Feeling Chi

I was going to chronologically write about my taichi journey but I will jump ahead and talk about what chi feels like because I feel compel to write about the chi feeling that I had about 2 weeks ago.

You see, about two weeks ago during the taichi session in one of my Sunday taichi class, my taichi teacher, Mr. Anthony Ho Nan-Jie, told me to focus my chi and the middle of my body starts to sway strongly. He told me to put my hand together like a praying hand, press them hard. The body swaying got stronger and more violent. I felt like someone hold my mid body and give it a strong shake, make it go circle around. He told me to guide my chi to move it from left to right six times and then from right to left nine times. I did that and as I guide my thought, my body would move clockwise or counter-clockwise depends on if I was thinking going left or right. Then he told me to bring everything back to my Dan Tien and resolve everything to the Universe. I did that and it took another 5, 10 minutes before my body calmed down. That was quite an experience once it was over. Later on my teacher told me the chi in my body is strong and possibly can be used to help heal people. I was happy to hear that but also confuse because I still cannot guide it or project it at will yet.

From that day, most of the time, when I do chi kung, I feel my hands are warm at the Lao gong points. My buble-ling well points on my feet feels warm too. I feel a tingling sensation at my fingers from time to time. When I do standing chi kung or just laying down doing meditation, I can almost feel something like an opening, a channel of energy that going up and down my legs, going in and out of my buble-ling wells, like I was breathing with my feet. My lower back feels warm around the kidneys and the Minh-men point. When I breath, I could feel a sense of energy going up my spine. I know my teacher was standing next to me while I was doing chi kung and probably helped open up my Minh-men point so now I can feel my back breathing.

So I guess that what chi is felt like. Very interesting.