Exercise big tree in qigong description. "Big Tree" - the main qigong exercise

In China, many different systems and methods are known for maintaining health, prolonging life, getting rid of diseases, strengthening the body and improving work. internal organs and body systems. These include qigong exercises, methods of regulating breathing and consciousness, wushu systems, special energy, linear, acupressure massages, and, as a more closed one, the technique of Taoist alchemy - improving the body, energy and spirit.

Phytotherapy and physiotherapy are also considered as methods that allow using external factors to change the state of internal organs or channels associated with them - bringing all systems inside the body into a harmonious state, while using special diagnostic methods for BAT, pulse, tongue, skin, etc. d.

The person who does it stops getting sick. Proper exercise leads to the fact that the internal energy in the kidneys does not flow uncontrollably, and subsequently begins to be replenished, thereby nourishing and supporting the work of all body systems.

From the sayings of ordinary Chinese people practicing Qigong exercises and daily observations of life in China:

… for 100 days I practiced exercises related to the method of replenishing Jing and restoring the kidneys of the system of internal practices. I used to feel constant malaise - it was difficult to get up to work, now I feel great - I do work, family and wushu (demonstrates complex techniques and techniques of xingyi quan).

…the windows of our hotel overlooked the courtyard of the administrative building of the city, and one could observe how the officials, during breaks and smoke breaks, do not shy away from performing exercises related to Qigong and Taijiquan.

…in a village (my observation when visiting a Taoist monastery) away from the city, any worker and any grandmother will demonstrate to you several Qigong family techniques with the help of which the family maintains health and gets rid of ailments.

That is, exercises related to inner work are used in medicine, in wushu, in the monastery, and in everyday life.

Wrong execution basic exercises Zhong Yuan Qigong Big Tree, Small Sky Circle, etc. do not bring real results,
Zhang Zhuang (Pillar Standing) (in Zhong Yuan Qigong - Big Tree) is practiced in wushu and various systems Qigong associated with internal work to activate and replenish the internal energy of Jing. There are many options for performing this exercise, each system has almost its own pillar. But everywhere it is the same to use the beginning of the principles of the alchemical process, the connection of Yin-Yang, the connection of the internal and external, the receipt of some qualitatively new state in the body and in one of the Dan-Tien energy centers.
Therefore, when performing the exercise incorrectly, we can feel the Qi energy of the instructor, nearby people, the Qi energy of the place, etc. But the alchemical beginning of the connection process will not occur, although some filling with Qi energy is felt.
When practicing Qigong, special attention is paid to posture, breathing and the correct work of consciousness. The state of the body is relaxed, and at the same time, the mind does not wander arbitrarily, but controls the process of doing the exercises or, as described in the instructions on Zhong Yuan Qigong, the exercise must be performed at three levels and follow the instructions.

This exercise begins the process of bringing together the inner and the outer. First, the Yin-Earth and the Yang-cosmos need to be connected inside, to open the inner doors. If you look at a person, then the extreme points below (yin points) are yunquan and huiyin. We imagine that Bottom part the torso, legs, lower back go down and connect with the Qi-Earth, and we, as it were, put pressure on Hui Yin and Yong Quan with the weight of the body, while the knees are slightly bent and the body settles somewhat, goes into the Earth, and there should be a feeling of these points. Then, head, shoulders, top part the torso stretches upwards - energetically connected with Qi - Heaven. The extreme point of Yang in a person is Bai Hui and it must also be connected with the Qi of heaven. To do this, the chin drops a little, the top of the head and Bai Hui go up, the body rises a little, the tongue is in the upper palate. Now let's pay attention to the coccyx, it should be pulled back, as the dog raises the tail and at the same time a slight movement forward with the hips, as if we were pushing the chest of drawers. When the gate is open, two flows of Yin from below and Yang from above begin to fill the body and interact with each other. Now you need to combine the two into one, at the level of dan tian, feel two energies in the form of one yin-yang ball, which you need to hold with your hands for a certain time and imagine yourself as a Big Tree.

At the end of the exercise, we smoothly collect Qi with our hands and place it in one of the Dan Tien energy centers, and it should be felt that, as it were, the vitality has increased.

As a result of this exercise, an excess of Qi is created in the Dan Tien, which the practitioner concentrates and transforms with the help of the Yang Qi exercise, or transforms with the help of the Lesser Celestial Circle exercise for later use and, first of all, to replenish the energy of Kidney Qi.
You need to pay attention to the fact that you should go through all three steps. Since performing the exercise at 3 levels of Dan Tien from the point of view of Qigong allows you to unite with the entire Cosmos. We unite Heaven, Man and Earth together - the three outer Yuan unite into one. At first we imagine ourselves as a Big Tree, later this concept disappears, remains big man that brings it all together. Of course, not immediately, but after practicing all three steps. Further practice of transforming Jing, Qi and Shen is effective when the energy of the kidneys is fully restored, you can use special opportunities, practice methods for exiting the spirit, etc.
The real indicator of good practice is the state of health of the practitioner.
In Qigong, the methods of working with internal Qi, which are very soft and gentle, allow people with poor health to practice and restore their working capacity after serious illnesses and diseases based on strengthening the Qi of the kidneys, improving the functioning of channels, and replenishing internal energy.

One of the main exercises development unit Wu Chan Zhong Qigong - exercise A big tree(Zhang Zhuang).

This best exercise in order to quickly gain a good level of qi energy.

Before analyzing this exercise, it is worth saying in more detail about possible accompanying phenomena. Knowledge of phenomena will simply allow you not to be frightened during practice, calmly relate to them, understanding that all this is the essence - transient.

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Accompanying phenomena in the practice of qigong.

There are 8 sensations that belong to the category of normal in the first stages of the exercise: HEAT (it can be very hot and bake to the point of pain), COLD (sometimes a prolonged chill), NUMBLY, GOESING (as if insects run or crawl in certain parts of the body, sometimes from different speed or different sizes), ITCHING (sometimes so unbearable that you literally want to tear the skin), EASY (sometimes complete weight loss and a feeling of loss of body), BREATHING, HEAVY (impossible to take your feet off the ground), SLIPPER (the impression is that the skin is slippery, like ice) .

The intensity of sensations depends on many factors, but, above all, on the state of the body, both physical and emotional. In addition, there are phenomena and sensations associated with certain diseases or simply changes in the physical body and the evolution of the practitioner, such as vibrations in the body, pain, the appearance of sounds, lights or flashes. We will briefly review the most common of them.

Normal Phenomena

1. If Yin-Yang in the body is not balanced, then the practitioner may experience COLD or HEAT.

The concentration of qi in the lower or middle dan tian usually produces a sensation of a warm or hot ball. With the correct execution of Zhang Zhuang (Big Tree) and an intensive collection of qi from the environment, sometimes there is a feeling of such a strong HEAT that it is difficult to endure. Heartbeat quickens, profuse sweating begins. At certain stages of practice, some experience sensations of different temperatures in the right and left palms or the right and left sides of the body.

This is due to the fact that one half of us is more Yang, and the other half is Yin. There are practice methods that allow you to strengthen and consolidate this effect. In ancient times, they were used in combat systems. With one hand it was possible to burn the enemy like fire, with the other - to pour cold.

Sometimes a practitioner feels chills for several days, begins to wrap himself up, but still cannot get warm. Then you need to practice more. This indicates the beginning of the restructuring in the body. Sometimes after doing Zhan Zhuang there is a feeling of such a sharp cold that it seems as if the blood runs cold in the veins. There is no need to be afraid of such a state, no need to try to interrupt it artificially. This means that despite the cessation of the exercise, changes continue to occur in the body. One must continue the practice or simply endure such a state. And after that, you will rise to the next step in the development of your body.

2. The opening of active points is accompanied by a sensation of GOESERS or ITCH running through the body. If these points somewhere (especially on the head, hands) were blocked, then the itching can be simply unbearable. Usually such intense sensations pass quickly, and after that the practitioner begins to experience relief and lightness in this area. He can breathe through it.

Sometimes the sensations of goosebumps are accompanied by the vibration of these zones, but not constant, but as if rolling in waves. Such sensations are more interesting than uncomfortable, but sometimes they can border on pain, which indicates a very intense opening of points. After that, it seems that the body has become porous and is blown through. In this case, until you get used to these sensations, it is better to refrain from water procedures.

3. LIGHTNESS, WEIGHTLESSNESS of the body occurs if you manage to "forget about yourself" during the exercises. Then you pass into a different state, when the body does not interfere with you and does not limit your perception, your sensations. This is the first stage of the QIGONG STATE. From this moment begins the next stage of your training.

4. The feeling of HEAVY arises as if due to the inability to relax and accept correct posture(then the unusual position of various parts of the body causes heaviness or pain, numbness, etc.), and when entering the image and filling with qi energy. Filling with qi also causes a feeling of fullness, during Zhan Zhuang the fingers swell, it is difficult to bend them, the legs swell ... Over time, the redistribution of energy in the whole body automatically begins to occur.

5. The feeling of VIBRATION is often associated with the flow of qi from outside and the passage of energy through the channels. Sometimes it seems that there are “buzzing wires” in the body.

6. BLOCKING THE EARS, HUM, as in an airplane when the flight altitude changes, are associated with receiving a large amount of qi from the outside and its entry into the brain. In the future, the practitioner will be able to hear sounds, talk at a very long distance.

