Sun Light Palms

[allyourki]

Sun light palms, is the art of projecting Qi through your hands. Not to be confused with the radical laser type concepts of rad-ki.
First, we must build a reasonable amount of Qi. I find that this posture is a good way to begin.
www.geocities.com/yongnian/Xy01.jpg (San Ti)
When copuled with this stance, they make for a very effective Qi building combination wongkk.com/images-3/general-5/horse-stance05.jpg
The Preperation
Okay, so how do we actually accomplish this skill. It is hard to be sure, and it is difficult to determine which effects are caused by our Qi unless strict precausions are taken.
Get into San ti Posture and take a deep breath in ,through the nose, inflating your navel (the area around and below your belly button), and hold it for a few second. Release through the mouth and wait a few seconds for breathing in again. Get used to this steady rythmn and try and learn to be comfortable in this posture.
Needless to say, part of the preperation is getting a candle. Once the candle is lit, try and elevate it to about chest height. Get into san ti posture and find a distance so that your breath does not disturb the flame. Try pushing your hands forward very slowly (as if you were making a gentle wave in a pool), and see if that disturbs the flame. If it does, move further away.

The Method
So, how do we accomplish this skill? It's relatively simple, but there's no tricks, tips or short cuts. Truly, the only way to succeed here is through sheer repition.
Okay, so we take up San Ti posture, take a few breaths in, (perhaps meditating before hand to clear your mind). Try and feel your Qi circulating through your body, perhaps as buzzing or heat. Qi is guided by our intent (yi) now some believe that the best way to guide yi is through visualization, but when picking up a fork, do you visualize your hand grasping it? No, you will it to happen. In essence, you send messages from the brain to your arm. Here is no different, except perhaps, it is the mind or soul that influences the Qi.
So, we try and will your Qi to move (gently like a flowing creek) from our dan tien and up through our dominant hand (which should be the one infront of you in San ti posture).
Inhale (inflating your navel as described earlier and breathing through the nose), feel the Qi in the air go down to your Dan tien, exhale and try and push it out your hands. Simple? Yes. Easy? Not quite.
While the concept here is rather simple, the actual skill is immensely difficult to perfect.

The Point?
San ti, aswell as being a posture that effectively strengthens your Qi flow, is a martial posture, designed to effectively strike the enemy and redirect his own strength. Yet what's the point? Surely the ability to blow out a candle with Qi pales incompraison to smashing through a brick with your fist? Perhaps that is true. Yet I can hammer at the external body with multiple blows, but if my oponent is conditioned then these blows may do nothing to stop him.
However, no amount of physical conditioning can stop a wave of Qi moving through the body, gently pushing against the internal organs. Disrupting Qi flow. Stunning the enemy. Infact masters who have perfected this technique can bruise your back by striking your heart.

Train Hard.

Raitaro~ The Owl.

[raiku]

i can do that already using psi and ki.

[allyourki]

That's cool I suppose. You'll have to verify it's you doing it and not simply your breath or chance.
How old are you and how long have you been studying?

[SilencedHeart]

I'm glad someone posted this. I have read about it before, but haven't been able to practice it that much myself.

[raiku]

im 14 ive known about ki/psi for a year

[raiku]

What i do is visualize the Qi as a ball in my dan dien then it turns to liquid pooling in my stomach (dan dien)then i imagine it flowing up to my ches and into two streams going to each hand put the two streams are connected to the pool of ki in my stomach (dan Dien) and when i hit with a palm thrust i will or just push the ki out of my palm through my opponet.

[SilencedHeart]

What ever works for you, but you do realize that your dan tien is not in your stomach. It is in your center of gravity which is a little below that. Other than that, as long as it works for you, sounds good.

[allyourki]

I might add, that visualization (seeing and imagining) things are very...unreliable ways to guide your intent. They can often cause biofeedback and all kinds of negative results, but as Silenced Heart says. Whatever works.

[raiku]

isnt it 2inches below your navel and what else is there to do other than visuilize

[allyourki]

Will stuff to happen, feel it happening and stuff. Also you can train the strength of your visualizations to make them effective.

[SilencedHeart]

I stopped trying to get that point across a long time ago. No matter how many time I said nearly the same thing - that imagining it isn't all there is to it, though, people continue to rely on that and wonder why it doesn't work right away.

[raiku]

will it to happen like say if you was moving ki to your arm you would feel a either vibration or heat or even any other sensation moving to your arm?

[allyourki]

Yes, you would, infact if you stand in the poses highlighted in the article you will get that feeling.

[raiku]

how come and what if you dont feel anything

[raiku]

i like the horse stance