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Just wanted to mention that in chi kung basics 3/4 Michael Winn teaches just that – breathing through the heels saying that’s the best way to open up and ground yourself. He actually has a set of five postures (or around) where you stand with straight legs, weight on heels, and doing a few breathing techniqes. I think you start with breathing up through the legs out through the arms and then in through the arms and down through the legs down to deep earth. When you have “cleared out” you switch to counterforce breathing techniques. It is quite good. When I did this I got a feeling like I was “drinking/eating” deep chi in tan tien.
// Peace.
I guess that this is what happened to me about a year ago. I was practising zhan zhuang (from Stand still, be fit) and felt great. Then after some time I started to get into problems. Scary things like a racing, irregular heartbeat, the stomach felt like a pounding heart on its own after eating and some other stuff too. At the time I didn’t understand what caused it, but when I look back now I think the major cause was practicing standing. I imagined that this practice would ground the chi, and it probably does, but it also loads in great amounts of raw chi. I think it was more than my system could deal with.
It’s funny how some people talk about getting more chi – I seem to have the opposite problem – getting too much. Maybe I’m not just grounded enough or something or my tan tien isn’t open enough. A common piece of advice is to practice MO, but that really makes things worse for me.
// Peace.
I don’t think it’s possible to win that argument. In my opinion born again christians are some of the most fearprone people around and that fear will stop any reason from entering. It’s not arguments against arguments – it’s about trying to reason with fear – and that’s a never win situation.
You would imagine that if you could find something in the bible that would make their case at least questionable they would listen, but that’s at least not my experience. It’s hard to reason with someone who believe theirs is the only path. An honest mind is an open mind.
Also it’s usually not about what Jesus said, what the bible says etc., but rather what christian dogma says. Have you ever wanted to know Jesus’ opinion on hell? Let me know if you find it in the bible. If you find that perhaps you could also look up his opinion on internal work?
The daoist way is cultivation through various means and something you work for. No one can account for where or with what Jesus spent his missing 30 years. Perhaps doing some kind of inner work?
I have the deepest respect for the teachings of Jesus, but the conflict with the daoist way is not understandable to me.
// Peace.
That’s a new one to me. Is it your own invention? I guess it’ll mix left and right even more.
By the way I emailed Michael asking if he considered making a second “advanced” video for primordial and if he still was writing the book. No – video, yes – book. The book would be mostly about the historical background of the form.
Thanks guys…
So, we seem to be at least 4 guys on this board doing this form. It would be nice to hear how this practice unfolds over time for you. I’m in an intense “primordial period” right now (doing the form twice or thrice a day) and I hope I can keep it up too see what happens over time.In the video Michael says the form is good for various heart conditions. My idea is that it’s probably good for opening the left and right core channels – scoping all that chi from heaven down on one side, down through one leg and down into the earth.
// Peace.
Have you looked into this in more detail? Sounds interesting… But what does it take to get a scholarship? And how long to get a degree?
Peace.
// vidiami
In the book “opening the dragon gate – the making of a modern Taoist wizard”, the idea seems to be that the location of the tan tien varies with the distance to the equator the person in question is living. A person in China would then have his tan tien in a slightly different location to someone living in the west. Or so the idea is anyway. This would in part explain the variations given in literature and elsewhere. This in turn would mean that the location often given to westerners is really the location for someone Chinese. Or?
// Peace.
