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You could contact one of the KAP instructors. THey are very good with that kind of stuff. Long term I would do something to ensure the body is aligned in such a manner that it supports grounding and to learn to move from the dan tien. When movement is initiated from the dan tien like it is in a dancer or a martial artist energy naturally wants to be there. I have been doing pilates for months now to achieve precisely that and have gotten very good results now but it takes a long time to achieve a ubstantial grounding effect through it. ONce you have it though it is very solid because it comes from the way the body is aligned and conditioned to move which is way more solid than where you happened to place your energy last time you practiced. Tai chi is superb for teaching you this. A combination of tai chi and standing meditation (zhan zhuang) should help over the course of enough time. Also rotating your ankles, rubbing the soles of the feet and doing squats help. On alhcemicaltaosim.com Trunk says lateral squats are particularly grounding.

I am considering making a few new taobum user so I can use them as a fanclub voting up every single thing I post making me the most spectacularly popular bum ever. My rating will never be below pluss 100. By the way I just voted up this post with this user so even without making new users I can maintain a fairly decent reputation just by selfloving

My thoughts are: The techniques to achieve this often lead to problems for the practitioner. This frequently means energetic imbalances and energetic overload and it can be genital pain. In hindsight it is often easy to see what people did wrong. Over the years several bums experienced in this has developed a fair share of data on what works and what does not. If you follow this advice you should be safe. Is it beneficial? Absolutely! Done correctly it gives large gains in quality energy. My teacher was a celibate monk in the tibetan budhist system for four years. He says celibacy gave him a big gain in energy. Practicing dual cultivation doubled that gain. Is it necessary? Absolutely not! So many people get such good progress without it and so many teachers I have respect for say it is not necessary that to me it seems clear you don`t need either celibacy or dual cultivation other than for extra help in building up juice for certain energetic practices that might be good but you don`t actually need to get enlightened. To achieve the rainbow body or become an immortal maybe you do need it but in order to get enlightened in the buddhist sense you don`t need either. I personally believe the rainbow body/physical immortality stuff, if it is indeed real, is more like a sidhi/a potentially useful thing rather than something that reflects some sort of final level of enlightenment. If you look through my posts in threads concerning sexuality you will find most of the essential collective wisdom of thetaobums about retention/dual cultivation summed up including links to a couple of other useful sites and mention of useful books. THe most important aspects of doing it safe and balanced concerns laying the foundation solidly with correct non sexual practices like belly breathing etc. to proceed slowly and to learn to do it more in a yin way based on awareness, gentle guidance of the breath, subtle intent and having it happen as spontaneously and naturally as possible rather than through forceful contraction of muscles or forceful movement of energy. By the way both stillness movement and KAP include methods of dual cultivation that appear to be good. With regards to naturalness. I have actually read about a few people that have accidentally ended up practicing basic forms of dual cultivation without knowing about the methods. By that I mean men learning to have multiple internal valley orgasms without ejaculation and both the man and woman having valley orgasms as opposed to peak orgasms and both experiencing exchange of energy. I think if one has a high level of awareness and just listens deeply to oneself when having sex with a partner one truly loves there is a fair chance that one eventually slips into something close to this. It would usually require an awareness level that seldom come from anyyhing other than meditation and qigong or yoga but some rare people have so much of it to begin with that it can happen without it. So from that perspective I think it is a very natural practice it is just that most people are just not in tune enough with themselves to slip into it. I also think that this spirtualizes sex in a truly profound way and turns sex into a valuable cultivation practice and helps spiritualize, balance and maintain the relationship in a profound way. So from a spiritual perspective I think practicing these methods is pure brilliance. At reuniting.info you can read more about how this sort of sex can lead to balanced and lasting relationships. THey yap about not having orgasms but clarify int eh forum that the actually mean the tantric internal climax and the type of angelic dual cultivation Lao tzu speaks of so don`t let that confuse you.

As mentioned a lot of Frantzis` system can be leart without a teacher. You can also learn Springforestqigong from DVDs and you can take KAP via skype. You can also learn standing meditation without a teacher. Also healing sounds and inner smile you can learn by yourself. THey are highly useful, you can incorporate them into most other systems and you can do them while doing other stuff like sitting on the subway (the sounds can be done subvocaly and the smile is easy to do without others taking note of it).

As an illustration of the potential power of NLP type stuff as a tool to influence others check out the october man sequence, the mother of all mindfuck tools.

Yes cuddling will help a lot to balance you out. Read this: reuniting.info Good to see you her again Pietro! I am curious how much active moving is possible while still keeping the energy cool. The karezza approach advocates hardly any movement at all.

