{"id":77,"date":"2020-07-26T20:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/Shanti\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:33:08","slug":"the-standard-qigong-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/2020\/07\/the-standard-qigong-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"The Standard Qigong Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These rules or guidelines are generally observed unless specified overwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Breathe through the nose.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tongue touching the roof of the mouth (palate). [Completing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/2024\/06\/microcosmic-orbit\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"251\">Microcosmic Orbit<\/a>.]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calm the mind.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hollow the chest and round the back.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sense the body, the breath and Qi.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listen to the silence, see, taste, touch and smell the silence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Body relaxed, no physical tension.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shoulders soft.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Relax the hips and keep the pelvis tucked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expand the lumbar and keep the abdomen tight\/sucked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imagine an invisible string pulling the crown of your head straight up (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/2020\/07\/baihui-point\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"64\">Baihui point<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gradually deepen the breathing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breathe into the <em>dan t&#8217;ien<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eyes open, soft focused past infinity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>70% rule &#8211; never fully exert yourself, work at about 70-80% of your capacity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After you are able to sense the flow of Qi you are ready to being the practice of Qigong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These rules or guidelines are generally observed unless specified overwise. After you are able to sense the flow of Qi you are ready to being the practice of Qigong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,4,7],"tags":[17,16,18],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-qigong","category-taichi","category-yiquan","tag-balance","tag-stability","tag-stance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.auburnhouseconcerts.org\/shanti\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}