[Qigong] How I Opened the Ren and Du Meridians

Author: Jeffi Chao Hui Wu

Time: June 21, 2025, Saturday, 7:22 AM

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[Qigong] How I Opened the Ren and Du Meridians
In my year of practice, I have never used so-called "intent guidance" or "qi sensation tracking." I do not practice visualization, do not guide qi, do not focus on the flow of meridians, nor do I deliberately seek "where there is heat" or "where there is qi." I have not experienced the textbook-like sensations of qi rising from the tailbone or connecting through the Baihui point. My body changes not through imagination and guidance, but through structure, movement, and real accumulation. I simply stand day by day in the simplest practices—horse stance, Tai Chi, Tai Chi sword, Xing Yi, sitting meditation, Lingzi technique, and Yi Jin Jing for qi gathering—opening my hips, relaxing my shoulders, supporting my bones, and calming my breath day by day. Without any "qi sensation," I have experienced transformations beyond ordinary imagination in my real body.
Now, at the seaside where the temperature feels only two or three degrees, I can practice in summer clothes for over an hour without feeling cold from the start. After three minutes of practice, I begin to sweat evenly, sweating as usual, with warm hands and feet, and my knees not stiff. After practicing, my body remains warm, and I do not need to add layers. This state does not come from mental control but is the result of the entire body operating automatically. I do not guide qi; it moves on its own. I do not "send qi to the dantian," yet the dantian heats up automatically. I do not focus on whether the "Du meridian rises," but there is a warm current surging up my back. I am not "sensing qi"; my body is operating on its own: sweat emerges, heat generates, hands and feet warm up, and body and mind adjust themselves.
Many traditional practices emphasize "intent leading qi," but my path is precisely the opposite: no intent, no leading, no guiding, no sensing, yet I have achieved a more real and stable internal operating system than those who spend all day guiding qi, tracking sensations, and imagining qi movement. Not a single "point" is triggered by intent; everything unfolds automatically after the structure is in place. This automated circulation of qi and blood, self-regulating body temperature, spontaneous sweating, and warm dantian is the true manifestation of the smooth flow of the Ren and Du meridians—not through thought-led transcendence, but through the tangible evidence of the body standing up for itself.
Therefore, to determine whether my Ren and Du meridians are open, there is no need to ask "do I have qi sensation," nor to check "can I guide qi," but rather to see if I can naturally generate heat, circulate qi and blood, sweat as usual, and maintain a calm mind in the cold wind. These phenomena do not rely on subjective imagination but on objective facts. It is precisely because I have never been attached to qi sensations and meridians that I have avoided the greatest pitfall of countless people—mistaking "sensation" for "achievement." I have turned the real into the real. This is the strongest evidence of the smooth flow of the Ren and Du meridians.

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