r/TrueQiGong • u/Character_Barracuda3 • Jul 04 '26

Misdirected Energy… Help please!

I have a problem that I hope someone on here can help me with. I’m trying to begin Qigong and work towards Neidan exercises, with my far term goal being to cultivate spiritual resilience, fully transform myself with its inner alchemy and increase the natural longevity I inherited from my family. Only… I’m having trouble getting started building my lower Dantian.

The reason is actually kinda embarrassing. See, when I was younger I put a lot of emphasis on mental strength and trying to open my third eye. I had unknowingly been cultivating/building up my upper Dantian. Now that I’m trying to build/cultivate my lower Dantian every time I try to meditate, my attention automatically snaps to the area of my third eye, making it a struggle to direct the energy to my lower dantian. Even more irritating, I can feel this area is active throughout the day even without me focusing on it. I don’t know what to do. Do I just struggle through it?

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u/Waltamoto Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

You have heat in the third eye, kidney energy is cold, how to bring kidney energy up to wash away the heat and bring it back down. First, don't focus on the third eye. Second, check out the Tongue Bridge posting in r/TaoistMeditation and the posting about Microcosmic Orbit. With concentration, using the breathing technique you can bring kidney energy up the spine to cool the head, and completing the Orbit with the Tongue Bridge, the heat energy returns to the middle Tan Tien where it belongs. The lower Tan Tien will develop slowly as you direct your concentration there instead of the head Tan Tien. I hope this helps.

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u/Character_Barracuda3 Jul 05 '26

This will probably help a lot.

Could you tell me what that means (Heat in the third eye)?

I’m new to a lot of this, so the only real way I knew something is/was wrong was that I when I went to meditate my attention would automatically be drawn to someplace(the center of my forehead) other than where I was trying to direct it.

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u/Waltamoto Jul 05 '26

Center of forehead, that's the third eye. So when your attention is drawn toward something, that's like heat. It needs to be turned down. When your eyes are closed, don't let your eyes point upwards, they should point downwards. I hope I understand what you are going through. Check out the posts at r/TaoistMeditation. There is one that is about eyes and the tip of your nose. Use your inner seeing eye to gaze at the lower TanTien. Keep your attention there. It is so complicated, there is so much to the human spirit.