7. FLASHES OF LIGHT before the inner gaze are associated with the activation of biologically active points (BAP) in the area of the third eye, when a sufficient amount of qi enters this zone.

8. VISIONS: images or communication with Jesus, Buddha, saints, conversations with them, pictures from different epochs of earthly life, pictures of other worlds, voices, advice, etc.

At the first stages of qigong, all this is a model of our brain, consciousness, psyche, based on the information available at the conscious and subconscious levels. This is not true. It's nothing more than phenomena. You should not focus on them, no matter how interesting they may be. Visions and sensations will change all the time, because this is due to changes in the body and consciousness. If you pay attention to such phenomena, you can easily go off the road leading to the top and never reach the final goal.

This can be compared to the track you are driving on and you have to overcome it in a certain amount of time. Various landscapes flicker outside the windows. You can admire them, put them somewhere in your memory, but at the same time follow the main road and remember the ultimate goal of your journey. If you stop at each new section or go out to explore the surroundings, then it may happen that you get stuck at the very beginning of the Path, not suspecting that all this is just the beginning, the Threshold, and then - other landscapes, a different perception ..., you run the risk of getting lost, hopelessly late or not getting to the place at all. Your life may not be enough to reach the goal of the trip.

Remember A: It's just an illusion. Pay no attention to them. Do not indulge your weaknesses and desires to get in touch with the Unusual. Unusual will come by itself naturally and become your routine.

9. PAIN can be caused by several reasons. If the practitioner is healthy and has enough qi that rises up to the head and third eye area, then:

a) pain occurs when BAP is activated in the area of the third eye and when it is opened, as well as when the points of the upper part of the head (along the perimeter) are activated and opened. This is the preparation of the body for the possibility of a future exit of the soul;

b) if a practitioner has or had any diseases, injuries, surgeries, etc., then pain is inevitable. Let's dwell on this in more detail.

Phenomena Associated with Practitioner's Illnesses

1. Pain. In terms of traditional Chinese medicine, at any site of the localization of the disease (current or past), there is a narrowing or "blockage" of the channels through which the qi energy circulates. This causes stagnation or obstruction of qi through this area, and with it, disturbances in blood circulation. This state of the canals can be compared to the bed of a dry river, when only in the deepest places there is still moisture left.

During the execution of Zhang Zhuang, qi begins to enter the body from the outside. As it accumulates, it automatically "flows" to those areas where it was lacking. Qi is redistributed. And when it begins to pass through a narrowed or clogged section of the canal, the person experiences pain. In China, they say: "qi fights the disease."

Pain can be of varying intensity and duration:

a) it happens that acute pain occurs during classes in the gym or at home and quickly passes without recurring in the future. This means that a person has received enough qi to immediately, as if with a jerk, “break through” an impenetrable section of the channel. Then the disease starts to go away.

b) it happens that the resulting pain is similar to the usual exacerbation of the disease and lasts a long time, sometimes several days or weeks. But it is worth stopping the practice of qigong - and the pain goes away. This happens in the case of long-term chronic diseases. Sometimes everything starts to hurt. This means that you have too many disorders in the body, and, for sure, it is oversaturated with drugs. And the accumulation of qi is slow. Then it takes time to defeat the disease and remove all the "dirt" (drugs, toxins, salts).

Therefore, in no case should you stop practicing. It is necessary to allow qi to bring the healing process to the end. Indeed, with any treatment, the disease often worsens, and then recovery occurs. So here. But unlike conventional methods of treatment, in this case, firstly, there is no side effects(as from medicines), and secondly, you are being treated by your own qi, which you only need to help accumulate in yourself in sufficient quantities. Therefore, she cannot harm you. After all, you are not treated by a person from the outside, but you are treating yourself. And not someone influences you, but your own qi automatically goes where it needs to go and does the work that needs to be done. So try not to interfere with her, unless, of course, you want to become healthy.

c) it happens that the practitioner did not have any pain, and he felt good until he started to practice. And when I started practicing, I started to experience pain. This is a reliable self-diagnosis.

Remember : Where qi flows without difficulty, one never experiences pain or discomfort.

Pain indicates that you have a violation in this area. Therefore, first try to remember if there were any injuries, operations, fractures here - not necessarily at the time of class. It could have been 5, 10, 50 years ago early childhood. And if you can’t remember anything, it means that you have some kind of disease in the initial stage, and you need to take action. If the pain is tolerable, continue to practice, and it will disappear, taking the disease with it, and if the pain is very strong, consult a doctor and examine this part of the body, because implicit disorders can develop into a very serious disease in the future.
So, if you have had operations, fractures, bruises, injuries, chronic inflammation of internal organs or joints, radiculitis, arthritis, sinusitis, etc., then pain is inevitable with proper exercise. Sometimes in these areas, instead of pain, there are sensations of pronounced discomfort.

2. Fainting state. If a practitioner has recently undergone major surgery and has not recovered enough, if he is simply physically weak, infirm, if he has severe blood pressure or heart disease, if he has cervical region spine, then when performing the third preparatory exercise and Zhang Zhuang, a short-term loss of consciousness is possible. The reason is the intensive flow of qi into a weakened body, especially into the brain. This is not dangerous. As a rule, after a few minutes a person comes to himself on his own. Sometimes the loss of consciousness turns into a normal dream. Pressing a finger on the Zhenzhong point under the nose on the upper lip brings a person to life. After that, you can continue the practice. In the future, such fainting states do not recur, and the practitioner begins to feel stronger, more vigorous, more efficient.

3. Intense vibrations of the whole body. This happens if the practitioner does not know how to relax well, has suffered nervous stress from which he has not fully recovered, or has a number of disorders. nervous system and emotional state. This causes numerous "clamps" of nerves, muscles, energy channels in different parts of the body. Qi entering the body during Zhan Zhuang begins to "break through" these blocks and look for "workarounds". Such a state should be monitored and try to relax as much as possible in order to assist the qi energy in performing work to normalize the state of the body. If the vibrations become excessive and uncontrollable, then you should press hard on the Hegu points at the base thumb on the back of the hand between the first and second metacarpal bones, closer to the radial edge, and then fold your hands on the Xia Dantian.

4. severe nausea and the urge to vomit during Zhan Zhuang occurs in a number of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, in particular, gastritis and peptic ulcer. When practicing at home, you do not need to restrain yourself, and after the release of the stomach, you should continue the exercise. With regular practice, the condition improves, and recovery begins.

5. Intense movements, strong rocking in the Zhan Zhuang process:

a) if Yin and Yang are not balanced in a practitioner, then after relaxing and “letting go” of the body, he sways slightly. This usually lasts for the first 2-3 sessions or some time at the beginning of each session (depending on the magnitude of the imbalance). Then the body calms down and the practitioner stands still;

b) if qi is blocked in some areas of the energy channels, the body moves automatically during qi attempts to pass through these zones;

c) intense movement or swaying of the body occurs when the state of the nervous system is disturbed, birth injuries, cerebral palsy, stuttering, some mental illnesses in remission, as well as numerous chronic diseases or injuries that have led to spasm or blockage of energy channels. In this case (with intensive movements) one should not practice Zhan Zhuang for more than 30 minutes.

6. Loud sounds(crying, tears, laughter, singing, screaming) during Zhan Zhuang occur with certain diseases of the heart and lungs:

a) with proper practice in the state of qigong with these sounds, sick qi leaves the body, and good qi comes in its place from the outside. But you should not specifically cry, laugh or scream with existing diseases. This can only be allowed to happen if everything happens naturally, automatically, in the STATE OF QIGONG;

b) if you are sensitive enough to feel the corresponding illness of the person next to you, then this can also cause your reaction. Then after you cry, for example, his condition will begin to improve. All this is a manifestation of the therapeutic effect.

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Now back to the Big Tree exercise, this exercise is performed like this.

Initial position standing, as described in the preparatory exercises section.
The legs are slightly bent. The tip of the tongue is pressed against the upper palate.
Hands will need to be raised and as if holding a large ball in front of you.

In this position, you need to stand still for at least 30 minutes.

Here the practitioner must learn to relax and allow the energy to flow smoothly throughout the body. To do this, you need to occupy, on the one hand, the most convenient and least expensive physical form on the other hand, to help your energy to circulate well...

Therefore, do not raise your hands very high ... This is not functional ...
The rule is: they say that “the armpits should fit ping-pong balls” (i.e. table tennis balls).

In fact, this is not entirely true ... The Chinese are somewhat thinner than us and the recommendations were written by them for themselves ... We, on average, have thicker arms, sides and rib cage wider, so the tennis ball is not quite what you need. We need to raise our hands a little higher ... Let's say these are gutta-percha balls for tennis if you are an average person...

In other words, feel for yourself that your armpits are slightly open ... and nothing more. There is no need to worsen your life once again and make standing harder than it makes sense... If the armpits are slightly open, then the energy is already flowing normally, without congestion in these places, and the goal has been achieved...

We have three areas in the body: these are three dan tian - lower, middle and upper...

The lower dan tian (xia dan tian) is a firebox, where the energy of “jing chi” is located. It is also called "fog energy" because it looks like fog...

This mist energy is stored in xia dan tian, and also fills our channels and is the basis for a healthy body... With the help of ching chi, we heal ourselves, and we work out our channels and can also heal others... To gain a lot of ching energy Qi must be practiced Xia Dian Tian.

