SELECTION OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
DECEMBER 2024 PART 3

Cosmos Palm

Cosmos Palm

Question 1

I have had a continual blockage in my right shoulder. It goes down through my arm, and I can feel pain in the centre of the top of my right forearm. I experience heat in my right palm when practising Dancing Crane and the shoulder-arm pain becomes more apparent.

— Sifu James Lawrence, Shaolin Wahnam England

Answer

I am replying immediately. I think you have over-train, but it doesn't matter. The pain will go away.

You should perform "Forceful Big Windmill."

Be relaxed. Tense your right arm as you jab in about groin level. Continue moving your arm upwards, then downwards and end with jabbing into thin air with a snake-hand.

Breathe in as you raise your right hand. Breathe out as you lower your right hand. Breathe out forcefully with a "herit" sound as you jab into thin air. The sound should be only one syllable.

Repeat with the left hand. Breathe in as you raise your left hand. Breathe out as you lower your left hand. Jab into thin air at groin level with a "herit" sound. The sound should be only one syllable.

If there is pain, you should stop the exercise. Continue when the pain subsides.

Repeat your right arm, then your left arm.

Do this 3 times, i.e. your right arm and your left arm 3 times. Have a rest. The pain should go away after a few days.

Question 2

What is the chi kung state of mind?

— Chen, Hong Kong

Answer

The chi kung state of mind was coined by the great teacher, Sifu Yan Xin, of China. He is a doctor and disciple of the great teacher, Sifu Hai Teng of China. In English, the phrase means entering a higher level of consciousness.

Sifu Yan Xin mentions that that the mind is the most important in the Three External Components of body, hands and feet. The Three Internal Components are mind, energy and physical form.

The Three Internal Components and the Three External Components constitute the Six Harmonies, which are mind, energy, physical form, body, hands and feet. The Six Harmonies must harmonize with each other, i.e. mind and physical form, body and feet, energy and hands, etc.

Sifu Yan Xin

Question 3

I learnt to slow down and practiced at a low level.

— Parveen, UK

Answer

If a person has very bad karma, he would have to wait till his karma is average. Chi kung takes a long time.

When I was a student, I did not know how to enter into a chi kung state of mind, and how to have good thoughts always.

It was much later in the 1990s when I started to travel that these things came to me, and I learned them the hard way. Hence, I say that that students now are 10 times better than me when I was a student.

I also had very good teachers. My teachers were patriarchs as I looked for them. My first teacher was Uncle Righteousness; my second teacher was the living treasure of the People's Republic of China; my third teacher was the third-generation successor from the Shaolin Monastery at Quanzhou; and my fourth teacher was a patriarch of Wing Choon Kungfu.

You have to rest. You must not practice at the same level as my intensive or regional courses. You have to practice at about 30% of your potential level. If 30% is too high, you can practice at 20%, at 10% or even at 5%. 5% is more than 10 times my potential.

How do we get at 30%? If we take what I teach at regional or intensive course, and half that at 50%, and then half the 50% again, that will give us 25%, which is close to 30%. If you find the 30% too high for you, you can go to 20%, 10% or 5%. Remember that chi kung takes years.

Question 4

How can one release deep traumatic suppressed emotions/feelings including past life and ancestral karma in a safe and expedient way?

Answer

Now let us look at the answers to your questions for curiosity. If a person is extremely angry or violent or fear or terrified, a good way is to have a gentle chi flow.

To you, a gentle chi flow is easy, but many people take many years to have a gentle chi flow.

My early students in 1980s took about 4 months, which was superfast. Most practice gentle, physical exercise, which does not contribute to good health, vitality and longevity.

Gradually you can let the chi flow to move faster. In this way you can have a vigorous chi flow. Sometimes the chi flow can be gentle, but the chi is moving very fast internally.

Guan Yin Bodhisattva, Immortal Li and other divine beings often come to bless us. We are extremely lucky

Immortal Li

Immortal Li, by courtsy of Sifu John O Laoidh, Shaolin Wahnam Eiranne of Chi Kung and Wudang Kungfu

Question 5

I myself went through this and was guided by Guan Yin Bodhisattva for ways to release and for me it was extremely painful and enduring yet a teaching and a blessing.

Answer

You are lucky to have divine energy and guided by Guan Yin Bodhisattva. Those who are lucky take years. Others who are not so lucky practice gentle, physical exercise.

For you, to release trauma, suppressed emotions and ancestral karma, go to chi flow, first gently then vigorously. Others practice gentle, physical exercise; they do not know how to enter into a chi kung state of mind.

Question 6

From my experience the body holds onto emotions and manifests into disease but the nervous system holds onto trauma, past life and ancestral karma and can manifest as mental psychological problems and seizes up the body.

Answer

Many patients take their trauma to move past it. Many psychiatrists have moved away from psychology, a study of the psychic; they use brain-functions.

To restore the nervous system we can use the traditional Chinese methods. It is slower, but it uses methods that restore the natural working of a person.

Chi Kung State of Mind

Chi Kung State of Mind

Question 7

Why is it easier to heal others directly but much harder to heal oneself?

Answer

Direct experience is important, but it is easier to heal others than to heal oneself. Perhaps it is due to direct experience. It is easier to examine others than to heal oneself.

Question 8

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions.

Answer

It is very important that we differentiate between our intensive or regional courses with our regular practice. It is very important that we don't over-practice. We are at a very high level. What is "low" to us is actually very "high" to other people.

As I have often said, what I mention may not be what others not in our school would like to hear. But that is their problem. What I want is that our students differentiate between their intensive or regional courses and their regular practice.

All teaching begins from the heart. A teacher must treat his students like his own children.

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