Here's a little bonus teaching for those who've bought my latest book: AXE Advanced Xingyi Energetics. This is something (like most of the contens of AXE) that to my knowledge doesn't appear in any other publically available book or teaching - even the old Classics. It's in my teacher's hand-written manual though, now half a century old. So I thought I'd pass this supplemental along as a treat for the buyers and studiers of AXE. And I mean the buyers! Because there may be 1 or 2 of the 1,000/day unique visitors to this blog who have not yet picked up AXE. So I won't be fair of me to put out spoilers here that would detract from their eventual reading pleasure LOL.
Therefore I will teach it here in a way that will be totally clear to all and only those who have read AXE and begun to work with the material.
On page 51 (print edition), in the section FOUNDATION: FEET AND LEGS I present an essential, earthshaking fundamental teaching for the first time in print to my knowledge. Straight from my teacher in the day. It's the real way to practice Santishi (basic standing energizing pose/process of XYQ). You will see the illustration there which makes this simple but crucial point totally clear. (Hint: it involves the image of a piece of paper). That alone is worth the sticker price of the book.
Having located that, mark your place and skip ahead to page 66 (print edition). There's a photo of me doing XYQ-style standing (as at the top of this post). What I want you to try is, to apply the teaching from that earlier page (Santishi) also to this upright standing work. Sounds simple, but it's incredibly powerful. Apply the teaching from Santishi, which in that pose applies only to one left/foot (the rear) now, here: do that with BOTH FEET. It will feel slightly weird at first but you'll get the idea quickly.
Don't go nuts with this. A little goes a long way. You should not be tottering forward or floating. It's 99% mental. Just that slight 'feeling' I describe for the Santishi rear leg, now applied to both feet. Somebody watching you shouldn't be able to tell you're doing anything different.
But the effect is immediate and very powerful. First your feet will swell with 3x power 'charge', then your sacrum (weilu) will light up, then torso will engorge with 'charge' which will then stream out through your arms and hands like a mightly torrent. Enjoy!