Hi Manitou! Do you practice a system of qigong/meditation/yoga? Kundalini should over time get integrated in a manner where it does not bother you just enhance your life (although make it a bit strange perhaps) and a good system of qigong/meditation/yoga should help achieve that goal. Have you read Path notes by Glenn morris by the way? It has an interesting account of his kundalini awakening.

I am in New York right now and suffering from jet lag and would like to go have some acupuncture followed by a massage. Anyone local know of a good place to go?

after reading pages and pages of talk about all the "bad" people being judged and getting what they deserve while only the few good (Falun Gong practioners) people should be allowed to be saved I thought what Enishi said in the karma strikes again thread was nice food for thought for the judgemental ones amongst us: "Keep in mind that karma is not merely created by physical actions, but by thoughts and emotions (both conscious and unconscious). I don't want to sound arrogant, but the desire to see a perpetrator suffer for their actions is itself a bad energy attractor for the thinker. One's only thought and desire in that case should (ideally) be to hope that the perpetrator comes to understand their mistakes and feels remorse. " Haven"t seen much of that from the Falun crowd.

I have read that many people don`t just stand and focus when doing standing meditation but do breathwork or active meditations or some sort of more active physical work. FOr example one guy wrote that after relaxing completely he would imagine hugging a tree and tehn trying to pull the tree backwards, forwards to the sides etc. I played arround with it a bit and that can be a real workout if you do it for some time. And it seems to activate ALL your muscles. SOme posters also write about learning to really use the poses actively but I haven`t read much more descriptions of how to do that than this. Anyone care to fill me in? I am also wondering about what happens when you do more active meditations while standing. THey way I think of it is that if you just stand you get a certain effect but if you do for example fusion while standing you get a lot less of the original effect and exchange it with a fusion efect. So you are not just adding you are exchanging. Maybe the trade of is good but it still seems to me like it would be a trade of. In a similar manner I would supose doing Vipassana while standing would change the energetic process from what it is if you just let it be an energetic practice. Any thoughts on this will be much apreciated.

DO you take it before meals? As a ginger tea?

Yes, after doing it for months I have now finally gained a substantial effect from pilates. I am much more grounded (still couldn`t safely meditate though), my awareness is returning into the body and down into teh dan tien after having felt like it was outside me and above my head, sort of. And everything feels much better and smoother, my spine is loosening up again, the horrible pressure in teh chest is lossening a lot etc. A lot of realxation comes from realying on your core muscles to do the job and not use the superficial muscles elsewhere. After getting very slow results with everything I have been doing I have gotten good results with pilates, with cranio sacral therapy and rolfing (much more relaxed, balanced and physically aligned), weights (a little more vital, a bit stronger and looking a lot better and feeling confident because of it), herbs and acupuncture (they seem to slowly balance, relax and build stuff up and congnitive work to get me thnking and emotions straight, and last but not least taking controll over all teh practical things in my life and not letting everything be a mess. I am still lacking the final breakthrough with regards to energy and brainpower and grounding though but all three are now much better finally. Since spleen and digestion are issues for you Wuji pose would be especially good as it does a lot for teh spleena and everything in realted to digestion and the whole stomach and intestine area and it boosts the kdineys a lot. To me standing meditation felt like teh best anti burnout pill ever and wuji felt like it balanced out the issues I mentioned fast. Unfortunately I can`t do any such stuff for some time yet as I can`t handle the energy produced before I am more straightened out by pilates. Even standing meditation ultimately set of my crown chakra too much although I also expereinced the grounding effects at the same time. I needed a low energy way of grounding and pilates provides that over the very long term.

Sounds like more standing meditation would be good for you. I enjoy following your threads and your process. Its interesting and nice to see someone working their issues out well. Even if there are some bumps inthe road. And several of the themes in your threads I also struggle with so they are often relevant to my own situation. That includes this one as I struggle with fatigue/burnout and memory loss because of it. The connection between root/earth and fatigue seems relevant to me as I have struggled a lot with grounding issues, my spleen is messed up and I have felt earth energy helping a lot and giving vitality and strength when I do something that generates it. WHat has been really helpfull now for some time has been pilates. It restructures and properly organises my muscles in my abdomen, lower back and genital area especially. Getting this corrected and starting to learn to move through the dan tien, which pilates is good at teaching you, has the effect of grounding me a lot and harmonising a bunch of other stuff as well.

So, again, what is the latest possible time at which this must happen for LI not to be a fake?

Great post!!

They coul have made a video. That would have been much more convincing. And just as easy. That they did not indicates to me that it is fake. Sure you can fake video as well but much more difficult for an amateur.

