Hello everybody!

It will be the first time i post something here.

I just started doing some breathing qigong exercises a week ago and just 2 days ago I started feeling a strong conctration in my belly. Instead of getting a more relaxed sensation in the abdominal area, i now feel like if i'm carying a rock inside my stomach. I lost also a bit of energy, I'm feeling now quiet tired doing other simple tasks.

Because I believe this sensation has something to do with the breathing exercises, that i supose i've been doing wrongly, i stoped the exercises.

I realise now (by reading more about qigong) that i inhale more than i exhale, that means that i was filling my abdominal most i could, but i wasn't expelling and contracting my abdomen totally. Maybe is that!!

I have winter allergies (sneezing, itchy eyes, itchy neck), wich i believe indicates qi deficiency in the lungs, so I also tried to find something that could relate qigong or breathing techniques with symptoms, to find out proper exercises to myself. Anyway i could find anything relevant.

I don't know if anyone can help me understand more about it.

Thanks a lot

Dear 7iago,

Are you doing exercises other than from the Spring Forest Qigong course, you'll want to follow up with the instructor teaching that method.

If you are doing Spring Forest Qigong, Master Lin recommends this in regards to breathing:

Hello Shawn!

To be honest i am not following any style of qigong, but as much as i understood in this quote of Master Lin, there are no right way or wrong way to breath, so it means that i should find the way that I most feel confortable?