Steven

It’s good to use every trick in the book when you are serious about healing.
Good also to hear about your positive results.
Thanks for sharing . . . S

Hi Richard,

Sounds good to me!

I offer another possibility as well, which you can use or discard at your discretion:

Usually when I first introduce Ocean Breathing to new people, I do *not* have people connect in with a qi ball in the abdomen in the first session. I find that it tends to be a little too abstract for newcomers to connect…[Read more]

>>>This thread is about chi in the environment, an interesting subject.

Really? Let’s look at your post.

Title of YOUR post: Environmental *Disturbances*

YOUR VERY FIRST sentence:
>>>In the last several years I have
>>>noticed how my inner state is affected by my environment.

YOUR sentence:
>>>On the coast here we sometimes…[Read more]

I know, Jeff, and I’m sorry, but here’s the truth. He posts all his problems, then when people respond with suggestions, he makes a biting judgmental comment that completely ignores the context and fact that he was posting his problems. Sorry, but I just don’t give that kind of behavior a free pass.

Even his “so-called” apology here is an…[Read more]

Wow, that’s fantastic news.
Less chronic pain is wonderful and is a big deal.
Glad to hear your energetic body is getting attuned to the form.

Thanks for sharing,
Steven

Glad you got it figured out.

As to audio, for me, I tend to give higher credence to what I actually see than what I hear. For instance, if I see someone eating a chocolate bar and they simultaneously (inconsistently) tell me that they don’t eat chocolate, I tend to believe what I’m seeing over what I’m hearing. 😉

>>>But I get frustrated…[Read more]

>>>So – if I may attempt to summarize some
>>>recent posts on grounding practices
>>>1) the main ones are iron shirt 1, tao yin, and tai chi 1

Yes. IS1 and Tai Chi 1 are the biggest. Tao Yin isn’t as grounding as IS1 and Tai Chi 1, but it is an embodiment practice like the other two, and a necessary complement in my view to the other two.…[Read more]

What a joke.
It’s interesting how you have so many problems, but yet, you apparently got it all figured out.

Look, I was trying to break the news to you nicely, which was the reason for the “broken record” comment. And it wasn’t from repeating some verbalized mantra or teachings, but from direct personal experience over many years of working…[Read more]

>>>You always turn threads into an opportunity to give advice;
>>>seems to be a problem you have !!!

Your post was basically “I have this problem”. You talk about these environmental things that affecting you, that it is a disturbance, and that you find it difficult. So it is only natural for someone to reply with advice. Or did you think…[Read more]

>>>I find it difficult.
>>>So the environment includes the planetary weather,
>>>objects in the solar system, and the human social weather.

When one is disturbed and affected by environmental factors, it is because one has weak energetic boundaries.

The Belt Channel meditation (Fusion 2) or the qigong (also taught in Fusion 2, but part…[Read more]

>>>I was feeling that perhaps the heart is the problem.
>>>I have some deep hatred / fear of people and life …
>>>and I think this blocks my creativity and then the
>>>energy just goes inside in a bad way.

Again, it’s the grounding.

When you get deeply grounded, you become quite detached from what others may or may not do. Quite…[Read more]

Yes, many folks distract themselves from life . . . by music, by TV, by inane activities, and the like. All true. However, you’ve actually traded these external distractions that others have, with internal distractions of your own. . . namely all of the mental storylines and fierce questioning that goes on in your head. It’s still avoidance of…[Read more]

>>>I am not sure then if the blockage is the puke,
>>>an dark entity lodge inside me, or
>>>is the boy and his distress … unresolved childhood issues.

I suspect that it is the last thing you said, i.e. unresolved childhood issues . . . probably relating to your father, as left side of the body connects to male ancestors. You could always…[Read more]

Those ARE the course titles.
See Healing Tao Retreats for this past summer’s 2015 schedule at Michael’s Healing Tao Summer Retreats program.

Michael’s homestudy courses only cover the Alchemy Line, because that’s Michael’s specialty. No one does alchemy better than him, so he has little reason or time to teach anything else, especially when…[Read more]

That’s why I recommended the Karin Sörvik DVD.
It’s the HT Tao Yin, but taught by her.
It’s very straightforward and easy-to-follow.
S

>>>In Move 12 you collect the chi not absorbed by the chi
>>>ball in Moves 8-11 via expansion of said chi ball.
>>>All the chi pulled into one’s energy field during
>>>Moves 8-11 is then contained within this expanded
>>>chi ball – which is then condensed into elixir.
>>>And, thus, the chi ball and the elixir exist
>>>not in parallel…[Read more]

I don’t know Anadi, so can’t comment here.

But from a HT perspective, it is really important to get embodied.
This is one of the reasons I am such a big proponent of the coursework in the Physical Body & Grounding Line, e.g. Iron Shirt, Tai Chi , Tao Yin.

If a person is not embodied–and in my experience, most are not–then any alchemy…[Read more]

Yeah, I’ve had a lot of training in the Healing Tao, some 1209 hours LIVE so far. See my training resume: Training Resume

HT is a fairly comprehensive system, so when you learn a lot of it, you can get most anything you want within the system.

Any of the Chinese martial arts are a good complement to HT material. So if you like your Wu Shu…[Read more]

>>>I’d find it easier not to get too mental
>>>if I felt that, wrt chi balls and elixir,
>>>there was a coherent story running through
>>>Michael’s DVD and audio that I could just
>>>relax into. But I don’t quite feel there is.

Let’s not get hooked into thinking about storylines.
That’s why we do IS1, remember?

Ha ha, just teasing…[Read more]