Kerats,
In the beginning if you have to take an extra breath in between, that is fine.
We don't all start on the same level of breathing. The important point is to relax and not to force the motion and that include the breathing. You will find improvement as time of practice goes on. When I first started, I just relax and as Kev suggested breath normally. At the movements where Master Lin tells us to hold the breath or to breath out, that you should follow.
I understand it is not easy even with all the good points given through the forum.
Just a little personal experience here to tell you many of us when through similar breathing questions in the beginning.
The small universe meditation help us training the mind to move qi. I have been doing it and thinking I am doing just fine.
However, lately it just like an awakening to know what it means when Gallen says "It is the mind moves qi". I can seat here and think about the qi coming in one point and move to another point of the body and actually have a physical sense of it.
Can not really put the whole process into words. It is like learning to swim or riding the bicycle... Learning the techniques and know what you have to do. In the beginning sometime you can do it and sometime you can not. One day, you master it and you just know how to do it from that point forward. Take your time to appreicate the steps you are taking.
[This message has been edited by Bluebird (edited January 12, 2004).]
