When practicing Qi Gong 18 Style your slow easy movements are to be deliberate. Your practice should take you 18 – 20 minutes to complete. If you are faster than this you need to slow down and focus on slow movement. To take longer than 24 minutes means you are moving too slow.
Why slow movement? As we go through life, we tend to be efficient and expend only the minimum energy required. Thus we use the fewest muscles required in performing a task or perhaps we have a repetitive action that we perform leading us to over develop certain muscles. This way of moving and living shapes our bodies and affects our alignment. We over- use some muscles and others just rest, being used infrequently if ever. The slow deliberate movement causes us to use each muscle in our body which increases the flow of blood through the tissue, feeding our bodies. This allows the tissues to become elastic and open. By performing the Qi Gong 18 Style ritual over time, you will notice that you can move easier and your balance, eye-hand coordination, posture, skin color and ability to move all improve.
Keep moving with Slow Deliberate Movements
