Energy Medicine in Cfq Healing: Healing the Body, Transforming Consciousness

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Summary: A different type of qi gong
Review: For a number of years I have been interested in a number of different energy healing systems. The majority being the Taoist internal energy arts. While there are literally thousands of different chi kung systems that have made their way from China,most have a similar goal for the practitioner. The goal is to open the acupuncture meridians and circulate chi that has been absorbed and cultivated through the meridians thereby opening any blockages that were existing in the physical and energetic systems creating well being,healing and spiriual balance. What separates this book from the pack is it's approach to healing. Instead of circulating chi,a letting go process is done with movements that release trapped and stale chi from the energy bodies.The letting go further enhances the process. Movement with no effort. The book is chock full of healing stories and helps you get into the proper mind set to practice the movements and meditation. On a personal note,I had been suffering from Tinnitus(ringing in the ears)for a number of months now. After just 10 days of doing cfq movements,the condition has reduced to virtually nothing.To paraphrase a quote from the book:"To be well is a basic birthright. To lay claim to health and wellness,simply move in to unload the energy burden." Buy this book! Your well being, physical, emotional and spiritual are waiting!

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Summary: Unusually rapid healing methods
Review: This book is one of the most important books ever published on healing. It is also one of the most important books ever published on Qigong, and would probably be one of the most popular if it didn't have such an obscure title.

The book is valuable for two reasons:
(1) It provides a simple but compelling model of the cause of disease
(2) It provides easily learned and extremely efficient ways of healing body, mind and soul ("out-of-this-world" methods of healing) through a letting-go process.

The author, Master Yap, describes the cause of disease as tension in the body and mind. Karma is an accumulation of tension that results in ignorance, suffering, and ego consciousness. Karma is described in the book as "an energy mass, black cloud-like and irregular-shaped, that emanates from within and, for an average adult, protrudes out beyond the boundary of the physical body to a distance of about three feet. This seemingly homogeneous and shifting dark surface, when opened out, is comprised of millions of distinct shapes, lines, folds, and colored lights. However, the opening-out process is complex and usually occurs only with a systematic technique of letting-go like that taught in CFQ. In other words, the nature of this energy force becomes obvious only if "unwound," "moved out," and "released." Otherwise, the normal survival and adaptation functioning of the human organism continues to thicken and compact this energy mass. The lines and folds are the product of tension in the physical body...." The sole cause of ignorance and disease is this karmic mass of energy.

I've done a lot of searching for healing tools, and the ones presented in this book stand out as being in a class by themselves as far as achieving results quickly is concerned. People who practice the meridian exercises notice an immediate shift in health, mental and physical, after only their first half-hour of practice. Although not a panacea, these techniques will accelerate the healing of any illness and can even reverse aging, which is a product of tension in the body.

The meridian exercises described in the book are extremely efficient at freeing the body and mind from disease energy because they use the meridians of the hands and feet as channels of elimination, rather than the usual channels (liver, kidneys, breath, colon, skin). This saves a LOT of time. The exercises are so potent at freeing the soul from karma or ego consciousness (ignorance) that the book states that the average person can expect to experience transcendent states of peace after only three years of regular practice.

CFQ is more appealing to me than other forms of Qigong because (1) it is based on scientific use of the meridian system, rather than superstition and tradition, as is found in so many other Qigong systems; and (2) there is no visualization at all required in the CFQ exercises, unlike in many systems of Qigong where visualizations are used to move the energy. Directing the life force with the mind can be dangerous.

CFQ is really a spiritual path. However, it is not for everyone. As it is presented in this book, it is not a mature spiritual path, such as Kriya Yoga that was brought to the West by Paramahansa Yogananda. I really doubt the average person will be able to find God with CFQ. You need the help of a fully-enlightened Master, such as Paramahansa Yogananda, to find God. (Master Yap is not yet fully-enlightened.) Kriya Yoga is also powerful, but it appears to act more slowly at first than CFQ. However, Kriya Yoga is Raja Yoga: there is nothing left out of the teaching, and one always has the guidance and blessings of the Guru to help. CFQ meridian exercises are incompatible with Kriya Yoga: combining the two paths would be spiritually disasterous.

CFQ is a great offering that will rapidly reduce suffering of those who practice it. The book is only a starting point for those who want to pursue CFQ as a spiritual path. For those serious about finding God, a full course with personal instruction is available. I expect this course to "fill in the gaps" of the spiritual search that are missing from this book, from a Buddhist perspective.