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So you mean that you are induced to stop FP practice not for the excess of energy but for some personally undesired "side effects" Sorry but I don't understand what this has to do with my original question... I'm talking about post #2662 thank you and sorry for my bad english...

As a general effect, I've noticed mental clarity and more focus (thought this may also be due to my daily practice of anapanasati) Anyway in my post I was wondering about differences between the various meditations. Recognizing the various effect each FP meds cause and so be able to choose the two more usefull at this moment...

Hello oreothecookie, If you look at post #291642 Sifu Terry said: As stated in earlier posts, the FP meditations are very safe and self-regulating--i.e., you cannot really over-do them. After a while, the energizing and vibratory effects normally will level off and a calm stillness will be effected throughout the body as well as the mind. When the body has had enough of Flying Phoenix energy circulation, it naturally shuts it down softly. I'm a beginner too so maybe I misunderstand, but from his words it seems FP energy is a soft and gentle energy that doesn't become stuck If you overdo the meditations. Anyway I'm glad you find a more personally usefull way of practicing

Thanks for your advice, I'm not talking about not met expectations, but what I'm experiencing at this moment. Onestly I've read that point 9 only last sunday... I'm in doubt about randomly choosing two meditations to practice for six month, or else..

Hello everyone! As I've stated in one of my older posts, I'm structuring my practice following this page: http://www.taichimania.com/trainingschedule.html now I'm at point 9, here, it's stated, one can feel the different energetic effects of the meditations, so one can choose 2 of them to practice for 6 months. My problem is I don't feel any difference between the meditations, I feel some tingling in hands (in general). In the standing ones I've noticed also an increase in body temperature, and in the sitting ones a very distracting numbness in legs (especially durnig MSW2 that takes more time sitting)... that's all I'd like to know your impressions and suggestions

For some reason I don't get the concept of moving at the speed of a shifting sand dune, probably I've never seen one Is this a good exemple? Anyway "moving as slow as possible" is pretty clear! So can we say there's not a limit in slowing the movments, a part for being still.

Yes, neither do I! But for now I have time for two practice sections a day, one standing of 1h and one sitting of 1h30'. So, with the help of a gentle alarm, I divide my standing practice in 3 section of 20minutes per exercise. In 20 minutes I usually do 7/8 reps of BTB. My question is just to get an idea of other practitioners speed of movments, maybe is just mental masturbation..

Glad to hear you have a lot time to practice FP, and that FP can also be a "sharing" practice Just a quick question open to everyone: how long does it takes you (minutes) to do 18reps of BTB?

For me this week is the last of a 6 weeks cicle of first 3 standing and first 3 sitting meditations, a interesting thing is that althought in the beginning BTB was quite difficult for me now is the more enjoyable of the 3 standing. At the same time I've started learning first two sections of dvd 4. Next week I'll start another 6 weeks cicle of 3 standing/3 sitting, so in the DVD order Monk holding pearl Wind above clouds Wing through treetops MSW1 MSW2 MSW3 or maybe I'll do four standing with Moonbeam splashes on the water. So maybe after this cicle I can tell something about those meditations Sifu Terry, Do you plan to come to Europe in the near future? (Maybe Italy? ) Please let me know if this is the case. Also, I can't wait for that book, do you have a release date?

thanks Sifu Terry for suggestion! Don't worry Charle, I understand what you and sifu intend Just wonder if there is a way to know if the breath control sequence is done correctly, actually I'm doing all the breath control sequence part fully filling and fully emptying (when counting ten potatoes) unlike the breath during the movment/posture hold when I do say 70% in, 70%out (natural breathing)

I'm a bit confused right now... I've tried, as an experiment, to do standing meditations without the breathing sequence at the start. In this manner I can more clearly see the purpose of the breath control sequence. Well, for me the immediate effects (tingling, liquid sensations in the body, ecc..) that I usually feel are still present So, assuming that without the breath sequence FP energy doesn't start, is it possible that I have mistaken normal feelings with something caused by FP energy (maybe doing the breath sequence in a wrong way)? Or is it that the residual FP energy actived the previous day, still present itself with body movments/postures?

