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August 8, 2005
A Qigong Practice to Help You Sleep Better
If you have trouble getting to sleep at night, chances are you are thinking too much. The following qigong process is designed to tune and energize the main energy centers of the body, but if you practice it last thing at night in bed I can pretty well guarantee you will fall asleep quickly and sleep like a baby.
Begin by scanning slowly through your whole body, starting at the head and finishing at the feet, looking for any tense areas. Inhale and then exhale into the tense area consciously relaxing it.
Then, using your attention:
Inhale through the middle of the chest into the heart center, and bring the breath/energy directly down to the lower dan tien. Exhale in to the lower dan tien.
Continue this process of inhaling into a chest, moving directly to the lower dan tien and then exhaling into the lower dan tien, unless otherwise indicated.
Inhale from spleen to dan tien.
Then from the solar plexus.
Then from the upper dan tien.
Then inhale and exhale into the lower dan tien.
Then from the center of the throat.
Then from the perineum – this time pull it up back to top of head and down your front to the dan tien.
Then from the third eye to dan tien.
Then from behind both knees to dan tien.
Then from the top of the head to the dan tien.
Then from the center of the bottom of the feet to the dan tien
Then inhale to about 12-18” above head and hold your attention there, in a meditative state.
When you feel like it, reverse the whole process, by initially inhaling into your feet and finally inhaling into your heart center.
See all of John Du Cane’s qigong resources.
Posted by james at August 8, 2005 7:13 AM
Comments
wonderful moments with deep insights, scintillating the lives of the people with simple and flexible moments. A must for every individual to pratcise it in one's life time.
Posted by: V.Ramachandrababu at July 5, 2008 5:12 AM