Imagine a refractive tower, remember the lessons of chemistry.
There is crude oil at the very bottom, and then sublimation begins ... Under the influence of temperature, oil is divided into fractions and lighter (Yang) forms begin to rise upwards ... The same thing happens with the human energy system. With the correct practice of the dantians, the energy in each of them becomes “better”, “thinner”, “lighter” and begins to rise up ...

When there is a lot of ching-chi and it " good quality” then it begins to rise along the central channel Zhong-mai to the middle dan tian ...

The middle dan tian (zhong dan tian) is the energy of "qi", it is also called the "energy of light", because if you calm the mind, you can see this energy in the form of light of various colors.

If the "fog energy" (jing qi) is our channels, then the "light energy" (qi) is our internal organs... Light energy is what makes our internal organs work well. Each organ has its own “light”, its own type of qi energy: the kidneys are black (i.e. around them qi is black or dark dark blue), the liver is green, the heart is red, the spleen and stomach are yellow or light -brown, light - white or transparent...

It is impossible to clearly separate the energy of fog from the energy of light, yin contains yang, and yang always has yin ... All divisions are always conditional, but still, in order to understand the practice, we must separate ... three components: fog, light and information. All these components are inseparable, they act and flow from one quality to another in their natural way.

There is also the upper dan tian, the shang dan tian... But the upper dan tian should not be practiced on your own or until many years of working out the lower and middle dan tians... During the practice of the upper dan tian, shen qi, "energy of the spirit" is formed. Develop psychic abilities. Favorable conditions are formed for the appearance of a "pause". To practice the Shang Dan Tian, you need to practice a lot of the lower two Dan Tians, do exercises to clear the channels, prepare the head for large portions of energy and to remove excess energy from the head. In particular, these are exercises of the 1st stage: yang-chi and a small celestial circle.

Xia dan tian and zhong dan tian are the "base", especially xia dan tian.
If you practice the lower dan tians (for example, xia dan tian) diligently enough, then sooner or later, jing chi itself will begin to transform into qi and rise into zhong dan tian, and then continue its ascent into shang dan tian...

It is unreasonable to rush things and practice "cool" upper dan tians without having developed a base, then - with what, in fact, you need to work, the foundation and material for all subsequent construction ... Moreover, there are no "cool" dan tians, each has its own tasks: The task of Xia-Dantian is health and building material for the development of the spirit...

It is ching-chi that will later "nourish the shen, the spirit."

And in general it is wrong to think that we "build" processes. Everything happens by itself. This is a natural law of nature. If qi did not move by itself along the Small Heavenly Circle, we would not live... Jing-qi is produced by itself. Always... There are no discrete processes, as if you need to work with the lower dan tian for five years, and then there will be a change and the qi will suddenly move up.
Qi is produced by itself every second and as much as possible - so much constantly rises ...

But by practice we stimulate processes.

When money finally appears, you first need to pay off debts, then buy food, clothes, housing and furniture - and only then go on vacation to the Canary Islands. So it is with spiritual practices. First, when more energy appears, it is directed to the treatment of the body. And only then, when the base is developed physical health, - effective spiritual development. This is the way energy and qigong masters work.

How to practice dantian? Namely, this is what the adept does when he raises his hands in “pillar” positions and imagines the ball, “meditating on the ball, on the sensations between the hands”... Where there is consciousness, there is qi...
If he holds the ball (mentally observes it between his hands) at the level of the Xia Dan Tian, then the Xia Dan Tian is stimulated, if he holds the ball opposite the Zhong Dan Tian, then the middle Dan Tian is stimulated...

In the first step, we raise our hands at the level of the lower dan tian.

About thought patterns...
In some qigong schools they don't pay attention to this, they just stand there and stand "in a column"... A lot of energy is gaining... What else is needed...

In spiritual systems, in the so-called "systems higher levels practice”, it is considered that the most important thing is not qi itself, but its quality, information structure ... And it is the information that will then affect our body, change energy and consciousness ...

When you stand in the Tree... imagine that roots begin to grow from your feet... They go deep into the earth... deeper and deeper... so they already penetrate all the lower worlds and begin to receive the energy of the earth and all the lower worlds... Imagine how this energy goes up the roots, reaches your body and starts to rise up... You start to grow up... You become huge and pierce the Sky with your head... You turn into a Huge Cosmic Tree, your crown begins to grow and spreads throughout the Cosmos... The Energy of Heaven and all the Upper Worlds enters you through this crown and flows down... Now you are no longer a person, but a Big Tree... Breathe in through the roots several times to get better feel the flow of energy... it enters you through the yunquan points on the soles of your feet... Then inhale several times with the crown, feeling how the energy of Heaven enters you through the branches and the baihui point, on the crown of your head... This is not necessary, you can just to start doing this, stimulating the process ... See yourself as a Huge Tree with roots, crown, branches, bark... You are filled with the life-giving juice of the Universe...

The entire “performance” takes a minute or two, or even less... They presented these images once and that's it... - they forgot about them. More for the entire duration of the exercise - do not think about anything special. Do not go back in your thoughts to the fact that you are a "Tree". You are already a Tree, certain mechanisms have already been launched... The thought of the Immortal Tree, the structure of this Thought-image began to change your structure, and now you are accumulating Its properties...
If you perform this exercise regularly, you will actually change your energy-informational structure.

You won't get sick. Immortal Big Tree - does not get sick.
No one can offend you, harm you... Is there anyone in the world who can harm a Being like you, a Being as huge as the Cosmos Itself...

Sooner or later you will really combine the information of the Earth and the Sky, become a mediator, a conductor, an integral Being... You will understand the Universe, you will know Harmony...

It cannot be analyzed and explained. It needs to be practiced...

After you have imagined the mental image of the Tree and forgot about it, slowly raise your branches to the level of the lower dan tian... Imagine a ball between the palms, the ball touches the hands and the dan tian... Imagine this ball for a few seconds... And forget too... Just look "somewhere there" in the area between your hands, where you imagined the ball... IMAGINE NOTHING else, but just look, feel something between your hands... this area...

The state of your observation “behind the ball”, is similar to how it happens if you quietly and peacefully stare into a fire in the forest ... Everything is quiet, everything has disappeared ... You “seem to be here, it seems not to be here” ... So it is here ... look into the "ball between the hands" ... easily, without tension, as you would look into a fire ... It seems there is, it seems not ... Get lost, dissolve, do not strain ...

Relax... from now on - EVERYTHING IS DONE... Forget about the posture... If you find yourself in a different position (one hand raised higher or lower), it's okay, then for now it is necessary for your energy system... Keep practicing ...just look at this area between the hands...

Do not think about any "muscle groups", do not look for them and relax ...

Forget about everything... Don't do ANY WORK... don't look for anything, don't watch anything... including breathing... as it comes out, it comes out... Just feel the area between your hands , lightly scan it with your attention.

How to end the exercise?
Recall yourself, concentrate on the ball, visualize it again, squeeze it with your hands and enter it into the dan tian... Squeezing the ball with your hands, in the end your palms should be on the navel. Men always put their left palm under their right, women should do the opposite. Imagine in your stomach, under your palms, a red and hot ball. For half a minute, mentally concentrate on it and on the sensations of the lower dan tian. Then squeeze the red hot ball into a small dot...

It is not necessary, if it is not possible to clearly imagine the ball, for half an hour to try, wrinkling your forehead, to call up its image.

All these actions with visualization are done quickly ... you just need to understand that these are the Laws of the Cosmos - "where your consciousness is, there is your qi." If you said to yourself mentally - and if you couldn’t imagine, then you really just even said to yourself - “the ball goes through the channel”, then the ball really goes ... if “the ball shrinks to a point”, then it really shrinks ....
If you do not immediately feel it, then sooner or later you will feel ... if you do not see it now, you will see it later. This will neither increase nor decrease efficiency.

Do not forget after the end of the exercise to rub your palms to a strong heat, thoroughly and thoroughly slap your head and whole body with warmed palms, shake your whole body, slightly rising on your toes and falling on your heels ... jumping slightly like this for several minutes ... Then rub your face, thoroughly and rub your ears hard...

ATTENTION : Women during menstruation and pregnancy need to hold the ball against the middle dan tian with their hands. At the end of the exercise, one should compress the ball, place it in the middle dan tian, visualize a red hot ball and lower it down the Zhong-mai channel to the lower dan tian, then compress this ball into a point.

NOTE:

When performing the Big Tree exercise, there is a powerful process of gathering qi.

Energy, moving through the body, like a ruff on a bottle, pushes all the toxins and salts from the tissues of the body into the blood, which will later leave the body with urine, the body is cleansed and renewed.

In addition to a set of qi, the Big Tree exercise helps to change consciousness, some fundamental information structures of our energy, which will affect the understanding of the Universe, the knowledge of Harmony and Unity.

Finally, the Big Tree makes people physically strong, some fatigue contributes to subsequent relaxation, and will make it possible to experience the State of Qigong in “quiet” exercises (Yang-chi, Small Heavenly Circle).

Big Tree - the most important, multifaceted exercise, it is impossible to explain all its nuances, what it can give - you can only understand it yourself, later, with regular practice.

Note: for the first time the article was published in 2007, now we can bring to your attention detailed video lectures about the "Big Tree" Exercise in our magazine "Sign of the Magus".

It is practiced at the initial stage for cleansing and gaining energy.

This exercise is several thousand years old.

