Okay, so you've learned the fundamentals of Guanxi far, you've learned the frontal path, the center path, the rear path. And I've shown you a couple variations on how to do the breath pattern. And the speed. One of the things I wanted to bring up to you is a understanding how to use the raising and lowering of the hands to generate a specific kind of energetic change. So, for example, if you have high blood pressure, it's not recommended that you spend a lot of time on this gathering action. So raising your hands raises your blood pressure, inhaling raises your blood pressure, so if you have high blood pressure, the best way to practice this is to spend less time on the up more time on the down.

So here's how I would do this. If I was trying to get my blood pressure to lower a little bit or to release a little more stress Alright, so minimizing the gathering portion, maximizing the releasing portion. Now, let's say that you have the opposite condition where your energy is very low like depressed immune systems, you know physically drained, mentally drained, emotionally drained, and you need to gather more. We just do the opposite, right? So we spend more time on the up, less time on the down. So this is the way I would approach someone who needs to build more energy Okay, so it's just that simple.

Raising raises energy lowering lowers energy. So if you spend a little more time in one realm as opposed to the other, it's going to skew your energetic flows towards that. Now, I tend to want to stay in the middle. Because what you can do when you start to play too much on one side or the other is you can swing the pendulum a little too far in that direction. So if you kind of go with just the middle all the time, or at least the vast majority of the time, then you're still going to get benefits on both sides of the equation. So you'll get what you need, but without compromising or creating the potential of creating more of an imbalance.

But if you feel a specific need, you have a specific need, which we all do from time to time. This is how you work with it and work through it. And another thing to think about is the difference between standing, sitting and lying down. Standing, as I said, at the very beginning of this course, is the, the best way to learn this process. Because standing we get a much better feel because of gravity of this downward kind of energy, which is what we want to be able to feel. So this is the absolute best in the learning process.

Once you've mastered this phase, however, you can move on now, because a lot of people are interested in Qigong not only for themselves, but for loved ones who may have some health problems. There are a lot of people who aren't able to stand so you can do this same exercise sitting down the stairs. About sitting down as whenever you sit, you want to make sure that you're sitting as far forward as possible not leaning back in your chair. And, you know, we want to be nice and tall on top of your sits bones. The problem that we have with sitting is that when we sit especially if we start to lean or slouch is that that compression makes it a little more difficult for the energy to move through our fold at joints. So it can be done.

And once you get a good feel of how to move your energy, it absolutely is easy to do. But just to get the feeling first, I always suggest standing if you can't, if you can't stand then when you sit, try to keep the nice long line in your torso. It also can be done lying down lying down is a little difficult for some people because The difference of the feeling of the verticality of that downward energy to feeling the energy moving horizontally through the body. So if you would like to, to play with this, this is something that you can do. But again, I suggest using the standard protocol of do standing first, when standing is easy to sitting. And then when sitting is is easy.

If you want to add line, then it's the same thing. The use of the hands is also it's a tool primarily, right? It's to help give us this visualization. All right, it also helps structurally. So as your hands are extending and raising, it's going to increase your ability to breathe deeply. And as they're lowering, you start to release tension through the torso.

So it helps to get the feeling of how energy is moving how, where, when and why energy is moving. Once you get that feeling and you understand how to do this, you don't need your hands. anymore. So you can do the entire process just mentally. So you're just inhaling, gathering energy up. Exhaling, letting it go down, and you can use your fundamental paths, you can do the down and dirty method, just try and hit all three at the same time just thinking all the way through the body.

Hey, so these are just little tidbits on how to improve the quality of your practice. Again, my suggestion is always start with the basics, try to master the basic method. Once you have mastered the basic method, then we can add these supplemental approaches to our practice to give us more refined results. Once you can do this without using your hands and have learned how to do the seated method very well. This is when this cheat Gong becomes infinitely more useful and beneficial. For those of you who are in the workforce, and you're sitting in your office or your, wherever your job may be, if you're standing on a line somewhere or waiting people or whatever it is that you do, you can take just a moment.

Breathe in, breathe out using the visualizations, you don't need to use your hand. You don't need to do anything special, you can just immediately start to move your energy and smooth it out so that you are able to function at optimal efficiency.