A good decision is sticking with it once you start. If you drop it before it can work you'll notch it up as as a bad decision. As noted there are many forms of Qigong with varying amounts of compelxity.
If you're looking for one that is simple to learn on your own, rewarding to health and well being, then Spring Forest Qigong is one suitable method.
If you find another supported by a forum that you can learn from a home study course that looks like it has a better mix of complexity to your liking then trust your instinct, go with that.
Instinct is the first phase of Qigong. Asking us to convince you seems to say to us you you want in insurance policy that the process will work. Well check out the guarantee. More than that the forum members cannot give you.
And like what was said in the other thread linked to this. What ever one you do, stick with it. That advise comes from Master Lin himself. He had quite a few masters to study under (chinese masters) I understand that he too asked the question what is the true traditional qigong teaching. Having a history dating more than 3000 years no one could tell him.
There are books that teach simple qigong methods and I personally found Spring Forest Qigong easier to learn and do.
There is no such thing as "Traditional" qigong any more. There are many series of exercises called qigong (moving energy, for a less than perfect translation) taught by different masters. Modified, simplified or enhanced by those who stuck with one instructor, of moving energy within the body, at a time, long enough to learn to notice the energy within them.
As many on this forum can attest. Using Spring Forest Qigong it didn't take them decades to notice the effect of qi within them.
Naturally Chunyi Lin' cultural background led him to teach a form that has more grace and softness than western form. But what is really essential is your motiviation for learning.
Alex
[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited July 27, 2005).]
