I had what I guess you could call a "break through" in my Spring Forest Qigong practice. I have heard of saliva tasting sweet after a lot of practice, but I've never experienced that, and I've never heard of what happened to me till today.
What happened to me: I was doing the sun meditation, and about 45 minutes into it, I began to smell the fragrance of a flower, maybe lavender (I'm not too knowledgeable about flowers but I want to say it was lavender). But I have nothing like that in my apartment. I've been thinking about it all day and concluded there's nothing in my apartment that could have caused the scent. After the meditation, I no longer smelled it. It was so strong at times it seemed like a flower was right under my nose! The only correlation this scent had to anything was the fact that it started right after the focus of my attention turned to helping a sick family member heal. Anybody have any wisdom to share about this? I searched around online and found there is a form of qigong called "Fragrant Qigong" where this effect is known to happen. Interesting!
