CHAPTER 1B - CHANGING YOUR WORLD

When you practice Chi Kung, it takes you from being "ordinary" to becoming "other than

ordinary." You just won't be the same. It could show up in almost any combination... being more motivated, more solid, etc.

Whatever and however you decide you want to be. Most people don't make decisions concerning what they want, so what do they get? Whatever falls in their path. This is not the most predictable way to live your life. This is equivalent to eating out of garbage cans, or having the waitress in the restaurant bring you what she decided to bring you.

You wouldn't let the waitress make your decisions for what to eat, then why let fate make even more important decisions for you. Sorry Charlie. When you start to practice Chi Kung, you begin to make decisions. That's why relationships and marriages change. That's why many of my clients change their professions. That's why if you decide you want to move to a different city, you just make the decision and do it.

These kinds of changes are what practicing Chi Kung with me is all about.

Misery and Trouble – A Way of Life

As I have said before, many people come to me who look like their lives are working, but they know deep down inside that they are miserable and in trouble. The level of misery and trouble they exist in depends on how carelessly they have structured their lives. Many successful people appear to have it together when in reality, they've just been "lucky" or they really have no reason how they got to where they are.

When these successful people come to work with me, they can under-stand the "true nature of success" and can literally multiply their successes, not effortlessly, but much easier than without my help.

Restructuring and Rebuilding

A process I call "Restructuring and Rebuilding" is when I work with clients to help them figure out what they're supposed to do with their lives, whether it's "the right thing" or whether it's just something.

Whether it's "big perfect," whether it's "little perfect." What they're supposed to do in their marriage, their business, how they're supposed to treat themselves, or how the different levels of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-discipline fit into the pattern that they've been living and how they want to change it. This is called "Restructuring and Rebuilding."

Reorganizing Your Life

You start by making lists of various things. The first list should be "things that you do not want to do."

Now, "do not want to do" can be applied to relationship, profession, or any other aspect of your daily life. After you've created the lists and decided "what you don't want to do," "things you do want to do" will be more in the light. You will have many ideas.

By the time you finish "your disqualification list," you will have some ideas of what you do want. I also suggest that you make a list of aspects that you want if you're concerned about having "the right relation-ship." Outline exactly the traits that you want in your mate, spouse, boyfriend,

girlfriend, and as a couple, etc. When this is being done, an important part to understand is that you probably won't get everything on your list, but if you get 70% you'll be happily satisfied. Many people think, they in fact will get "the perfect mate." I disagree with this. The reason I disagree with this is, if you are not the best you can be, how can you expect to get anything better than yourself? The limitations that you'll get in your partner can be based in your own personal limitations.

Choosing Your New Traits Carefully

I discovered in myself and while working with my clients, that most people never made any decisions about who and how they wanted to be. I call this "who do you want to be when you grow up?" I think it takes place around 18-21 years of age. But I find a lot of people that skipped this step in their maturation cycle. They never did this. This is referring back to what my athlete friend told me. The true questions are, "what traits do you want to represent you, what's

important to you, or pick 3 things that are important to you." Most people never have. Many people have an idea of how to act, but rarely does anybody follow through on those ideas.

Using Chi Kung helps you "follow through" with what you know you're supposed to do.

Life as an Experiment

What happens when people learn this system is that they use their current environment as an experiment so that when they go to a new environment, they already carry their new traits with them, as opposed to trying to work them out everywhere they go, all the time. Now, you work them out now, and they're yours next time around.

Your Soul and You

There are certain phases that the soul goes through. This is contrary to what some organized religions teach and might be similar to some non-traditional ones. I am not concerned with finding agreement. I feel that if you have "strong WILL," you can control your own fate and destiny. Most people can't control their own minds, let alone their own fate and destiny.

I made a decision many years ago that I was going to do so much in this life time, that I would not have to come back again. So can you. If I can help 1,000 people in "a big way," then those people will effect possibly 10,000 other people that I will probably never get a chance to meet.

We are Like Tuning Forks

When you are learning from me, whether privately or in a group, my vibration is what changes you, not Chi Kung, not your personal practice, because some of my clients don't practice faithfully. If I vibrate at 1,000 per second and you vibrate at 200 vibrations per second, my velocity increases yours automatically. So if you just sit in the presence of this vibration and argue with me for an hour a week, that's what helps to create your desired changes. It is my spirit helping your spirit. It's like a spiritual transfusion.

