The Super Power Everybody Can Access

Put your palms together. Now separate them by a couple of centimeters. Focus on that space between your palms. You should feel that space start to warm up a little. “Slide” your palms up and down slightly. You should feel something like two weak magnets repelling each other. Continue to focus on that space and begin to separate your hands as you continue to slide them around and play with the “magnets” that seem to have grown inside your palms. How wide can you separate your hands and still feel it?

We humans all generate a weak electromagnetic field that has been measured through scientific instruments. Modern science tells us that this endogenous field is generated by the movement of charged ions across cell membranes and via bio-electric nerve impulses.

But this bioelectric field has been understood by healers and martial arts practitioners for millennia. It’s called Qi or Chi in China, ki in Japan, and in Yogic traditions, it’s called Prana.

When practicing meditation you will be told that Qi is your breath. When practicing martial arts, you will be told Qi is your inner energy. When you go in for acupressure or acupuncture treatments, you will be told that Qi flows through your body and can be weakened or disrupted.

A master of internal martial arts is said to be able to “move a thousand pounds with four ounces” by utilizing leverage, efficiency of movement, optimal timing, and Qi.

A great example of this is Bruce Lee’s famous “one-inch punch”:

I’ve had similar results with the Taijiquan “An” (push) technique. I haven’t had the opportunity to test against 1000 pounds, but I have moved two 200+ pound guys, who were pushing against me, with a single “4 ounce” push. So I guess I’m halfway there.

All disease, or “dis ease” is caused by the interruption of the flow of Qi through your body. This interruption is formed through stress; either stress on the joints, or stress in the muscles.

This is a reminder to relax your shoulders and neck right now.

Healers have traced common pathways through the body and found points where pressure can stimulate the Qi to flow again. It doesn’t always cure the primary cause, but it does alleviate the symptoms for a time. Sometimes pressure can be applied through touching the skin (acupressure) and sometimes it needs to be directly stimulated (acupuncture).

Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300 year-old mummy found in the alps, had tattoos across his body that aligned with classic acupuncture points, which raises the possibility that Ötzi’s village knew of acupuncture 2000 years before it was believed to have first emerged in Asia.

Sit in a relaxed posture. Breathe in deeply through your nose and exhale gently through your mouth. Imagine an area inside your body sitting between the navel and the pubic bone. As you breathe in, fill that area with light. As you exhale release the light, but leave a fragment of it behind each time until you have filled the area.

This area is called the Dantian or the “Field of Cinnabar.” There are three Dantians, but we’re only focusing on the lower Dantian for this exercise.

For humans, our center of balance is at around 40% of our height and in the center of the body. Weirdly enough, for most humans that puts your center of balance at the lower Dantian. In “Pushing Hands” practice, you want to keep yourself balanced by keeping your lower Dantian centered between your feet.

The light you fill the Dantian with is Qi, and it’s yours to use whenever you need it. It can enhance your strength, heal your body, and ease your anxiety. All you have to do is mentally move it to spot you need it to be and let it do its work. You can also imagine directing your breath to that spot instead of your Dantian. Rather than fill your lower Dantian, you fill the spot you want with Qi.

Martial arts practice is the best way I know, of course. “External” martial arts often don’t teach Qi access until you’ve reached a high level in the art. “Internal” martial arts, like Taijiquan, Baguaquan, and Xingyiquan teach Qi access from the beginning. So where you go to learn it is up to you. I’m partial to Taijiquan, naturally, but you do you.

First, there’s Mei Yin’s two-finger strike that instantly knocks her opponents out:

This “Dim-Mak” technique that is similar to acupressure, only it’s used for an attack rather than healing.

However, in issue #6, as she confronts the “final boss” as it were, my artists made her Qi visual for the sake of dramatic depiction.

Comic books, television and movies, give us the option of showing internal energy, so why not?

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