I am glad your thoughts go towards healing, in regards to sending qi. Always invoke the Master's energy to help you, or whatever higher spirit/diety you are comfortable with, when sending energy to another person. Ask these higher spirit/spirits to help you send the energy "in a healing way", as you hold the awareness that you want the energy to be sent or received in an appropriate way. That way the higher spirits act as a filter, keeping you from doing anything inappropriately, regarding a person you are sending energy to, without them knowing what you are doing for them. In general, it is best to work on people that "ask" for help, although sending positive energy or healing energy is certainly ok, as long as you go through higher spirits to insure the best thing is done for your friend.
Speaking of the seven steps...
That exercise in itself, is good for your hips. As you progress with SFQ, you will learn how to remove energy blockages, which is another aspect to addressing physical issues. The sensitivity you have, those feelings in your hands, can be used to feel energy blockages, remove them, and put in healing energy. Although, in some healing modalities, it is possible to have a transformative effect on an area being treated, just by touch or focusing energy on something, the idea of removing blocked energy is a valuable technique to know. The only form of healing I know personally that doesn't do this is purely spiritual, so again, higher spirits are involved, doing the work for you/through you. Just putting energy into a place isn't necessarily always a good thing to do. Or, look at it this way. Often, moving energy "through" an area/point is better than focusing it there. The movement of qi through a point can open it. Sometimes a little push to open something, with assistance from the hands, or working an area or channel between the two hands... The exercises, in part, work this way , without you having to know whats going on. Transformation of a blockage, or removal, or opening an area by moving energy through it, is better than just putting energy in somewhere. I am speaking in general here. There are exceptions, like putting energy into the kidneys. That has nothing to do with working on blockages, it is just feeding energy to a place where it is beneficial to receive it. For now, if you are not using level II techniques, use the master's energy , or equivalent , to do anything you are moved to do, so you have something else in play to insure your effectiveness and appropriateness.
The seven steps, again... the "levels" are not exactly the same as those primary points I mentioned in the hands and feet. In this exercise, points and channels are effected, but, the idea is more to energize on a cellular/global level. Every cell energizing and brightening as you literally fill with energy. Also, it terms of moving energy, with your mind, to a specific point. Do the sm universe meditation!! Just think how effective you can be taking this awareness into that meditation. Moving the energy and focusing on those points. That, is more related to specific energy points, like the ones located in the palms and bottoms of the feet. Primary "points" that connect to "channels" or meridians. Lines of connected points that get energized when a primary point is fed with universal and spiritual energy. There is a difference between the cellular level and these points, although they overlap in a way, having similar location. Your focus and intention, with one's spirit in control, utilizing the mind/mind's eye to visualize and transform/heal these different aspects of self.