The way I work with people is by causing them irritation on purpose and out of that irritation comes a reaction and a response mechanism that actually gives you the ability to respond in a live situation. Responding in your sessions with me is not really a live situation, because if I want you to be quiet, I'll tell you to be quiet and you'll be quiet. But if you're responding out in the world, at work, in a relationship, or anywhere else, they're not going to say "be quiet" and you'll do it. So, in working with me, you get to exercise and learn to use the tools that are necessary to

"create your world the way you want it."

I have met a few people in the last 20 years that have experienced things like this and they had been thought to be crazy, to be out of control, to be having psychic experiences. However,

because of my constitution derived and developed from my Tai Chi and Chi Kung practice, when these experiences happen to and around me, I understand them and I can assimilate these experiences and put them to work, using them for the betterment of humanity. When I say

"humanity," I mean my clients, one person at a time. That is another reason why I can help people in such a short period of time. So, where do I go from here with this? Well that's pretty much up to you, not up to me.

Many people that read this and understand what I'm talking about will see the importance and how they can use these abilities in their own lives, to help them be healthy, happy, prosperous and make a difference in their lives. In the old days (pre-1985), when this healing ability that came through me, I was using it to help people with very serious, I won't say diseases, but we'll say health problems, or conditions. I was able to help people walk that hadn't been able to walk for many years. I was able to help joints work that have been turned off through stroke or turned off through "willed disabilities."

This relates to the old Apache medicine man I treated in 1979. I worked with him for 2-1/2 weeks.

He had been paralyzed for over a month due to a stroke and in 2-1/2 weeks, I had him walking on his own, using a cane, but free.

The traditional western doctors in Arizona had given up on this man and I was hired over the telephone and I went to "fix him." They hired a Jew doing Chinese medicine on an Apache medicine man, if you can understand the strangeness of this whole situation, and it worked nevertheless. This experience is labeled in the book, "medicine man meets medicine man" and is true.

But now in the 1990's, what and how can you benefit from this "intuitive truth" that works through me? Remember, I'm not saying I channel like other people with lesser constitutions, I'm not saying a spirit entered me and talks through me which is so common nowadays. I am saying "the spirit is me," lives in me, works through me, to help people around me that are attracted to this.

Most people don't even know what they're coming to me for in the beginning of our relationship.

They just have a feeling and experience a bonding that I can help them. They don't really know how or why. It takes a few weeks of working with me before this intention is discovered and refined. I am here for you, to give you service. That's the important underlying factor.

Reincarnation…Who Knows?

There exists in some ancient writings a very strange process. In modern times, in the New Age Movement, a lot of talk about this process has been dramatized. The original dramatization of this principle I saw many years ago in "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud," which seemed to be a movie that a lot of people went to see, just as a movie. However, I have experienced what I call

"multiple deaths."

I will explain what I mean.

The spirit goes through individual transformations and changes. This is my opinion. It actually happens two different ways. The body dies and the spirit takes on a new body, or what happens more frequently is, the body remains alive and the spirit changes. This has happened to me numerous times in the last 20 years. It has recently happened to me again. That is why some of my work has changed so drastically in such a short period of time.

The old spirit that lived in me, Gary Clyman, has reached its expiration date and a new spirit moves in or takes over. Now a days a lot of people do "channeling" and do some sort of... it's not really esoteric, it's more like New Age... do some New Age "spirit" work, where another spirit

"comes in and talks through them." Because of my physical and spiritual constitution, when the channeling takes place inside of me, my body remains the same, my expressions remain the

same, my personality remains the same, all because of the stability I've developed over the last 15 years in practicing Tai Chi. A lot of these transformations appear to be dreams. However because of my consciousness, sensitivity, and awareness, I have been able to recognize these changes in a very specific sequence. This is actually one of the reasons that I'm able to help people in such a quick and permanent way.

I understand things about being a human that most people never pay attention to. Some of these basic principles are written in very ancient Taoist texts that aren't even available in English. Much of the advice that I give people does not come from Gary Clyman, does not come from God like many West Coast people would like to believe, but it actually comes from an innate knowledge that I have developed from understanding myself.

People from all over the country and soon from all over the world are attracted to this reservoir of spiritual understanding. Creating change in the world must start with individuals, one at a time.

This is an important step in my work. Changing the World begins with changing individuals.

Remember a lot of this work has been kept secret inside various groups. I have, through my Tai Chi and Chi Kung practice, tapped into this "secret knowledge" that has never been brought out to mainstream America.

