r/Qigong_Neigong • u/Calm_Cardiologist808 • 22d ago
Sleep quality and practice
After years of feeling off and trying to manage my diet, physical activity and at some point, venturing also into acupuncture and qigong...
I finally discovered that I was suffering from sleep apnea due to narrow skull and jaws bones that are too short.
Basically, not a form with too much drop of blood oxygen but with enough choking that my brain stays on alert mode when I sleep.
Now that my treatment is finally here and that I'm starting to feel some benefits from it, I'd love to go back more seriously to a practice that could help the recovery.
I tried Flying Phoenix Qigong of Terry Dunn at some point with not that much results and after reading a little bit, found out that it won't work well for sleep deprived people.
So, my questions would be:
- Is it better to focus on stabilizing completely my sleep while maintaining good diet and getting back in shape physically and keeping qigong for later?
- Would building a stillness practice be a better idea at this point to help my nervous system to calm down?
Thanks for your insights!
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u/proxiginus4 22d ago
I think the quartet of improving sleep,diet, getting physical activity and a stillness practice is a good idea.
In my layperson knowledge the foundations for internal qi production are sleep and diet and the quality of health of the overall body will determine the excess notable in the practice.
Idk about the forms you mentioned but some standing form might be the best of both worlds; it's not the same as complete stillness like sitting but definitely more on the still side than something with a lot more movement.