Can I get some feedback about practicing sword fingers.
I have been practicing level one active exercises daily for the past 2 or 3 weeks and the meditations a couple of times so far.
My question though is that I'm concerned about losing qi when practicing the healing others techniques. I believe in the course Master Lin says something about breathing in energy and emitting energy from the tips of the fingers and that you are taking in more energy than you are giving out. I've been practicing on myself and one other time on my father but it seems like when I'm concentrating I hardly breathe at all. When I do the active exercises I've got the breathing more or less coordinated with the movements or vice versa but when doing sword fingers I don't know how to coordinate breathing with the chopping or pulling or putting energy back.
Any help in this matter would be appreciated. My original intention was to learn how to heal myself but after I have been studying these teachings I am acutely aware of when others say they have a pain here or a problem there and I know that I could potentially help them, just afraid that I'll be using up my own qi that I could be using for self healing.
Thank You
Mario
