Advanced Training

I mentioned the Chi Power Link on the left, and how it has a few courses for the less avid enthusiast, and an advanced course for those that are truly serious about taking their chi practice to the next level. At the end of this 12-month course (or an accelerated, intense 12-week course), they provide a checklist to make sure you learned everything you were supposed to learn. I thought it might interest you to see this checklist.

1. Either be able to put out the candle or move around the drinking straw.
2. Show they can feel the difference between black & white (the colors) and be
   getting some of the others down. [with a blindfold on]
3. Be able to project energy out of their hands & eyes, so that it can be felt easily
   by someone else, who is sensitive.
   (should be able to make it pointed chi (like a pointed needle) or blunt type chi,
   wider and bigger)
4. Show you can make different emotions come out of your chi. Make yourself go
   through & feel diff emotions.
   (be able to change other people to at least feeling good too)
5. Show an ability to make cool chi or warm chi come out of diff parts of their
   body, Minimum of hand, but rest of body soon.
   (raise or lower temperature of chi in a noticeable way)
6. Correctly perform each exercise in the Vol-1 & Vol-2 DVDs and be able to
   show someone else the right way.
7. Make chi come out of you from where ever a person would point on your body
   to do it from.
8. Show a person how to remove different minor pains from the body, such as
   headaches and the like.
9. Explain how our system works thru the nerve fibers build up and why it works
   like it does.
10. Show an ability to send their chi through objects such as doors or glass, ect., so
    that someone else can feel it.
11. Show the ability to lower their own heart rate & blood pressure and the ability
    to do it to others.
12. Explain how chi effects the immune system, such as your NK cells and
    pheromones and why we do it in this good feeling & cool way.
13. Be able to correctly sense if something is in a closed can or other objects or
    not at least 50% of the time or better.
14. Show the ability to make someone feel the circles pattern from doing their
    circle exercise.
15. Start showing signs of improved cognitive skills, better reasoning, seeing
    better in your head (lines and/or designs are starting to be seen), better
    coordination.

I am also going to add a direct link titled "Advanced Training"  on the left that goes directly to more details on this training and what you would learn. If you are serious about learning to manipulate chi, this is the best way I know of to go about it.

Advanced Skills

In an earlier post I mentioned some of the more basic benefits that you will start to notice after only a few weeks of training. Now I want to focus on the long term. These are some skills that will take years to even begin to learn and years more to master. I have seen masters perform the basic techniques of some of these after only a year of training, and some people could train their entire life and never learn. This is an idea of where you could possibly end up in the end if you truly put all you have into chi training for years and years:

• Telekinesis"
• Starting/Extinguishing Fire"
• Manipulating Water"
• Prevent injury when attacked"
• Controlling Emotions (of you and others)"
• Throw Someone Across a Room
• Climbing Walls (like Spider Man, only using chi instead)
• Teleportation*
• Invisibility*
• Passing Through Objects*
• Levitation*

This is just a short list, as the list is truly infinite, and is limited only by the practitioner's creativity.

"A dedicated student could possibly learn the basics of these skills in a year.
*You could work your whole life and never learn these

About Chi Power Training

I wanted to add a word about the Chi Power Training Link that I added. I figured since I added the link over on the left, I should take a few minutes and give you an introduction to it, so you aren't blindly surfing a random site. This training does offer a few different levels for however interested you may be. For the less interested people who don't want to put a major investmen in to Chi Development, but want to learn the basic skills that come from it, there are the various Chi Power Training systems. There are three levels of this all the way down to $27, so you can go with just the very basics if you want. A word of advice: however much monetary investment you make, give a full effort to learning these techniques. They are very helpful and the more you practice, the better off you will be. If you really want to dive right in and start working toward the more advanced techniques, understanding of course that it will take years of training to master the simpler advanced techniques, there is a more in depth course available that I highly recomend (it is where I was certified as a Sifu and began my chi training.). When you click on the Chi Power Training link, it will take you to a different website. On that website there is a menu on the left. If you click on the "Advanced Training" link, it will take you exactly where I would recomend you go. Be prudent, but at the same time, I really do believe that if you truly want to see the benefits of Chi Training, you will need to make some sort of investment (believe me, an in person instruction would cost much, much more.)

