Grandmaster Tse’s Qìgōng Dào 氣功道 470

When we practise our Qìgōng 氣功, you will notice that there are lot of little pauses between movements. The reason for this is we need to let the Qì settle from the last movement before we move on to the next. For example, in movement 13 of the 1^st 64 Wild Goose Qigong, “Recover Qì 回氣”, before we move onto next movement “Twist Left Toes 左彈足”, we flick the hands out, with the right hand behind. This flick should be fast and the arm is straight for releasing negative Qi.  Then we bring the right hand slowly over the head and ben down for gathering the Qi. It appears to be all one movement, but actually there are two. In between the flick and bringing the hand over the head, there is a slight pause. Each movement has a different purpose. First, we release Qì and then we gather Qì. It is like throwing something away, your hand needs to let it go of it, then you can relax and go back to normal. In Qìgōng there are so many movements like this, like Wild Goose 1^st 64 number 15 “Push Qì 推氣” and 16 “Scoop Qì 撈氣”. So, we should not perform each movement with the same attitude. There is a rhythm in all Qìgōng forms.