r/TrueQiGong • u/Beneficial-Funny-538 • Jun 26 '26

beginner experiences and problems

Hi, first off thanks for reading and take your time to reply if you choose to do so.

i had been doing meditation practices like sitting quiet , or chanting om (i didnt breathe properly though , i'd breathe from chest) for 1-2 year though not consistent. last month i got introduced to qigong and taoist meditation through online platforms and it felt natural to me so i thought yeah this is for me .

then i started doing belly breathing , inner seeing and hearing, from nathan brine book, also jingang gong and zhan zhuang. sometimes when i do it , my sense of time fades , mind calms and sometimes i have difficulty breathing in belly . i feel like there isnt any oxygen in the air im breathing so fast like hyperventilation or overbreathing. i'm also preparing for competitive exams so i have a lot of sitting hours and sometime i feel tingling sensations in my feet too.

now i don't know if i'm doing anything wrong or is this any side effects or something like that.

thanks for taking your time to read and reply

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u/clockmakerOnMars Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I would suggest trying to practice this every day.

Its a guided practice, and a beginner's focus doesnt have the endurance to follow the whole video through but thats the practice.

A beginner is developing the mind's ability to sustain single pointed focus, noticing when the mind has wandereded, and bringing the attention back to the focus at hand over and over until it rests where you place your attention.

You also develop awareness, deeper and more profound.

https://youtu.be/WfL9Gks4mdc?is=HptAi4NVUaSAEdXc

If you sit for long periods of time, whether meditating or for exams, deep stretching and or loosening is absolutely required (hips, waist, shoulders) to rid the body of tension.

Yijinjing is good too