windwalker wrote:consider what is being acted on, and how.
qi to qi, yi to yi shen to shen the agents, the medium is though the body...
It starts from the skin,,,first level ie touch,,,getting the correct touch that has yin/yang ...takes a while...
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They say air but its to mean no physical contact its not the air but the field that is being moved.
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Teacher Gao, outlined how the field interacts with the body, and body with it...and how this interacts with other bodies it comes into contact with.
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the field he refers to is the qi chong or qi field that is thought to surround the body, depending on ones development and focus it can extend a few inches to a few feet..ect...just depends on ones inner development and focus...everyone has it, most are not aware of it nor really need to be....The more developed it is the thicker the filed becomes...for most its scattered and not connected in any meaningful way...its something that is developed from training depending on the focus of the training...ie dont use force, 4ox moves a 1000 lb , fan song ect....
Well, since a qi field has not been well defined (some mention heat, some electromagnetism, some photons...), this still seems, at least currently, to rely on “is thought to” and again points more to psychological factors rather than physical ones. If one cannot even satisfactorily define this field (i.e., by using physics), then explaining how the field interacts with the body can only be speculative. The field’s thickening, extending, etc. also seems speculative (how is this measured and understood?), and thus also seems to be more mental than physical.
One can talk about waves (e.g. light waves) passing through the air, and can even talk about them affecting the objects that they contact (e.g. plant photosynthesis, intense heat making animals seek shade...), but it does not really explain the physical claims for kongjin, at least not by using current understandings of physics. There does not appear to be anything comparable to ocean waves which can physically push and pull a human body; there does not even seem to be something comparable to wind, which can push or pull a human body if the wind is strong enough. The qi field would need to be better explained for any of this to make sense to me.
Your explanation does not seem to really explain anything that can currently be understood by physical principles (despite your attempts to use terms from physics, and to provide something that one can rationalize with, i.e., “sounds plausible”), and still seems to rely on psychological (mental) responses.
What allows the field to be interacted with? Is this just a mental assumption?
What allows it to expand or thicken? This also seems to be just a desire rather than something physical that could be measured scientifically.
If one just talks about something imaginary, then any explanations would just be mental exercises that are not based in physical reality.
It still seems to me like the factors that you are exploring in your training are just psychological.