This is not exhaustive and it’s what I’ve learned purely from my experiences doing Immortal Fang over the last few months.
- In exercise #10 (rotations sitting down), I never noticed how jerky my rotations were. I had an insight one day that I should do my best to make the rotation as “smooth” as possible without the slight delays I would tend to make when going down or reaching the furthest area of one side. I think this is very important. Really make sure to have a “smooth”, consistent rotation as you spin your upper body 21 times – first right to left/clockwise then 21 times left to right/counter clockwise.
- I had an insight where after #10, exercise #11 should be resting in the emptiness generated from the rotations. I think that this is super important. Really stay in this emptiness to cultivate/refine qi, which you’ll feel all over your whole body.
- Exercise #9 is the two bows one makes before doing the spinning. My opinion is that this activates the MCO in some way. Super important, please do not skip this.
- Really take your time to build up slowly, and it’s not practical to expect you can go from 0 to 7 reps, 3 times per day. It takes time to build a regular practice, and don’t beat yourself up if you miss some days.😊
- [FOR BEGINNERS✅] Do seated LDT stillness meditation just before doing immortal fang to calm down and direct any random/deviant qi into the lower dantian – where it belongs. As a beginner, don’t exceed 5 – 10 minutes (and scale up to 20+ minutes over months/years). Call this exercise #0a.
- [NOTE: NOT FOR BEGINNERS!!!⛔️] Do yin breathing before immortal fang for some added potency. Call this exercise #0b. This is only for advanced practitioners who are already passed 7 x 3 and would like additional gains. It otherwise pushes too much energy into the dantians too quickly for the novice.
- Immortal fang activates all 3 dantians so take.your.time and don’t rush into the full practice. It could take upwards of half a year to a year or longer to do the full 7 repetitions X 3 per day.
- Be gentle with your movements and pressing down on your body. If too rough, your fingertips (especially middle finger) can get sore), your upper, middle AND lower jiao(s) can start aching/paining. This sucks and is painful, and it can result in mandatory breaks to allow the body to heal/regenerate. Keep in mind, at an even a modest 5 reps of #1 – #8, you’re doing 105 repetitions of a movement…for.every.single.21-rep.exercise…TWO TO THREE TIMES PER DAY = 1,260 – 1890 movements per day. This can physically be painful and that’s generally not conducive towards stable growth. Be.very.gentle. and take a looooong time to work your way up – allowing both your physical body and energetic body to grow; with grace, fortitude and strength😊.