There’s a new blog on the scene that I think you should know about: Personal Development from Lifeworks. This is Buddy Tripp’s new blog and he is covering personal development from a IMA and body work point of view.
As a preview of what he’s offering on the site, I would like to draw your attention to this post on the six healing sounds qigong as taught by Luo De-xiu. Here’s his intro to the method:
One of the simplest, yet effective health maintenance programs I know is the Six Healing Sounds. While I use the word sound, they are not made by vibrating the vocal chords, but rather sub-vocally. I learned this simple qigong method from Master Luo Dexiu of Taiwan. Master Luo is a humble yet remarkable man. Easily one of the finest practitioners of the Chinese internal martial arts, Master Luo is a friendly and very approachable man.
There are two ways of performing the six sounds- with a gentle rocking action; and combined with a series of movements. I’m going to teach you the sounds using the former method. In the future I’ll put out some video of the sounds being used with the movements.
Vibrations are very important in understanding qigong in particular, and in feeling qi specifically. You have to be tuned in to the right frequency to feel certain things. Accessing other frequencies gives other results because they resonate with the organs, the brain, etc. So a thorough understanding of the vibrations and their effects can go a long way in helping you develop your qigong.
Check out his blog for more info on the subject.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Casey // Oct 27, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Zhou Laoshi has what I’d consider an excellent version of this and from the looks of the info. posted on Buddy’s blog, Luo Laoshi’s is probably pretty similar. I recently saw an awful version apparently popular in Beijing on Youtube in which the practitioner literally seems to shout the sounds and also performs the movements far too quickly. The sounds are supposed to be made sort of under the breath so they reverberate inward and are not audible or at most, barely audible. It took me a while to get to the point I could actually feel what these sounds were working, but now it’s quite obvious it’s stimulating blood/energy flow to different areas. Especially when I do the “si” sound I can feel my heart beat throbbing in my lungs quite clearly.
The shouting of the sounds seems not only not beneficial, but likely harmful to me. I think most people don’t realize unless they do this sort of qigong that when you send out a big vibration (make a loud sound)you’re also vibrating your own innards with proportionate strength. Practicing lots of sharp, loud sounds seem likely to have a negative longterm effect.
2 Dave Chesser // Oct 27, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Yeah, shouting them completely defeats the purpose, as far as I know. It looks like someone didn’t get the complete info. That’s the only reason I can think of for shouting them.
3 jonathan liljeblad // Oct 27, 2007 at 10:52 pm
it’s so interesting for me to see analogues between TCM and modern medicine, even as popular society talks about how different they are.
this talk about sounds and vibrations and frequencies brings to mind current uses of ultrasound to explore the body, ultrasonic massage devices for deep-muscle tissue massage, and sonic therapy to stimulate growth in bones and connective tissue (notably in ACL & MCL tears)–and all these modern methods are using the same concept as the TCM: sonic frequencies directed into the body.
there’s also darker uses–all those rumors of military research from the 1940s and 1950s into low-frequency waves to disrupt internal organs or induce spontaneous vomiting. it’d be funny, except medical research shows that internal organs–the heart, in particular–can be disrupted by certain frequencies (in physics terms: harmonic resonance). all this again is sonic frequencies directed into the body.
makes me wonder about the affect of all those rock concerts we go to as kids.
but the point’s the same…while there’s different ways of using them, the underlying concepts are still common between TCM and modern medicine. they’re not so alien as popular society sometimes makes them seem.
4 Hermann // Oct 28, 2007 at 11:14 am
In fact, there are 3 different versions of the same set in my school, nearly identical to Master Luo’s, to be trained standing, sitting or lying. Only difference:
one is adding qi (bu qi) with only imagined sounds, the other one is draining abundant qi (xie qi) with loud audible sounds (exhale mouth, long, inhale nouse 1/3 of exhale, short) and the third version is for healthy persons with only little sounds, arranged according the 4 + 1 (late summer] seasons [sound xi = sanjiao without correspondence] of the year.
The whole thing was handed down by the North/South Dyn. Daoist Tao Hongjing (456 - 536 a.D.) and medially used by Tang physician Sun Simiao (581 - 682 a.D.) and also can be arranged according organs (fei, pi, xin, shen, sanjiao, gan) or the xiansheng circle of the 5 phases (water, wood, fire, earth, metal, xi again unrespresented).
5 Buddy // Oct 30, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Wow, I haven’t even back to my blog since I started my new job. Thanks Dave, I’ll have to continue (but on my own site, like you did).
6 Dave Chesser // Oct 31, 2007 at 9:58 am
Buddy,
My apologies for not letting you know that I was going to post about your blog. Should have given you a heads up. But I caught your post and it resonates with what I’ve been talking about lately.
If you switch servers, please let me know.
7 Buddy // Oct 31, 2007 at 8:47 pm
No prob and will do.
B
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