Abstract
Nei Yang Gong Dong Gong Yi Jin Xing Qi Fa is a category of nourishing Qigong, through which the integration of awareness, Qi (life force energy) and physical power enables its practitioners to improve their physical and mental health, as well as attain a deep meditative condition. Therefore, Yi Jin Xing Qi Fa may be similar to yoga and Taijiquan (Tai Chi) in its regard to meditative movements (Klein, 2017). The author presented at ISLIS 2017 that a comparison of his exercises between early 2015 and July 2017 indicated how the practices changed his movements and conditions, in particular, the extent of his tinnitus and hyperacusis. For ISLIS 2018, the author analyzed his exercises from October 2017 to April 2018, in order to describe the slump period/condition he faced and the method he used to overcome the slump while acquiring the movements, using a first person’s perspective research technique. A video of a practitioner (i.e. the author) performing his exercises, his documentation and the documentation of his instructor were used for the analysis. The video showed that the durations of inhalation in the first part of the exercises were 18.59 sec in October 2017, 8.73 sec in January 2018, and 22.94 sec in April 2018. The duration in January 2018 was less than half as short as that in October 2017. As a result of the analysis of inhalation durations and the documentation, it was estimated that the author was faced with a slump from November 2017 to February 2018, while he began to overcome the slump in March 2018. In this presentation, the author will discuss the possible factors of his slump from the perspectives of respiratory control and proprioceptive sense.
