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At the moment I am not working on the movements, but on static standing. I thought that after I gain experience in static standing and the chi becomes stronger, I will start working with the breaths and movements in a full way. I'm starting to feel warm during the practice, and I have a desire to practice it and I guess it helps persistence so I'd rather stick with it for now.

hello everyone, I start working on squatting monkey. I currently stand for 8 minutes a day, aiming to gradually reach 15 minutes a day. I wanted to ask how long it would take for me to feel energy sufficiently accumulated in the Lower Dan Tian in a rough estimate. Is it weeks? months? years? I had not regularly practiced Qigong before. In addition, I would love advice on how to successfully focus on the lower dan tian during standing, do you use imagination or just pure awareness of the area? thanks!

I don't contract and relax the muscles, but the standing itself stresses the inner thigh muscles. Thanks for the advice!

Thank you!!

Hello everyone, I talked to someone on some forum and she told me that she was studying Tantra. At some point, we didn't even argue or anything, she just threatened to cast a spell on me. And that the spell would feel like torture for 10 minutes, but it could also last for ages if she had the help of siddhis or something. She said she became a master in buddhi shudhi. In any case, apart from the fear and shock after the conversation, I did not feel torture and stopped talking to her. But I'm quite scared... It sounded like she knows about magic, I really didn't do anything wrong to her. What can I do to relax? How can I tell if she hurt me somehow?

Thank you! Does anyone think that i do need to do sokething about it?

Hello everyone! I'm Jewish. I'm new here in the forum I wanted to consult about spiritual work. In my tradition, studying the Holy Scriptures is a very significant part of the spiritual work. I have studied for several years in the Holy Scriptures and in various Jewish streams, and in recent years I have been studying Aristotelian philosophy - the writings of Ibn Sina, and this so that I can delve deeper and learn from the teachings of Maimonides. So far so good. The problem is that since my childhood, I have a strong attraction to mysticism. I feel like this world is calling me, no matter how much I try to put it aside I am drawn there again and again. Because this need floats with great intensity, I sometimes look for shortcuts (like the gateway experience), read about them, understand that this is not a significant spiritual path that will develop me as a human being and in the end do nothing. I do practice a little qi gong in an amateur way, I want to work on monkey squatting for half an hour to an hour a day to activate my Dan Tien. Recently I also started writing a dream journal. I'm just restless all the time. I have a burning need to open my chakras, especially the third eye, and I feel lost. Sometimes I feel tingling in the third eye area, but I don't do any work and I don't know what to do about the tingling, they are not too strong but appear from time to time. I have felt for years that I belong to these worlds and in practice I have no part in them and this gap hurts me. Seeing auras, telepathy, lucid dreaming, astral travel, energy work and other spiritual experiences are things that I feel knock on my door every once in a while, calling me to work. Although I am relatively young (27), I am married with two daughters. I am a student and work at the same time, and so is my wife, so our routine is very busy and I don't have much time for long practices. Every practice costs me a huge sacrifice. On a deep level, I feel that I am moving in a good direction and becoming a better person who is more connected to the environment and the world. At the same time, on a personal level, I feel a huge lack and a tremendous attraction to engage in the occult. I feel like I don't have a teacher who can guide me and teach me what I should do about my chakras for example. I don't even know how good or problematic my system is and I'm afraid to go to any medium because I think the market is flooded with imposters. Do you have any advice for me? Thank you very much!

Thank you very much everyone, I appreciate your wise advice from the bottom of my heart.

You are probably right. I returned from war only a week and a half ago. I was drafted into the reserves on 7/10 (yes, I'm Israeli, please don't judge, I don't know what they say in the world media, but there were horrors there that hadn't been seen in the world for a long time, I was there.) It makes perfect sense that I'm not grounded. Maybe I really need to take a step back, take a break for things to sink in and then start slowly. However, I would like to know why it is not recommended to practice the squatting monkey. I understood that it was considered a fundamental exercise. And I think that standing meditations can suit me

I need to think about it. Sounds very reasonable. Maybe I'll try to focus on squatting monkey alone and after a long time I'll try to see where I progress from there. I need to think about how I work on these impulsive urges to spirituality of the kind I described...

There are Kabbalists who deal with Kabbalah, holy names, meditations called 'yichudim', angels, etc. but within the scope of magic and sorcery. According to what I have learned, a person is supposed to develop an intimate relationship with God, the most intimate of all. A person stands in prayer as lacking, as seeking completion from his creator, not as a manipulator who acts by force. Using the secrets of creation in such a way impairs intimacy, it desecrates the holy of holies of religious work.

To be honest, I studied Kabbalah for several years, and only after meeting a real, very wise teacher, I realized that the Kabbalah tradition is really very hidden and it is almost impossible to learn it for real. There are Kabbalists who claimed that the wisdom of Kabbalah is the same as the wisdom of philosophy, but adds more subtle resolutions and in a way I think this is perhaps the only gate left to study Kabbalah, I mean studying philosophy of antiquity. In fact, this is also the reason I am currently studying Aristotelian philosophy.

Hello everyone. Just join to learn from you guys:)

This should activate the 'blessed body'. There are some amazing studies done on this meditation, I am very pleased with it. In general, Sedguru is very interesting.

Mostly practical ways to spiritual experiences. I am currently practicing a meditation called shambhavi mahamudra kriya by Sadhguru. This meditation is not aimed at spiritual experiences, and I am intrigued to have mystical experiences.