Advice through different mediums is available to people who realize the importance of having the right information and doing "the right thing." The underlying principle here is, I help people do exactly what is right for them, regardless of what the rest of your environment including your parents, your friends, your peers, your spouses, or your children think. You do what's real for you and don't worry about the rest of the people.

It's their responsibility to accommodate it. That's a very self-centered way of being, but this is the only way that you can actually be yourself and make a difference in the world.

The Worst Signs of Low Self-Esteem Levels

To extend a self-esteem problem in men that produces a man willing to accept being beaten by a women is pathetic. This is also related to the problem with setting personal boundaries. You are willing to let other people invade your personal space and abuse you to an excessive and unreasonable degree. This problem is more common than one might think on the surface.

Physical violence should not be accepted under any circumstances from another person

regardless of who they are. This type of "invasion of privacy" is totally out of the question and is very wide spread. Only through an extreme lack of self-respect can this even be allowed to happen.

An example: you are "here" (defined), and everything is around you. A very common problem many people have is that they are "not here" (undefined) and everything is around them. They believe their bodies are equal to everything else in their environment, and no more important.

Many people put the same importance on their possessions as they do their own physical bodies, which is totally ridiculous and way off base.

Hidden Eating Disorders

Bulimia without the symptoms of "The Binge/Purge Mechanism" is more widespread than most people would believe. Many people, due to their own internal discipline or level of control, have Bulimia or a very similar eating disorder, but do not express the obvious external symptoms that are most commonly found with this condition.

I have recently worked with a client who has had an eating disorder his whole life. He would have never recognized and identified himself as a Bulimic.

The origin of this particular eating disorder and psychological profile is that "Bulimics" as a rule choose their eating disorder very carefully as their own self-contained set of control devices. For instance, they are the only people that can have any input. They use their eating disorder as their own prized possession that no other person can influence, effect, or intrude upon.

I will list the Bulimic causes I have noticed:

Being ignored as a child, always wanting attention and never getting it, being told or instructed how to act, appear, and feel, always having your personal space invaded by other people which includes many variations of emotional, physical, and sexual abuses, as a child and as an adult.

Also playing the game of life and having the rules changed frequently by an external source.

I do not require my students or clients to practice every day. 4 or 5 times a week is more than enough and if a person is anger-motivated or compulsive, and misses one day of practice, they usually have tendencies to make a string of missed days out of it. It's sort of like an alcoholic on a binge.

Do Other Kinds of Exercise Get These Results?

A question many people ask me is, "Do other kinds of exercise do what Chi Kung does?"

No, they don't.

You could be a marathon runner and never ever get any of the benefits of just 2 or 3 weeks of practicing Chi Kung. This has been proven to me many times over. I have actually interviewed some very proficient athletes who have had the same kinds of problems that other people have had. Their athletics put their bodies in shape, but did nothing for their WILL, their souls, or their minds.

You see, strengthening one's soul or one's WILL requires different tools than any other kind of therapeutic work. This is as far as I know, the only way to strengthen one's WILL in a short period of time for long term benefits.

Strengthening one's WILL is tied into the various damages that daily life puts on us.

The Chi Kung Technique in a Nutshell

The Six Phases:

1. Distinguishing where your body is in relationship to your environment.

2. Determining where the energy is in your body.

(For instance, inside your extremities and torso.)

3. Taking the energy that you've already discovered and cultivating it into the core of your extremities and your torso.

4. Taking the energy and driving all of it from the extremities into the inside of the torso to the center line, inside the torso.

5. Drawing all your the collected energy from all the other areas of the body and storing it in a spot called Tan Tien which is located 3 inches below your navel and 2 inches inside.

6. Circulating and moving your essence throughout your body, to be more specific inside the Central Channel of your nervous system (spinal cord).

This is a very specific and important part of your Chi Kung practice.

The question often comes up, "how do you circulate your energy inside your spinal cord if you don't have the slightest idea where your body is in relationship to your environment?" You should begin to understand why you have to learn the grosser techniques first, then you will become more refined and specific as you learn more.

Learning this system is like having someone give you the wheel as opposed to re-inventing the wheel every time.

THE CHI KUNG / ACUPUNCTURE RELATIONSHIP

A question that comes up frequently is, "What is the relationship between Chi Kung and acupuncture?" In most books and according to some other teachers, they rely heavily on acupuncture as a way of explaining how the energy flows in the body. In my opinion, using

A question that comes up frequently is, "What is the relationship between Chi Kung and acupuncture?" In most books and according to some other teachers, they rely heavily on acupuncture as a way of explaining how the energy flows in the body. In my opinion, using