Perceiver

Never had depression but can relate to what you say. The ego can play enormous tricks on us. Something that might work is to write a diary so you see your thoughts in writing, or talk to a psychologist who can identify some of your unconscious thought patterns.

Yes, could be another control issue. But I moved through the system without listening to any of the audio CDs. Had a live teacher instead. But then when I go back now and listen to those CDs it turns out there’s an enormous amount of detail that I wasn’t taught, including some exercises that were missed completely (like testicle breathing). So am…[Read more]

Thanks for the input Viktor. Actually I just did some mindfulness meditation five years ago and after a month or so something popped, and has stayed open since.

As a concluding remark to this thread I’ve got something really nice to announce. For the first time in five years, I am actually able to feel the fullness of my body again.

Since…[Read more]

Thanks that’s an interesting perspective. A lot of it resonates with what I am approaching in terms of my mindset to the whole thing. I think my energy opening is more profound than just some energy stuck in kidneys though. I’ve had astral experiences, lucid dreaming, vibrations in, often pressure in third eye, intuitive understanding of infinity…[Read more]

Thanks for the replies all. I think Steven may have over-interpreted me a bit, which may be partly my fault as I didn’t provide a lot of details.

What I mean is that since my kundalini awakening or energy imbalance five years ago, I’ve had a problem that no qigong exercise has been able to reapir. For ten years prior to the energy awakening I…[Read more]

Thanks Ride, some good points and I agree with a lot of them. I am more thinking that my kundalini awakening/energy imbalance is giving me some symptoms that might be due to too much feminine energy, which may be exacerbated by all my reading and writing. I feel stuff changing for the better when I do social activities – some energies are being…[Read more]

Alright good point, I’ll give it a try. Time for a new year resolution anyway :).

I don’t consume any sugar but I drink a coffee in the morning/noon. But I doubt that’s it. Because I’ve done that always yet the energy has intensified recently..

Thanks for the reply Steven. I’m not sure what my intuition tells me. I sure like the personal and spiritual development but I’d like to have it without the disruptive insomnia and over-excited body. I think it might be linked to sexuality somehow. My intuition sort of tells me to look into the Healing Love cds as I never listened to them, just…[Read more]

Hi Steven

Where do you find the tai chi 1 and iron shirt 1 courses? I don’t see them in Michael’s site. Unless you mean the Tai Chi for Enlightenment Audio CD (a.k.a. Primordial Qigong).

Yes, Steven do you have a website anywhere? Would be cool to perhaps at some time get some personal training from you.

Thanks for that amazingly helpful post Steven. Gotta say I hadn’t expected such a detailed quality reply :). I think your analysis is correct. I also noticed that my kidney area seems larger and expanded. Again; no pain though. And sometimes my hips/pelvis are tilting forward, driven by the lower back part of the groin which is being pulled…[Read more]

Thanks for the reply steve.

I’m 4 days into the acupuncture treatment now and it’s going much better.

I did the 8 vessels qigong two days ago, and it seemed to balance things out.

My emotional side effects are much reduced. Overall, I’m feeling better, more balanced and with a more smooth energy flow than before I started.

Today I had…[Read more]

Hi Steven, thanks – that makes sense. I actually see from the system overview that the Iron short practices precede the Five Shen, so seems like I’ve skipped that one and moved too fast ahead. Will look into these practices..

Ehem, sorry – the first line is in Danish. It says “post this on michaels forum”. I wrote the above message in notepad, copy-pasted and forgot to delete that comment :).