No, I’m not certain but I think Kabbalah is a different system, it doesn’t deal will with the mechanics of the meridians and relies too heavily on a limited kind of symbolism to get the job done. It doesn’t seem to be an adequate or complete energy system and rather than mix and match, given everything I need is in qigong, I don’t worry about other systems.
As @DarkestKnight said, you have to build up - I mentioned the microcosmic orbit as a good milestone, because it needs you to get the fundamentals of breathing and reading your own energy first, if you can run it you have all that and so you’re golden. These are really quite simple and you can probably already do it and just hadn’t noticed. Once you have that if there’s only one qigong exercise you could do for the rest of your life I’d say the microcosmic orbit was it.
To run the microcosmic orbit means you know:
- How to cultivate (breathe in) qi from the cosmos
- How to collect and concentrate that qi in lower dan tian and feel it
- How to mentally find and read the main points on the du mai meridians
- How to move your qi from point to point through these meridians
Well that’s not quite what I do. I do:
- Full body breathing to Lower Dan tian first. x9
- Breathe normally and run that collected energy through the microcosmic orbit from lower dan tian down to hui yin, then up and around. x3 - x9 It runs as fast or slow as it likes.
- I may continue to cultivate while running the orbit, breathing it into lower dan tian usually.
I do this at the start of every ritual and meditation I do.