Sources of Energy
According to the Chinese medicine, life is created from and sustained by vital energy. There are two types or aspects of energy: pre-natal and post-natal energy. As their names suggest, the pre-natal energy is the energy we have at birth, and the post-natal energy is the energy we gather during our entire life. That’s why […]
Energy Training with Qi Gong
Qi Gong or Chi Kung is an energy training system involving the co-ordination of different breathing patterns with various physical postures and motions of the body. It represents the practical application of the concept of Qi (Chi) in three different areas: health, martial arts, and spirituality. Qi Gong was historically practiced extensively in Taoist and […]
Patterns of Energy
Patterns of Energy Everybody has their specific energy signature, as unique as the DNA or fingerprints. This energy pattern determines our behavior as well as the interaction with our environment. One of the characteristics of the energy pattern, maybe the most important one, is the energy level. This is usually called vitality and it influences […]
Classifications of energy
The Yellow Emperor classified 32 different types of chi. Depending on the selected criteria, there are many different classifications of the chi. This is an attempt to throw light upon some of them. These Chi classifications are far from being complete. Today, there are thousands of expressions using the word Chi as a component. There […]
The Concept of Qi
Qi – Vital Energy The word Ch’i, or simpler Chi (in Wade-Giles Anglicization), spelled also Qi (in Hanyu Pinyin Romanization), or Ki (in Romanized Japanese) is pronounced in Mandarin Chinese something like “chee” in English, but the tongue position is different. Central to the Chinese analysis of energy and its behavior is the concept of […]
The Energetic Principles of the Universe
The 10 Energetic Principles of the Universe 1 The Universe is a manifestation of a multitude of energetic layers, which superpose and interfere constantly. 2 The energetic layers form a pyramid: at the bottom, the energies are more powerful, vibrate on lower frequencies, have denser manifest forms, but they are amorphous, whereas towards the top […]