History and theory
Balancing Arts are traditional excises of Taoism moving arts. They had been kept in secret by Taoist qigong masters for centuries and was introduced to the public recently by Wang Liping, one of the most powerful Taoist master at our time. Master Wang had been trained by three Taoist masters in Lao Mountain in Shandong Province, China since his childhood and began to serve the public in 1980s. Balancing Arts have been proved to be a very effective way of improving our internal qi, external qi and healing power.
Master Wang taught people doing tree balancing arts.
The Balancing Arts were developed on the basis of ancient Tunashu (breathing technique), combined with certain style of body movement, to exchange qi with plants, animals, earth, moon, sun and star. Balancing arts exercises would train you to reach a balance between your internal qi and the qi from the nature. Balancing Arts can efficiently clear up any kind of blockage in our body.
The Balancing Arts can be practiced against trees, human and the universe. For beginners, It is better to practice The Balancing Art against trees, because trees have their roots deep underground, and their body high in the sky. Trees have their own circulation system and have stronger natural qi in their body. Ancient Chinese qigong masters realized that exchanging qi with trees could greatly improve our health many centuries before scientists found that trees gave out oxygen which our human being lives on. Now we can better understand why practicing qigong against trees can improve our health.
The Balancing Art was designed to help the practitioners to be able to emit qi out and take in the qi from the universe. It is an efficient way to bring you the power of healing. Big trees are ideal objects to exchange your qi. Ancient Chinese qigong masters found that tree have the qi which we need and different trees have different qi which can improve our different internal organs differently. This can be better explained with the theory of Five Elements.
Five trees and five organs, five elements and five colors
Ancient qigong masters found that different trees contain different color elements. For example, pine tree have green element; willow trees have yellow element; poplar trees have white element; cypress trees have black element and apple trees or phoenix trees have red element. In the theory of Five Elements, pine tree belong to wood element, apple tree and phoenix tree belong to fire element, willow tree belong to earth element, poplar tree belong to gold element and cypress tree belong to water element. In our body, liver is wood element. Heart is fire element. Spleen is earth element. Lungs are gold element.
Kidneys are water element. The relations of the five elements are as these: Wood generates fire; fire generates earth; earth generate gold; gold generates water and water generates wood. This is called generating cycle. There also exists a destroying cycle, it is as this: wood destroys earth; earth destroys water; water destroys fire; fire destroys gold and gold destroys wood.
The illustration and table can help you to understand and remember the relations of The Five Elements. Knowing this, you will know which trees you need to exchange your qi with according to your health situation.
Basically, practicing the balancing arts against:
- Pine trees will help to improve your liver function
- Apple trees or phoenix trees will improve your heart function
- Willow trees will improve your spleen function
- Poplar trees will improve your lung function
- Cypress trees will improve your kidney function.
Practicing and functions
If you have problems with particular organs, you can choose the relevant trees to practice the balancing arts. It is very important to know that the generating and destroying cycle between the five elements. For example, if you have liver problems, you need to practice the balancing arts against pine tree. But sometime it may not work. This is not because the knowledge is wrong. It may be because your liver problems are caused by lack of kidney qi. According to the theory of Five Elements, kidney qi generates liver qi. If the kidney qi is depleted, it can not generate liver qi and cause liver problems. It is described as the mother can not breed the son. So the root of the liver problems is the lack of kidney qi. The right way to release this kind of liver problems is to doing the balancing art against cypress trees to improve your kidney qi. You should not practice the balancing arts too much against poplar trees if you have liver problems. Practicing The Balancing Art can strengthen gold qi or lung qi. But if lung qi is too strong it will destroy liver qi and make the liver problems worse. Perfect health is a perfect balance. having this idea in mind, you will know what to do due to your own health situation.
Another important goal you can achieve from the balancing art is building up your healing power. The balancing art can help you to be able to balance your qi, make your qi more powerful and help you to be able to efficiently emit out your qi. In another word, you will be able to connect your qi with someone you want to help. The more you practice the balancing arts, the more healing power you can build up and the better results you can expect.
There are several ways to practice The Balancing Arts against trees, which are introduced as below, so you can begin to practice this unique tree balancing art and benefit from it right away. Generally speaking, there are two types of Tree Balancing Arts: fixed steps and moving steps.
Chinese Version (中文原文)
平 衡 功(一)
“平衡功”是“灵宝通智能内功术”中的外动功，是一种古老的吐纳术，通过修炼者的肢体有序之动，配合严密的呼吸方法，用意用气用百窍和植物、动物、人相交换有形有质的“信灵”，使人体宇宙的电磁场和植物、动物、人的电磁场相对抗的统一。修炼者发出自身宇宙无形之质与植物、动物、人相交换气质、血质、髓质及相交换心领神会的“信灵”，使修炼者能达到人与植物、人与动物、人与人之间的“信灵”气质、血质、髓质相对抗的平衡，故名：平衡功。平衡功在古时对治疗各种肿瘤、内脏积血、肿块、脓肿有一定的疗效。
初学平衡功者最好和大树相对抗地炼，因为“人生于世，浮而无根。”就是说：人出生于母体后，本身就成为无根之体，要靠水谷养肢体而生长，人体有“气行之路”、“血行之路”、“秽物排出之路”。树木天生有根，根基深，树木虽无血液，但它有“气行之路”、“水行之路”和“排浊之路”。树木体积高大，稳定，又是天然之物，人与树木对抗地交换“信灵”有益无害。
“平衡功”固定步法的修炼方法
双手上下拉动
姿势与动作：
修炼者面对大树，两脚自然分开，两脚距离宽于肩，两膝微曲，双手轻松自然下垂于大腿两侧，闭目，平视，合齿，舌抵上腭，静止一会。双臂平伸，虚腋，两手掌平开，立掌，两掌心对大树，修炼者要与对炼的大树保持一定的距离，距离由修炼者的功夫而定。
双掌距树身，为身树相距的三分之一。初学者闭两目，功夫深者两目圆睁，双手同时沿大树树身平行上下拉动，两腿配合两手臂上下起伏，两膝缓缓曲伸，脊柱正直，两膝曲伸程度由修炼者的功夫、年龄、体质而定。
呼吸：
修炼平衡功者的呼吸要紧密地配合动作，呼吸的方法要与动作的起伏而定呼气与吸气。修炼者向上拉动时吸气，向下拉动时呼气，呼吸要逐步做到细、匀、长、缓、微。
意念：
意念两掌掌面和面前的大树。大树是一个带有特定色素的大气柱，两掌也会发出同样色素的气体来，和大树相对抗地交换“信灵”。 |
