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Tip 1
Qi flow is influenced by your emotions and mental activity, so practicing qigong in a meditative state (not just doing the physical movements and breathing) makes the exercises more effective. Start a practice session by spending 3 to 5 mins relaxing your body and entering a meditative state before doing any dynamic/moving exercises. Try to maintain your meditative state while practicing by releasing thoughts and negative feelings as they come up.
Tip 2
Qi will flow more strongly after you complete a practice session and settle over time. If you practice twice a day, you can build momentum because you will do your second session before your energy has fully settled. Your second session of the day will often be more effective than your first. Doing two 20 minute sessions a day is more effective than a single 40 min session.
Tip 3
On tough days when you can't bring yourself to do a full routine, instead of skipping, keep some psychological momentum by doing a single exercise for just 2 or 3 minutes. It might not have a big energetic effect, but it helps you to keep your "foot in the door" and it gives you something to build on later (restarting your full routine more easily).
Tip 4
You can use mini (2 or 3 min) practice sessions to establish a longer routine in the future. So if you're having trouble starting a consistent full practice session, you can start by doing the mini session and (once that's a habit and easy to do) then expand that to a longer/full practice session.
If you are practicing a full session once a day, for example, in the morning, and you want to start practicing twice a day, you can start by doing a full session in the morning and a mini session in the evening. Once the mini session is a habit, you can expand it into a longer session so that you'd be doing two full length sessions a day.
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