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You could contact Michael Lomax of Stillness-Movement Neigong. They can do some treatment also remotely and it might help her condition. https://stillnessmovement.com/ https://www.stillnessmovement.org/ Unfortunately, I don't know how to deal with Qi deviations and experts on that topic are rare. I wish good luck to you all on getting the patient recover back to normal health.

Oh, the joy of being a simple minded idiot! Aaaah! The enlightened master Dudjom Lingpa produced a writing called "The Foolish Dharma of an Idiot Clothed in Mud and Feathers". Might be to your liking!

I don't think you are reading what freeform wrote in good faith. He never claimed to provide anything but anecdotal insight. If you consider these "easy google searches" and their results relevant for your point, then all means present them. The burden of proof is on you, not him. It's not very interesting to read statements that come across mixed with entitlement and belittlement. Charity work is nice, but so far I personally haven't seen people with entirely selfless and wise motives. At least in the West philanthropy oriented people mainly seem to seek emotional satisfaction and not selfless wisdom in action.

The words "get back into experience" suggest that you might not be having the correct view. The True Mind is not a state that you either get or not. It's just the natural way your mind actually functions. It's very difficult to correctly grasp the True Mind, Shunyata, the natural state of mind, view of ati, etc. on your own through wisdom texts. It's a good to have skepticism about your own insight, but I'm not calling it useless either to investigate. My opinion is that the best way to get into to the True Mind these days is to become familiar with Dzogchen Atiyoga or Trekchö teachings. There are both Bön and Vajrayana teachings on this topic.

Ask him! You might get really good and practical advice from him if you chat with him or take a formal diagnosis route. It's what you got right now, so aren't you interested in giving it a go? You probably don't need anything else on top of Fragrant and distant healings if you want to have those for supplement. More important for you in Chinese Medicine terms is to stop worrying. Don't have any anxiety, it upsets stomach. Relax.

This reminds me that Sifu John Dolic lives in Australia. He doesn't do distant healing, but offers remote teaching and diagnosis according to Classical Chinese Medicine (not the diluted modern TCM). For example, Fragrant Qigong is a simple to learn and very powerful style even for beginners. http://www.qigongchinesehealth.com/ Disclaimer: I call Dolic my Sifu and practice some styles he teaches.

The important part of the Stillness-Movement practice is that the teacher gives a remote dantian empowerment which gives a fast track start to your practice. All the essentials can be learned and practiced remotely, so it's not just the clinical distant healing that could work in healing you. You should ask the style teachers and learn more about this style whether it is something you would want to try seriously.

Hi Fido! My recommendation is that you contact Michael Lomax or his students. They also do effective distant healing, but the main point is that they have a relatively simple system to learn and practice. https://stillnessmovement.com/ https://www.stillnessmovement.org/ Hopefully you will find healing and get your life back to track!

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There probably aren't many such Buddhist mantras because the brow chakra is intimately related to the third eye and its opening. From what I gather, these are not desired in Buddhist training because they may lead to experiencing distracting spiritual phenomena.

I would like to apologize to @bax44. I was being way too confrontational how I addressed you.

Your assertion lacks context. Did you ever receive corrections to your form once the teachers had put your posture correct the first time? How many hours in total have you trained in each of these ZZ postures and what did you master with each?

Okay, so tell us what is the breadth and depth of your experience that we may calibrate the proper perspective to your claims. What have you studied, how long, what have you accomplished, and what have you mastered? If you haven't encountered any serious issues in your training, then it's safe to conclude that you haven't progressed much at all. Some rudimentary foundations can be learnt, not mastered. No one becomes advanced in internal training without the help of a master.

Becuz LKC sez fam got da powa an' Da Way of Energi sez u can lern sum on ur own, ther iz muh authoritty an lotsa powa. rspect dat you homie? peace

Reminds me of a Ghanaian Bible-thumber who very often began his arguments "Bible says..."

This accurately fits all yoga. This is the Dao Bums forum and evidence for your statement is all around to be publicly seen.

No, Vipassana is not a game that you play. Don't get deluded by the Western pop psychology propping that mindfulness is an easy or convenient answer to just any personal problem. Wanting to gain lasting wisdom and insight into your own condition as a sentient being is the entry fare for gaining anything useful out of mindfulness, but there are also many other preliminary factors that are necessary as taught in the doctrine of Noble Eightfold Path by Gautama Buddha ranging from correct ethics to having the right effort and energy. If you have the view that there is a ball to dodge or that the practice is some type of casual entertainment that just mechanically produces some virtuous result, then you are missing the point and not in it for insight. Mindfulness is about perceiving the three characteristics of phenomena: non-self, impermanence, and unsatisfactoriness. Anything else is complete waste of time that trains a navelgazing habit that may distract you from engaging with life and doing good for others.

It's relatively easy to use mindfulness meditation to overexert oneself if wisdom is underdeveloped. Brain consumes a lot of energy. If you use your head's analytical capacity to facilitate insight development through access concentration and if especially intensively as in many hours each day or in retreats, then you are certainly allotting a lot processing power. It's quite common to see and hear yogis discuss about the lack of energy and also have severe mental issues that come up because of Vipassana practice. A lot of this could be helped with developing proper samadhi to support investigation with good energy, but this isn't the favored approach or known how to accomplish it by all teachers. Gentle mindfulness when not overdone is fine usually, but even then it would really benefit from expert yogis or psychological counselors helping to set good insight routines how to investigate the three characteristics wisely. Otherwise, mindfulness may end up being a fruitless game of dodge ball with your own mind.

Paging @freeform because this seems like an issue he might have a good insight about.

Well, mindfulness is an established word with application towards access concentration, so it's implying meditation. You did use the word Zen-like also, so it's hard to draw any other conclusion. Not engaging with views? Not taking an "approach"? What do you mean by stopping mentally doing? What are futile or foolish matters, please can you give some examples? I really am having a deepening sense that you are doing something wrong. First of all, it's alright to have thoughts, even silly ones. You are allowed to have views and opinions. If there is even a hint of suppressing any thoughts from arising, then you are inviting trouble in long term.

Here is the problem. It's not even Zen meditation like you claim. Meditation done in vipassana or insight style is potentially very draining to vitality. Stop it. It's meant for people who are properly trained and have methods to activate their bodily energy to support the practice.

Buddhism offers a critical view towards teachings that do not come wisdom first. Wisdom is also taught in Daoism, but it's not usually as intensively presented. Mahayana Buddhism doesn't put much emphasis at all on bodily cultivation, but traditionally it is achieved through deep Dhyana meditations if there is need. There might be other ways to cultivate the dantian with orthodox results, but Dhyana meditations are the simplest mind-level method to get this done and the historical Buddha taught it, so Buddhist practitioners are happy with that.

The problem many people struggling with happiness and acceptance have is their own distorted view of self. In your original state when you were born you held no one superior or inferior to yourself. You were pretty happy pooping yourself in the diaper and everyone else loved you for that, and why wouldn't they? What changed? Somehow, the world has given you impression that others' approval of you is conditioned and this seems to have affected you deeply. Other people can have any opinion and even rude behavior if they wish because they too are allowed to be neurotic and unhappy. It is the issue whether you can recognize this and not allow their decisions to be causes of upset and dictations that powerfully steer your own life into directions you don't like. You have free will and you have all the choice and power to align with your inner truth. You can choose to feel yourself as completely worthy and precious, not any worse nor any better, as anyone else fundamentally is.