A Key to Sensing Ki

By Care Hudson

When I speak of “Ki” here, I am referring to the life force energy (also known as chi, prana, or subtle energy) that makes up ourselves and our universe.  Some people reading this article will have had the natural ability to feel ki energy since birth, and some will have developed the ability during this lifetime.  If you don’t know what it is like to feel ki energy, don’t worry!  With a bit of dedicated practice, if you want to, you can!

Here is one tried and tested, ki sensing method: 

• First, make sure that you have a safe space to relax in.  You can do  this meditation anywhere; from outdoors in nature, to your bed, or even in the bath…  A meditation cushion is often ideal.  

• If you are practicing inside, you may want to play some meditation music and dim the lighting. 

• Basically, find a comfortable space to sit (or to stand, or lie down, up  to you!).  Sitting in half lotus with your palms facing up, is one way to  start.  You can try a new position each time or  change your position at any moment, depending on what feels best for you. 

• Close your eyes and bring your thoughts to your breath.  Start breathing  

  deeply, in and out of your abdomen.  Then bring your awareness to 

  your palms…

• You can easily bring your full attention to your palms by clapping or  

  rubbing them together quickly a few times.  Clapping or rubbing the 

  palms is eventually not needed, but it can serve to bring all of your 

  focused awareness, including your blood and ki energy focus there, 

  instantly, which can help - especially in the beginning. 

• Raise your palms up, in front of your chest, facing each other, but not 

  touching.

• As you inhale deeply, slowly separate your palms, as you exhale,  

  slowly bring them back together. 

• It is that easy… Now just focus your attention on the sensation of  

  energy between your palms...  This will feel differently for every person.  

  It may feel like heat, magnetism, electricity, cotton candy, or something 

  else. 

• Continue for as long as you like.

I practiced this meditation for about 5-7 minutes around 2-3x per week, for over 4 years during my time with practicing and teaching Korean Energy Yoga. The technique described above is called Chi-Gam.  It is very easy and I witnessed many people tapping into their ability to feel ki energy, with this practice, including myself.  

In the beginning of my own practice, I felt nothing between my palms and I would often get frustrated with it.  After a few months I knew I was starting to feel some kind of magnetism between my palms...  After about 6 months I could feel the energy more clearly.  The ability to feel energy seemed to only get stronger and easier with more practice.  This practice of ki sensing for me, led into my discovery, learning and practice of energy healing through Reiki, which has in turn, made me even more sensitive to feeling ki energy as well. 

There are a lot of benefits to this practice including; the opportunity to connect more deeply with oneself, and to reach a state of theta-level relaxation in your brain, which can assist in physical healing, and the 

release of stress, tension and related issues like high blood pressure and insomnia.  

You will have your own reasons for wanting to sense ki.  Just know that all it will take, is your decision to do so, followed up with your dedicated focus and action.  Every person is different. Like learning how to play a musical instrument, it may take a few weeks, months or a few years of practice, but if you are diligent and keep trying, eventually you will get it, so please don’t give up if you don’t feel it right away.

Once you can feel the energy, this practice gets more fun, as you can begin to play with the energy.  You can shape it into a ball or expand and contract it as if you were blowing up a balloon, you can move the energy with your hands and change it with your intention.  You can form it into any shape that you want, a heart, an infinity symbol, a butterfly, anything…  Be as creative as your imagination will allow…  

You may want to focus on emptying your mind completely or perhaps on being open to receive information and insights from that space of connectedness.  You may also want to expand on this practice, by moving into more of an energy dance, simply moving and dancing freely with your ki energy, as well as exploring the energy that is all around you. 

You can do this meditation on its own, or just after another practice, especially one that gets your energy system activated and flowing such as tapping, yoga, dance, any kind of sport or exercise, gym workouts, walks, hikes, runs, swims, etc...   You may notice an increase in the sensation and strength of the energy flow, when practicing ki sensing, after another physical activity. 

Ideally you will want to keep your eyes closed the whole time during this meditation, to keep the energy focus inside your body.  However go ahead and peek, once in a while!  You may find that one day you may even begin to see the ki energy stretching between your palms, and that is another sense that you again can work on developing, if you so desire.  

Over time, if you make it your intention to feel ki energy and take action to practice this style of meditation regularly, you will surely become more and more sensitive to ki.  Essentially you and your own persistence, are the key, to your own unique experience of sensing Ki.  

Care Hudson

Holistic Relaxation Therapist 

www.inturelaxation.com

289-776-8305