In one modification or another, it is performed in various schools of qigong and wushu.

However, in them the name is translated as a pillar (sometimes a high stump). This is a literal translation without taking into account the deep meaning. When practicing in these systems, students were instructed to stand motionless like a pillar for a long time.

In the Zhong Yuan Qigong system, this exercise is also one of the most important, various forms it is practiced in the first three steps. However, here it means a big tree.

And if in China they talk about the “Big Tree” with such a form, explaining the meaning of the exercise, then they always refer to the fact that it was borrowed from the Zhong Yuan qigong system. Compare for yourself: a high stump or pillar implies something motionless and inanimate, and a large tree is powerful, living, breathing.

Since ancient times, people have thought about the question of why a human life ends at 60, 70, 80 years. Few people live to be 90 years old. And very few cross the 100-year milestone. At the same time, we experience discomfort in extreme heat and suffer in cold weather. The plant world is a completely different matter.

Many trees live hundreds of years. In winter and summer, in cold and heat, under the sun and rain, they grow without experiencing feelings, desires, emotions.

Their roots go deep into the ground and receive from it water and all the substances necessary for life, which rise along the trunk up to the leaves. Their crown rushes up, washed by rain, swaying from the wind, bathed in the sun's rays during the day and receives the light of the stars and moon at night.

And all this enters the leaves, branches, trunk and descends along it to the roots. Thus, the tree receives nutrients and energy from below, from the Earth, and from above, from the Cosmos. And they pass along the trunk towards each other, accumulate and enable the tree to grow and live. And so the tree combines the Earth and the Cosmos.

What if a person becomes like a tree?

Will it prolong his life? For many years, the forms of such a practice were selected and worked out, until it was found that regular exercise of this kind really allows you to accumulate the energy of the Yin Earth and the Yang Cosmos, lengthen life and get rid of many diseases.

Starting position - feet shoulder-width apart, feet parallel, knees slightly bent, back straight - pelvis slightly forward for this.

(You can adjust the position of the body so that in addition to the legs there is a third point of support - the tail, like a kangaroo).

The chin is slightly lowered to keep the neck straight.

At the same time, the head is, as it were, suspended by the top of the head (like a Christmas tree toy). The body is relaxed. The tongue touches the upper palate, the eyes are closed, but not completely closed.

Imagine that both of your feet grow deep into the earth and turn into the roots of a mighty tree and, like the roots of a tree, absorb moisture, nutrients and Yin energy from the earth.

Imagine that your torso grows high into the sky, above the clouds, to sunlight and to the light of the stars, the moon. And from there you receive and absorb light, wind, rain, the energy of Cosmos Yang. And you yourself become huge, like the Cosmos.

Raise your arms so that your palms are opposite your navel. Elbows set back from the body, as if under the armpits tennis balls fragile as eggs. The lines of the arms are rounded and relaxed, as if embracing a large inflatable ball. Imagine and feel an elastic ball between the palms and the center of the navel.

Forget about yourself, about your posture. Feel how the Earth qi rises through the root-legs, and the Cosmos qi comes from above. Feel this movement and energy ball between your palms and your navel. And forget again.

The minimum duration of the Big Tree exercise is 30 minutes.

This is due to the fact that the blood washes all parts of our body in 30 minutes. Therefore, it takes at least half an hour for the qi that begins to enter the body, together with the blood, to reach all areas and all cells of the body.

After some time, when you get used to this form, the duration of the exercise should be increased to two hours.

Output: concentrate the qi in the lower dan tian. Slowly open your eyes and fold your hands in this area (women - right hand on the navel, left - from above; men are the opposite). In this case, the center of the palm (Laogong point) of the hand located on the navel from below should coincide with the center of the navel.

Mentally concentrate and squeeze the ball in the lower dan tian into a point. Feel a hot spot or pulse under your palms. This is the center of your Xia Dantian.

ATTENTION: During the regulation, women are advised to keep their hands and the ball in front of the middle cauldron - Zhong Dantian, in order to avoid bleeding. During pregnancy, the Big Tree is performed without the help of hands and without feeling the ball at the level of the lower cauldron.

Final exercises

Rub your palms until you feel heat in them.
“Wash” their face up (from the chin to the hair) - with a slight movement, then to the sides (smoothing the forehead) and down (through the temples to the chin) - with pressure. In this case, with your thumbs, run along the auricles from top to bottom.
Intensively pat with soft palms on the head in the direction from the back of the head to the forehead.
“Comb” the hair with the pads of your fingers in the direction from the forehead to the back of the head and from the temples to the back of the head. In this case, the fingers should massage the scalp through the hair with intense pressure.
Rub the auricles, kneading them between the fingers, from top to bottom, and the tragus - until the sensation of "burning ears" appears.
Intensively pat the hand with a soft palm from the shoulder to the wrist along the outer and inner sides (alternately: first the left, then the right).
With both hands, simultaneously clap the body from the front from top to bottom (from the neck to the pubis) and at the level of the waist (from the sides to the Xia Dan Tian).
Clap the legs from top to bottom from all sides, starting from the Huantiao point.
Slap the back from the bottom up along the spine.
Rub your palms again and place them on the kidney area. Listen to how the warmth of the palms passes into the region of the kidneys, adrenal glands.

Explanations for the final exercises

1. Intensive rubbing of the palms Helps balance yin-yang. Before rubbing, you can check the balance of yin-yang after doing the Big Tree. If the temperature of the palms is the same, then the yin-yang are balanced, if they are different, there is no balance.

2. When performing the exercise, the palms are activated, an intense qi field arises around them. "Washing" the face with such palms improves blood microcirculation in the skin, enhances metabolic processes. There is a massage of the skin with a field of qi. Imagine and feel your palms smooth out the wrinkles on your forehead and around your eyes.

With regular performance of this exercise, the skin of the face rejuvenates, becomes fresh and healthy.
In ancient times, this was one of the cosmetic ways to rejuvenate the skin with qi energy without any ointments, creams ... There are no side effects.

This method is still in use today. When you wash your face, then regularly, without realizing it, massage your face. The same thing happens when rubbing creams into the skin.

But when using cosmetics sometimes there is a side effect as different people have different skin sensitivities. In addition, addiction to the same preparations is possible, and with prolonged use of cosmetics, the skin loses elasticity without it, ages, looks stale and requires its constant use.

This is due to the fact that the regular introduction of various materials into the skin from the outside reduces or completely stops the function of producing the necessary substances by the skin itself.

You can do without any cosmetics, if you take a little water in an activated palm and gently rub it into the skin, while mentally massaging with your qi energy.

3. Slap on the head with activated palms with an intense qi field around them, it helps to open channels and active points located in the head area, normalize the movement of qi in these areas, and with it the blood, and, as a result, get rid of headaches (who have them).

In addition, brain nutrition improves.

4. "Combing" hair leads to an improvement in blood microcirculation in the skin (due to the simultaneous massage of the skin with the energy of qi fingers). If you perform 300-500 such movements 2-3 times a day, then within a month the hairline begins to recover even in bald people.

5. There are many BAPs on the auricles associated with all the internal organs of the body / Intensive rubbing of the auricles with activated fingers is equivalent to a massage of the entire body and its internal organs. Points that cause pain should be rubbed longer and especially actively, as this indicates a violation in the organ associated with this point.

6. Clap hands, feet, torso are produced along the energy channels in order to open BAPs located on these channels and improve the qi circulation in them. If this is done intensively enough, then a person acquires a kind of kung fu, in which his body becomes less sensitive to blows. This type of exercise is included in the practice of hard qigong.

REMEMBER : Before performing the Big Tree, you need to open the channels on the fingers (and if the situation allows, then the legs), and after its completion NECESSARILY do final exercises, as they contribute to the uniform distribution of qi in the body. Otherwise, headaches, a burning sensation or bursting in certain areas, and an uncomfortable condition may occur.

Associated phenomena:

At the first stages of the exercise, 8 sensations are distinguished, which are classified as normal (listed below).

The intensity of sensations depends on many factors, but primarily on the state of the body, both physical and psycho-emotional.

Normal Phenomena

1. COLD or HEAT the practitioner may experience if the yin-yang in the body is not balanced.

The concentration of qi in the lower or middle dan tian usually produces a sensation of a warm or hot ball. With the correct execution of the Big Tree and an intensive collection of qi from the environment, sometimes there is a feeling of such a strong HEAT that it is difficult to endure. Heartbeat quickens, profuse sweating begins.

2. The opening of active points is accompanied by a sensation goose bumps or itching. If these points were blocked somewhere (especially on the head), then the itching can be simply unbearable. Usually such intense sensations pass quickly, and after that the practitioner begins to experience relief and lightness in this area. He can breathe through it.

3. LIGHTNESS, WEIGHTLESSNESS body awareness arises when you manage to “forget about yourself” during the exercises — you move into a different state in which the body does not interfere and does not limit your perception, your sensations. This is the first stage of the QIGONG STATE. From this moment begins the next stage of your development.

4. Feeling HEAVY arises both due to the inability to relax and take the correct posture (then the unusual position of various parts of the body causes heaviness or pain, numbness, etc.), and when entering the image and filling with qi energy. Filling with qi also causes a feeling of fullness: the fingers swell (it is difficult to bend them), the legs swell ... Over time, the redistribution of energy automatically begins to occur throughout the body.