Well I'm on my 15th week of practice The tingling sensation is now become a costant thing in my practice, expecially in hands and arms, sometimes fingers tremble like diapasons! At my current level of awareness I can't feel the expansion from the heart to fingertips with certainty.. After minutes of practice I feel like a warm liquid is moving into my body. Sometimes I get something that I can describe as peaks of delight, which are accompained by strong energy waves (can't get if these have a direction) I have also noticed the "filling" in the hand, and more generally a feeling of growing density of the air, I'm not sure about the "emptying" feeling though. I've noticed an increasing in concentration/attention during and outside the practice (also during my daily anapanasati), the ease in maintaing concentration is visibily growing I'm trying to approach my FP practice with as much an open mind as I can, like studying something which I don't know nothing about. Keeping my attention on sensations, without conceptualization and expectations. Every practice session is a new one and I can practice with tranquillity in heart and mind. As a side note I'm still using burmanese posture for the sitted meditations, and still practicing stretches to reach half lotus

Very inspiring! Does the book will be published soon?

Sifu Terry thank you for your help, Yes, nightmares and sleep talking happens independently by the place where she is sleeping. Usually the nightmare is about being trapped in some close place and no one knows you are trapped in, a claustrophobic nightmare So she doesn't see the presences in the nightmares. In one case I'm waked by her having a nightmare and asking for help while sleeping, one night for example she was stating something like "Hug me before they notice that they have me sucked in" In the other case I'm waked by her, this time seems more conscious, scared by some seen entity. When she become conscious about it, it suddenly disappears, so when I wake up both of us do not see anything. The description that she gives of the entities are not always with human features, when she sees a "human" it has some characteristics in common (gender, hair ecc..)so she thinks it's the same person.

Hi Crunchy, As a beginner with FP I'd like to ask you, what are the symptoms that tells you get nervous system exhaustion? A more open question to everyone, how one can tell with quite certainty that is practicing too much?

My girlfriend has started to wake up at night and seeing people, she usually gets scared and the presence disappears.. this happens only in my apartment.. I have too say that she often has nightmares, and sometimes talk during sleep so I suppose the people seen can be something like a residual of some nightmare. However the fact that these presences are seen only in my apartment give rise to my question on FP practice. Fu_doggy, can you elaborate more on this? How do you approach this kind of things?

Forgive me for the deviation in argument but one question keep coming to mind.. Can FP energy work attract any non-physical being? Any with this experience?

Thank you for your great work! I can't stop watching that video...I like it!

is there any DVD of this??

Thank you, I'll try this too! I was born wood ox so patience and peristence are usually not a problem

The lower back arch (it was more pronounced when I was a child) is something I've tryed to correct in my kungfu practice in the past but then I realized I was using the wrong way, forcefully contracting the gluteus muscles to push the sacrum forward. In the last two years I've started trying to relax as much as I can the area of hips, gluteus, lower back and lower belly... When I first reviewed the video I've noticed the forward tilting too. I understand now the use of video or stills is very useful and I'd like to suggest it to anyone practicing on his own.. as you suggest I'll take other photos and videos in the future months for sure! Another thing I've noticed in the last days, particularly when standing in Monk Holds Pearl, is a lot of tension in the calf and shin muscles, this probably prevent the transfert of weight from knees to ankles and feet... Thank you for your help, for your encouraging words, and for making public this wonderfull art!

Thank you for your help! here are some pictures of me, first in Monk holding peach the others in Wind above the clouds http://imageshack.us/a/img818/7306/wv9l.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img7/4610/pwxy.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img853/6717/zs9c.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img853/1175/8mbd.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img197/7246/lgyf.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img802/9236/oorl.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img203/9166/2fmk.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img29/4639/ky1d.jpg Photos are taken from two videos recorded with side view, I've only one camera... If you like I can try upload videos, I've not a youtube account so maybe I can use imageshack for the videos too (however the first video, 15min of monk holding pearl, is near 250mb...)

Hello everyone! For the next two weeks I'll do: - Monk holding pearl (20min) - Wind above the clouds (20min) - Wind Through the Treetops (20min) - MSW #1 (7reps) - MSW #2 (7reps) - MSW #3 (7reps) Still practicing daily straches to be able to do half lotus comfortably When bending forward in wind through the treetops the sacrum is pointing down... does this means bending the spine at navel level, illiac crest level? Is it normal to feel lot of pressure in the knees when doing the standing ones? I'm doing wind trough the treetops right after wind above the clouds, are the warm ups of dvd3 still required?

I'm afraid of damaging my knee and foot so I think for the moment I'll do the sitting meditations in burmanese pose or even sitting on a chair... Maybe I'll try to do one session of streteches a day for the hip, to reach half lotus If I'm getting the wrong way about this please somebody stop me!

Also the half lotus makes my right leg to go numb, after a while it gets unconfortable and I unconsciously speed up the last sets... In the morning when I wake and stand up from bed my right foot hurts and my right knee feels "strange", the two symptoms subsides durning the next few hours of standing/walking... (the feeling to the knee sometimes appear during the day) Any suggestion is well appreciated