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Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:01 am
by Yeung
I am trying to develop a model for the Hun Yuan Zhuang, and I think collecting a list of sensations from practitioners and possible explanations for their sensations will be very useful. Please share your experiences here and maybe we can verify some of them with other practitioners.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:25 am
by everything
What do you mean a model?

Some sensations:
warmth
sinking
fluid kind of flow
electrical kind of flow
fullness
heaviness
relaxation
connectedness
calm

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 6:24 am
by charles
For what practical purpose are you creating a "model" of the practice? How will that model help students or practitioners progress? (Put another way, what is the value of creating/having such a model?)

How do subjective sensations and their posited causes help support such a model? In the end, it is, traditionally, all "qi" and the movement thereof.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 7:19 am
by Yeung
An input-process-output model, and in this thread I am hoping to identify some workable output variables.

It is too early to suggest anything before we came up with any workable output variable. And the aim is certainly clear in coming up with some findings to help practitioners to improve as suggested.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 11:17 am
by yeniseri
Yeung wrote:I am trying to develop a model for the Hun Yuan Zhuang, and I think collecting a list of sensations from practitioners and possible explanations for their sensations will be very useful. Please share your experiences here and maybe we can verify some of them with other practitioners.


The sensation is not that much different from any activity. The only distinction is that this hyperemia occurs much faster and is more consistent with yoga and taiji /qigong related exercise routines.
BTW: There is a chemical/hormonal underlying factor in hyperemia and that means that these sensation in qigong/yangshengong will have the same underlying process
http://www.cvphysiology.com/Blood%20Flow/BF005

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2017 6:31 pm
by Strange
charles wrote:For what practical purpose are you creating a "model" of the practice? How will that model help students or practitioners progress? (Put another way, what is the value of creating/having such a model?)

How do subjective sensations and their posited causes help support such a model? In the end, it is, traditionally, all "qi" and the movement thereof.


maybe for gathering info to create a yardstick
so he can go to another forum and "measure" others
and show what an expert he is

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 3:19 pm
by Yeung
hyperemia:

Heart rate might not be a sensation, as it is measurable but not workable because the subject in a Hun Yuan Zhuang should have a stable heart rate as in any static posture.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 3:29 pm
by Yeung
The sensations of Qi 气 or energy should be interesting, any subjective description?

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 5:25 pm
by everything
I listed a few

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 6:02 pm
by Appledog
This post is supposed to be deleted because I only keep my most recent 100 posts. An admin should delete it or allow users to delete their own posts to save space.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 3:19 am
by Patrick
In Yu Yong Nian´s book " Zhan Zhuang and the search of wu" you will find a description of sensations/feelings. However, how objective this is, is doubtable.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 7:46 am
by yeniseri
Patrick wrote:In Yu Yong Nian´s book " Zhan Zhuang and the search of wu" you will find a description of sensations/feelings. However, how objective this is, is doubtable.


If read carefully, you will see that the objective criteria of >2 degrees increase of temperature, along with increase of felling i.e. hyperemia of warmth, slight sweating, increased intestinal motility (hence the Spleen/stomach model for benefit of zhanzhuang). Objecive critera is usually measyrable and Yu Yong Nian's profession as a dentist, (if I recall) does a far better job of detailing some benefit for zhuangfa.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 7:50 am
by yeniseri
Yeung wrote:hyperemia:

Heart rate might not be a sensation, as it is measurable but not workable because the subject in a Hun Yuan Zhuang should have a stable heart rate as in any static posture.


Heart rate will differ based on degree of health status, disease, and "depth of stance' but it is rarely "stable". Perhaps its range will be stable as opposed to single digit stable.
On the other hand, one may not know the heart rate number but one can feel the increased pumping or the oppressed chest stagnation, or the difficulty breathing..a sensation that is subjectively felt!

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 10:32 am
by everything
All of the sensations I listed are not too difficult (AFAIK) to start to feel, but it requires patience and actual work (at relaxation).

For the objectivity part, this is not qigong, but in Psych 101, we did an experiment with all the 100-200 students in the hall. We took our HR. Then, we were given about 1 minute to think whatever to elevate our HR. Pretty much everyone could do this. This is INCREDIBLY easy to do. Then we were given about 1-2 minutes to do whatever to lower our HR. Pretty much easy to do as well. This was all objective to the extent that it can be (self-reported data, not double-blind). The moral is we have much more conscious control over some unconscious processes in the whole mind/body thing. MA nerds should already be way more in tune to this.

The qigong stuff is analogous but way more subtle and it takes some time to really even feel sensations. IF people actually bothered to do the work (I get the feeling even on RSF that no one bothers because it's kinda boring, hard to believe, etc.), then you could try to take a big survey like Yeung wants to do and just write down "here's what 100 people reported". But none of those are outputs or results. If you wanted to then record blood pressure, HR, etc., maybe that would be interesting, maybe not. You're not going to be able to record "fantastic peng and the sensations that came before" or something like that, even here on RSF. Just ain't gonna happen. MAYBE your teacher could help you, but statistical probability is insanely low.

Re: Sensations in Hun Yuan Zhuang 浑元桩

PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2017 10:38 am
by Yeung
everything wrote:I listed a few

Thanks, may you like to comment on the following:

Relaxation, sinking, and calm can be classified as input variables and the outcome is heaviness, or the process of transfer weight or the body.

Increase of muscle intensity by stretching can generate warmth, but at a static muscle intensity temperature might be static as well.

Stretching the joints can produce a sense of connectedness, and that sounds like a input variable as well. And this is closely associated with the sense of fullness which is something like the whole body is expanding.

If one follows the movement of inhale and exhale, there might be a sense of flow in going out and coming in of energy, are you saying this is fluid kind of flow?

I am not sure about electrical kind of flow but it is possible to generate static electricity to cause a spark.