5. Sensation of VIBRATION often associated with the flow of qi from outside and the passage of energy through the channels. Sometimes it seems that there are “buzzing wires” in the body.

6. EARS BURNING, HUM, as in an airplane with a change in flight altitude, are associated with receiving a large amount of qi from the outside and its entry into the brain. In the future, the practitioner may be able to hear individual sounds and conversation at a very long distance.

7. FLASHES OF LIGHT in front of the inner eye are associated with the activation of BAP in the area of the Third Eye, when a sufficient amount of qi enters this zone.

8. VISIONS: images or communication with Jesus, Buddha, saints, conversations with them, pictures from various epochs of earthly life, pictures of the worlds, voices, advice, etc.

At the first stages of qigong, all these are models produced by our brain, consciousness, psyche and based on the information available at the conscious and subconscious levels. This is not true. These are nothing more than phenomena. They should not be emphasized, no matter how interesting they may be.

Visions and sensations will change all the time, as this is due to changes in the body and consciousness. If you pay attention to such phenomena, you can easily go off the road leading to the top and never reach the final goal.

9. PAIN may be due to several reasons. If the practitioner is healthy and has enough qi that rises up to the head and third eye area, then:
a) pain occurs when BAP is activated in the area of the Third Eye and when it is opened, as well as when the points of the upper part of the head (along the perimeter) are activated and opened. This is the preparation of the body for the possibility of a future exit of the soul;

b) if a practitioner has or had any diseases, injuries, surgeries, etc., then pain is inevitable. Let's dwell on this in more detail.

The Phenomenon Related to Practitioner's Illnesses

- Pain sensations. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, at any site of the localization of the disease (current or past), there is a narrowing or “blockage” of the channels through which the qi energy circulates. This causes stagnation or obstruction of qi through this area and, as a result, disturbances in blood circulation.

During the execution of the Big Tree, qi begins to enter the body from the outside. As it accumulates, it automatically “flows” to those areas where it was lacking. Qi is redistributed. And when it begins to pass through a narrowed or clogged section of the canal, the person experiences pain.

In China, they say: "Qi fights the disease."

It happens that the practitioner did not hurt anything and felt good until ... he began to practice. And as I practiced, I began to experience pain. This is a reliable self-diagnosis.

REMEMBER: Where qi flows without difficulty, one never experiences pain or discomfort. Pain signals that there are violations in this area. Therefore, first try to remember if there were any injuries, operations, fractures here - some time ago, or in early childhood.

And if you can’t remember anything, then this means that you have some violations in this area and you need to take action. If the pain is tolerable, continue to practice, and it will disappear, taking the disease with it, and if the pain is very strong, consult a doctor and examine this part of the body.

A BIG TREE. Introduction.

A BIG TREE. Practical part.

A BIG TREE. Recommendations.

Final exercises.

related phenomena.

A BIG TREE.Introduction

Exactly this important exercise first step. He is several thousand years old. In one modification or another, it is performed in various schools of qigong and wushu. However, in them it is called zhang zhuang and is translated as "pillar" (sometimes - a high stump). This is a literal translation without taking into account the deep meaning. The disciples were instructed to stand motionless for a long time, like a pillar.

In the Zhong Yuan Qigong system, various forms of this exercise are practiced in four steps. But here it means Big Tree. (If in China they talk about the “Big Tree” pose, then they necessarily refer to the fact that this is borrowed from the Zhong Yuan qigong system. Compare for yourself: a high stump or pillar means something motionless and inanimate, and a big tree contains the power and breath of life .)

Since ancient times, people have thought about the question of why a human life ends at 60, 70, 80 years. Few people live to be 90 years old. And very few cross the 100-year milestone.

Now scientists around the world have come to the conclusion that life expectancy can be determined by the presence of sexual potency. It is this, and not age and appearance tells whether a person is old or not. Until the age of 12, most people do not have these functions, then they appear and begin to fade away at about 50 years old. Then they say that this person is no longer young. But by practicing qigong, you can feel young even at 80. In real life, things don't work like that. In very many people who are just over thirty, sexual functions are weakened. And with the practice of qigong, they begin to recover quickly, a person gains strength and energy, health improves ... But how to achieve longevity, how to prolong life?

The flora and fauna are quite another matter. Some species of turtles live up to a thousand years, but the biggest centenarians on Earth are trees. In China, the longest-living deciduous Gingo tree. Many trees are about 2000 years old and are not yet considered old. A truly old tree is about 6 thousand years old.

Many modern scientists believe that the natural age of a person can range from 150 to 180 years. We are now living half of this possible age, even less than half ... We do not really know how to live longer, so we need to learn this from the trees, and not only that. It is known that in the event of an illness, a tree can recover very quickly. We, too, must learn to quickly get rid of our illnesses and again, as it were, grow anew.

We suffer from emotions, we are always in a hurry somewhere, we are nervous. At the same time, we experience discomfort in extreme heat and suffer in frosts ... The world of trees is a completely different matter: in winter and summer, in cold and heat, under the sun and rain, they live without desire. Their roots go deep into the ground and receive from it water and all the substances necessary for life, which rise along the trunk up to the leaves. Their crown rushes up, washed by rain, swayed by the wind, bathed in the sun's rays during the day, and at night receives the light of the stars and the moon. And all this enters the leaves, branches, trunk and descends along it to the roots. Thus, the tree receives nutrients and energy from below, from the Earth, and from above, from the Cosmos. And they move along the trunk towards each other, accumulate and enable the tree to grow and live. And so the tree combines the Earth and the Cosmos.

In order to learn from trees, one must become a tree, identify oneself with it. Then one can feel the energy within the body that we receive from Earth and Heaven, understand how many diseases can be cured by such practice. And we will learn to restore our body.

According to the experience of Grand Masters and practitioners for thousands of years, it has been found that imitating the tree posture and identifying with the tree can indeed increase vitality, prolong life. According to the philosophy of Zhong Yuan Qigong, in order to understand nature and the universe, we need to return to nature, connect with it. By becoming mentally a tree, you enter nature and connect with it.

A BIG TREE. Practical part

In the first stage of Zhong Yuan Qigong, the Big Tree is performed as follows:

1. Starting position: feet shoulder-width apart, feet parallel, knees slightly bent, back straight, for this the pelvis is slightly forward. The chin is slightly lowered to keep the neck straight. In this case, the head is, as it were, suspended by the top of the head. The body is relaxed. The tongue touches the upper palate, the eyes are closed, but not completely. There is a slight smile on the face to relax the mind and consciousness...

You can adjust the position of the body so that in addition to the legs there is a third point of support, for example, a tail, like a kangaroo. Your body should not fall back: if you rest your heels on the wall in this position, then your body from the back should not touch the wall. Your posture will be correct if it is comfortable for you to hold an object on your head or catch it with your head.

2. Raise your arms so that the palms are at the level of the navel. To do this, set your elbows a little to the sides to open your armpits, as if there are fragile, like eggs, tennis balls. Then move your palms to the level of the navel. The lines of the arms are rounded as if they embrace a ball. Relax your hands - there should be no effort, no physical strength.

Imagine and feel an elastic energy ball between the palms and the navel.

3. Then forget about yourself - you mentally turn into a Big tree - it can be a pine tree that lives for hundreds of years, it can be a Gingo tree.

You can imagine that you are in the forest and both your feet grow deep into the earth and turn into the roots of a mighty tree, and like the roots of a tree, they absorb moisture, nutrients and yin energy from the earth.

4. Imagine how the body grows high into the sky, above the clouds, turning into a mighty trunk, and the head into a crown. And from there you receive and absorb the sunlight and the energy of the yang Cosmos. And you yourself become huge, like the Cosmos. You are a big tree.

5. Forget about yourself, about your posture. Feel how the Earth qi rises through the root-legs, and the Cosmos qi comes from above. Feel this movement and energy ball between your palms and your navel. And forget again.

6. Modification of item 5. Imagine and feel how this ball begins to grow, becomes larger and larger, its borders pass through your body, and you find yourself inside the ball. Feel yourself inside this ball, feel the sensations of the sounds of music when you and the ball are huge, like the Cosmos.

Then the ball begins to decrease in size. It is getting smaller and smaller, and the energy inside it is getting denser and denser. Its shell, decreasing, passes through your body, and here it again fits between your palms and the navel. Then it increases in size again, and you are inside the ball. Then it decreases again. And so several times.

7. Having finished this exercise, you should return to your usual state. After that, you again begin to feel the energy ball between the hands and the navel, it should be mentally reduced in size, inserted through the navel and lowered into the lower dan tian. At the same time, place your hands on the navel area: women place their right hand on the navel, and the left on top; men are the opposite. The thumb of the upper hand is hidden under lower arm into the “lock”, and the center of the lower palm (Laogong point) should coincide with the center of the navel.

Mentally concentrate the qi in the lower dan tian as small as possible. Listen to sensations in the depths of the body under the arms ... Feel a warm or hot area or pulsation under the palms. Then slowly open your eyes.

Remember!
1. It is recommended that women keep their hands and tar at chest level opposite the middle dan tian to avoid bleeding. Finishing the exercise, insert the ball into the middle dan tian, then lower it into the lower dan tian.
2. During pregnancy, the Big Tree is performed in a similar way. At the end, lower the energy down into the lower dan tian with your consciousness without the help of your hands and do not concentrate on feeling the ball in the lower dan tian.

