Internal Gong Fu: Mastering Internal Gongfu: Are You Ready? The Series

The question asked by many internal gongfu practitioners is, “Why does it take so long to get it?” To this, the typical response is, “If getting it were that easy, then everyone would be a master.” Well, there actually is a better answer than this!

At the beginning of this year (2020), I began seriously considering this question, “Why is it taking me so long to get it?” Eventually, an insight occurred to me. As I sat with this insight and explored ways to express this in some coherent manner, I solicited editorial guidance and slowly the answer emerged. This series is the result of this months-long effort.

It is now my opinion that there are at least two phases to training; a preparatory or conditioning phase and then once the body is ready, then, and only then, can training of the higher-level skills begin. And this preparatory or conditioning phase of training has a much broader scope than only practicing the formal training curriculum. This series addresses the intricacies of the preparatory or conditioning phase of internal gongfu training.

Through the writing of this series I gained a clarity into my practice that I had never had. I now understand much more about training internal gongfu than I ever understood before. My hope is that after you read this entire series, you too will have a clarity and insight into your training that you never had before.

Note: There is a lot of information in this entire series. To get the most out of it, read one article a week and compare each article's perspective to your own perspective of your practice. Explore it for a week. Notice what shows up. Then move on to the next article.