Issue 54 - Tse Qigong Centre

Damp InvasionDear Sifu,I hope you will not mind me asking some questions. A couple of weeks ago my husband spent some time cleaning thefish pond in the garden. The weather was cold and damp. The following day he suffered a lot of pain at his back on the righthandside around his kidney area. The pain went on for three days and the GP thought it was a gallstone. He remembered youmentioned before that we can heal by putting our hands where it hurts. So I put my right hand on his back for about half anhour and all the time he felt as if a very warm force was pushing something. I had a funny sensation on my lower arm but I didnot know what I was supposed to do. He felt as if something was being pushed out and the pain was gone. When he went forultra-sound in the hospital nothing showed up on the monitor. He was convinced that the Qigong I practice everyday hashelped him. I am still puzzled by the whole experience especially why I felt so physically drained the following day and had tospend the day in bed.Sifu, if a similar situation arises in the future, what should I do? Is there a procedure that one must learn or follow ornot do ? I apologise to have taken up your time.Yours sincerely, K, LondonDear K,Regarding your letter, this is very common and many people have the same experience that after healing somebody,they feel tired, with all their energy having been drained away.Our Qi is based on how much we get from our parents. Any communication with others will cause you to lose yourQi. Therefore, how can somebody heal another person without using their own Qi? When someone is healing a person, theyare making contact, either physically or close by and you are also communicating with the person who needs to be healedon many different levels.Many of these people say that you can just channel the Qi from heaven and so it is really heaven that heals theperson. However, I disagree with this. Once the Qi has to pass through a healer’s body, it must relate with that person, so itis communication and contact. The healer still uses their own Qi. Even though we gather Qi from nature (or heaven), it stillhas to come into our bodies. If the glass is clean, the water in the glass will be clean. If the glass is dirty, will the water still beclean when it is poured out?Of course, they still will deny this and I do not think it is good to keep arguing about it. Perhaps everybody has theirown knowledge. However, when I look at many of these healers, their faces and their health says more than their words evercan. I see that most of these healers are not healthy and this is because they are always transmitting and giving their Qi away.Many of these people wonder why they are always so tired but still deny that they are giving their own Qi away. Yet they oftenlook older even when they are still quite young, with dry, sometimes yellowish looking skin. Their hands may even be verythin and cold with lots of lines and maybe yellow or white. This is because they are using theirkidney and liver Qi.As a healer, we can not always think that we are helping somebody by doing healing.“When I havheadache, I mI reach for thWhy? Because if we ourselves are not healthy, how can we help others be healthier? Cansomeone who does not know how to read teach reading to someone who is illiterate? Cansomeone who is not wise teach true wisdom? Sometimes I find they just keep healing others,thinking they are helping other people. They forget their own health, instead of taking care oftheir own health first. My teacher always said, before healing others, be healthy yourself.Even in Qigong hospitals where they are healing many people in a day, they practise Qigongfor many hours a day to rid themselves of the patient’s negative Qi and also to gather positiveor extra Qi. If we do not gather more Qi through Qigong practice, we are using Qi on credit.In the end, we will have to pay the interest on the debits from that account if we do not haveenough money to pay off the bill when it comes. However, there are still some people who do notconsider that using credit is using their own money. Because they do not see the money going out, they think that it is notusing your own money.So when you need to heal others, you must think about whether you have enough Qi and whether you know howto recharge your Qi, instead of just making yourself tired. Particularly for beginners, they usually do not know how to controltheir Qi, particularly once they start to heal. If we do have some experience and want to try and help, afterwards we shouldalways practise more Qigong to help us to clear the negative energy from the body and to help us restore the energy we haveused. Then we will not feel exhausted.If you will remember, Sigong Yang Meijun did not teach anyone her skill until she was over seventy years old. Thatrule is what has helped her to live to be over 100 years, because she built up her Qi for many decades before using it to healothers.Yours sincerelyMichael Tse