Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong Taking in Energy while using Sword Fingers?

Can I get some feedback about practicing sword fingers.

I have been practicing level one active exercises daily for the past 2 or 3 weeks and the meditations a couple of times so far.

My question though is that I'm concerned about losing qi when practicing the healing others techniques. I believe in the course Master Lin says something about breathing in energy and emitting energy from the tips of the fingers and that you are taking in more energy than you are giving out. I've been practicing on myself and one other time on my father but it seems like when I'm concentrating I hardly breathe at all. When I do the active exercises I've got the breathing more or less coordinated with the movements or vice versa but when doing sword fingers I don't know how to coordinate breathing with the chopping or pulling or putting energy back.

Any help in this matter would be appreciated. My original intention was to learn how to heal myself but after I have been studying these teachings I am acutely aware of when others say they have a pain here or a problem there and I know that I could potentially help them, just afraid that I'll be using up my own qi that I could be using for self healing.

Thank You
Mario

Aloha Mario,

Relax before working on others. Spend a few moments before working on others be preparing yourself with those two "keys" he mentions in P.31 of the manual after: "In Spring Forest healing, the more energy you send out to heal other, the more energy you will recieve. The keys are:..."

Then work on the person, focusing on the energy coming from the sword fingers, chopping up the sick magnetic field. See the energy coming out whether you happen to be breathing in or out.

Give up the idea that you are healing them, and any attachment to the results.

You are just sharing your love and healing message with them, let the universe supply the energy, and let their system choose what it integrates and doesn't.

Much Love, Shawn