A digest for conscious living
I woke up early and completed my practice this morning before anyone else woke up. I repeated my Chi energy exercises again today and I am simply amazed at how effective they are. Its been just three days since I began implementing the excersies described by Manatak Chia in his book Awakening the Heling Energy through the Tao, but the difference in the way that I feel is tremendous. My daughter has a cold again, so my wife and I have not slept well for several nights. I have nevertheless felt a powerful, clean energy burning inside me all day long, and even went back to the gym in the evening for a martial arts class after work. In addition, the nagging back pain that has been bothering me for almost two months is now virtually gone!
I realize that all these years, I had been making one simple but critical mistake in the way that I deal with the Chi energy which arises when I meditate. Manatak mentions in his book that a beginner may need to practice stilling the mind and relaxing the body for weeks or even months before the Chi finally begins to flow powerfully through the body. Having practiced meditation for over a decade now, I was quite familiar with the energy he describes in his book. It is the same energy that I have, in several of my Lucid Living entries described- the phenomenon of a subtle but distinct energy which coarses up my spine and torso when I meditate. Getting the energy to flow was certainly not the problem for me but it was the way that I had until now been dealing with it once it arose that was not allowing me to reap the full benefits that it has to offer. I was not harnessing it.
Until three days ago, when the energy began welling up inside me and rising up through my body toward my head, I would simply enjoy the sensation and look forward to that moment of rapture when it would erupt out of the top of my head and into the cosmos. What I have learned from Mantak, is that this energy can and should be conserved. Rather than allowing it to burst forth from my top chakra, I have begun recycling it. By guiding it back down the top of my head, through my mouth and tongue, and finally through the front of my chest and back to my navel, I have been able to keep it cycling through my body. With the completion of each cycle my Chi seems to grow to a new degree of power.
At the end of my session, I take all this energy, which by this time has begun filling my enture chest cavity and even my arms and legs with a relaxing, tingling, warmth, and guide it back to my navel where I pool it into a small incandescent ball of life force. This then flows out into my body slowly throughout the day affording me all the energy and well being that I could ask for.
In a sense, it is very akin to an orgasm- it takes a bit of self control to keep from allowing the Chi to be released in extacy, but the energy which I create and store within myself by doing this is exercise is definitely worth it. Today, walking down the street on my way to lunch, not only was I more full of energy than I have been for literally years, but I actually felt so good as to think that this might be one fo the best days of my life- for no particular reason! I just felt fantastic. I am excited to continue my work with Chi and to continue reading Mantak’s book. Thank you Mantak!
Goodnight,
Kikta
I’m amazed at how fast you assimilated this… Awesome.