Qigong for Chest Congestion Relief | 10-Minute Daily Routine

Hello our citizens. My name is Chris and welcome to Brain Education TV. Today we're going to do keyong flow for chest congestion and lung health. This is going to help us improve our breathing, clear any stagnation around the chest, around the shoulders, around the lymph nodes, and help us to clear the overall chest energy. So now to begin our practice, we're going to open our feet about shoulder width and really sink into the ground. Strong knees. Tuck the a little bend in the knees. Little tuck of the tailbone. Feel strong to the legs. Feel light through the upper body. We're working on our lungs. So, we're going to bring our focus to our lungs. So, we can start to tap. So, you can tap with palms. You can tap with fists. So, you can tap strongly or gently depending on what your body needs. So through the tapping, we want to start to release some of the heaviness, some of the tension, shake up some of the stagnant energy, but we also want to bring our focus here. Bring your mind's eye, bring your attention into your lungs, and then bring your intention into healing your lungs. Tapping and with the breath, release with a sigh. So the more heavy, the more sticky, the more congested you feel, make more sound. Let that tension out out. So you might feel some temperature changing, warm, cold. Your hands may travel a little bit around your chest as you find different areas of tension. So start to bring your focus. You're also welcome to close your eyes. It will help you focus deeper beyond just the chest muscles into the organs. Organs. Organs. Good. So, feel that buzzing. Good. Now, we're going to focus a little bit more energy. So, relax the hands down and with your fingers, cup your fingers together like a little bird's beak. And we're going to tap right in this little indentation under your collar bone. Start to tap there. This is where the lung one lung two meridians there or acupressure points are right here the start of the lung meridian and the lung meridian travels all the way down to your thumb. So if you extend through your thumb if you bring special attention to your thumb you may start to feel a little bit more release especially when we get into our flowing part. Good. So you're tapping you're opening that area. So some people it can be quite tender in here. So if it is, that means we're lung energy is not moving, chest energy is not great. Our posture will probably start to cave in a little bit more. So we want to start to open. Good. And slowly release that hand. Feel that side compared to the other side. Bird beak on the other side. And then tapping. Good. So there's a little indentation right under your collar bone almost just inside your shoulder. And breathe out. So you can tap strongly, gently and notice that the two sides can feel very different. All the meridian goes down into the thumb. Good. So as we focus on the physical tension around the chest, put our mind in our lungs. Visualize the meridian, we can do lots of healing. Uh the combination of mind, intention, focus, combination of vibration, combination of breath and sound, we can do a lot of great healing. Good job. And then slowly stop. So bring that focus in. Focus on the energy coming all the way down to your thumbs, flowing down your arms on both sides. Relax your arms in front of you. You want a little space under your armpits. Your arms are almost floating. So we're going to go into a gentle flow. Very simple. You're going to start to inhale your hands up like a Taichi opening. But as you get to the level of your lung, you're going to start to open your palms like the hands are pushing away from each other, opening your chest. As you get here, you can lift your sternum a little bit. Really feel the chest open. Extend from the point we've been tapping out to your thumb. You can extend through the thumb. Feel that meridian. And then as we exhale, our hands are going to come back towards the lung space and then down. So with our breath, our inhale will take us up and out. Inhale, keep inhaling, inhaling, inhaling. And then as you exhale, your hands will come back and down. So you might have to move a little faster to sink your breath. Focus on the stretching and the opening, the circulation. Now, if that breath feels too long, it's okay to inhale up, exhale out. Inhale in and exhale down. I'd like you to find the breath that feels most natural to you. And if you're comfortable with the flow, start to close your eyes. If you're feeling really heavy tension, lots of healing, ah, use the exhale with a firm sigh and a little sound. If you're feeling like you're recharging really well, then breathing in through your nose and out through your nose can be the most powerful breathing. But sometimes we have to build to there. Keep your mind in your lungs. Feel the energy flowing through the meridians. Visualize it. Feel the energy that your body is moving through. [Music] So this flow here allows us to really open the front side. Now to create more space from our for our lungs, we need to open the front side and the back side. Inhaling out. Exhale in and down. We're going to do two more before we get to the back side. [Music] [Music] And as you exhale, as your hands come down, let them kind of float down. Relax your shoulders. Good. So feel this opening around the chest, the circulation down the arms. Now what we're going to do is we're going to roll our hands. So the back of the hands face each other. When I roll my hands, my shoulders roll. My shoulder blades open. I can feel an opening between my shoulder blades. My spine wants to go backwards. So we want to have a little bit of focus on that back side all the way down through our thumbs. Now similar as we inhale, our hands are going to rise to that lung height. And then they're going to spin open, opening up to the heavens. Let the energy pour down. And then as we exhale, our hands are going to float back down to the lung height. And then spiraling, back of the hands face each other. Really open that back side. The lungs want to expand in all directions, 360°. So we want to open the front side and the back side. Now here you might feel extending through your thumb and your index finger really helps to activate. The index finger has the large intestine really helps really partner to the lungs. [Music] So inhale [Music] all the way up to the universe. Exhale returning [Music] And if that's too long, too uncomfortable with your breath, you can inhale up to lung height. Exhale up to the universe. Inhale back to lung height. Exhale down. Twisting. More intense the twist, the more you can clean a little bit with your breath. Again, [Music] breathing out through your mouth helps you to release more heaviness. If you're feeling quite challenged, keep exhaling out through the mouth. If it's become more comfortable, shift to the nose. breathing in and out through the nose. You may feel some trembling, some vibration, some temperature. All the healing sensations are signs that our energies changing and moving. [Music] We'll do three more times. If you haven't closed your eyes yet, this is a good time to close your eyes. [Music] [Music] As you finish your third flow, relax your arms. Now, feel that buzzing in your hands, energy circulating very well. And then bring your hands up right in front of your chest a couple inches away. No touching. Relax your shoulders. Roll your shoulders back. Lift your sternum and start to pour energy into your lungs. Closing your eyes is going to be best. Energy comes in through your feet, from the earth, from the crown, through the universe. It all fills your lungs. As your lungs expand, your rib cage expands, your hands push away slightly. [Music] As you exhale, your hands will recede gently. Put all focus into your lungs. Visualize your lungs filling with new, fresh, loving, healing energy. Your breathing gets deeper. You can feel the congestion melting away. [Music] Now, gently start to sweep from your lungs down your chest, down your abdomen, rinsing away any stress and tension. And then sweep down your arms. Sweep wherever you need. Maybe it's the back. Sometimes the standing can make us feel a little heavy. We all feel that ah new body. So as you come back to a comfortable standing posture, feel your improved posture. Feel your deeper breath, the chest moving with every breath. And then feel the general well-being expanding. So with that, we'll finish our practice today. We'll bring our feet together, hands together, and thank you. 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