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I think as long as you're keeping the energy on the cooler side, while doing a good Taiji form, and postures, and stillness meditation you're good to go. I found that it was hard for me to work on my microcosmic if I had the continual ups and downs of mainstream sex. The dissolving process is a good suggestion and I would add Scott Meredith's book Juice as a suggestion. Relaxation is the key in all of these practices, but not just lying down in a corpse pose, but an alive attentive awareness embodied in a shape, ie sitting posture, and taiji postures and forms. The awareness has to become sensitive to your own energy then you can correctly asses your overall energetic health. Bilb, your MO and everyone's MO is open to some extent. Its a matter of awareness of that and what type of energy is dominant there. Is it balanced etc. But it is not always so productive to focus awareness on it, but to just keep it in the periphery of attention, and practice stillness and movement with full attention. I would add also that it is important to work on character, ie balance the elements aiming for fully conscious honest interactions with oneself and others.

Bilb, What is on the page on the website, is the technique. That is so simple that it doesn't look like anything different. Maybe it was just that in my practice stage I needed just this piece of advice. That is, that by relaxing just before the point of no return dry orgasms occur. I was using the big draw in previous years thinking that using it would lead to higher orgasms. It never did but only built up heat in the body and no sense of inner release. But its really only relaxing that does that. Yes I could definitely practice before I got the book. But the book places that practice in a larger context which is useful. For example the big draw is useful to prevent ejaculation, but it is intent that moves energy around to different places in the body. And by doing it with intent and not clamping down, the energy is much cooler. That last line is from my experience. I am not saying this is a be all and end all practice. Its a stage on the way for me. I would say try just the advice given on the webpage for a few weeks. See what happens.

Someone posted about this book in the lobby a while back. Its a blend of the big draw approach and the valley approach. I wish I had this many years ago. http://www.lovesatisfies.com The problem with the big draw alone is getting the feeling of release, and that can be problematic. I don't get anything for this recommendation, The author shares the technique on the website for free. But I just want to share this with anyone interested since it has helped me so much. I use the little draw in combo with this approach and taiji practice as well. Good for overall energetic balance.

I wold think this kind of opening would be very low level. I would say that the thinking capacity has not been transformed. Higher levels would approach the kind of knowing that Spotless mentions. A knowing that not only knows the depths of the object or subject, and its true being but knows its connection to greater wholes. Its place in the scheme of things so to speak. I think it was this kind of ability that allowed the ancients to know about the health and healing attributes of substances in nature, to know how to build the architectural wonders of the ancient world etc. A healthy development of the third eye in my practice has to do with consciously creating imaginations for each of the five senses, sustaining them for 5 minutes without interruption. Sustained practice of inner stillness, and purifying the character as expressed in the temperaments or elemental balance. And I start my Taiji and or qi gong from the Niwan the center of the head, just brushing through it recognizing stillness there, then to focus energy in the tan tien.

http://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-Sylphs-Gnomes-Salamanders-Dialogues/dp/1583944931/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361051086&sr=8-1&keywords=mistele Bill Mistele's latest book is great on the subject of elemental beings Hodson is great too.

http://cattanga.typepad.com/tabby_cat_gamespace/ Check out the latest posts in Meredith's blog. The latest on a form of Nei Gong sought after by many. 1/29's a response to this thread that someone directed him to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttVD-sgPMF0 He is a boxer as well.

The book is entertaining and informative. As he says having a good taiji form is required to practice as the book outlines. It is accelerating the energetic development of an, ming and hua jin. It realigns taiji energetic potential from one of pure body mechanics and structural alignments to qi dynamics yet in a sober way. It does not support the idea that we can push people around using just qi. Most striking, to use the vernacular, is the degree and intensity the author describes the feeling of deep well being and ecstasy that proper taiji practice produces. This deep moving jin does develop push hand skill, but the energy according to the author helps locate deep seated tension in the body of the partner which is then exploited through a skilfully applied push. In higher level it is that their deep seated tension reacts to the highly developed jin, and they end up throwing themselves off balance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZbILRn0Z8

I think the book Turtle Shell recommends, Cultivating Heartfulness is a great complement to IIH. Otherwise some of info about Bardon quoted in vsociety comes from here. http://archivhermeti...at/emil-stejnar, which I helped translate. Check on the English translations on the left of that page. I think the outer and inner dissolving of BK Frantzis would really help with IIH as well. Thanks for mentioning it Sloppy Zhang.

http://www.amazon.com/Juice-Radical-Energetics-Scott-Meredith/dp/1478260696/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353868796&sr=1-1&keywords=juice%2C+taiji I am finding this book to be very usefull and wonderful for tai chi practice.

