Morning , again, and again.
Regulating Qi.
These two words are not the most easy to discover in depth in Qigong. Regulating is only posssible once we have access, and Qi, well the question is how to have real access to it.
Regulation and discipline.
Might be two words that are least liked in current spiritual and esoteric era. At least as we talk with practitioners, that is what we find.
According to my limited experience, I have found discipline is one key to practise, and practise is one key to discipline. Meaning of practise is closely related to discipline, probably. Never thought it needs much explanation, as I came from high performance sports. And probably it became so natural to me, I forgot it might not be the case for others.
Was taught to swim when 4, before that was told to parents it is mandatory to do 1 year gymnastics before swim lessons. Swim lessons in every given days / week, later stepping up to another swim group with more trainings / week, and gradually arrived to athletes group by 7, where we had entrance test of 30 laps running on a 330m track, who stops, fails. Easy, simple. 
Just by doing the trainings we quickly learned discipline, and could see life through the lens of it.
Qigong to me less different, and seems the traditional way has the same view. Furthermore I found nei gong practise brings us way deeper into the nature of human existence as high performance sports could ever do. Logical step forward after maxing out physical performance to dive deeper into body , mind dimensions.
What a few might miss, is the step by step nature of practise, and that each block might build on top of each other. While the view of everything is given and we are free to do as we wish is attracting, in the world of nei gong it might not be entirely true.
Certainly not with the question of finding our Qi, and becoming able to work with it effectively. Despite many claim to „feel” their energy / Qi after a weekend workshop, I always screched my head, why than the rigorous decades of practise for those who really master it?
Well, that is how I approach Qigong, less believing more trying, and regulated practise. It certainly overflows into other aspects of life, and it shall do so. As our mind is strongly related to our Qi , how we function and view life is determined by our conditions. And our conditions will be altered by Qigong practise.
Gather Qi, move Qi, build dan tain, lead and guide, well seems to me hardly possible without disciplined practise first. If ever…
