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March 13th, 2006, 01:44 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | | | Yep, crap on it. Go read some more Qigong books and come back and try and tell me some more. LOL, I doubt your knowledge is as creditable as you make it seem now. Thanks!
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March 20th, 2006, 02:58 PM
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Rep Power: 6 | | | I can honestly say that I always wanted to feel it as well.
I believe now that is more of a matter of something we are tuned to not feel in everyday life. As Chi is all around us.
This week was quite an amazing one for me. In one of our Tai Chi classes we were doing a technique and as I was about to close it up I got a shot of energy/electricity whatever shoot from my dantien region up my spine to the base of my neck.
It was quite unreal and I had a little discussion about it later with my Sifu. |
March 21st, 2006, 02:59 AM
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Rep Power: 25 | | | “ | In one of our Tai Chi classes we were doing a technique and as I was about to close it up I got a shot of energy/electricity whatever shoot from my dantien region up my spine to the base of my neck. | ” | |
That happened to me once when i stuck a fork in the toaster...lol jk.
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March 21st, 2006, 08:31 AM
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That happened to me once when i stuck a fork in the toaster...lol jk. | ” | |  
Actually it reminded me of sometihng like that. I think we all have done something that made you jump, like twisting your back the wrong way, or like you said gettinga jolt of electricity. That's the way it kind of felt to me. Only with twisting your back wrongly you ahve an ache afterward, and since there were no electrical outlets, or toasters, around me...  ... I think it is safe to say that my chi found a nice upwardly mobile route. |
April 14th, 2006, 12:50 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | | | lol, its not a feeling of something electrical or something like a burst of electricity, it is a feeling of just plain knowing. You can feel it in your soul, in your mind, and in your heart, you know that energy is flowing when you have faith and you practise that which is proven to work. Maybe I should write a book, lol. Take care guys and gals.
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April 14th, 2006, 02:49 AM
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Rep Power: 37 | | | “ | That happened to me once when i stuck a fork in the toaster...lol jk. | ” | |
I remember once I was about 10 may be 12, I wanted to know how hard its to take an electric shock.. so I took a wire and plugged it... touched the live wire at other end...
It was really a shocking experience(no pun intended  )
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April 14th, 2006, 08:48 AM
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Rep Power: 36 | | For a long while, I practiced mediation designed to "strengthen your chi". The most I ever got out of it was a really intense sweat, I'm talking pools of it. Is that chi? Don't know, I don't think it is. As far as ever having chi appled to me, I have a quick story about a student of my level who "thought" he had powerful chi. His punches were the weakest punches I ever felt in my life. Perhaps my skull is chi-proof, I don't know. I am no expert on it, as I don't think I can deliver it into any punch/kick, what have you.
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April 14th, 2006, 09:55 AM
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I have a quick story about a student of my level who "thought" he had powerful chi. His punches were the weakest punches I ever felt in my life. | ” | |
I would say that a pretty common thing.
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April 14th, 2006, 11:07 AM
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Rep Power: 36 | | | Yep, he was a tool. If mind over matter is true, however; and he thought he had powerful chi...then, he might have! Perhaps his tiny chi-punches were so awesome that I will not feel them for years to come! Perhaps his control of chi was so awe-inspiring, that the force of said punches traveled through the astral plain and punched my future-self?! That worries me, dude. |
April 14th, 2006, 11:38 AM
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Rep Power: 21 | | | While I believe in mind over matter I don't believe that you have much to worry about here. I believe it comes down to if you LET his chi have an effect on you. If not then no worries.
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April 14th, 2006, 12:00 PM
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Rep Power: 36 | | | OK, whew! I will rest easy tonight, then. I think the only thing that affected me, was how much it annoyed me. I have not seen many examples of chi. I have seen great feats of physical strength, speed, sparring prowess, etc., but I just think that is attributed to practice. I have seen in tournaments high ranking students try to "put a candle out" with their chi. You know, hold their hand out there and just move a little, like a push? Now, after practice, I could do that, too. Still can, easily. I don't think it's chi, what say y'all? |
April 14th, 2006, 12:12 PM
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Rep Power: 21 | | | Acually that is a classic example of chi.
A westerner sees a chinese guy do that thing with the candle and goes up to him and asks,"What acually put out the candle?"
The Chinese guy replies,"Chi"
Chi in chinese means Air. Air put out the candle but of course that isn't understood so chi is turned into a mystical "I think and you die" super energy.
Its a cultural misunderstanding.
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April 14th, 2006, 01:22 PM
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Rep Power: 25 | | | “ | Chi in chinese means Air. | ” | |
Umm....no it doesn't....
Air is "koong-chee", with a different tonality (middle tone) than Chi (falling tone)...
My Shifu in China used to explain why his computer didn't work, with his minimal english, by saying it had "No chi!"...
Chi means something more like "energy" to the best of my understanding...
(But there are rare occasions where I am mistaken...)
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April 14th, 2006, 02:10 PM
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Rep Power: 21 | | | Excuse me,
You really have to see that it doesn't make a difference.
Chi means energy, I agree.
What I'm talking about here is a minunderstanding of Chinese language. Do you really think someone who doesn't know anything about Chinese will be able to tell the difference between middle and falling tone and even if they did there would be no reason to think that it acually ment something totally different.
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April 14th, 2006, 11:07 PM
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Rep Power: 25 | | | OH! that's what you're taking about!!!
here i though that you were saying my the word "Chi" is universally recognised as meaning "Air" (chee).
Oh kay, never mind then, i understand where you're coming from on this one!
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