Does conflict a Chi gong practice with my pacemaker and mitral valve prothes

[Guest guest]

My first questions, to try and answer yours is, does your teacher or

master knows this? Or are practicing by yourself? If your teacher

knows this, he/she should be able to give you sound advice in this

important matter. Otherwise, I have seen people with similar

conditions like yours practicing tai chi and chi kung without any

problem within my old school. The teacher was very aware of the

student's conditions and some of the techniques were different for him.

Main point with regard to this matter are, according also to Chinese

Medicine:

 

1) Very important to avoid exercise that increase Heart Fire, example,

second one of the famous Ba Duang Jing.

 

2)Regulation of both the mind and breathing must be directed to the

lower Dan Tien (water).

 

3)After I would say,ALL tecniques, three consecutive breathings (with

your arms and palms) must be done in order to lower any heat from the

heart to the kidney area. As you push, or imagine you push, the air

down to the kidney/water area, image that any fire in the heart goes

down to the kidneys. People doing this simple cooling exercise have

notice that palpitations and anxiety have stoped after their chi kung

practice. To my great surprise not many chi kung teachers seems to

know this fundamental principle.

 

4) Monitor at all times your heart rate and blood presure and ensure

you are cooling at the end of your classes.

 

They guy in my school, followed these basic principles and was very

happy. Hope this info helps.

 

take care

 

manu

[Guest guest]

Thank you Manu and Chris for your kind answers to my question.

 

I am a lonely practitioner of some classical Chigong exercises taken

mostly from Daniel Reid, Ken Cohen and Lam Kam books and tapes;

those exercises are the Great Taichi Circle, Ba Duan Jin, Embracing

the Tree, and some " passive " Chigong visualizations.

 

I have had two heart surgeries to implant a metal mitral valve and

recently I received a pace maker. By all means I want to stop this

progressive invassive approach to my condition by dedicating all the

needed time to a Chigong practice addressed to the improvement of my

heart condition. There is not a single doubt in my mind that a

dedicated Chigong practice can produce outstanding results in

addressing the chi energy wherever is most needed, because I have

seen enough dramatic evidence on the workings of this energy. But I

need to go beyond the general practice I am doing now to shift into

a " taylor made " set of exercises taking into account the specifics

of my cardiopathy for instance as both of you pointed correctly, by

cooling off everything realted to the heart and stimulating the

working with the kidneys and low dan-tien. This realm of the

interconnections of the inner organs is foreign for me and in this

area I wish I could find the knowledge and the couching I am missing

now. My problem is that I live in the country side, 3 hours away

from " civilization " and I rely largely on computer communication.

There is little chance for me to have a personal trainer or teacher

because of my remote residence settling.

 

Let me tell you I have never had a trasplant neither am candidate in

the foreseable future. About my tongue and pulse specs I wonder

how could I provide this information, living where I live, but I

guess I can make a quite acceptable digital shot of my tongue. The

pulse is another thing..... for detecting all the different pulses

TCM deals with I don´t know how could I help you.

 

This is all feed-back I can send now. If you elaborate more on the

possibilities of an specific practice for my heart improvement this

will be always appreciated.

 

All the best,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Traditional Medicine , " reflexologia2000 "

<reflexologia2000 wrote:

>

>

> My first questions, to try and answer yours is, does your teacher

or

> master knows this? Or are practicing by yourself? If your teacher

> knows this, he/she should be able to give you sound advice in this

> important matter. Otherwise, I have seen people with similar

> conditions like yours practicing tai chi and chi kung without any

> problem within my old school. The teacher was very aware of the

> student's conditions and some of the techniques were different for

him.

> Main point with regard to this matter are, according also to

Chinese

> Medicine:

>

> 1) Very important to avoid exercise that increase Heart Fire,

example,

> second one of the famous Ba Duang Jing.

>

> 2)Regulation of both the mind and breathing must be directed to the

> lower Dan Tien (water).

>

> 3)After I would say,ALL tecniques, three consecutive breathings

(with

> your arms and palms) must be done in order to lower any heat from

the

> heart to the kidney area. As you push, or imagine you push, the air

> down to the kidney/water area, image that any fire in the heart

goes

> down to the kidneys. People doing this simple cooling exercise have

> notice that palpitations and anxiety have stoped after their chi

kung

> practice. To my great surprise not many chi kung teachers seems to

> know this fundamental principle.

>

> 4) Monitor at all times your heart rate and blood presure and

ensure

> you are cooling at the end of your classes.

>

> They guy in my school, followed these basic principles and was very

> happy. Hope this info helps.

>

> take care

>

> manu

>

[Guest guest]

Chinese Traditional Medicine , " iching49 " <iching49 wrote:

>

> I would appreciate your insights about the possible conflicts of my

> Chi-gong practice with my heart condition: I have been implanted both

> a pacemaker and a metal mitral valve prothesys.

>

 

Chi Kung and other meridian balancing approachs are excellent for

people like you. Both the pacemaker and the mitral valve issues are

benefited by improving the Qi flow throughout the body. Exercises that

focus on whole body health emphasizing Heart meridians will be very

helpful.

[Guest guest]

Thank you Vinod for your answer.

 

Any particular suggestions on what exercises to do ?

 

All the best,