Daily Applications of Chi

I want you to be able to keep in mind what you would be using this chi for, so i decided to put together a short very non-exhaustive list of some of the advantages that come from controlling your chi.

• Inner Peace (Sounds corny, but Chi Development really helps)
• Extra Strength
• Health
• Vitality
• Pain reduction (especially with Arthritis*)
• More Energy
• Hightened Awareness
• Better Focus

This is just the short list and definately not the full list of day to day applications. The list goes on almost indefinatly, but these are some of the main ones that people first start noticing.

*I also want to point out that if you do have Arthritis, you should definately see an expert before trying to practice Chi to make sure it is safe, and also mention that if at any time during your chi development you start to feel extra pain that is a result of chi training, stop your practice immediatly.

Best Advice

I would love to be able to teach you everything you need to know to truly master chi using this blog, but the reality is that as much as I am a fan of the philosophy that something free is gives you the most bang for your buck, it really requires something more than that to truly master chi. This is how to master chi: you need to follow the simply steps laid out by a master in a full structured course. Unfortunately that is not something you can do in a blog or on a forum. There are only two ways I can think of to be able to properly learn how to use chi. The first is by finding a dojo in your area. That is great for the people who live in New York City, The Twin Cities, or China (near a temple). Now for the other 99.99% of the world: You need to find a good online or book course. I'm sure that there are a lot of really crappy versions of this out there, but there are at least a few that can truly teach you to master your chi. One of these is the Chi Power Training that I have added a link to on the left of this blog. That is where I first learned to master chi, and that is where you should go to learn this as well. In this blog, I will do my best to teach you all the very basics, answer any questions, and fill in the gaps, but the best that I could do with just a blog is supplementary teaching. You cannot learn everything you need to from a blog, so that is why the best advice I can give you is to go to the Chi Power Training link that I set up, and try learning there.

Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang are two very basic concepts (actually they are deep and complex, but as they relate to chi, they are basic concepts) that will help you to better control your chi and that should be learned very early on in your chi development. Like all energy, chi has a positive and a negative, a repelling and an attracting force. While in electricity, these are simply labeled positive and negative, chi was discovered long before such words existed. Instead there is Yin and Yang to label them. Yin is the positive attracting force and Yang is the negative repelling force. Using these two concepts at different times can take any level of Chi Kung and triple its application.

Palm Test

I want to get you started off by helping you to feel your chi right off. This is an age old test to do just that:

Hold your palms out so that they are facing each other, about a foot apart. Slowly push your palms together until they are just a few inches apart. Then pull them apart again. You should be able to feel a gentle tug on your hands as you are pulling them apart. If you have had no chi training at all, it will probably be very small. You should be able to feel something, although I have met a few people who did not feel something the first time they did this. This doesn't mean you can't learn chi, it just means that you are truly at level 1.

I hope this exercise helps you to kick off a great venture toward chi training and development.

Chi 101

Okay, let me start by telling you what chi is. Chi is a universal energy that all living creatures, plants and animals, have. It has gone by many names and the concepts of chi are as old as pretty much anything we know. The modern term that scientists use is bioelectricity. Some people believe we have no control over this energy that flows through us. I'm one of those who very much believes we do. Chi has a literally infinite number of daily applications. I have seen people who have truly mastered it perform telekinesis and climb walls (kind of like spider man does) using chi to hold themselves to the walls. Let's be honest, it will likely take years of training before you can even begin to apply chi in that way. What chi can do, however, is help with smaller things, like protecting your fist as you are punching, helping you to carry a few more pounds than you used to be able to, or simply feeling rejuvinated and energetic all the time. These are quite honestly the more real world applications to chi anyways. Telekinesis is nice and could come in handy every now and then, but learning to use chi in everything you do each day to make it much easier, that is the reason I want you to learn it.