Liu Wai Sang

What is the Vital Hidden Force of Life?

Article III.

Most if not all conventional methods of practising Internal Chinese Martial Arts especially those involving Abdominal Breathing are missing a most basic, direct and wholesome approach to improve health. Why?

The most common and realistic purpose of practising Internal Chinese Martial Arts is to improve and at the same time strengthen the mind and body. To involve with Abdominal Breathing in the routine is to enhance circulation of energy during practice. Certainly this involvement fits quite well with part of a popular saying in China about the practice of martial arts which is to exercise externally the sinews, bones & skin, and internally one mouthful of energy.

According to Chinese Medicine, the two kidneys and the energy contained within and surrounding them can be altogether regarded as a whole kidney system. This system stores the willpower, acts as a strengthening officer and provides skills and techniques for living. This system also associates with fear. When this system becomes weak, more fear will arise. The Difficult Classic (Nan Jing) mentions that the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is the base of most if not all visceral organs including both kidneys. It is also the Gate of Breathing. This energy, the hidden driving force behind most if not all life processes including the most basic functions of the kidney system, is in constant motion with inherent rhythms. If the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) can improve its state of constant motion with inherent rhythms, most if not all life processes including the most basic functions of the kidney and breathing system will also improve in accordance. This means the improved Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) will automatically store stronger will, act more effectively as a strengthening officer, and provide more efficient skills and techniques needed for daily living, it will lessen the association with fear and invigorate the sinews, bones, and skin, more than just one mouthful of energy, all of these, at once.

To better regulate all breathing processes, both prenatal and postnatal, not just the acquired abdominal breathing.

Most, if not all, conventional methods of practising Internal Chinese Martial Arts especially those involving with Abdominal Breathing are missing a most basic, direct and wholesome approach to improve health because none of them include the improvement of the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) in the first place. However, if they could include this energy, the whole approach would immediately and undoubtedly reverse.

For more about the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) please read the preceding and the following articles.