What Is Qigong Meditation?

With Qigong meditation, the aim is to achieve stillness of mind through gentle movement, controlled breathing and visualisation.  When you’re able to let everyday thoughts flow through you without reacting to them during the course of the meditation then you will be able to unblock stuck and stagnant energies to achieve better health and a more fulfilling life.

Present In The Moment

So how does Qigong meditation differ from what we might call ‘ordinary’ meditation? Any type of meditation is about being present in the moment, when you‘re not thinking about the past, nor worrying about the future, nor are you judging thoughts, emotions or sensations. You’re just accepting all these things as they are, acknowledging them and letting them go.

Qigong meditation helps you achieve this state through the awareness of your breathing coupled with movement, and is specifically about working with Qi energy, or more accurately, allowing it to flow naturally. It’s when it’s restricted, such as when you’re stressed, that problems occur. The first principle of Qigong meditation is that you should not try to control or resist this energy.

Qigong Meditation Technique

The first step is to relax and find a comfortable, balanced posture. Then, bring your attention to your breathing. Deep and slow inhalations and exhalations are the order of the day; don’t force your breathing or try to hold your breath at any point.

Hold your hands in front of you, just below the level of your navel, palms facing each other and imagine you are holding a ball of brilliant white light about the size of a grapefruit between them. Inhale slowly and move your hands apart until they are about as wide as your hips, visualising the ball of energy expanding as you do so.

Various thoughts, emotions and possibly physical sensations will arise while you’re doing this, but let them drift by and return your focus to the movement of your hands and the ball of light energy you have created.

Now exhale slowly and push your hands back together until they have reached their original positions, whilst allowing the light ball to shrink with the closing of your palms until it’s a dense, shimmering globe of pure and intense energy between them.

Imagine releasing this energy into your body, where it expands and fills it. Do this exercise several times, for about 5 minutes.

Stagnant Energetic Patterns

If there are stagnant energetic patterns within your energy body which are beginning to shift and dissolve whilst you are working with Qi, you could possibly experience sensations such as heat, cold, pain, numbness, soreness, swelling, itching, or twitching.

On the other hand, if your Qi is beginning to flow unhindered then you’ll feel the positive sensations of warmth, fullness, tingling, and a sense of overall well-being.

Qigong meditations will, at the very least, lower your stress and anxiety levels.  They will improve and maintain your health as well as aid your spiritual development through emotional balance, mental calmness and clarity, and an awareness of the wholeness of life. As with all forms of energy work, daily practice is the key to realizing its full benefits.

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