As the end of the world apparently is near, at which time the all mighty Li will fight the forces of evil, there must be a date where if this has not happened yet, it simple can not any longer be seen as even possibly true. If nothing happens before 2020 or 2050 or Li dies, will you then stop believing in Falun Gong and Lis claims? If what he has prophecised does not happen then he is a false prophet no? So what is the latest possible time this can happen?

It would be interesting to be able to track how the levels of various hormones etc. in my body fluctuate over time (presumably) because of my practice. To what extent can one do that (cheaply I hope)at home and to what extent would tests need to be done at the doctor or at a lab?

I`ll buy the main theory but did the mummified people live long enough for a fair comparison? You`d have to look at cancer numbers below the average age of the mummies. Well, perhaps not teh age of the mummies as they are thousands of years old but the mummified people when they died.

Hehe, no I don`t look like that and I agree that is a bit more than I would like. And if I would want to get that body I would certainly have to do one of Simple Jacks programs and start eating right and taking protein shakes. I used to be quite skinny. Now I am quite muscular with well defined muscles but not his size by a long shot.

THanks again:) I have been burned out for almost two years and I am dealing with that in several ways. The weights actually help a bit. TOday I found that doing heavy lifts or presses or whatever with the thighs was even better than lifts with my upper body. It seemed to produce a beneficial energy. A lot of the sense of fatigue and pressure is arround my skeleton and especially in the legs. Weights seems to do a little bit for aleviating that and especially leg excercises. Maybe it is a testosterone thing? I always presumed my testosterone was somewhere above average but maybe because of burnout it is low? I should go check my levels at the doctor. Obsessing over the male body and admiring other mens bodies because you want what they`ve got etc. is a bit gay. I am pretty sure several body builders spend more time looking at and admiring male bodies than female bodies.

Maybe you get ready for lovin when you meet girls and ready for fighting when you meet guys? Metaphorically speaking of course (for the most part at least). What I mean is that guys always compete in some form or another. Even amongst friends we compete in some, mostly friendly, manner. With girls you don`t normally have this sort of competion. But what you do have is always some sort of tension going on within the spectrum of potential relationship and connection. Read this: http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/60s-anti-manifesto-must-read-vt72952.html?highlight= It is by a pick up artist that says sexual tension is ALWAYS present between ANY man and ANY woman but we reduce it or work ours way arround it by doing certain things. If you instead of trying to do what you think will create attraction just stop doing the stuff you are programmed to do to reduce sexual tension then sexual tension will surface on its own because it was already tehre. Fascinating stuff. Anotehr theory could be that women just operate from the middle dan tien and men from the lower and you naturally tuine int o where people are. Just throwing a couple of ideas out there.

My TCM doctor put me on some herbs about a month ago to help my kidneys and some other stuff. THe first few days I noticed a big difference then it went away. Now I start to feel some changes again but it is difficult to know if it is from the herbs or other things. Today he put me on Xiao Yao Wan (Pian) which he had me on for about to weeks some time ago. Then I noticed good effects for a week or two and then it sort of settled at a very small effect that did not change arround the time I took the herbs. How does herbs usualyy work over time? Is it like they often give an initial boost then you notice little while they slowly build you up and after a long time (months?) you notice real differences?

Maybe after I get hired as BRad Pits body double. Untill then you`ll have to wait. Whats wrong with teh way Brad Pit looks/looked and what does my motehr have to do with that? Thanks for all the tips guys. Much apreciatedI think I don`t need to put in to much of an effor tbecause at least so far results have been quick and I am not that far away from where I want to be. I think you might have misunderstood burnout to mean overtrained or something. I am talking about conventional all round burnout with memory loss and constant fatigue etc. That made me significantly weaker physically than I otherwise would have been and have made gains in strength slow although seems to make no difference with regards to size. The fatigue means that any little thing or mental effort is tiring. That means that even stuff like changing my exercise regimen feels exhausting. The little extra energy I have gained lately I will put into some other projects for now. But once I gain more energy I will look into your tips to make my workout more efficient. For now I am just happy to have gotten into the routine and getting some results I am happy with. But what are normal gains in strength for someone not well trained that does programs such as those mentioned? 25%, 50%, 100%? And how long does it take before one peaks in strength and size development. I realize that would be an individual thing and depen un a bunch of factors but there must be some sort of rough aproximate stuff one can say about that? And about the clubbels. What I think I want to do long term is yoga three times a week. Previously doing only that gave me fairly nice muscles but not the same as forom the weights. Right now I do pilates in stead of teh yoga but will change back at some point and I think I want to do an external martial art (thai boxing, krav maga something like that) once a week and clubbels twice a week. Would that not give about the same effect as three short sessions in the gym (3 times 10 rep of each muscle group). Anyway, thanks for the answers. It seems very usefull.