In the practice of Taoist Qigong, the first stage after entry is the basic stage. Also known as "building a foundation in a hundred days".

The so-called foundation, as the name implies, means to lay the foundation. As we all know, the key to high-rise buildings is to lay a good foundation. Only when the foundation is laid can the building be built. If the foundation is not solid, even if the building is built, it will collapse.

The cultivation of Taoist Qigong, like Gai Lou, also needs to lay a foundation. The basis here mainly refers to two aspects: first, under the guidance of the master, stop loss of refining gas (male) and blood (female); The second is to dredge and repair the pathological changes of the body with the true qi (life energy) formed after the essence and blood are transformed into qi.

I. Leaking stoppage and repair

1, blocked:

When men and women enter puberty, there will be normal physiological phenomena, such as male nocturnal emission and female menstruation. This is called "body leakage" in Taoist health preservation, that is, "body leakage" is the "treasure" of human life and the foundation of human reproduction. But men don't have to reproduce every day, and women shouldn't lose every month. However, human beings are naturally greedy for pleasure and love the pleasure of bed more, which leads to the waste of life energy, which makes them lose their vitality, suffer from diseases and cannot enjoy life. Therefore, the first step of cultivating immortals has always been "building a foundation for a hundred days", which is also called "training qi and blood to turn qi" in qigong argot. It is called "catching white tigers (refining qi) and cutting red dragons (refining blood to turn qi)", which is also called "blocking". Lv Dongbin, a Taoist teacher, said, "Shun is omnipotent, inverse is immortal, and only the middle is reversed" is what this means.

Beginners often understand qigong terms literally, and think that it takes 100 days to lay a good foundation, which means that it will be completed in 100 days. In fact, the "hundred days" here does not mean a hundred days, but it takes a long time to complete.

As for how many days it takes to build a solid foundation to stop leakage, it is closely related to many factors, such as the selected achievement method, whether there is expert guidance, the degree of entry in practice, the practice time spent every day, and everyone's physical condition is different, so there is no unified standard to follow, not to mention the subjective will of the practitioners.

2. Repair

The so-called repair refers to repairing the leaked body. The leakage referred to here does not simply refer to nocturnal emission and blood leakage, but mainly refers to various pathological changes caused by the lack of true qi (life energy) due to the loss of vitality in the body. Therefore, most people think that unmarried men and women are virgins and do not need to build a foundation for a hundred days, which is undoubtedly one-sided.

Second, about the operation of gas engine

In the practice of medical qigong (mostly evolved from Taoist basic skills), most students have to go through four processes in the basic stage: getting qi, promoting qi, dredging and impacting.

1, angry

The practice of Taoist qigong usually begins with "life work", which means building basic work. However, the work of laying basic skills usually starts from Xiadantian. Practitioners will first feel the increase of intestinal peristalsis in the abdomen during the practice, and then there will be gas phenomena such as abdominal fever and lower abdomen fever.

2. Qi

With the practitioner's own "blockage" of gasification and the accumulation of energy by the outside air, the lower abdomen is hot and full, which is a manifestation of the gradual accumulation of qi in the body, and then the qi will run in the body according to its own laws, and the body will have some reactions.

Step 3 sprinkle

Because the normal tissues and meridians of the human body are unobstructed, Qi generally has no feeling when moving in the normal tissues and meridians. However, there are usually many tiny stagnation points in human meridians. These small qi stagnation points have not yet formed lesions, so there is no feeling at ordinary times. However, due to the increase of energy after practice, the intensity of operation also increases. In addition, when practicing, the consciousness is kept inside, and the body feels far more sensitive than usual. When cleaning up these tiny stagnation points during the operation of the gas machine, it will produce eight touching phenomena such as heat, swelling, numbness, pain, itching, cold, heavy pressure and ant walking.

