The Other Energies Thread

[morycce]

Meditation is great. And about that article, everything he said sounds correct to me. My chinese martial arts Sifu taught me those exact excercises 4 years ago. He is NOT joking about 100 days though because these practices are as he said, very powerful. They help build your connection to your inner source of energy which is what I've always used for my psi abilities... which brings up something else I wanted to say.

My opinion on the psi/ki/chi/prana(no one mentioned it yet) is that they are essential the same in basic nature (they all are energies).
From what I've read and seen, I think most people get the feeling that Chi and Ki are physical energies because they are associated with martial arts. How are we defining physical energies to begin with let alone mental or spiritual?
Maybe I'm just not experienced enough yet to really feel the difference or understand how to use say psi as opposed to chi. As far as the feelings I've felt from doing qi gong practices and psionics (the two I personally have the most experience in) they feel the same. I'm assuming that means they are either the same or I'm only using one and not the other (most likely chi as I practiced that before I heard of psi).

Where they differ would probably be with the mindset each has. My Sifu told me chi is lifeforce and that blood follows your chi. I don't know if psi does, but there's a simple and easy technique that has nothing to do with any "physical" exercise, though it involves using chi ( through imagery... similar to psi techs ) to make one hand bigger than the other. Basically the bloodflow to one hand is increased causing it to swell.
Would something like this fall under the category of mental since it doesn't involve punches or kicks or any movement at all really? Should we define mental, physical, and spiritual energies based off the function each type is used for? See how it could be problematic without a good definition?

If chi is a "physical" energy, it would be due to the majority of exercises and techniques involving it that mostly stay within the realm of the body. But I don't really think that chi itself can be tied down like that. Same with psi, ki, mana, prana, and the rest. It seems to me like it's more of a name thing due to languages than anything else.

Does anyone have a different feeling when they use one or the other and what do you do to invoke one energy specifically? Is it how you think of it?

There's my 2cents

[user2m]

mana is the free energy that every living/non-living thing has and shen is a fusion between heaven and hell energies. I mostly work with psi, mana, and shen. I'm just starting ki.

[Fearn]

I'm going to just ask the random question...what are heaven and hell energies?

What is the difference between psi and mana?

[user2m]

Heaven and hell energies are just energies from heaven and hell. Just like the earth has its own specific energies so does heaven and hell. When you combine them that is what shen is. Mana has more to do with plants and elements while psi is the natural energy that our nerves and brain make(at lest that was what i was taught)

[Fearn]

psi is the natural energy that our nerves and brain make(at lest that was what i was taught)

This is greatly debatable. It seems that everyone seems to have a different belief as to what psi actually is. The truth is, no one really knows! Many people do follow this theory, but I for one, don't. I don't feel that enough energy is made as a by-product of the nervous system to cause so much change (such as in psychokinesis). What about people who insist on connecting their constructs to the Earth? The earth doesn't have a nervous system, yet people believe that it has psi.

[brandonslau]

I think you can feel it if you learn how and practice. Like walking =/

-Brandon =DD

[user2m]

Fearn you have a good point. Maybe all of the different energies are all the same thing,maybe I'm right maybe your right. But who really cares like brandonslau says you can find a different feel for the different energies. no body knows where these energies come from or why. But i say as long as they are here lets enjoy them

[Fearn]

Right. I was just trying to provoke thought. Here's what I think: There is a basic energy. All the other energies are different 'flavourings' of that basic energy. When I scan chi, or psi (the only ones I've scanned) I can feel the basic energy, as well as something extra.

I think it's put there by the different visualizations and ways of accessing the energy.

[user2m]

You could be right. Maybe over the past (i dunno) 100,000 years humans have flavoured the same energy and in turn the universe followed that command and gave that energy a flavouring so now instead of the real(basic) energy people feel chi ki psi prana mana or whatever you wanna call it (man the human mind is weird).

[Fearn]

Right. You could probably get past the flavours, and just use the basic energy, but I'm pretty lazy, and I'd rather master one than be a Jack-of-all-trades.