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I had another one yesterday and it was almost the same. Now I am suddenly feeling a burning hot sensation under my skin a lot of places, some activity in my perinum/bottom of spine area and energy creeping up my spine to the head. Also quite a lot behind the solar plexus. It feels kinda of spooky actualy and I am very scared of kundalini so I hope he hasen`t acidentaly activated that but that it is just a powerfull energetic awakening of sorts.

Cool, last time was awesome, but I am having a healing session with Jim Nance two hours before so I should probably skip it this time. I am guessing there could be some unwanted mixing of energies or maybe an overload if I do both on the same day.

My mother wants to attend some qigong clases and lives in Oslo. Does anyone here know about good local teachers. (and maybe teachers to avoid). She is a complete beginner. Thanks

Yeah Drew, laser is what it felt like. If going to the doctor was always this pleasurable we would all become hypocondriacs. Thanks for the suggestions from others here as well. I will reply back later since I don`t have much time right now.

The session itself I think is only about 10 minutes or so, maybe a little more or less. How many sessions I will have is up to me. For me the biggest part is having a proper "diagnosis" so I know what to work. I have been seeking desperately for about a year for something that I could strenghten or balance or cleanse that would fix it and now I have so even if it is back to normal that is still ok because I can just start working with some focused practices myself.

Ham and so are the sounds your breath makes if you quit the mind and listen to the breath. That is why it is a particulary good breath mantra and a "universal" mantra. You can read a lot about it online. There are a few different ways of using it as I understand so do a bit of research before choosing method. http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic.asp?TOP...archTerms=soham

Because for most people that is the effect it has. That is according to text and the contemporary experience of a huge amount of people. Of course people vary, but this is the likely effect.

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You could use the hamso/soham mantra along with the breath it should make things more easy and powerfull. I think someone on the forum here uses it or has used it and can teach you.

I learnt from a yoga teacher this summer that if you do Kapalabati for more than a minute and then stop, do nothing and be aware of your breath you will notice it has stopped and it will remain that way for 10-15 seconds. You also have to get in enough breaths within the minute to make it happen but the requirement isen`t very high. Aparently very few people know this and few people notice it because they go right on to a different pranayama etc. You have to take a look at your breath to notice it. Superb way to start of your meditation.

Yeah I know it is kind of difficult without the max weights but for that I need to warm up and I think to fit things into my schedual of pilates, yoga, qigong, meditation I don`t think I have any good options besides as a warm up in the morning before doing qigong?? The push up bars were a good idea though. How do you feel doing qigong after excersizing realy hard for 15 minutes?

Sounds like the arising and passing away of vipassana but it can be gone through much quicker and is not that hard on everyone.

Althoguh I argue in another post that Chias system ultimately works int he sence of bringing enlightenment it is true that the proportion of people getting into trouble with it and not getting very far is unusualy high. Compare the amount of trouble of Chias students with that of the average practioner of Tibetan budhism (including varjana energetic meditations etc.) or with AYP students. The difference is huge and there realy is no discussion about that as it has been gone through so thoroughly in the online community over many, many years. It does not help either that much of the problems with the system are there just out of plain stupidity which is why they are so easily corrected by people like michael winn and the most reasonable practioners of the system themselves. By stupidty I am refering to the lack of fundamentals, the incorportaion of a lot of Kan and Li stuff into the fusion practice which aparently created havoc for a lot of people and the forcefull methods used way too soon in iron shirt etc.

Sereblue this is my take on your fears: There are a couple of truly horrible expereinces one can have on the spirutual path. One is the kundalini syndrome and the other is the dark night. One can also in rare instances become psychotic. Kundlini syndrome isen`t realy very frequent although it absolutely happens to some degree. Having contact with KAP people will almost ensure it does not happen or that if it does it can be corrected in a week or two that is their specialty. So cross that of your list of fears. The Dark Night one cannot control like with the kundalini syndrome. For most people it is not that bad at all. Only some people have the realy, rrealy horrible ones like Daniel Ingram. What one can do is delay the likelyhood of entering the dark night by not doing insight practices before one feels ready. The Dark Night happens after the arising and passing away which is a quite high insight stage and you are not likely to cross it without hardcore insight bopractice although it sometimes happens spontainioulsy to even no practioners so there are no guarantees. My teacher who has gone through the Dark Night says that it is not to be feared at all. Although he knows how rough it can be for some people he says that aproached correctly it will be much milder and almost expereinced positively. If you do enter the dark night you can PM me and I promise I will arrange some private lessons on skype for you wether you have money or not. Becoming psychotic from such practices is quite rare and usualy do not last very long. If it does happen it is usualy quite easy to correct by grounding your energy. It is completly different from other types of psychoses by being almost exclusively a result of too much energy in the head and as such fairly easy to treat with the right tools. So fear not, this is highly unlikely and fairly easy to solve. Beyond these there are of course the emotionla releases that often happens regulary and some facing of demons. This can be rough but is mostly something people get through without too much trouble. Painfull yes but no dark night or kundlini syndrome. In general the pleasure and positive things outweighs the bad ones enorumously. I will write you another post about practices for fear, timidness and laying a good foundation later. For now I just advice lots of secret smile, kidney, lung and spleen sound escpecialy and inner smile especialy to those organs. Also check out the Hacka, Haka, Hakka or whatever it is called dance of the Maoris. It seems to me to be the best way to go from timidness to the opposite of Timid in two minutes. I am sure you will find it online somewhere. I will have look myself later. I think it is superb for you and I will explain more of why later.