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There's a new parkour movie out - called District 13 looks pretty cool. I'd like to see Sonnon doing a bit of parkour - he should be pretty good.

Welcome Duncan! Great to have another Brit on the books. I know very well what you mean about getting distracted from practices... funny thing is - usually it happens when you're just on a verge of a breakthrough or if the practice is becoming particularly effective. I think this stems from our ego's way of keeping us away from danger - if a practice gets a lot of energy moving this disrupts the status quo - and therefore is potentially dangerous. I'm always amazed at the creative ways my ego goes about distracting me in these situatuions. I find that a forum like this can actually help with keeping you going with your practices. I do em and if I discover something new I look forward to sharing it with the rest of the bums. Ofcourse in the same way it can distract you too...

I'd train up hordes of highly evolved spiritual comedians that would travel round the land spreading laughter to every man woman and child (and pets and stuff) - and get people laughing about every aspect of their lives - especially the ones they take so seriously!

Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they sponsor you.

Yeah she has videos at this site. I've found the book usefull tho - lots of great reference material (has charts for all kind of meridian correspondences - teeth, muscles, lymph nodes etc). But to learn the actual practices it's probably best to go for the video. Also you get a feel for her energy (which is a treat in itself). Her stuff is probably best for the energy novice, and those that dont want to dedicate a lot of their time to practice - even so, I'm sure even the most well practiced qi gung expert will find something usefull.

that's the name of my personal practice section! should be called qi gong I reckon.

The practices with the best 'time/effort to effectiveness' ratio I've done have been the simple Donna Eden excersises. especially the 'cross-crawl' (involves walking on the spot in an exadurated manner whilst touching the knee of your rising leg with the opposite hand). And tracing figure 8's (or more like infinity signs) has a fantastic effect on all the energy systems. There are many more very quick, very effective techniques that get you tracing meridians, tapping accu points, massaging neuro-lymphatic points etc.

In terms of practicality the book (I've read the first one) is pretty useless - it's an entertaining read though. The key to differentiating whether the discharge is actual energy or just hypnosis is to see the master doing it on people that are not his students - and have not been to any of his classes etc. I find it very hard to believe some of the tricks that this dude can do - but I also find it weird that he would go through so much trouble to come up with them, practice them and then demonstrate them to pupils that dont even pay for tuition. what's going on?

sounds great! I wasn't being too serious about the skills - so dont worry about it if it's too much hassle - but I'll take what I can get sweet! thanks! never knew that! watch out everyone!

Thanks Affenbrot. Having read Magus of Java, I've been wanting to see this video for a while. This guy throws up many questions! It's great to see him demonstrating his electric charge on people that aren't his students - and to me this skill looked jenuine. The setting stuff on fire trick is a little more questionable - it can be done easily by dropping sulphur (or other chemicals) into the paper, and the sweat from his hands/droping from his forehead (or a drop of water) sets it alight... I dont know if this was the case here... so his kan and li is bringing the yin from his perineum up to his tan tien (where he must've stored up loads of yang chi) and this causes an explosion of energy?!

Actually I quite like this one. It's not overly brash - but definately noticeable - also goes with the rest of the colour scheme. I also like the word 'sponsor' better - Affenbrot, you've got a point! So does having the sponsor status give us any special skills? oh yeah - before I forget... how did Lezlie make an animated avatar? (I promise if I make one, it'll be subtle )

I've made a couple of very simple ones - can I upload them to this post? I guess not. I might put them up in the gallery section. Oh and I'll happily send the illustrator file to anyone that wants to edit/play arround with it. [edit] oke here are the links to the icons in the gallery section: one two

Yeah I'll have a go - maybe we could have a range of them to choose from?

I find similar relief by putting ice on my wrists - or just having my hands in cold water or wrists under a cold running tap. Seems to cool the blood quickly. I find cold showers/baths actually tend to heat me up after - this works better. Also when it's cold, heating your wrists quickly warms you up. Sticking ice under your armpits might also help (a lot of bloodflow near the skin - plus it might cool the lymph fluid which may be good (or bad )) - I haven't tried this myself. Another trick is to cool your tripple-warmer. Look up a meridian chart - find the tripple-warmer meridian from the shoulder running down the arm and trace it many times backwards (just 'connect' to the energy by holding your palm above the starting point and move your palm along the meridian - in a slight scooping motion) or you can find the specific tripple warmer sedation points and tap them for a little while. Also the tripple heater sound really helps (making sure to move the heat down to the LTT and the perineum, allowing the coolness to rise to the head).

