Beginner Techniques
This is the beginner section. It contains techniques you would work on when first learning about using your ki. Warning: Be careful, don't over-do it and stop immediately if you feel any discomfort or pain. And don't forget, take your time, take it slow. Don't try to be cool and learn all the techniques you want to learn in one day. The more time you take, the better your skills will become. NOTE: Any new techniques added will be at the bottom of the page.
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NOTE: It's very important that you warm up before you do any full-blown training. Be sure to do some cultivation exercises and perhaps create some ki balls and such, before you start heavy training.
Visualizing your ki: This is how to visualize your ki. Your ki can be any color, shape, form, whatever you want it to be and look like. All you have to know is that it is your ki. Ki is usually seen as a hazy light; semi-transparent, almost foggy.
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Controlling your ki: Now you will learn how to move your ki to different areas of your body. This is a great practice for those who are just starting out. This will give you a good feel for visualizing, make your will power stronger, and it will give you a good idea of what your ki feels like. Now to start. Close your eyes, and concentrate on the fact that your ki is flowing around inside all of your chakras(or just all through your body if you don't know about chakras yet)and inside of your dan tien. Now, pick a body part that you would like to move your ki to. For example, we'll start out with your hand. Now, start to visualize your ki moving and flowing smoothly into your hand. You can picture it one of three ways. The first way, you can visualize it coming from your dan tien, flowing up into your chest, down your arm, and into your hand. The second way is to visualize it flowing from your dan tien, out of your body, through the air, and back into your hand. The third way, is to just picture your hands starting to glow because of the ki you put in them. If you feel anything such as warmth, tingling, electric feeling, magnetic feeling or coolness, you have just moved your ki. Practice this technique until you can do it easily, and visuaization is no problem for you. A good way to practice this technique is to move your ki all around your whole body. Like hand, forearm, bicep, chest, bicep, forearm, hand, leg, foot, leg, foot. Do that until you can move it around your whole body pretty quickly, then everything will be much easier for you later.
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Ki Breathing: This is a simple technique that will replenish lost ki, and get rid of negative, used up energy. To start out, get into a comfortable position. Start taking deep breaths - in through the nose, out through the mouth. Picture your body as an empty shell, and when you breathe in, visualize fresh ki flowing through the air, into your nose, and into your body, filling it up. Picture your dan tien glowing brighter and brighter. When you breathe out, visualize the negative, used up energy (I picture it as black) leaving through your mouth. When you feel that your body is filled with fresh new energy, you are done.
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Grounding: Grounding is a technique just like Ki breathing, only it's done differently and Ki breathing is a little bit better to do. To start out, get in a comfortable standing position. Now, visulaize roots shooting out of your feet and burrowing into the ground, where they tap into the earth's energy supply and start absorbing energy. Picture the roots sucking in energy given by the earth, and taking the energy up, through your legs, and into your body and being stored in your dan tien. Breathe deeply, in through your nose, out through your mouth. When your breathe in, visualize fresh energy intering your body through the roots, and when you breathe out, visualize the used up energy leaving through your mouth. When you feel your energy is full and replenished, you are done.
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Ki Flame power up: This technique will raise your agility, speed, and strength, as well as make your ki flow more easily and smoothly. To start out, get into any stance you are comfortable with. Now, start drawing in ki with deep breaths through your nose and visualizing it entering your body. When you feel you have a sufficient amount of energy, visualize it flowing inside of your body, ready to explode. Then, visualize it moving, creating a glow around you, and then exploding outside of your body, surrounding you in flames. Make these flames of ki surround you and keep them moving from inside you to outside of you, and then back in, in a cycle. If you merely explode the energy outside of you and forget about it, then it's not going to do you any good - it will just waste energy. When you're doing that, you can tense your muscles if you want, or you can remain completely relaxed. It doens't make a difference, but whatever way works easiest for you is best. Just think and concentrate on the fact that it is powering you up. Use your ishi (your will power) to make it happen. If you do this right, you may feel a little warm/tingly/electric sensation around your whole body. This power up also helps prevents burn outs, and since it makes your ki flow more easily, it makes it much easier to perform the ki ball technique, when first starting out.
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Making a ki ball: Alright, before you start to make a ki ball, you should be comfortable with your visualization and be able to control movement of your ki well.
Now, to start out, ground yourself, (or do ki breathing) like you should before every time you train your ki, then get into any stance. It can be a riding horse stance, a fighting stance, sitting, whatever suits you best. Now, your first few times making a ki ball you will want to do a ki flame first, until you get the hang of it - the ki flame will make your energy flow more easily to form the ball. Next, place your hands about 3 inches apart, in a position as if you were holding on to a softball. Your fingers on each hand can be spread apart or they can be right next to each other, whichever way is more comfortable for you.
Now, visualize you ki flowing through your body (and from your Dan Tien), up through your chest, down your arms, and into your hands; or, if it is easier, flowing from your dan tien, out of your stomach, through the air, and into your hands; when it reaches your hands, visualize it flowing out of your palms in kind of a stream, and when it meets in between your hands, compiling and forming into a ball. Or, if that doesn't work, you can just picture your hands starting to glow and a ki ball fading into view between your hands, or picture ki swirling in between your hand and forming a ball, or even make up your own way to do it. If your palms start getting warm/tingly/electric/magnetic, you are making a ki ball. Remember, some feel tingling, some feel heat, some both, so if you don't feel one or the other, don't worry. NOTE: Do not worry if you cannot see your ki ball the first times making it. There are a couple ways to see your ki, which are discussed on the Seeing Your Ki page.
After you can see the ball in your mind and feel it between your hands, concentrate on keeping it in the shape of a ball. If you don't focus on that, the ball might just dissipate into the air. Now if you want, you can add more energy to it by simply moving more ki into your hands and flowing into the ball. Do this as many times a day as you like, but if you feel any discomfort or uneasyness stop immediately.
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Ki Ball Shell: (NOTE: This technique can also be used for mana balls.) This technique may be important to imply to many later techniques, such as throwing a ki ball, and many others.
Once you can create a ki ball easily, you can start to create shells around them, so that they will more easily stay in a sphere form and won't dissipate into the air (Keep in mind that this is a technique to help you focus on keeping them in the shape of a ball. If you can do that by merely concentrating, you won't need to do this technique at all). Once you create a ki ball, simply send more ki to it and use your mind to make it create a hard shell around it, and program it to stay in a sphere shape. Then, try placing it on a table, and concentrate on it staying there when you move your hands away. Then, slowly wave your hands through the ball and you should be able to feel it pulsating around your fingers. This is a great exercise to help with concentration.
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Making a mana ball: Now, if you read the section on different energies, you would know that mana is free-flowing energy that flows everywhere and is also inside all non-living things. Now, to make a mana ball, it's basically the same as a ki ball, only instead of visualizing your ki from inside your body making the ball, visualize mana energy flowing from everything around you, the sun, and through the air. Visualize it flowing in between your hands, and swirling around forming a ball. If your hands get warm/tingly/electric/magnetic, you have just made a mana ball.
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Once you have all of these techniques down fairly well, you can proceed to the intermediate section.
Well, that's all I have for beginner techniques right now, if you know any and you want me to post them here, e-mail them to me at KaiouLei@yahoo.com.
*I am not to be held responsible for any injury resulting in improper use of any techniques on this site. Use at your own risk.*