Suck in the guts…
Declan Chellar December 30th, 2008
I’m in Copenhagen and today I visited Tivoli Gardens and went on a roller-coaster for the first time in twenty years.
The reason it has been so long is that I don’t like roller-coasters, at least, I didn’t until today. I never liked them because I hate getting that feeling in m’waters.
However, when I was last on a roller-coaster, I had not studied Qigong and so knew nothing about lifting the dantien. For the uninitiated among you, that basically involves pulling in the lower abdomen. So I sucked in the guts and, lo, no more getting the willies.
Now I realise that roller-coasters were actually meant to be fun.
I also realise that those clever ancient Chinese foresaw the invention of the amusement park and invented special exercises to help people like me train for such situations.