The minimum duration of the Big Tree is 30 minutes. This is due to the fact that blood and qi pass through all the vessels and channels of our body in about 30 minutes. Therefore, it takes at least half an hour for the qi that begins to enter the body, together with the blood, to reach all areas and all cells of the body. After some time, when you get used to this position, the duration of the Big Tree can be increased to two hours.

Pay attention to the fact that during the Big Tree exercise, a lot of saliva is formed in the mouth. At first it tastes familiar to you, then it is sweetish, and after a certain period of practice it gives a whole range of taste sensations, up to the nectar of flowers. It does not need to be spit out later - as saliva accumulates in the oral cavity, it must be slowly swallowed, lowering mentally even further into the stomach and into the lower dan tian. Previously, such saliva was called jade or golden liquid, golden water, thereby emphasizing that it is equally precious to the body. It was considered to be more valuable than gold. Already modern biochemical studies have made it possible to establish that such saliva contains a lot of trace elements, and it has: a therapeutic effect on the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, improves their functions and the process of digestion.

To restore health and maintain it in good condition, it is enough to practice 30 minutes daily. After the exercise does not cause discomfort in the body, you can practice it less frequently, for example, 2 times a week or even once, but then longer. If you feel that you have a cold and get sick, immediately start practicing the Big Tree for at least an hour. At a high temperature, two hours of continuous practice will normalize the temperature.

For serious practice, it is necessary to perform the exercise daily for at least an hour or 1-2 times a week for several hours in a row.

Final exercises

1. Rub your palms until they feel hot.

2. "Wash" their face up (from the chin to the hair) - with a slight movement, then to the sides (smoothing the forehead) and down (through the temples to the chin) - with pressure. In this case, with your thumbs, run along the auricles from top to bottom.

3. Intensively pat with soft palms on the head in the direction from the back of the head to the forehead.

4. "Comb" the hair with the pads of your fingers in the direction from the forehead to the back of the head and from the temples to the back of the head. In this case, the fingers should massage the scalp through the hair with intense pressure.

5. Rub the auricles, kneading them between the fingers, from top to bottom, and the tragus - until the sensation of "burning ears" appears.

6. Intensively slap the hand with a soft palm from the shoulder to the wrist along the outer and inside(alternately: first left, then right).

7. Simultaneously slap the torso with both hands from the front from top to bottom (from the neck to the pubis) and at the level of the waist (from the sides to the lower dan tian).

8. Clap the legs from top to bottom on all sides, starting from the Huantiao point.

9. Slap the back from the bottom up along the spine.

10. Rub your palms again and put them on the kidney area. Listen to how the warmth of the palms passes into the region of the kidneys, adrenal glands.

The meaning and meaning of the exercise

1. Intense rubbing of the palms helps to balance the yin-yang. Before rubbing, you can check the balance of yin-yang after doing the Big Tree. If the temperature of the palms is the same, then the yin-yang are balanced, if they are different, there is no balance.

2. During the exercise, the palms are activated, an intense qi field appears around them. "Washing" the face with such palms improves blood microcirculation in the skin, enhances metabolic processes. There is a massage of the skin with a field of qi. Imagine and feel your palms smooth out the wrinkles on your forehead and around your eyes. With regular performance of this exercise, the skin of the face rejuvenates, becomes fresh and healthy.

In ancient times, it was one of the cosmetic ways to rejuvenate the skin with qi energy without any ointments, creams ... There are no side effects. This method is still in use today. When you wash your face, then regularly, without realizing it, massage your face. The same thing happens when rubbing creams into the skin. But at the same time, addiction to the same drugs is possible, and with prolonged use of cosmetics, the skin without it loses elasticity and ages. You can take some water in the activated palm and gently rub it into the skin, while mentally massaging with your qi energy.

3. Clapping on the head with activated palms with an intense qi field around them helps to open channels and active points located in the head area, normalize the movement of qi in these areas, and with it the blood, and, as a result, get rid of headaches (who they are). In addition, brain nutrition improves.

4. "Combing" the hair leads to an improvement in blood microcirculation in the skin (due to the simultaneous massage of the skin with the energy of qi fingers). If you perform 300-500 such movements 2-3 times a day, then within a month the hairline begins to recover even in bald people.

5. On the auricles there are many BAPs associated with all the internal organs of the body. Intensive rubbing of the auricles with activated fingers is equivalent to a massage of the whole body and its internal organs. Points that cause pain should be rubbed longer and especially actively, as this indicates a violation in the organ associated with this point.

6-9. The clapping of the arms, legs, torso is performed along the energy channels in order to open the BAPs located on these channels and improve the qi circulation in them. If this is done intensively enough, then a person acquires a kind of kung fu, in which his body becomes less sensitive to blows. This type of exercise is included in the practice of hard qigong.

10. Exercise improves kidney function.

The Big Tree exercise itself is best done in the morning. It promotes the reception and accumulation of energy from the environment, increases efficiency during the day. After doing this exercise in the evening, many people have an excess of energy and find it difficult to fall asleep. But the choice of practice time is individual and depends on your capabilities. There are no rigid recommendations for the practice of the first stage.

Remember! Before performing the Big Tree, you need to open the channels on the fingers (and if the situation allows, then the legs), and after its completion, be sure to do the final exercises, as they contribute to the even distribution of qi in the body, otherwise headaches, burning sensations may occur. or bursting in certain areas, discomfort.

Associated phenomena

At the first stages of the exercises, eight sensations are distinguished, which are classified as normal. This is heat (it can be very hot, to the point of pain) and cold (sometimes so strong that the blood "freezes in the veins", and sometimes a long chill). This is numbness, goosebumps (as if insects are running or crawling in separate parts of the body at different speeds, and also of different sizes). This is an itch (it can be so unbearable that you want to literally tear the skin). These are sensations of lightness (or a feeling of complete loss of weight, and sometimes of the body) and heaviness (as if weights were hung on the legs, arms, shoulders, or as if the legs had grown into the ground and cannot be torn off). This also includes the feeling of fullness, which occurs when overflowing with energy. Less often there are sensations of slipperiness (the impression is that the skin is slippery, like ice, or smeared with grease) or roughness. The intensity of sensations depends on many factors, but primarily on the state of the body, both physical and psycho-emotional.

In addition, there are phenomena and sensations associated with certain diseases or simply changes in the physical body and the evolution of the practitioner, such as vibrations in the body, pain, the appearance of sounds, lights or flashes. Let us briefly consider the most common phenomena.

Normal Phenomena

1. A practitioner may experience cold or heat if the yin-yang in the body is not balanced.

The concentration of qi in the lower or middle dan tian usually produces a sensation of a warm or hot ball. With the correct execution of the Big Tree and the intensive collection of qi from the environment, sometimes there is a feeling of such intense heat that it is difficult to endure. The heartbeat becomes more frequent, profuse sweating begins.

At certain stages of practice, some experience sensations of different temperatures in the right and left palms or the right and left sides of the body. This is due to the fact that one half of us is more Yang, and the other half is Yin. There are practice methods that allow you to strengthen and consolidate this effect. In ancient times, they were used in combat systems. With one hand it was possible to burn the enemy, as if with fire, with the other - to bind with cold.

Sometimes a practitioner feels chills for several days, begins to wrap himself up, but still cannot get warm. Then you need to practice more. This indicates the beginning of the restructuring in the body. Sometimes, after performing the Big Tree, there is a feeling of such a sharp cold that it seems as if the blood runs cold in the veins. There is no need to be afraid of such a state, no need to try to artificially interrupt it with a massage, a hot bath, hot drinks or “hot” drinks. This means that changes continue to occur in the body, despite the cessation of exercise. One must continue the practice or simply endure such a state. And after that, you will rise to the next step in the development of your body.

2. The opening of active points is accompanied by a feeling of goosebumps or itching running through the body. If these points were blocked somewhere (especially on the head), then the itching can be simply unbearable. Usually, such intense sensations pass quickly, and after that the practitioner begins to experience relief and lightness in this area. He can breathe through it.

Sometimes the sensations of goosebumps are accompanied by the vibration of these zones, but not constant, but as if rolling in waves. Such sensations are more interesting than uncomfortable, but sometimes they can border on pain, which indicates a very intense opening of points. After the process is completed, it seems that the body has become porous and is blown through. In this case, until you get used to these sensations, it is better to refrain from a contrast shower and bathing in cold water.

3. Lightness, weightlessness of the body occurs when you manage to "forget about yourself" during the exercises - you move into a different state in which the body does not interfere and does not limit your perception, your sensations. This is the first stage of the Qigong State. From this moment begins the next stage of your development.

4. The feeling of heaviness arises both due to the inability to relax and take the correct posture (then the unusual position of various parts of the body causes heaviness or pain, numbness, etc.), and when entering the image and filling with qi energy.

Filling with qi also causes a feeling of fullness: fingers swell (it is difficult to bend them), legs swell ... Over time, redistribution of energy automatically begins to occur throughout the body.

5. The feeling of vibration is often associated with the flow of qi from outside and the passage of energy through the channels. Sometimes it seems that there are “buzzing wires” in the body.

6. Stuffed ears, hum, as in an airplane when the flight altitude changes, are associated with receiving a large amount of qi from the outside and its entry into the brain. In the future, the practitioner may be able to hear individual sounds and conversation at a very long distance.

7. Flashes of light in front of the inner eye are associated with the activation of BAP in the area of the Third Eye, when a sufficient amount of qi enters this zone.

