Pete, I normally make a good effort to get 8 hours of sleep a night. About 5 months after I started SFQ I was doing doing 2 to 4 hours of meditations a day. At the time I noticed it wasn't difficult to get out of bed at 5 am. In fact I started waking up earlier and earlier. It became a little annoying when I was waking at 4 am. I was telling myself go back to sleep. I eventually realized I was wide awake and fully refreshed. Rather than starting meditations at 4 am, I started going to bed later. Of course those later nights started be filled with an hour of Moon meditations. I was at the point that I was fully refreshed after 4 to 5 hours of sleep. Of course if you're doing 4 hours of meditation you're not freeing time up for other things. On the otherside of that, is you're getting a lot of meditation at no net cost of time.
As for exercise, I found that I was using all of my prime exercising time for meditations. Which may be why I don't meditate as much as I have in the past. So I don't have any serious exercising and meditating experiences to relate.
I'm working on trying new approaches to directing my energy. For a while I felt I was sending my energy in many directions and making slow progress. It's probably poor of me to think this, but I wanted faster progress. I'm trying a new approach to achieving my objectives. I still have all the elements in my life, as before, but now I'm deliberately focussing on a progressive plan of prioritize goals. It changes my balance but and some things have suffered. It is similar to approaches by many successful people, and I expect it to help me achieve my goals more quickly. I'm still working with the approach, because I don't want back sliding in any important areas, but is a flaw of those who achieve empty success.
Okay too much sharing.
Consider your goals, and remembers SFQ is not the only qigong system. For a time another may be more appropriate for you. I not saying leave SFQ, I'm just saying be conscious of your choices.
You are perfection,
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