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8 Exercises for Fitness, Healing, and Longevity - Part 5

The Big Bear Turns from Side to Side Fifth Movement in the 8 Section Brocade Chi Kung This exercise reduces Qi in the heart (heart fire). Excess heart fire leads to heartburn, restlessness, lack of sleep,  mental uneasiness, colds, and hypertension. This exercise pushes the Qi from the middle dan tien, into the heart and lung  area, and out through any obstructions. NOTE: Inhale when you are in the beginning position and exhale when you bend forward. The mind moves the qi... Circulate the qi throughout the body, and direct it  without obstruction, so that it can easily follow  the mind. To become nimble the mind-intent and qi must  interchangeably respond to each other, and   achieve the most subtle pliability... The energy is issued from the spine... first in the  mind, then in the body... Constantly relax the abdomen... Seek to penetrate the qi into the bone... -- from Mental Elucidation of the Thirteen  Kinet...