Student: I’ve practiced acupuncture for about three years and
have studied martial arts as well. When you passed energy to me
I felt a wonderful feeling in my chest and insides that was incredibly
expansive, and hot and cold at the same time. I had a feeling of
well being, of being grounded.
Gunther Weil: Each of you has to find the balance between
staying at one point long enough to experience the energy gather-
ing there and then wanting to go on by itself, versus going from
point to point with your own mind because you’re distracted. Only
you can know which is best for you. The mind’s always jumping
around and wanting to do things and so if it’s given a task to go
point to point, sometimes the mind just wants to do it. If you sit and
decide that you did this point and now you’ll do the next, it’s artifi-
cial. There’s an internal balancing that has to happen. You have to
do it till you’re satisfied, deeply satisfied that you’ve done it. So at
the beginning of this practice when you’re alone at home or work-
ing, go slowly. Take 10 to 15 minutes on each point. Really exhaust
it, deplete it. Sometimes the energy will go ahead. Sometimes it
won’t. Sometimes I don’t notice anything. Sometimes I’ll sit and I
won’t experience any energy at all but I’ll feel the benefit of the
practice. About 20% of practitioners of this don’t experience the
sensations but receive enormous benefits from it.
Master Chia: Sometimes your vitality or energy is too low and
so your energy doesn’t seem to do anything. Usually each month
you have a week or two of lowered energy but the more you prac-
tice these dips in energy will be evened out.
Student: How are Tai Chi and the Microcosmic Orbit Related?
Master Chia: Tai Chi Chi Kung takes the principle of the micro-
cosmic orbit and puts the energy in motion. In other words it adds
chi or internal energy to the Tai Chi movements and works on the
tendons, the chi passing from the internal organs out to the rest of
the body including the fascia, tendons, muscles and bones. The
microcosmic orbit creates the energy that is then used in Tai Chi.
You can’t imagine how happy it will make you.
Gunther Weil: When you do the first level in this system you
begin to regulate your energy, opening the main channels. In sav-
ing and regulating the energy you’re beginning to balance it, but
you still can’t do very much with it. When you’re assailed from theChapter XII