Why do some Practitioners develop pains in the Back or Shoulders during Practice?

I have many students who experience pain or tightness and pressure

in the back after concentrating for some time. This depends

upon one’s body condition. Most young people and healthy adults

who exercise regularly will often find that when they sit and the

power goes into the back, pushing up through the spinal column,

needle-like sensations develop because that route had been obstructed

for so long. If you simply relax and concentrate, let us say,

on the Ming-men and do not pay attention to how it is going, the

power will push up by itself.

If you try to assist in this process by pushing or in any way forcing,

you will begin to feel nervous and uncomfortable and the power

will get stuck in the back, producing pain. When the power reaches

the Ja-chi, just concentrate there. Thereafter, allow the power to

continue ascending from the upper back to the neck and then to the Yu-chen, No. 7, or the small brain, which includes the cerebrum

and the cerebellum.

Try to concentrate on this energy center and when the power

finally pushes up to the Bei-huei, you will feel free and very comfortable

and the pain, tightness and discomfort in your back will

disappear. Sometimes, the power may seem to push outward from

the spinal column, not into it, at which time there will be no such

tightness and discomfort.