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I think it’s slightly out of topic, but M. Chia tells on his book to concentrate on the points like a lens concentrates the sun rays. Do you agree? I think it’s a practice which gets tiring very soon.

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It would be interesting to know the teachers’ opinions. Winn, Chia, etc.
Do they teach the long and unconfortable version? If so, why? Does pain create energy? Is the stance for accumulating it? Or redistributing? Or just aligning and relaxing?

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I appreciate the tao approach… Zen monks do long sessions of zazen even for 10 hours a day, 5 days or more (with little intervals of less than 10 minutes every 50)… after one hour the pain becomes tangible, and after 3 hours sometimes it becomes unbearable. Nonetheless, the monks keep sitting.
I think there is a structural pain, pertaining to the body, and pain coming from muscular resistance, the tense bodymind.
Anyway, I’ll try your suggestion Steven! 🙂

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Because it was like having a lot of pulsing energy in the head, my barycenter was out of place, and going on with the meditation, I felt like top of the head was being opened by force. At that point I gave up and waited with the attention in the head for the medtiation to reverse and get back to the root chakra.

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The teacher in the yoga school nearby teaches a kind of yoga very similar to yours, Wendy. He says ‘We don’t sweat’ 🙂 It’s a slow, very attentive process, where one tries to find the balance between yin and yang, work and idleness, doing nothing and reaching for a result.
I was puzzled by the softness and easiness of the approach, and I told him if he knew the saying ‘no pain no gain’. He smiled and drew a diagonal cross in the air with the finger, like a X.
We end the class with meditation too.
🙂

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I took a class in yoga, where the teacher taught to sing tones with which the chakras clearly resonated. But when we reached the upper chakras, we went upward (out of the head) and upward again. My presence was still in the body, but the attention was drawn to these high areas above the body. Then, the process changed, and the tones made the attention go down to the base of the spine. I didn’t like the experience, though.

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Thanks Wendy Steven and Dog for the wonderful answers!
I suppose the Innersmile is doing fine. I feel more relaxed. Slow. The stuck energy is taking its time to melt and getting alive again, but I knew it. Sometimes I’m feeling odd, like the body is wrong, not harmonic, but I keep being caring and loving.
Sometimes I sit on a chair, watch through the front window, letting time pass by. Not good for the business, though 🙂 But not ashamed! 🙂

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Is there also a yin version of the microcosmic orbit?

thanks

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This answer solved doubts I’ve been keeping for 10 years and more, which hindered also other studies and practices in a very subtle and inconscious way.

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Innersmile brings me often to places forbidden for beginners, like throat, head, forehead. Especially throat, I have energy stuck there. Any suggestion? Thanks

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That’s much better thanks Wendy

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Repetition sorry, I should re-read messages 🙂

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Thanks Wendy great suggestion, it worked almost immediately I could connect with the fresh soil almost immediately 🙂

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I know, but
acceptance to me is neutral
Smile is opposite of frown, so still an extreme. Example: I do the frown as suggested by MW, in the book, and the natural getting back is not a smile, but a relaxed … mouth.
Unless the smile is so unperceivable, that doesnt require effort.

thanks

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My organs are in a shameful condition!
Anyway, now I know! 🙂
Should smiling be enough, or should I talk with the organ, example to the liver “French fries no more, sweetie?”

Thanks everybody

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