The Ball of Chi

I'm live. Am I really. Am I really alive? Or am I just pretending to be alive? That's what I want to know. Hi, this is Steve Barnes. I'm here with. Well, it's a life riding live, but it's life fighting fire dance live. Still in my office, still cleaning things up, unpacking. But I. My. My wife is finally trusting me to teach her Tai chi. And so we started today with the form and a qigong exercise, energy exercise that I wanted to give. Yes, my wife. Right, right there. It. Because it's what makes it work. And so I just wanted to give you this completely free of charge because I love you guys. I'm gonna try, be trying to give you little pieces of what this is every day. Okay. Just as many days, as often as I possibly can. So basically, what I want you to do is to think about. The qigong is a Chinese exercise, and it is movement, where you are taking your vision, your mind, your motion, and your breathing, and you're bringing them all together at one time. You do that and in a state of relaxation. And there are certain feelings that you are looking for. And if you will, you will explore these feelings. I can teach you things without actually being there to push hands with you or touch hands with you, if you will do the work. So just, you know, bear with me right now. This is going to be real, real quick, so I want you to start. Let's. Let me stand up. Let me stand up first of all. Okay, I'm gonna stand up here, all right. In my office, and I'm gonna back up. Okay? So good. Hi there. All right, so I'll bend my legs. This is. Okay. Legs of steel. Strong like bull. So what you do is you rub your hands together. You rub them together, you rub them together, you rub them together until you're feeling heat there. Okay? The ball of chi. Okay. Feeling heat there. Now you shake your hands out, you shake your fingers out, and. Until you can feel tingling if you've rubbed them together really hard and you feel that you've shaken it out and you feel that tingling. Now you're ready. What you do is you bring. You're standing. Let's see if I can move this chair this time. I'm standing with my knees bent, my tailbone tucked under a little bit. Okay? See, tailbone tucked under as opposed to my butt out. Tailbone tucked under. And what you do is you bring your hands close enough together, bring your hands close enough together that you can feel the warmth between your hands. You can feel the Tingling between your hands. And the more relaxed you are, the more the circulation flows, the more sensitive you become, and the more you can feel. It's like a ball of chi, a ball of energy, a ball of air. Here. You get them close enough, and what you do is the more relaxed you are, the further apart you can get your hands and still feel that ball of warm air. If you can do that. Head held by a string from above, trying to keep your spine straight, tailbone tucked under, relax your face, get your hands apart. Ah, that's a nice ball of chi right there. I like that. Okay, so what you would do is you would do that and you would stay in that position. The minimum is one minute. So five times a day, 9 o', clock, 12 o', clock, 3 o', clock, 6 o', clock, 9 o', clock, you stop, rub your hands, shake your fingers out, make a nice ball of chi and just breathe. Inhale, deep, slow, diaphragmatic breaths. Just breathe in that way, if you will do that, and later on, I will give you exercises. There are many of these, but they're beautiful. My son is over there doing it, and it's like. It makes me so happy. It makes me so happy to be able to share these things with my family. Thank you, Jason. Actually. Actually doing me a favor when that's right. It's just so great. So you bring your mind, your eyes, your movement and your breath together at the same time. So there will be other movements. Like in a Tai chi form, it starts, you know, here you go. So it's inhale with the same feeling of tingling in your hands, that warm ball of air expanding. Right? Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Okay, so the movements of Tai chi are just exercises, unless you're looking for that feeling inside them, you're looking for that balance, and you're looking for a way to turn a physical movement into a mental, emotional thing. And you do that with. By. At every movement. My eyesight, my thought, my breath, and my movement are all joining together. When you practice that, with the little qigong exercises, the little ball of chi or raising hands, or the various poses, the various things that I teach you and that you can learn other places. If you put questions down there, I will do all I can to answer them. I'm. I feel so blessed that I was given these. I was taught these exercises by genuine masters, and they tasked me with reformulating these things so I could present them to a modern audience, American audience, my audience, and that I could use them in my own life. So that's it. Just a little qigong exercise. The ball of chi, if you will, practice that and relax with it and feel the warmth. The more relaxed you become, the further your hands will be able to get and you'll still feel the ball of warm air. And that gives you a biofeedback device to be able to feel the warmth and relaxation and centeredness in your life. Take that. Put it into the Tai Chi form. You're cooking, you take care. Of.