150. Qigong & the Green Bagua Pendant (☲/☶)

So Steve asked me, “Does the pendant need to be jade?” I said that I wasn’t sure. I would have preferred it to not matter, because after I had passed on the Black Dragon Pendant, I started wearing a green bagua pendant. This green bagua pendant was also bought in Hong Kong but this time from a street kiosk at the famous Ladies’ Market along Tung Choi Street. With the bagua on it crudely hacked into it with the green stone being of supposedly jade. At the time of buying, it was more of a tourist impulse buy that I told myself that one day it will come in handy to justify the expense even though it was cheap as. That one day did eventually come by way of my qigong community service at the North Ryde Community Centre. I wore it to every qigong class as part of my kung fu uniform, up until last Friday. With Friday being the day after my visit to the Jade Healing Centre in Penrith. One of the reasons I also visited Steve, was because for a couple weeks up to the visit, when I wore the green bagua pendant, I got the feeling or sensation that maybe it was time to pass it along to the next person. On the one hand, that sensation was a good one to have because it meant that I have been imparting my growing qi into it and that whoever was the recipient, they would be getting some very focused qi around qigong. But on the other hand, I kind of didn’t want to part with it. There was the practical issue that on Thursday when I was visiting Steve, I didn’t have a replacement pendant and nobody seemed worthy enough to get it. But that was Thursday. On Friday, at the start of my qigong class, I found myself after telling my class about my visit to the Jade Healing Centre, passing the green bagua pendant to my strongest energy worker. She happens to the star volunteer at the North Ryde Community Centre and had with her sister just returned from the Philippines as part of a family visit. Her qi after doing qigong for about a year or so, is very strong and can be felt passively radiating around her of about two feet radius. And so I gave it to her with the same conditions attached: Once the pendant can no longer be felt as nothing, it is time to pass it on to the next worthy recipient. Doubly stressing that specific point, so that nobody gets the idea that pendant is a love token. Of which it is not. After Friday’s class she quietly came up to me and said “Thank you”. It turned out that her qi had also tanked some-what because she had spent some time in the Philippines showing others her qigong, as I had cautioned her before the trip that may happen. Extended family and friends are what they are. Always wanting to know but not really believing any of it, unless somehow you can do ‘miracle work’. Which is another ball-game altogether that I strongly advise my students to avoid like the black plague because while you are giving all your qi to others, nothing is coming back to fill the energy tank. Even if you were brought up with the belief and that it is holy and noble to help others, qigong requires the practitioner to abstain from being a martyr. Of the one hundred percent that comes in, a part of it is for self nourishment and wellbeing first. It is only what is left, after a practitioner has expanded in qi, that it is used for the betterment of others. Which makes some people wonder just how big energetically I am to be able to put qi into a pendant? The answer is very, very, big. So big in fact, that my energetic presence can be felt by energy workers around the world. So, then, does the pendant need to be jade? The answer is yes and no... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/