![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Today is Day 2 of my Celestial Pillar practice.
I started with the Self Massage practice.
I have this memorized for the most part, but on occasion I have to remind myself small details like if the brushing of the arms goes up the outside of the arm first or the inside of the arm! So, I look at that because I would like to practice it correctly, and, as I understand it, this is how the qi flows in the body.
Today I worked on Routine I, II, III, IV and V.
The breath is starting to resonate again. There is a quality of energy I can tangibly feel when I do Tai Chi and QiGong and the Kabbalistic energy work that Jacobus is teaching me.
So we have:
3rd eye
Top of the head
Eyebrows
Lungs
Liver
Kidneys
This is about boosting your Upright Yang Qi (or Zheng Qi). Yin Qi is the body, Yang Qi is our energetic animation. I am working on this practice because I have noticed that my body is suffering. My acupucurist told me that my kidney qi is leaking. This means that I am dipping into my pre natal qi and this is how you become sick. So this practice, which I am doing in the mornings should help bolster my energy of my body.
If I check in about my body, I have noticed depression, tiredness, regular headaches and difficult periods. My pouch and my bladder are also very sensitive.
Because of this, I have changed my diet BACK to the Taoist diet (which cleared a lot of this up) and then my idea around this is to limit my grains to whole grains, eat a small amount of poultry and fish, and to be deliberate in my walking and Qigong. If I can, I might see if I can swing a Tai Qi class at the local Shaolin Center on Powell. This would be ideal but also require me to bus it over there before work and then bus it to work after that. And, since I work such long days, sleep can be better.
I started with the Self Massage practice.
I have this memorized for the most part, but on occasion I have to remind myself small details like if the brushing of the arms goes up the outside of the arm first or the inside of the arm! So, I look at that because I would like to practice it correctly, and, as I understand it, this is how the qi flows in the body.
Today I worked on Routine I, II, III, IV and V.
The breath is starting to resonate again. There is a quality of energy I can tangibly feel when I do Tai Chi and QiGong and the Kabbalistic energy work that Jacobus is teaching me.
So we have:
3rd eye
Top of the head
Eyebrows
Lungs
Liver
Kidneys
This is about boosting your Upright Yang Qi (or Zheng Qi). Yin Qi is the body, Yang Qi is our energetic animation. I am working on this practice because I have noticed that my body is suffering. My acupucurist told me that my kidney qi is leaking. This means that I am dipping into my pre natal qi and this is how you become sick. So this practice, which I am doing in the mornings should help bolster my energy of my body.
If I check in about my body, I have noticed depression, tiredness, regular headaches and difficult periods. My pouch and my bladder are also very sensitive.
Because of this, I have changed my diet BACK to the Taoist diet (which cleared a lot of this up) and then my idea around this is to limit my grains to whole grains, eat a small amount of poultry and fish, and to be deliberate in my walking and Qigong. If I can, I might see if I can swing a Tai Qi class at the local Shaolin Center on Powell. This would be ideal but also require me to bus it over there before work and then bus it to work after that. And, since I work such long days, sleep can be better.
