It sounds like you’ve been well-conditioned to not believe your own senses and experience.

Unfortunately, this is all too common for most of us. Growing up we become accustomed to relying on “authorities” to tell us what to do, tell us how to think and even to interpret our experiences for us.

Here’s the thing: nobody else lives inside our skin but us. To ask me to tell you how you know anything, much less how you know you’re more balanced after qigong is akin to asking me to look into a crystal ball and read your mind.

Even if I could do such a thing, I wouldn’t. Not because I’m mean, but because it’s not fair to you. It would only propagate the illusion that “authorities” should be trusted more than our own experiences and inner wisdom. If nothing else, qigong is ultimately about learning how to trust our inner wisdom.

So, I suppose my best answer to you about how you’ll know you are experiencing balance – and whether or not qigong is “just a feeling or imagination” – is to say that you will know it when you come to the place of trusting your inner wisdom.

And that only comes with practice and experience.

As Sifu Lew used to say, “You practice.”

Be well,

Dr. Bruce

Don’t misunderstand me. I just want to know how i know that i am better balanced after the gigong training.

Is there any other practical way to know that i am any different after the training.

Gigong is not just feeling or imagination, right?
It actually happens, right?

I have been visiting a lot of web site and asking this question
but nobody gives me clear answers.

Thank you

My example of walking was to illustrate the point that balance isn’t a static “thing” so much as an ongoing process.

So, does gigong help me balancing in walking?

And, how do i know that i am walking in better balance than before gigong?

Can I walk faster or something?

It may help to think of the word, “balance” not as a thing or as something static, but as a process, or the ability to constantly adapt to changing conditions. Rather that “balance” think of “balancing.”

Walking is a good example. When we stand still, we can put equal amounts of weight on both legs. But standing still means not going anywhere.

By contrast, when we walk, we are essentially falling forward all the time and must shift our weight from one leg to the next to keep moving. This is the only way we can make progress forward.

In other words, to move forward we need to keep balancing constantly by adapting to circumstances and shifting as necessary.

Thinking about it this way means that there is no place called “balance.” There is no situation in which you are perfectly balanced. If you are alive, things are constantly changing. And because of that you will be constantly in the process of balancing.

Make sense?

Dr. Bruce

But, how do you feel relaxed if you are balanced.. i mean
If you are balanced, do you always feel relaxed?

And, what kind of energy sense will i have after i am balanced.

How do i know it is just not my imagination or feeling itself? Not real..

Is there any other way for me to know that i am balanced ?
other than feeling?

It’s a good question.

The thing to remember is that everyone has both qualities all the time. The differences we notice come in part from the fact that each person naturally has a different mix of yin and yang qualities.

Then, over time, these shift in relationship to one another – as men age they tend to be more yielding and receptive in their personalities (yin qualities) and as women age their personalities tend to become more driven and focused (yang qualities).

Practicing qigong doesn’t push people out of balance, assuming they are doing it regularly and are patient about seeing results. That means that folks will tend to move towards whatever balance in natural for them at any stage of life.

How you know you’re balanced after training is largely a matter of how you feel. In other words, you should feel more relaxed, have a greater sense of energy flow within your body and be more resilient in dealing with life.

Hope that helps.

Dr. Bruce

how do i know i am balanced after the qi energy training?

I get confused all the time.