What is the Vital Hidden Force of Life?

Article II.

Most if not all conventional methods of practising QiGong and Chinese Meditation, especially those that involve Breathing and Acupuncture Meridians, are missing a most direct, basic and wholesome approach to improve health. Why?

According to the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing), an important book about Chinese Medicine, traced to approximately 1800-1900 years ago, the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is the life of a human. This implies that energy is the wholesome base or representation of life itself.

QiGong can be literally translated as Energy Work. Practising methods of QiGong (Energy Work) is to appropriately improve different sources of life energy. Yet none of these sources are fully equivalent to the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) but are solely its derivatives.

The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is an inherent motion of life but it is also very well hidden within the body. This is why up till now no direct conventional method is available to improve this wholesome energy of life.

Practising Chinese Meditation is quite similar to practising QiGong, except that during practice more static and mindful methods are used to improve different sources of life energy, but not the most basic, the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi). If the mind only has to gently engage with just one wholesome source of life energy, the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi), without having to bother involving other sources of derivatives of the wholesome life energy, the mind will stay more free, relaxed and peaceful.

Not only does the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing) mention that the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is the life of a human, it also mentions that it is also the Gate of Breathing. This implies that this energy is the vital force which gives rise to life and that it continuously sustains life by initiating and regulating the process of breathing both before and after birth.

This Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi), the vital force that continuously sustains life by initiating and regulating breathing, is constantly active in inherent motion with natural rhythms. As most if not all conventional methods of breathing are acquired after birth, they are therefore less originally natural. This especially applies to those methods using Abdominal Breathing to simulate the prenatal breathing process: instead of facilitating, they can hamper the natural processing of the inherent motion of the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi).

Furthermore, it is also mentioned in the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing) that the Moving Qi Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is also the root and base of the twelve Acupuncture Meridians. Most, if not all, conventional methods practising Meridian QiGong do not include the practice of this energy. In that case, the practice of energy work is diversified without focusing much on the root and base of Meridian Energy.

It is advisable to add a possibility of following in a harmonious manner the inherent rhythms of the Moving Qi Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) during practice for most, if not all, conventional methods of practising QiGong and Chinese Meditation, especially those involving Breathing and Acupuncture Meridians for acquiring a more direct, basic and wholesome approach to improve health,

For more about the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi), please read the preceding and the following articles.