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I recently started qi gong, but then I watched a video about how it's really not recommended for people with bad mental health as it can amplify those things and doing qi gong incorrectly can also cause qi deviation therefore you should ideally be taught by a professional. I unfortunately only found this out after suffering a 15 minute panic attack yesterday out of nowhere (something I hadn't had for a long time now). Maybe it was just an emotional clearance or I wasn't grounded or maybe I did too much because I followed it up with light excercise, my usual training for the splits, and even a sauna sesh. Either way I'm completely fine now but I don't want to risk doing damage to my body and mind. Then I thought huh, maybe yoga would do it but them I looked up the kundalini sickness, saw the word psychosis, and noped out.

I really want to do some form of energy work, as before my panic attack I had a massive surge of positive energy. Truly felt like I was on top of the world: my insecurities vanished, I felt strong and brimming with life. I want to feel that again just without the energetic sugar crash which accompanied it. I need something that is almost impossible to get wrong (and by that I mean messing up my mind and/or energy).

I've only recently started this practice (about a week in) and the strangest thing happend to me. I did my practice (Zhan Zhuang and learning the first few steps of Ba Duan Jin) after which I did some light excercise (pull ups, hoola hooping, abdominal crunches, etc) and some training for the splits (pigeon stretch, hamstring stretch, etc). After stretching, I immediately noticed a real huge surge of energy. I was positive, optimistic, just ready to take on the world. Lasted for a good hour. However, afterwards, I started feeling extremely overstimulated. Like a raw nerve. Then I had an anxiety attack. I should mention I have a lot of surpressed emotions and have dealt with panic attacks in the past although I haven't had one in a while. This one felt different though. My old panic attacks always had me feeling drained but I now I just felt overstimulated. I read that it's a common phenomena to feel discomfort as negative energy is being released but at the same time, maybe I was doing too much today? Or doing something wrong?