4. Influence

When Qi moves to meridians with obvious pathological changes or abnormalities, it is strongly resisted. This is because all meridians with temperament diseases are in a state of stagnation or block (qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm coagulation, wet aggregation, etc.). ). If the lesion hinders qi, it will form two opposite forces, impact force and blocking force, and the lesion will be clearly reflected by the impact of external forces, such as pain, fever and bleeding. This is what Qigong usually calls "Qi Chong and Concentration". Taoist Qigong calls this stage a process of "great death and great movement", and then it is "reborn"

The process of gas rushing to the focus varies from hours to days to months. Some students who are seriously ill or old, suffering from various diseases, may even go through the process of being angry and anxious for several years. The length of this process is determined by the amount of energy accumulated by practitioners themselves and the nature, severity and number of diseased parts that need to be repaired.

Third, the focus on Qi Chong.

(1) Generally speaking, the key points of gas shock go through three stages, namely, the process of finding disease, turning to disease and returning to disease.

1, go looking for trouble

When the running of the ventilator is strongly resisted and the energy in the body is not enough to scour the lesion, the running of the ventilator will automatically change its running route, and when another running route is strongly blocked again, it will change its running route again, and so on. On the one hand, all the small lesions (qi stagnation points) in the body that can be washed are dredged, on the other hand, the lesions that can not be washed temporarily due to insufficient energy are exposed one by one. This process is the process of discovering diseases.

Step 2 turn the disease over

In the first stage of the disease-seeking process, most meridians are more unobstructed, and the practitioner's energy is strengthened through continuous practice, so that he will directly rush to the discovered lesions and impact with greater strength, making the symptoms of various lesions more prominent and all diseases turn out. This is the process of disease turning over.

The process of turning over is a stalemate and a painful stage for practitioners to repair diseases in their bodies. During this period, not only the practitioners themselves will feel obviously uncomfortable, but also their condition will be "obviously aggravated". If you go to the hospital for examination at this time, the indicators are often in a temporary unbalanced state and become abnormal. Therefore, Taoist Qigong calls this stage "the stage of great death and great living". Unfortunately, many patients often fail at this stage because they don't understand the therapeutic mechanism of Qigong. You know, without the process of "great death", it is impossible to have the result of "great work", not to mention the effect of "reborn" and "rejuvenation"

Step 3 retire from illness

After a period of concentration and stagnation of qi, the energy in the body is constantly supplemented with the continuous cultivation of practitioners. Under the constant impact of qi, the focus (large area of qi stagnation and blood stasis) gradually dissolves, shrinks or even disappears, and the symptoms of various diseases felt by patients themselves will gradually ease and disappear. This is the process of retirement.

(B), to find and reverse the three levels of disease.

The process of discovering and overturning diseases is independent of the subjective wishes of practitioners, and the operation of ventilators has its own laws. It not only turns over the diseases you know, but also turns over many diseases you don't know. Therefore, it often brings confusion to some practitioners who don't understand the rules of qigong treatment, and some even mistake themselves for the deviation of "the old disease has not been removed, the more you practice, the better". In fact, this is a very normal and good phenomenon in Taoist qigong practice, because you can't just repair the diseases you know, but you must completely repair your body to truly "reinvent yourself." And "comprehensive" and "thorough" must include three levels of diseases.

1, past diseases

Some were injured many years ago, and some have recovered, but due to some changes in organizational structure (tissue adhesion, surgical incision scar, etc.). ), the meridian tissue is not smooth, and when qi impacts these tissues, there will be symptoms of "recurrence" of old injuries such as pain and acid rise.

2. Current diseases

What you know about your illness now will aggravate your symptoms and pain when you are angry.

3. Future diseases

The so-called future disease itself has three situations, one is an "existing disease" that you don't know and have no symptoms; One is asymptomatic early pathological changes, such as kidney deficiency, liver depression, heart fire and so on; The other is really "no disease" (latent future disease).

These three kinds of "diseases" that you don't know and even the hospital can't diagnose will also be turned out when you rush to the key points.

To sum up, for practitioners or people who want to achieve the goal of rehabilitation through medical qigong practice, "building a foundation in a hundred days" is a very critical step from introductory practice to disease rehabilitation. At this stage of cultivation, gas-flushing lesions is the only way to repair the "leakage body" and an inseparable part of the foundation stage. Only through this step can the disease be cured and the practice be continued.

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