Some typical Qi sensations that you may be feeling

--from The Healing Promise of Qi by Roger Jahnke, O.M.D.

Through your practice you will learn to feel the Qi within your own body. It is a sensation that is unique to each person. Here are a few of the sensations that are typical:

• tingling in the hands, feet, cheeks
• feeling fluffy internally like clouds moving inside
• a sense of flowing or circulating
• feeling radiant or luminescent
• feeling that the surface of the body is porous
• spreading warmth in either the limbs or torso
• the feeling of being tipsy on wine
• energy moving in the belly
• release of tension in shoulders or neck
• decrease of pain
• sensation of a magnetic field between the hands
• sensation of heat coming from the hands as they pass over the face or body parts
• the urge to cry or the release of tears
• a sense of reconnecting with a lost part of oneself
• a sense of the transcendental or spiritual
• a feeling of coming home
• a feeling of ecstacy or bliss

There is no correct way to experience the Qi sensation. If you are fully awake and attentive in the experience you will probably ask, "What is that sensation?" Most of us have these experiences bu then fail to take the time to investigate them.