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Running 100km while practicing Qigong

I want to share with you my experience running while practicing Qigong.

On October 4, I participated in a trail running competition of 100km with an elevation of 4,600m. It was the second time I had attempted to run this distance. Last year I tried it, but I trained too hard and arrived at the competition very tired and sore.

This year, I trained one-third less than last year, but I followed the recommendations given to me by teacher Lu: run in nature state, focus my breathing on Mingmen, and be present in my body while running. In addition, during training, I tried to apply what I had learned in the Body and Mind Method by being present in my body and visualizing it running.

Even so, during the competition after running 10 km, due to the heat and jet lag (I had arrived from China three days earlier), I began to feel pain in my head and neck, so for half an hour I gathered Qi to my head and neck while running. Then, at km 21, I began to feel pain in my liver area, and what I ate made me feel heavy and bloated.

For the next two hours, I gathered Qi, organized the Field, and tried to correct the sensation in my liver and stomach, but nothing I tried worked. The pain grew worse, and I even considered abandoning the race.

Then, at kilometer 30, I remembered one of Master Lu's classes: return, penetrate the interior, and enjoy the pain, and that nothing was more important than that. So I began to feel the pain and think of the pain I felt as something good. I was able to go very deep into the liver by thinking that the more it hurt, the deeper I could go into the liver.

I could even hear Master Lu's voice saying:

“What is enjoying pain?”

“Enjoy pain”

“This is very enjoying”

In a few minutes, the pain in my liver disappeared, then it moved to my pancreas and stomach, so now I was enjoying the pain there. A few minutes later, there was no pain in my pancreas or stomach either. I began to digest my food better and feel more energetic.

Around the 40-kilometer mark, I was already feeling pain-free and strong. From that moment until the end of the competition, I had no more pain, only fatigue, but no more pain.

The race was very difficult; more than a third of the competitors did not finish. It took me 21 and a half hours to finish. People who sign up for these competitions go to the gym a lot to build strength and train many more hours than I do. I, on the other hand, felt confident that practicing Zhineng Qigong was better training and that mental state was more important. On several occasions, all I needed to keep running was to adjust my mind and remember that I am Qi.

Thank you all for this powerful Qi Field.

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