This kind of activity has been covered a lot here. Mostly with martial arts.
I know with martial arts it is very easy to use, create, and monitor the energy of the body. I have also found that, at least with martial arts, energy practitioners have found martial arts as a good way to sharpen the uses of thier energy. And also noted that non-energy practitioners also can recieve some energy benefits from simply practicing martial arts.
I believe that this mostly comes from focus and repition. Martial arts involves a lot of repition, going through each step slowly and really learning it. And doing this prosess over and over to build speed and strength. All the time they are focusing on each movement, hand position, feet, legs, arms, ect. Constantly thinking about the position of the body.
I believe this same principle can be applied to all sports and physical activities. As far as running specifically, a few thoughts. While any fool can run very few actually know how to. I would suggest first learning the mechanics behind the function. Learn what things can be done to help run faster or longer. Learn the little things that can make a person run faster or longer than the next. Become aware of them, and wether or not you are doing them. This focusing on what you are doing will help whne adding energy into the mix.
Now while doing this work with your energy. However I truely believe that you will not get very far when practicing at full stride. Instead slow down, just do a light jog, or even don't actually go anywhere. Practice steps and such in front of a mirror, focus on foot position, energy fluctuations.
The reason I think this will help is this. You are trying to do the energy practises while in a physically stressful situation. Running. It is difficult to focus because the mind is focused on running and not running into things. However the mind can be trained to multi-task a little better. By doing the energy awareness while "practicing" and not actually running the mind will begin to see this as a normal function while practicing. Then while walking, jogging, and finally running.
Just because you can run and you can raise energy does not mean that can be done at the same time. They were orginally learned seperate, now they must be learned together.
I know with martial arts it is very easy to use, create, and monitor the energy of the body. I have also found that, at least with martial arts, energy practitioners have found martial arts as a good way to sharpen the uses of thier energy. And also noted that non-energy practitioners also can recieve some energy benefits from simply practicing martial arts.
I believe that this mostly comes from focus and repition. Martial arts involves a lot of repition, going through each step slowly and really learning it. And doing this prosess over and over to build speed and strength. All the time they are focusing on each movement, hand position, feet, legs, arms, ect. Constantly thinking about the position of the body.
I believe this same principle can be applied to all sports and physical activities. As far as running specifically, a few thoughts. While any fool can run very few actually know how to. I would suggest first learning the mechanics behind the function. Learn what things can be done to help run faster or longer. Learn the little things that can make a person run faster or longer than the next. Become aware of them, and wether or not you are doing them. This focusing on what you are doing will help whne adding energy into the mix.
Now while doing this work with your energy. However I truely believe that you will not get very far when practicing at full stride. Instead slow down, just do a light jog, or even don't actually go anywhere. Practice steps and such in front of a mirror, focus on foot position, energy fluctuations.
The reason I think this will help is this. You are trying to do the energy practises while in a physically stressful situation. Running. It is difficult to focus because the mind is focused on running and not running into things. However the mind can be trained to multi-task a little better. By doing the energy awareness while "practicing" and not actually running the mind will begin to see this as a normal function while practicing. Then while walking, jogging, and finally running.
Just because you can run and you can raise energy does not mean that can be done at the same time. They were orginally learned seperate, now they must be learned together.