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April 18, 2005
The Qi-Field Effect and the Power of Group Qigong Practice
While practicing qigong on your own is the bedrock of your qi development, there is a tremendous advantage to practicing regularly with a group of fellow qigong enthusiasts. The advantage of group qigong practice has a lot to do with the phenomenon of “sympathetic resonance.”
If you hit a piano key on one side of a room and there is another piano in the same room, that second piano will vibrate, or resonate in sympathy. Same with human beings. We broadcast all the time, we emanate. When a group gets together to practice qigong, the emanations from the other members in the group begin to have a synergistic impact on each individual.
These qi-emanations start to vibrate backwards and forwards and have a natural tendency to amp up the overall group energy. Qigong being a practice that takes us out of our heads and into our energetic bodies – and into the present moment more deeply – the spiritual and healing impact can be profound.
In other words a group “qi-field” forms that is far more powerful than the sum of the individuals’ qi. The creation of this often-profound qi-field, in my frequent experience, leads to a state of communion, peace and tranquility that feels beyond wonderful.
At the highest level the qi-field generates enough spiritual openness to allow for what the Christian tradition describes as the descent of Grace, or what the Sufis would describe as Baraka. I have seen people break into tears with the beauty of this experience, or certainly smile knowingly at each other and shake their heads. I prize and savor this state as much as anything in my life. All you can do is open yourself to the possibility of this magic and it may or may not happen – a flooding in of universal energy, divine intelligence, or whatever you care to call it.
A deeply felt, deeply realized experience, even if it is fleeting, of complete connection. The spiritual clichés about “oneness” become a direct experience.
This is one of the main reasons I like to teach qigong, week in, week out, rather than just practice on my own.
Check out John Du Cane’s Qigong resources here
Posted by james at April 18, 2005 8:46 AM