gerard wrote:
But some asked and here is what it means to go deep:
Body-Mind refinement until the Body is completely open so one can fully understand the Mind and what its exact role is. In the meantime, internal organs must be cleansed and remain in a state of balance; all joints must be opened, tendons stretched and supple; muscles are softened as Spleen is working correctly, creating and distributing the Qi, blood and fluids efficiently (more energy is produced at a lowered energy/food intake).
Focus is on hard work not form let alone fighting others since this kind of work is enormous and it requires a lot of effort, energy and dedication. Grounding, grounding and more grounding; this can't be emphasised good enough.
wow, this is an incredibly tall/deep order, nvm the "fighting" and "martial". to say only one person is enough of a "guru" who can help you go that deep is unbelievable even though there are many qualified experts who will sell advice or even give good information on many aspects. then, is the individual student able to implement changes? for example, to start more superficially on only one facet, sleep is a "miracle drug" that will help all those aspects of health and more. are you (general you) getting the best quality sleep consistently (95% of the time)? why or why not? a lot goes into this topic, whether you look through a lens of TCM, Huberman Lab, conventional medicine, integrative medicine, functional medicine, etc., etc.
ok if we try to reduce the problem space to conditions like in the hey day of TCM ... only organic foods exist, mostly nutritious plant-based diet, there are no screens with a blue light issue, you wake up at dawn and go outside to work so no sitting at office all day, no lack of vitamin D from lack of sun, regular sleep/wake schedule which helps all your hormone cycles, no fight/flight stress hormones just from driving, no lack of incidental exercise, no ultra processed foods, no Monsanto, no GMO, no jet lag, surrounded by nature and "good qi", no "there's an app for that" even for meditation and calming, etc., etc., then some of this optimal health achievement and being good at neigong (nvm fighting) may be less far-fetched. we have really set ourselves up for failure with our modern conditions, lol. first we have to overcome some of this self-induced "bad qi".