During the internal cultivation process, the issue of passive reactive emotional response can be one of the most challenging aspects for many internal cultivators. For example, fear, anger, love, worry, and sadness–everything depends on the body on the inside in terms of how one responds to the outside world. When one has an awakened and harmonized body internally, one responds in a different style, a different manner, compared with before. Inside, one begins to develop the connection to the cellular consciousness, to the organs’ consciousness, and then it’s easy to come out with a new response to situations. The wisdom from the inside, the intelligence from the inside, tells internal cultivators maybe this is a good idea; and the communications come quickly, and are more effective than one’s previous strategies. In this way, one become able to break out of unproductive habitual patterns–patterns one may have wished to change years ago, or patterns that one might only recently have become aware of through enhanced energy awareness.
It’s not like internal cultivators don’t have emotions, the cultivators just find the appropriate degree of the emotion–the degree that agrees with the body’s capacity for holding that emotion. And, once cultivators know the body, if she or he finds his/herself with an excessive degree, she or he learns how to harmonize and balance that emotion, rather than being at its mercy. Throughout this process, the communications increase in depth and quality as well. Once the mind and the body are able to communicate at the same level or on the same page, cultivators are able to upgrade and transform, consciously and proactively, the unhealthy memories of the body and any habitual unhealthy behavior. Thus, Qi-cultivation provides a unique way to break through habitual passive reactive patterns and assisting internal cultivators in achieving mastery of emotional management and development.