8. Visions: images or communication with Jesus, Buddha, saints, conversations with them, pictures from different epochs of earthly life, pictures of other worlds, voices, advice, etc.

At the first stages of qigong, all these are models produced by our brain, consciousness, psyche and based on the information available at the conscious and subconscious levels. This is not true. They are nothing more than phenomena. You should not focus on them, no matter how interesting they may be. Visions and sensations will change all the time, as this is due to changes in the body and consciousness.

If you pay attention to such phenomena, you can easily go off the road leading to the top and never reach the final goal. This can be compared to a track that you are driving along in a car and that you need to overcome in a certain time. Various landscapes flicker outside the windows. You can admire them, put them away somewhere in memory, but at the same time follow the main road and remember the ultimate goal of your journey.

If you stop at each new section or go out to explore the surroundings, you can get stuck at the very beginning of the Path, not suspecting that all this is just the Beginning, the Threshold, and then - other landscapes, a different perception ...

You run the risk of getting lost, hopelessly late or not getting to the place at all. Your life may not be enough to reach the goal of the trip.

Remember! Visions are just illusions. Pay no attention to them. Do not indulge your weaknesses and desires to get in touch with the unusual. It will come by itself, naturally, and become your routine.

9. Pain can be caused by several reasons. If the practitioner is healthy and has enough qi that rises up to the head and third eye area, then:

a) pain occurs when BAP is activated in the area of the Third Eye and when it is opened, as well as when the points of the upper part of the head (along the perimeter) are activated and opened. This is the preparation of the body for the possibility of a future exit of the soul;

b) if a practitioner has or had any diseases, injuries, surgeries, etc., then pain is inevitable.

Let's dwell on this in more detail.

Phenomena Associated with Practitioner's Illnesses

1. Pain. From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, at any site of the localization of the disease (current or past), there is a narrowing or “blockage” of the channels through which the qi energy circulates. This causes stagnation or obstruction of qi through this area and, as a result, disturbances in blood circulation. This state of the canals can be compared to the bed of a dry river, when only in the deepest places there is still moisture left.

Pain can be of varying intensity and duration:

a) it happens that acute pain occurs during classes in the gym
or at home and passes quickly without recurring in the future. This suggests that a person has received enough qi to immediately, as if by a jerk, “break through” an impenetrable section of the channel. Then the disease begins to recede;

b) it happens that the resulting pain is similar to the usual exacerbation of the disease and lasts a long time, sometimes several days or weeks. But it is worth stopping the practice of qigong - and the pain goes away. This happens with long chronic diseases. Sometimes everything starts to hurt at the same time ... This means that you have too many disorders in the body and it is probably oversaturated with drugs. And the accumulation of qi is slow. Then it takes time to defeat the disease and remove all the “dirt” (drugs, toxins, salts) from the body.

Therefore, in no case should you stop practicing. It is necessary to allow qi to bring the healing process to the end. Indeed, with any treatment, the disease often worsens, and then recovery occurs. So here. But in this case, unlike conventional methods of treatment, firstly, there are no side effects (as from drugs), and secondly, you are being treated with your own qi, which you only need to help accumulate in sufficient quantities in yourself. Therefore, she cannot harm you. After all, it is not something external that heals you, but you treat yourself. And not someone influences you, but your own qi automatically goes where it needs to go and does the work that needs to be done. So try not to interfere with her, unless, of course, you want to become healthy;

c) it happens that the practitioner did not hurt anything and felt good until ... he started to practice. And as I practiced, I began to experience pain. This is a reliable self-diagnosis.

Remember! Where qi flows without difficulty, one never experiences pain or discomfort.

Pain signals that there are violations in this area. Therefore, first try to remember if there were any injuries, operations, fractures here - not necessarily at the time of class. It could have been 5, 10... 50 years ago, in early childhood. And if you can’t remember anything, then this means that you have some violations in this area and you need to take action. If the pain is tolerable, keep practicing and it will disappear, taking the disease with it. And if the pain is very strong, consult a doctor and examine this part of the body, since implicit disorders can develop into a very serious illness in the future.

So, if you have had operations, fractures, bruises, injuries, chronic inflammation of the internal organs or joints, radiculitis, arthritis, sinusitis, etc., then pain is inevitable with proper exercise. Sometimes in these areas, instead of pain, there are sensations of pronounced discomfort;

d) but there is another reason for pain during qigong practice - very intense training its energy. Such unpleasant symptoms connected with the fact that the movement of energy affects our physical body, and the body changes. In this case, as a rule, you need to take some additional trace elements. Therefore, if somewhere you have more severe pain, then do not worry - this is a common reaction that usually lasts for several days.

2. Fainting. If a practitioner has recently undergone major surgery and has not recovered enough, if they are simply physically weak, infirm, if they have heart disease or severe blood pressure disorders, if they have disorders in the cervical spine, then when doing the third preparatory exercise and the Big Tree, there may be a short-term loss consciousness. The reason is the intensive flow of qi into a weakened body, especially into the brain. This is not dangerous. As a rule, after a few minutes a person comes to himself on his own. Sometimes the loss of consciousness turns into a normal dream.

Pressing a finger on the Zhenzhong point under the nose on the upper lip brings a person to life. Those who feel weak enough, and those who are on the verge of losing consciousness, when washing their faces, rub the nose area with their fingers (this also treats diseases of the nose). Then massage the temples and the area near the hairline with your thumbs. If the head hurts and a fainting state occurs, then one should massage the Zhenzhong and Hegu points (Fig. 31) at the base of the thumb on the back of the hand between the first and second metacarpal bones, closer to the radial edge, by rotating the fingers (8 times in one direction and 8 times in reverse).

3. Intense vibrations of the whole body. This happens if the practitioner does not know how to relax well, has suffered nervous stress from which he has not fully recovered, or has a number of disorders of the nervous system and emotional state. This causes numerous "clamps" of nerves, muscles, energy channels in different parts of the body. Qi entering the body during the Big Tree begins to “break through” these blocks and look for “workarounds”. This state should be monitored and try to relax as much as possible in order to help the energy to do the work of normalizing the state of the body. If the vibrations become excessive and uncontrollable, then one should intensively press on the Hegu points, and then fold the hands on the Xia Dantian.

4. Severe nausea and vomiting during the execution of the Big Tree occur in a number of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, in particular gastritis and peptic ulcer. When practicing at home, you do not need to restrain yourself, and after the release of the stomach, you should continue the exercise. With regular practice, the condition improves and recovery begins.

5. Intensive movements, strong rocking:

a) if the practitioner's yin and yang are not balanced, then, having relaxed and "released" the body, he sways slightly. This usually lasts for the first 2-3 sessions or some time at the beginning of each session (depending on the magnitude of the imbalance). Then the body calms down and the practitioner stands still;

b) if qi is blocked in some areas of the energy channels, the body moves automatically during qi attempts to pass through these zones;

c) intense movement or swaying of the torso occurs with problems with the spine, disorders of the nervous system, birth injuries, cerebral palsy, stuttering, some mental illnesses in remission, as well as with numerous chronic diseases or injuries that led to spasm of energy channels. In this case (with intensive movements) one should practice with open eyes and no more than 30 minutes.

6. Loud sounds (crying, tears, laughter, singing, screaming) during the Big Tree occur with certain diseases of the heart and lungs. Then:

a) with proper practice in a state of qigong with these sounds
sick qi leaves the body, and good qi comes in its place from the outside. But
you should not specifically cry, laugh or scream with existing diseases. This can only be allowed to happen if everything happens naturally, automatically, in the State of Qigong;

b) if you are sensitive enough to feel the corresponding illness of the person next to you, then this can also cause your reaction. Then, for example, after you cry, his condition will begin to improve.

All this is a manifestation of the therapeutic effect.

The main exercise in the Zhong Yuan Qigong system is the Big Tree (Da Gu Shun).

This exercise is several thousand years old. In one form or another, it is performed in various wushu qigong schools. However, in them it is called zhang zhuang and is translated as "pillar" (sometimes - "high stump"). This is a literal translation without taking into account the deep meaning. When practicing in these systems, students were instructed to stand motionless for a long time, like a pillar.

In system Zhong Yuan Qigong this exercise is also one of the most important, and its various forms are practiced in the four steps. Here it means A BIG TREE.

If in China they talk about the “Big Tree” with such a pose, then they always refer to the fact that it is borrowed from the Zhong Yuan qigong system. Compare for yourself: a high stump or pillar means something motionless and inanimate, and a large tree contains the power and breath of life.

Since ancient times, people have thought about the question of why a human life ends at 60, 70, 80 years. Few people live to be 90 years old. And very few cross the 100-year milestone.

We said that the system Zhong Yuan Qigong can prolong life. But in order to live longer, you need to be healthy. What does the phrase "live longer" mean? I would ask another question: "How long can you live?" If we simply say that we should live longer, then this will not be entirely accurate. Other factors are decisive. For example, now you are 50 years old, and after practicing qigong you feel like you are in your twenties. From this point of view, we can say that you have become younger. And if you are 20 years old, and you look like 50, then in this case you cannot say that you are really 20 years old. We can judge the age of a person not by the number of years lived, but in terms of the stock vital energy. Sometimes we may not even know the real age, but talk about the amount of vital energy. What is meant by this scientifically?