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how about a pre-natal pakua on your lower tan tien? and maybe one on your ming men? or flames going down your willy? I dont have any tatoos, but have been considering them - the problem I see with them is exactly what Dan loves about them. they're permanent - I'm constantly changing.

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Sorry to hear you're not feeling too great. If I remember correctly you're a southern hemisphere'er. In which case it's probably winter. It's a great time to get into contact with those darker parts of yourself that make you feel down. Because those parts of you need to be loved and accepted too - however they make you feel, they've always had the highest of intentions for you! They're just trying to help you in a misguided sort of way - so pay attention to them! I hope this doesn't look like unsoliceted advice - it actually rather nicely fits in with the topic. I think that guru types often start believing their own hype (and the hype of the students) and they tend to push those darker parts of themselves further down, believing they've already got over the ego-games they create. This is dangerous, because the further these parts are pushed the more they come out in unconcious external behaviour. If you push your constant urge to control down deep and then think that you're not even subject to that problem any longer it will come out in your everey day behaviour and you wont even notice!! anyway, I really hope you get the most from your phase of feeling crappy, and come out the other end a little bit more complete, purer and sexier to boot!

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Thanks, DustWalker - I completely agree this is a very provocative view. I think the problem with discussing such ideas is emotion... emotion gets involved and we lose our perspective, we just try to satisfy our emotional yearning for return to whatever stability we started with. It's also provocative because people take an idea like that and then expand it past its own limits. "So are you saying that during the jewish genocide, if everyone believed that they weren't being killed then they wouldn't die?" Ofcourse not! Life is a dance between us and the reality out there. The fact is 'reality out there' is more likely to affect us in the short term than the 'reality in here'. Even though quite often the 'reality out there' is caused by someone's 'reality in here'. Hitler managed to manifest the war and horror that was going on in his ego 'out there'. The war and horror in his ego was caused by the interplay between events 'out there' and events 'in here'. (oh and his amphetamine addiction didn't help!) It all manifested itself very naturaly - it happened without any great amount of direct will - and that's the case with most manifestation - it just happens. As the mediators between the creative heaven and supportive earth - we help create everything around us, but most of us are asleep - so whatever happens, just happens without any concious intention - every now and then someone with a little bit of intention comes in and fucks everything up or helps a lot - but again that's expected to happen now and then in a world of sleeping robots.

I love posts like these! I was reading somewhere that the place in the brain that fills with blood during intense fear is right next to the place that fills with blood during intense laughter! I personally find laughter facinating. It's like an orgasm of non-duality... all laughter is a result of the unbareable buildup of emotional tension - it's very rare that people laugh when they're by themselves (although I noticed myself chuckling durng Curb Your Enthusiasm ). When I first started thinking about laughter, I'd always try to notice what made me and my friends laugh - well the main thing I found is that it doesn't have to be 'funny' for everyone to laugh - we laugh at the most silly things - but the pattern is always the same: build up emotional tension untill someone or something collapses the tension and we laugh. Laughter is like the resulting integration/collapse of the extreme tension built up between yin and yang. Ofcourse sometimes a meme takes over and anchors the laughing to a certain event or word or action or whatever - and then you repeat it and everyone laughs.... but this quickly wears out, because true laughter requires true tension. I also think that 'enjoyment' is a result of tension! Sport is a clear example - is my team going to win or lose? ooh I dont know - it's making me tense - so I tend to highten the emotional effect of anything minor that happens on the field. etc. Music also works on tension - I'm not very technicaly knowledgeable in music - but I do love it - so I listen to a lot of it. Different music presents different levels of tension, and therefore different levels of potential enjoyment. No one really likes lift music - because it has no tension - it was designed that way - classical music on the other hand is full of tension! and so is jazz, and beacause I like jazz I notice several interweaving polarities creating tension. The tension between the instruments, the tension between the quiet bit and the loud bit - the solos etc. All very enjoyable. So yeah - 'enjoyment' comes from the tensions created by the interplay between yin and yang. If you want to be centered and non-dual you aint gonna have enjoyment. I dont think it's good or bad that we enjoy tension - I guess it can be explained as our biological need to have a challenge - whether emotional or physical - and once we see the challenege through - we get enjoyment and sometimes laughter...