Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong How Long Does It Take?

It seems to me that Nacho's comments are very helpful here. A week of SFQ is not that long and I think you would really benefit from sticking with it. I was fortunate to feel tingly and 'buzzy' sensations from the beginning but I had done work with other energy generating systems. I recall doing some qi moving stuff briefly before all that and I felt nothing at that time. Paradoxically I think that doing the exercises increases your ability to feel the very benefits that they induce!! I suggest that you begin by seeeing if you notice small things in any of the sense systems - I think different people have different preferences here. Some people feel things, others see lights and (curious to me at least) some people smell things. But I think you need to stay relaxed about this and don't 'strain' to notice. The worse that could happen is that you don't notice a thing but end up much healthier than you were a few months down the line. Perhaps you are somebody who suddenly notices after a while that something significant has happened.

My own challenges in the noticing area are with regard to the healing with sword fingers etc when I work with my children (see another post for this)and I'm trying to take my own advice here and stay relaxed and trust that something is happening. This is such subtle but powerful stuff that actually I don't have any real doubt about it but it is challenging when I want to see/feel something more tangible.

Also, as an after thought, it may be that those around you notice differences in you. They may not say of course!

Another thought - you may say to youself that Nacho has had the advantage of working with Master Lin but there are plenty of us out here who are making progress without direct contact with him. Which reminds me the other noticing challenge for me was that I didn't pick up any tingling in my fingers when I called on Master Lin's energy. And then I did notice something - it was just different to what I was 'looking for'.

So relax and keep on keeping on. You won't regret it.

Love, Kev