How To Practice External Qi Healing
Qi Gong Graphic How To Practice External Qi Healing
Si-Fu Richard Mooney

What follows is a primer on the basic training to become proficient in Waiqi Liaofa, or External Qi Healing.

Aspect of the breath

Since this is QIGONG, special attention must be placed on your breathing, and is one of the major requirements of successful qigong practice. Your breath will be of the Buddhist variety. This means that upon the inhale, the lower abdomen will fill from the bottom up. If your breathing is incorrect you will get tired very quickly, and also get headaches as well.

The tip of the tongue will remain on the roof of the mouth to join the ren and du channels. Eyes will be either closed, or only opened part way. This is to make sure you are not disturbed by external influences.


Aspect of the Mind

You will gently focus your attention on your hands. You may also focus your attention on your whole body. Do not restrict your thoughts to any specific acupuncture points because this may cause the energy to get bogged down in that area and lead to uncomfortable side effects. Side effects include irritability, sleeplessness, and trouble digesting food.

Do not eat within a half hour before or after practice. Being hungry will detract from your concentration, and being too full will only divert the needed energy to your digestive processes, and deny you a complete sessions worth of energy.


The Postures

After warming up with a few rounds of taiji quan, or any other low impact exercise, you will train in the following postures for 6 minutes each.

First posture: The feet are placed at shoulder width, the knees are bent to such a depth that you only see the tips of your big toes as you look over your knees. The lower back will be kept straight. This is done through the pelvic tilt. It is essential that your posture be as comfortable as possible. A kink in the back will cause the energy flow to stagnate, and thus cause muscle cramps and lower back pain.

Your arms will extend forward, palms down. The upper arms will form a 45 degree angle relative to the front of the body. The upper arms will also from a 45 degree angle relative to the sides of the body as well. The image will appear as if you are resting your arms flat on a table, which is at the height of your sternum.

Second posture: Rotate the palms so that they face the sky. the same requirements for body posture are held throughout the training.

Third Posture: Rotate the palms inwards so that they face each other.

Fourth Posture: Roll the arms so that the left palm is on top, facing down, and the right arm rolls down, and the palm winds up facing the left palm. The left palm will be at mid chest height, and the right palm will be at the level of the navel. The palms will be about 3 inches away from the body in this posture.

Fifth Posture: Roll the arms in the opposite directions, so that now the right is on top, palm facing down, and the left palm is on the bottom, facing upwards.

Train these postures for 6 months, every day, and follow up with silent seated meditation for 45 minutes within 6 hours of doing the standing meditation set. This is because if you are building energy, you must store it. After 6 months you add these extra exercises to strengthen the qi you have built up previously.

Extra exercise #1:

From Posture Three, that is the palms facing each other at chest height, slowly exhale ( and gently exhale, not harshly like when you do a tension exercise), and bring the palms close to each other, but not allowing them to touch.

Do this exercise in place of the plain standing as you have done previously.

Extra exercise #2 From posture Four, slowly compress your hands towards each other from the top and the bottom, at the same time. Essentially you are doing extra #1, but from a different angle. Do this series of expanding and contracting movements as you do your standing meditation set.

Extra Exercise #3

From Posture #5, do the same movements as outlined above.


Basic Adjunctive training. Leading the Qi

Place a lit candle at a height equal to the height of your mid chest area. place one palm on the far side of the candle flame, at a distance of about six inches. The other hand, on the near side of the flame, will adopt the "Sword Fingers" posture. Lead your Qi to your index and middle fingers. after you have felt the Qi arrive to those areas, transmit the qi to the flame, remain at this for a few minutes. after a few minutes, lead the qi that is in the candle flame to your far side hand, and direct it to the Lao Gung (p8) point of that hand.

train both sides for a few minutes each day. This will strengthen your focus and your will, and is good training for emitting the qi from the fingers.


Basic Healing

After 9 months of training , your energy is strong enough to begin doing small healings. You can work on joint pains, headaches, toothaches, and sprains . For large areas, you should use a flat palm. To disperse the pain in a large area, direct the qi in your hand to flood the area that is painful with the other person. then when the client feels the qi, you will describe ever widening, out wards going, counterclockwise circles to disperse and sedate the area of its painful influences.

For smaller areas, the sword fingers are very useful.

Make sure that you do not treat too many people in one day, as this will tire you out too easily. also make sure that if the client starts getting dizzy during the treatment, that you should hold off until they have recovered.


For further reference information I recommend the books by Choa K. Sui on Pranic healing.

Any questions may directed to me at my email address: qimaster@hotmail.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Si-Fu Richard Mooney is a senior student of Master Paul Dong, noted author and qigong teacher. Si-Fu Mooney has been active in chinese martial arts since 1970, in Japanese arts since 1977, and has been into Qigong since 1987. He is also a Reiki Master of the Usui lineage. He has helped over 550 people recover from wide variety of pains and afflictions


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