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Interesting, I hadn't heard people bothering with that. I've been taught to breathe naturally. Are you talking about during forms, two person drills, or meditation? If during meditation I would definitely say just breathe naturally.

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To be honest, something like that is a hindrance. When doing purely qigong exercises (standing, sitting, etc), you should be going into quiet. Worrying about whether the breath should be loud or quiet will keep you from doing that. We must remember that even tools for getting into quiet (three going into one, counting the breath, mantras, etc) are *tools* for going *into* quiet, and when you are in quiet you are not doing them. Eventually we don't even want to use them, eventually we need to just sit.

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As it was explained to me, loud breathing was placed into training for the sake of the instructor being able to hear the student's breathing. It is said a trained instructor can hear proper breathing vs improper breathing when it is done loudly. Kind of ironic since I do agree in many ways it does hinder energy flow. Of course I have only seen loud breathing practiced in arts that focus on hard chi conditioning so, there you go.

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Of course I have only seen loud breathing practiced in arts that focus on hard chi conditioning so, there you go.

What is the difference between hard chi conditioning and other types?

or in other words, what is hard chi? :-?

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i think its that some arts learn to develop chi through tensing muscles and some through pure relaxation

So do I!

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