Now scientists around the world have come to the conclusion that life expectancy can be determined by the presence of sexual potency. It is this, and not age and appearance, that indicates whether a person is old or not. Until the age of 12, most people do not have these functions, then they appear and begin to fade away at about 50 years old. Then they say that this person is no longer young. But by practicing qigong, you can feel young even at 80... In real life, everything happens differently. In very many people who are just over thirty, sexual functions are weakened. And with the practice of qigong, they begin to recover quickly.

And yet, how to prolong life? You know that in our world, many plants and animals live much longer than us. The biggest centenarians are trees. No one is surprised if a tree is 200, 300, 400 years old. And if 1000 years, 2000 years? Therefore, if we want to live longer, we must learn from the trees. Why do trees live longer than us? Let's analyze.

We suffer from emotions, we are always in a hurry somewhere, we are nervous. At the same time, we experience discomfort in extreme heat and suffer in frosts ... The flora is a completely different matter. Many trees live hundreds of years. In winter and summer, in cold and heat, under the sun and rain, they grow without feelings and desires. Their roots go deep into the ground and receive from it water and all the substances necessary for life, which rise along the trunk up to the leaves. Their crown rushes up, washed by rain, swayed by the wind, bathed in the sun's rays during the day, and at night receives the light of the stars and the moon. And all this enters the leaves, branches, trunk and descends along it to the roots. Thus, the tree receives nutrients and energy from below, from the Earth, and from above, from the Cosmos. And they move along the trunk towards each other, accumulate and enable the tree to grow and live. And so the tree combines the Earth and the Cosmos.

What if a person becomes like a tree? If a person also receives yin from the Earth and yang from the Cosmos, can this prolong his life? Whether this is actually so can only be known through practice. According to experiments over thousands of years, it has been empirically established that this method (imitation of the pose of a tree) can indeed extend life. Very soon we begin to feel an increase in our vital energy. Therefore, from a health point of view, the practice of the Big Tree lengthens life.

It should be noted that similar methods of practice were known and cultivated among many peoples. The first known stylist was St. Simeon in the 5th century AD The bottom line was that a person climbed a pillar, on which he remained for a long time in prayer. Pillars were found, pillars were specially built. There were not many pillars of this kind, and this was considered a feat. In Russia, pilgrimage had a slightly different character, and was cultivated in some monasteries. It is known that Seraphim of Sarov, St. Sergius of Radonezh, his closest students and followers were "stylites". What does this mean, why and how was it done?

In the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century, monks who took tonsure sometimes, at the behest of their souls, went to hermitage in the wasteland (the forest thickets, remote from the settlement of the laity, were called wasteland). Living in seclusion for years, they cut their own homes, equipped them according to Christian customs and prayed away from temptations and worldly fuss, listening to their hearts and recognizing only God and conscience as a judge.

Gradually, the news of such a hermit spread around the district, and the inhabitants of first the nearby villages, and then the distant ones, up to the county towns, visited him, bringing with them the most necessary for a secluded forest life. Those who were poorer traveled on foot, those who were richer - on a cart ... The road to the wasteland was not close. So it was possible to stay for the night, and therefore, to pray together. And so they cut down housing for visitors, a stable, a church for prayers. And it had to be organized according to the rules. And then they applied with a petition to some monastery or parish, and often, by decision of the synod, they brought to this new church an icon that became the main one in it, and they consecrated both the church and this place as the basis of the future monastery, and the hermit monk became the head future community. So was founded by Sergius of Radonezh a monastery in the Belovezhskaya Pustosh.

And the monastery became a crowded place. And it was not always possible to retire to talk with God, since the daily routine was strict, and mentoring and household chores took up a lot of time. And in the distance from the monastery, they found two trees growing side by side in the forest. They were cut down about half a meter from the ground and leveled the place of the log house. And then a person stood on these two stumps with his feet, imagined himself to be their continuation - those trees that were cut down - and merged with nature, lifting up prayers and renouncing himself. And he stood like that for an hour or two, and sometimes, according to some testimonies, for 6 hours in a row. After two years of regular practice, such a monk had the gift of a healer, and sometimes a seer. And if such a monk was brought to another monastery, then he passed on this practice to his students and followers there. So the Monk Job came to the Pochaev Monastery with his practice.

And from the point of view of qigong, this exercise allows you to unite with the entire Cosmos. We connect together Heaven, Man and Earth - the three outer yuan are combined into one. At first we imagine ourselves as a big tree, later this concept disappears and the Big Man remains, uniting all this in himself. Of course, not immediately, but after the practice of all three steps.

In the first stage of Zhong Yuan Qigong, the Big Tree is performed as follows.:

1. Starting position - feet shoulder-width apart, feet parallel, knees slightly bent, back straight, for which the pelvis is slightly forward. (You can adjust the position of the body so that in addition to the legs there is a third point of support - the tail, like a kangaroo) The chin is slightly lowered so that the neck is straightened. In this case, the head is, as it were, suspended by the top of the head. The body is relaxed. The tongue touches the upper palate, the eyes are closed.
2. Imagine that both of your feet grow deep into the earth and turn into the roots of a mighty tree, and, like the roots of a tree, absorb moisture, nutrients and yin energy from the earth.
3. Imagine that your torso grows high into the sky, above the clouds, towards the sunlight, towards the light of the stars, the moon. And from there you receive and absorb light, wind, rain, the energy of the Cosmos yang. And you yourself become huge, like the Cosmos.
4. Raise your arms so that the palms are at the level of the navel. The elbows are set back from the body, as if under the armpits are fragile, like eggs, tennis balls. The lines of the arms are rounded and relaxed, as if embracing a large inflatable ball. Imagine and feel an elastic ball between the palms and the navel.
5. Forget about yourself, about your posture. Feel how the Earth qi rises through the root-legs, and the Cosmos qi comes from above. Feel this movement and energy ball between your palms and your navel. And forget again.
6. Modification of point 5. Imagine and feel how this ball begins to grow, becomes bigger and bigger, goes beyond your body, and you find yourself inside it. Feel inside this ball when you and the ball are as big as the Cosmos. Then the ball begins to decrease in size. It is getting smaller and smaller, and the energy inside it is getting denser and denser. Its shell, decreasing, passes through your body, and here it again fits between your palms and the navel. Then it increases in size again, and you are inside the ball. Then it decreases again. And so several times.
The minimum duration of the Big Tree is 30 minutes. This is due to the fact that blood and qi pass through all the vessels and channels of our body in 30 minutes. Therefore, it takes at least half an hour for the qi that begins to enter the body, together with the blood, to reach all areas and all cells of the body.
After some time, when you get used to this position, the duration of the Big Tree can be increased to two hours.
7. Finishing the exercise, one should concentrate the qi in the lower dan tian. Fold your hands in this area (women - right hand on the navel, left on top; men - vice versa). In this case, the center of the lower palm (Laogong point) should coincide with the center of the navel. Mentally concentrate and squeeze the ball in the lower dan tian into a point. Feel a hot spot or pulse under your palms. This is the Xia Dantian center. Then slowly open your eyes.
Women during menstruation are advised to keep their hands and the ball in front of the middle cauldron - Zhong Dantian, in order to avoid bleeding. During pregnancy A big tree performed without the help of hands and without feeling the ball at the level of the lower boiler.

Pay attention to the fact that during the Big Tree exercise, a lot of saliva is formed in the mouth. At first it tastes familiar to you, then it is sweetish, and after a certain period of practice it gives a whole range of taste sensations, up to the nectar of flowers. Previously, such saliva was called jade, gold, diamond, thereby emphasizing that it is just as precious for the body. As saliva accumulates in the oral cavity, it must be swallowed slowly. Modern research has established that such saliva contains a lot of trace elements, and it has a therapeutic effect on the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines. As you swallow it, you should feel how it goes further into the lower dan tian. Later, such saliva is not swallowed, but is transformed into foam, actually transformed into gong.

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In one modification or another, it is performed in various schools of qigong and wushu.

What if a person becomes like a tree?

The minimum duration of the Big Tree exercise is 30 minutes.

Final exercises

Rub your palms until you feel heat in them.

“Wash” their face up (from the chin to the hair) - with a slight movement, then to the sides (smoothing the forehead) and down (through the temples to the chin) - with pressure. In this case, with your thumbs, run along the auricles from top to bottom.

Intensively pat with soft palms on the head in the direction from the back of the head to the forehead.

“Comb” the hair with the pads of your fingers in the direction from the forehead to the back of the head and from the temples to the back of the head. In this case, the fingers should massage the scalp through the hair with intense pressure.

Rub the auricles, kneading them between the fingers, from top to bottom, and the tragus - until the sensation of "burning ears" appears.

Intensively pat the hand with a soft palm from the shoulder to the wrist along the outer and inner sides (alternately: first the left, then the right).

With both hands, simultaneously clap the body from the front from top to bottom (from the neck to the pubis) and at the level of the waist (from the sides to the Xia Dan Tian).

Clap the legs from top to bottom from all sides, starting from the Huantiao point.

Slap the back from the bottom up along the spine.

Rub your palms again and place them on the kidney area. Listen to how the warmth of the palms passes into the region of the kidneys, adrenal glands.

Explanations for the final exercises

Associated phenomena:

Normal Phenomena

The Phenomenon Related to Practitioner's Illnesses

In the first stage of Zhong Yuan Qigong, the Big Tree is performed as follows.:

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