fears that had popped in my mind.

The fire of fear was being extinguished one by one while this energy continued to flow through my "microcosmic orbit."

When the last fear was addressed, the automatic cycling process of the microcosmic energy stopped cycling.

I realized this was a personal lesson on how the mind could become balanced during a Qigong exercise.  It showed me not only that Qigong does help balance the mind, this example showed me how it can do that.

Qigong exercises and meditations really do help restore the body, MIND, and soul into a balanced state.

It is pretty darn cool!

Balancing the Mind

The Microcosmic Orbit Qigong Meditation – To Nourish Life

There is a Qigong meditation called “The Micro-Cosmic Orbit”.  This Qigong meditation is designed to bring energy to your spiritual self and through this process, you nourish life.

This is an ancient meditation. The history of the Microcosmic orbit dates back to prehistoric times in China approximately five thousand years ago and can be found in the I-Ching.  

This meditation has you focus your efforts on guiding the Qi up or down the Governing Channel (along your back) and Conception Channel (along your front).  It is also designed to nourish certain acupuncture points along this path that are major points associated with the major organs in the body.  Because you are connecting to certain places that are acupuncture points that connect to your major organs, and you are focusing your thoughts to nourish those points, you also end up nourishing your vital organs with Qi.

PREPARATION 

• You can sit or stand in this meditation.
• You can have your eyes open or closed.
• Your hands may be relaxed at your side.

GROUND AND CONNECT WITH THE EARTH
You begin with grounding and connecting yourself to the earth.
After you feel the connection with the earth, take a deep breath so your abdomen rises.

DEEP BREATH
You can take several of these breaths to signal your mind you are beginning your meditation.

VISUALIZE MOVING OF ENERGY AROUND THE ORBIT OF YOUR BODY
Visualize energy coming from the earth into you’re the middle of your perineum (between where you pee and poop).  This is where yin convergence occurs. This point calms the spirit. (Ren 1)

Visualize this energy of the earth moving up from your perineum to right before your belly button. Pause and feel the energy nourishing your body (Ren 6).  This location helps the energy for physical and mental exhaustion, including depression.  Nourish the energy at this point and feel the energy nourishing your body, mind, and soul.

Now visualize the energy moving to your chest, pausing a moment to nourish the point between your nipples (Ren 17).  This point benefits the chest, breasts, and heart. This point helps asthma.

When you feel ready, visualize the energy now moving up to your neck, known as the “window of the sky,” your spiritual center (Ren 22)

Visualize the energy going to below your lower lip.  Pause, and visualize this energy nourishing this point (Ren 24).  Visualize the nourishing of your stomach and intestines, along with relieving pain and helping with your ability to communicate.

Next, visualize the energy going to your forehead, between your eyes (Yin Tang).  This area quiets and nourishes your spirit and your mind, as well as helps with insomnia.  

Next, visualize the energy moving up to the top of your head (Du20).  Visualize energy nourishing this area and it helping your mind, your spirit, your heart.

Visualize the energy moving to where the back of the head and neck meet (Du 15).  Visualize energy nourishing this point.  This point helps the joints and vessels and clears the spirit.

When ready, move down to the middle of the shoulders, along the spine (Du 14) and focus on sending the energy to this area of the body.  This point will help energize the heart, lungs, and the whole body. It will also help to quiet and calm, as well as nourish, the spirit.

Next, move down to the narrow of the back and nourish the area here (Du 4).  Allow the energy to nourish this point.  It will nourish the blood, channels, and also regulate qi.

Now, move down to the area between your tailbone and your anus (Du 1).  Visualize the energy balancing the energies within your body, mind, and spirit.

You have now completed one orbit around the body, nourishing the main acupuncture points that can nourish all parts of your body, mind, and spirit.

You can repeat the process for another orbit if you choose.  You can speed or slow down your visualization based on what you sense you need.

ENERGY FROM THE HEAVENS
Another option is to visualize the energy coming from the heavens into your head rather than up from the base of your body.  In this meditation, visualize the energy coming from the heavens and nourishing each of those same points but with the energy from the heavens.

REVERSE CYCLE
You can also visualize the energy in a reverse fashion from the earth or the heavens.  Notice the different results and sensations you have when you go in a different direction.

SUMMARY
This is a great meditation to use each day, especially if you have a chronic illness, including cancer.  This is also a great meditation to help you clear your mind and help you focus on resolving a problem that is troubling you.  You can often get the answer you are looking for in the meditation, or shortly after the meditation.  In addition, this meditation helps nourish your spiritual energy reserves.  So if you are looking to have spiritual experiences, this meditation is for you.

The Microcosmic Orbit Qigong Meditation – To Nourish Life

Using Qigong for Self Healing

Patients can become healed through Qigong treatments, but long-term and more permanent treatments require patients making changes in their lifestyle.  

Long-term treatments include helping patients through five stages of healing awareness that can help them develop their own medical qigong self-regulation therapy.

Dr. Suzanne Friedman, author of “Heal Yourself Through Qigong” recommends guiding patients through the following self-regulation steps: 

1. 1. The patient is taught to increase his or her awareness of the body and its current condition.
2. 2. The patient is taught to cleanse and purify the body’s energetic fields ridding the body of qi stagnation and toxic pathogenic factors.
3. 3. The patient is taught to strengthen and recharge his or her body to replenish the qi.
4. 4. The patient is taught to circulate the qi internally and externally, moving any stagnant qi and strengthening the body.
5. 5. The patient is taught to dissipate any excess qi from the body with self-massage.

