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Feeling the Way

Feeling the Way

Rob Long

(2016)

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Abstract

This practical, down-to-earth guide offers the means for you to awaken your healing hands. Focussing on the use of hand sensitivity and energy in healing, the guide introduces methods to rapidly sharpen your latent skills and increase your confidence when feeling and working with Qi. Based on a combination of clinical examples, Daoist philosophy, and detailed 'how-to' instructions, the author shows you how to develop your ability to work energetically with your hands, providing an invaluable, powerful tool for subtle diagnosis and healing work that can supplement other methods.
Develop your hand sensitivity and awaken your healing hands with the help of this practical guide written by practitioner Rob Long. Inspired by Daoist philosophy and concepts of qi, the book features illustrations and instructive techniques for working energetically with your hands, allowing you to develop refined bodywork methods.
Massage & Bodywork Magazine
Rob Long is an experienced Acupuncturist, Tui Na therapist and Qi Gong healer and teacher. Based in Cornwall, Rob has been offering clients and students clinical work and teaching based on in-depth knowledge of traditional Daoist skills for two decades.
In this short and easy-to-read book, Rob Long peels away most of the theoretical obscuration that conceals the Daoist heart of Traditional Chinese Medicine and shows how to combine the key experiences discovered in the practice of Qigong and Neigong with that of acupuncture in healing.
Carola Beresford-Cooke, author of Shiatsu Theory and Practice

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Feeling the Way - Touch, Qi Gong, Healing, and the Daoist Tradition by Rob Long 3
Acknowledgements 9
Disclaimer 10
Preface 11
Introduction 13
How Qi Sensitivity Healing came about 17
Everybody is a healer 19
Chapter 1 - What Is a Daoist? 22
The practical and mystical become one 23
Understanding the world through personal experience 24
Limitations of language 29
Chapter 2 - Breathe! 31
Breathing as a technology 33
The ancient Chinese paradigm 36
Breathing and the Dan Tien 39
Chapter 3 - The Basic Mechanics of Healing 43
Subtle anatomy 45
Deeper flows 46
The ‘trinity’ 47
Energy gates 49
Chapter 4 - Intention Is Everything 56
The ‘monkey mind’ 57
Two very different approaches 60
Chapter 5 - Hands Off! 65
The structure and functions of the extended energy field 69
The extended energy field and intuition 71
Chapter 6 - Going Deeper 76
Technique versus ‘feel’ 76
Wu-Wei – the interface between action and non-action 78
Zu Ran 79
What you see is what you get: uses of visualization 80
The mind: searchlight or daylight? 81
Chapter 7 - QSH Techniques PArt 1: Turning Theory into Therapy 85
De Qi: what it is and how to achieve it 87
A few thoughts about hand direction… 95
Chapter 8 - QSH Techniques Part 2: Going Inside 96
Healing hands or healing hand? 96
Engaging with the meridian system 97
Encouraging Qi to ascend or descend 104
Chapter 9 - Integration 112
Applying Qi Sensitivity Healing in the clinic 112
Vulnerable patients 115
Some final thoughts… 123
References 124
Further Reading 125
Appendix 128
Acupoints 128
Index 130