The Inner Alchemy: Qi Gong and the energetic path to happiness, health & vitality
Pedram Shojai, aka The Urban Monk, shares how to practice Qi Gong to read and clear your energy fields and bring forth renewed health and vitality.
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When I was in the thick of my martial arts training, my teacher would have us go into the mountains at night during a new moon. We would spend a short time meditating and then go for a walk along the trails. The lesson was to soften the eyes and learn to see the energy fields of the plants around us. At first, the whole thing sounded crazy. It was dark, and I was stumbling around, wondering if I’d ever grasp this pseudo-Jedi nonsense. I kept trying to see with my eyes and was frustrated.
The lesson was to soften the eyes because seeing with shen, or spirit, requires a more passive form of vision.
Slowly, I began to relax into it and started to see ‘fuzzy stuff’ on the tops of the plants. Of course, I thought that my eyes were playing tricks on me and I was just seeing the plants themselves or the reflections of city lights. After a while though, I started to see fluctuations in the patterns of this energy.