If you are a Qigong instructor, I highly recommend Dr. Friedman’s book, “Medical Qigong Exercise Prescriptions.”   If you are a patient, the book “Heal Yourself Through Qigong” is a great resource to learn about Qigong exercises.

Using Qigong for Self Healing

Progress Report of the Broken Heart

A woman came for a Qigong treatment who I have treated before.  This woman had originally come feeling depressed and blue due to her husband’s death.  During her initial treatment, I could feel the presence of her husband in the room and he filled her heart with lovely valentines.  Now that she had a return visit, I was looking forward to seeing what would happen during this treatment.

During the start of her Qigong treatment, I didn’t feel the presence of her husband in the room; in fact it felt like it was going to be a normal Qigong treatment with nothing special occurring.  But then I got to point where I was replenishing the energy within her heart and at that time, I felt her husband’s presence and once again could see and feel valentines of love filling her heart. 

This time her husband’s presence was more subtle and not as pronounced as in her former visit.   The message I received in my mind was this time he didn’t need to be as pronounced because she was now accepting of his energy and his presence.

At the end of the treatment she seemed radiant.

It was fun to see how much she had improved since that first treatment.

Progress Report of the Broken Heart

My 2012 Plans

In 2011, I started going to school part-time to learn Chinese Medicine, and this year I will continue to stay on that path, but it will be a modified path.  I've decided to NOT become an acupuncturist.  Instead, I changed my focus to just doing Qigong and Energy work.

I found I have a real knack for Qigong and Energy work. I can see how it really impacts and changes people's lives.  I see such dramatic affects during and after the Qigong treatments so have decided this is where I want to keep focused.

I even set up a Qigong treatment room in my home so I can give Qigong treatments on a part-time basis to people who get referred to me.  I still work in the corporate world by day, but in the evenings and weekends, I refocus my attention to this new love I have; Qigong.

I feel pretty lucky to have found something I have a passion and talent for.  I can see how all the steps took me to this place and destination.  For me it began with an acupuncture treatment for headaches and I saw people in the room who were not physically present. Who knew that this newly opened door would lead me to this place?  

So, I will continue going to Chinese Medicine school part-time at nights to learn channels and points, but stay focused on doing what I love after work; Qigong!

My 2012 Plans

Update on the Healing of a Broken Heart

I have been giving Qigong treatments.  Sometimes I have a rather remarkable experience happen during the treatment and sometimes the patients do.  But often, some of the most memorable and amazing things happen after the treatment.

In one of my first Qigong sessions with a volunteer patient, a friend of mine brought another woman with her to get a Qigong treatment.  This woman was suffering from deep sadness, having lost her true love a year ago with a sudden heart attack.  She was having a difficult time getting over the loss of having him in her life and that feeling of love she had come to expect.

The Qigong treatment, for me, was very powerful and I could feel her husband's presence in the room. During the treatment, I could also see valentines flowing with the energy to her heart while I worked on the pain in her heart.  I wrote about this experience in a prior blog; it was very powerful to me.  But for her, she didn't feel much during the treatment, which rather amazed me and also made me kind of sad.

But I recently heard from my friend with an update of how this woman is doing.  My friend reported how this woman started to feel different the very next day!   The first change she noticed was that she no longer felt the need to sit and cry.  She also didn't feel that constant hurt in her chest and that unbearable sadness that use to be so overwhelming.  She was starting to heal.

After a few more weeks, she even started to become more excited about life. She shared with my friend how she now could feel the presence of her former spouse around her at different times.  She no longer felt alone. She even started to dream again.

My friend said this woman now considers herself to be healed, and after just that one Qigong treatment!

Pretty cool, huh?
I was so delighted to hear this update.

Update on the Healing of a Broken Heart

What are the Benefits of Qigong?

The goal of Qigong is to improve the balance and flow of energy between the body, mind, and spirit.  As the energy and flow improves, a person can start to see as well as feel changes in not only their body, but also their mind and spirit as well.

So what can a person expect to feel when they start to either do Qigong exercises or start having Qigong medical treatments? 

These are just some of the benefits and changes a person will start to feel in their life when they start to balance their energy and improve the energy flow with Qigong:

CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MIND

• Easier to come up with solutions or see things more clearly
• Become more motivated
• Have a better memory
• Easier to make decisions &/or the decisions are more sound
• Ability to control emotions
• No longer sad or depressed or afraid
• Feel more peace and harmony and balanced.  Feel an inner glow.
• Seem to have greater insights and understanding

CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BODY

• Feel less pain or even no pain
• Mobility is improved
• Feel less stressed out
• Find it easier to breathe
• Feel energized and not as fatigued
• Experience more meaningful sex

CHANGES IN THE SPIRIT

• Feel more connected to life, nature, other people
• Feel more love, both the ability to give love and receive love 
• Experience richer and deeper meditations, dreams, as well as insights
• Seem to understand people’s motives & behaviors more clearly
• Have more spiritual experiences with what you feel as the Divine
• Feel a greater sense of personal power and strength 

I have heard these reports of changes from many of my volunteer patients.  I'm now going to start collecting more of this type of data so I can better report and quantify the outcomes and changes being experienced.

What are the Benefits of Qigong?