Penang Tai chi and qigong

http://taichipenang.com/

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https://penangfreesheet.my/sports-activities/calming-the-mind-invigorating-the-body-tai-chi-qi-gong-and-yoga/

Started QiQong 18 by Susan Thompson

Started this:

https://www.udemy.com/easy-18-qigong/

Nice music recommended by Susan:

Tony O' Connor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQlg7OWlb20

Others:

Lin Hou Sheng Original Set 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSfKvmvMT8Y  (in sync)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4duPazIzkA    (out of sync)

Fabrice Piche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKhC3d3R-Uc

Susan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQBwI6aSx3E


Wing Cheung:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAwbJ9MO91I


Perth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32tH89vBtTs

The Perth version contains additional hand movements to push the Qi over head and face and front of body during the closing process - done after putting hands on dan tian and rubbing them together - interesting.

Chinese names for Yang Tai Chi 24 form

Below lists the chinese names:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-form_tai_chi_chuan

Started Tai Chi 24 form Yang

Enrolled with this Udemy Tai Chi course by Susan Thompson:

https://www.udemy.com/learn-24-yang-style-tai-chi/


Completed it on July 4, 2019. About 3 months.

Good article:

https://migraineagain.com/feeling-dizzy-vestibular-migraine/

And Tai Chi can help:

https://migraineagain.com/tai-chi-for-migraine/

How to know your true self

Good reads:

https://www.wikihow.com/Know-Your-True-Self

Wheel of Awareness Meditation:

https://www.wikihow.com/Practice-%27Wheel-of-Awareness%27-Meditation

Excellent process for Releasing and also a summary of basics from The Letting Go Movie

In The Letting Go Movie above, at position 58:17, is a hospice chaplain using this process:

1. So you have this fear in your body?
2. You like to keep that fear or would you like to get rid of it?
3. So, would you sit with me and answer some questions?
4. Where do you find that fear in your body? How would you describe it?
5. Ok, so you feel some ... here. Is that something you want to hang on to or would you like to let it go?
6. Could you let it go?
7. Would you be willing to let that go?
8. When?

[ Then, repeat the process again... ]

Summary of Sedona Basics:

At position 1:00:15, Hale summarizes the entire Sedona method basics and also the 3 basic methods;
1. Asking could you, would you , when? (Basic method)
2. Welcoming what is (good for active releasing) (Active Releasing)
3. Triple welcoming, i.e. Welcoming the feeling, welcoming wanting to fix it, welcoming sense of identity (sense that it is who I am or about me, or that is is personal) (Triple Welcoming)

My take on this is as follows:
When going about in daily life, use general welcoming (active releasing). When sitting, or lying down in meditation, use asking questions, or, triple welcoming.

Fastest way to peace

The Buddha's 2nd noble truth states that craving is the cause of suffering. Therefore, we only need to let go of craving in order to be happy and at peace. Craving is the weakest link in the the links of dependent origination and therefore is the easiest to let go off.

Craving comes in two forms:

1. wanting (attachment, urges to do/ to achieve / to change something/ to control/ to desire )  and
2. not-wanting (resistance/aversion)

As such, in releasing, we only need to release wanting and not-wanting.

Example:

[ Release the main issue ]
Could I welcome wanting to ....
Could I let go of wanting to....
Would I?
When?

[ Release it's opposite polarity ]
Could I welcome resisting, or  not wanting to...
Could I let go of resisting or, not wanting to...
Would I?
When?

Sometimes there is both wanting and also not-wanting in a single issue. For example, you feel you should wash the dishes. There is not-wanting to wash the dish and also a wanting to wash the dish.
Whenever there is a should, there is usually a not-wanting to do something but you feel you must do it. It's like driving a car with the brakes on.

To solve this problem, we release both the wanting and also release the not-wanting.

Releasing wanting to wash the dishes does not mean you will not wash the dishes. It just removes the suffering involved in washing the dishes.

When you release the resistance, your actions become friction-less and easy-going.

Other examples of should statements:
1. I should work to earn a living
2. I should do a good job
3. I should make my boss happy
4. I should improve myself

The should indicates you are doing something you don't want to do. Therefore, just release on both sides:

Let go of wanting to earn a living, let go of resisting or not-wanting to earn a living
Let go of wanting to do a good job, let go of resisting or not-wanting to do a good job
Let go of wanting to please your boss, let go of resisting, or not-wanting to please your boss.
Let go of wanting to improve yourself, let go of resisting improving yourself.

Craving is easy to let go of, but it is very persistent, it may keep coming back, but if you keep releasing on it, eventually it goes away for good.

So, releasing on wanting and not-wanting (resistance) will lead to impertubability (hootlessness)