Mudfoot

So you feel that the progression through ming jing, an jing, hua jing and guang jing is the same as Nei Dan? I do think that practitioners of Xing Yi are aware of how to get there, it might be so that this progress is not the main focus when someone writes about it online. The six harmonies are clear enough when you use them. You might find Scott Meredith being a source that is unusually clear on this subject.

Yes, avoid these. 😁 The result can be..... painful. Don't ask.......

The rum soaked fist. For you to post there is like having a theoretical physicist at an engineering convention. Or bathing in sheeps blood and dive in to a Wolf pit. Mismatch..... 😁

Roger Jahnke have written a short essay on how taiji and qigong affect the cirkulation of lymph, that is a good start. Regulating your breath affects your autonomic nervous system, working with your balance system counteracts anxiety, proper alignments helps in the treatment of both anxiety and depression. Basic WM stuff. Perfekt for the scientifically oriented mind. 😁

Full responsibility for how I react, over time, to those traumatic events?

within 1-2 weeks I plan to post a comment to this in my PPD: LuoHan Gong and Voidisyinyang's work about Dragon and Tiger: A critical analysis. Or something like that. One part of the theory that I did,t see as fully explained for (when I quickly eyed through it) is that many movements and stances are done on both sides. Isn't san ti done on both sides? My Xing-Yi experiences are quite minimal, an intensive week in the nineties and Frantzis DVD's, but I have the impression you changed sides.

Nope, but the yellow court is. So the question is, were Chia talking about the LDT or the MDT on that clip? If he was talking about the LDT he was having a blackout, if he was talking about the MDT he was using one of two possible locations. When talking about the LDT, there are also more than one view. JAJ have the extended LDT view, where the entire lower abdomen can be divided into chambers. You can also find, in Nei Dan tradition, the though of several centers. Where the point behind the navel is called the crescent moon furnace and considered a function separate from the LDT. Actually, JAJ uses both models, in different contexts.

It would stop my posts :-)

Although poking @voidisyinyang is great fun, you should notice that the first post dated 23 march contains a lot of good and valid information. It could need some organizing, and as usual there are parts I dont get and some minor details where i (perhaps) disagree. I'm going to copy it and print it out, just to make sure. Too bad you wrote it in this thread, it deserves a thread on its own. Perhaps in your PPD, where you can prevent comments?

Wang Mu Foundations of internal alchemy. Wang Mu is also the main source for the "ldt is behind the navel" view.

Probably true. So it is an act of faith, or you can reject it.

He does a good job of showing the Singapore line of the Emei version.... I also disagree about how he treats the trigrams. 😁 And, as others have described it, I come to an inner smile from an other direktion. But I can readily admit, I base this on "this is not how I do it", and I cannot be sure my way is better. It just works for me. Except the trigram thingie. I still think that speed-chanting the trigram names should be coupled with a chance to extract some jing from your gonads.

Chia-bashing is common here on TDB, which is hard on those that actually have positive experiences with his methods. I have on occasion indulged in that myself. 😁 If we are to believe Michael Winn, Chia is powerful but Winn disagrees with some of the main methods. Actually, he is quite open with that. And I would not place Chia at the bottom. I have met teachers that were there. Some had 3-5 days of instructor training with no previous experience. That is not mud bottom, that is rock bottom. On the other hand, I tend to disagree with how he choose to teach the few things that overlap my practice. I also hope that my way leads to more interesting places, but since I am not in a position to have a friendly chat with him, I will never know.

Not for the sex?

Hi! This is just me flapping my lips, and it might not be useful, but... Dissociative symptoms are the result of "adverse events". Your brain/mind believes you have been threatened, and react accordingly. There are many kinds of threats, pushing meditation is one possibility. So your brain reacts, and there are a huge number of possible reactions. So what can one do about it? First should be to calm the nervous system down. Examples : Slow and eaven breathing pattern, six seconds in and six seconds out for the average length male. Kick-start the oxytocin system. Kristin Neff's self-compassion method is one way, self-massage (light strokes, 3-10cm/second) is another. Physical exercise which helps your body to handle threats. There are more to this, and if you see a therapist that doesn't know this and how to build on it, you might seeking help in the wrong place.

Not exactly fake, but since they cannot be replicated in controlled studies, they were the result of something else. Perhaps the enthusiasm of the original research group. This is not uncommon, that is why the scientific community often replicate important research with independent researchers. I can email you the new reports if you like. But my old email is off, pm me for the new one.

Since this is a forum, sooner or later someone is going to fall for the temptation of saying "neener neener neener". Isn't the Diamond sutra the one where they analyze the Buddhas trip in to town to get breakfast, four or five times, like koncentric circles? I read it, 20 years ago. Gave it away ten years ago with a bunch of other books I failed to comprehend. I still fail to have any use of the Cleary collection of daoist books, too many murky terms. The Wallis translation of the Recognition sutras on the other hand fits very well with where I am now. 😁

Probably this

Why not? Should we stay inside just because it is winter? When it drops too low below zero you have to, bad for infants lungs.

Up the spine, down the center.

Good luck! I think that voidisyinyang summons it really well: The same term can mean more than one thing. Many different terms can mean the same thing. Basically, FUBAR.

It is a forum after all. A place where we meet to argue, and in some cases, fight imaginary battles.

Maybe you are part of a long lineage of getting old?

There is an offical document from the Catholic church saying it is ok for catholics to practice arts like yoga, so there should not be a problem combining them.

Got loads of certificates. Comes with the territory, working in the health care system means you go to a lot of shorts courses. Most of them certify attendance, not skill. 😁 So, I have the proof that I am good at attending. Sort of.