This is also useful for Bardon students. A new take and deepening of an old and familiar basic practice. This is useful because is helps to dissolve the barrier in consciousness between me the observer and the vital energy. It helps settle the mind for first steps and gives an anchor for further work in vital energy. Sifu Mark is another in the line of teachers in the line Bardon students and his videos are very useful especially if you're into tai chi, wing tsun.

Every author, Rawn, Mistele and even looking through the eyes of B Allen Wallace and how he approached Samatha (he first made the practice a struggle) which in a way parallels the IIH step one mental exercises, finds that the key to step one is to relax and let go while maintaining awareness. Not to strain and over effort it. One of the problems is the translation of the book German to English. The German usage of the word "Kontollieren" is more like observe like at a checkpoint at a border crossing. Watching the traffic go by you don't have to stop every car. I would stay the emptiness of mind is an akashic exercise. If this is deepened enough then step two simple visualizations become fun because of the energetic and "bodiless" feeling accompanying the practice. This is so because as an exercise in the spirit it is done in and begins to activate awareness in the mental body which is spaceless and timeless. What i like about the path is that it has step appropriate exercises for each body soul and spirit. Many paths put us in a state of dependency to their tradition not by just giving us basics and withholding the advanced material. But give us advanced material that is not so useful to us without the first basic steps. then we are left with the feeling of something missing and hanging on the coat tails of the master waiting for crumbs of wisdom. Bardon wished all of his students independence and freedom from organizations and overbearing masters. Tibetanan Ice in one of the Buddhist threads quoted B Allen Wallace as saying that all of the esoteric practices of Vajrayana and Dzogchen don't have lasting value without mastery of Shamatha. The step one mental exercises in Bardon's training are his Shamatha. And, they are the only mental level practice (emptiness of mind)which he insists that his student practice through all of the steps. This should give us an indication of the importance he placed on it. Another great aid to practice is the use of auto suggestion as to the mastery of the steps. http://www.amazon.co...53867113&sr=1-3 This book give great suggestions on how to shape your own use of auto suggestion.

Hagar, We've had our kids in Waldorf Schools for many years. They're great but certainly not without problems. The key to success still lies with you as the parent and keeping your bs meter on alert. And parenting from the heart. Then the schooling should serve you well. Unfortunately in most cases the Anthroposophic corpus has become another belief system for many in the movement, but there is great potential there still. Whatever vibe is there I think it can be transformed by your own family life.

There is the Keen book in the Kindle at Amazon and a hard copy available. Iron Vest. I don't see the book anymore, but there is the DVD. Lulu publishes the book. Iron Vest Similar to that passed on in the Wu family taiji I hear. Some familiar postures as Chia's Iron Shirt.

Do you have4 a table of contents for the various issues?

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Do you understand it to be a set handed down through taiji lineages or broadly through internal schools and families? Or even "hard" style schools?

Do you have anything on the Wu family 24 exercise nei gong set in the archived articles?

tai chi central These lessons are are great and entertaining. I am learning a lot and they're free.

I like it. I also like what Ram Tzu has said that it isn't about cutting off desire and aversion but cutting off attachment to desire and aversion so that if we don't get what we want or we can't avoid getting what we don't want we don't freak out we don't react, but can stay in a mode of presence to what is.

I am partway through these lessons and find them wonderful taichi central This guy also intends to enter mixed martial arts as a taiji fighter.

Taiji will get that area to open /close rhythmically to pulsing sensation. Just a minimal movement. Then that can be done in walking. If you can do that it gives tremendous energy for hiking etc. It is essential for rooting as well. For a mechanical body alignment the open position created by tucking the tail bone is essential. Very gentle tucking of the tailbone is all that is necessary. Then it is easy to take a push to your stance and lead it down to the feet. Or rhythmically arching and flattening the back to the floor or wall by tucking the tailbone under. Don't create a lean in the upper body though. Look at yourself in a mirror in a side perspective. Try it also sitting. Also do the common lifting at the top of the head elongating the neck. Again a minimal movement.

I found the book to be amazing. What I like about it is how he talks about and suggests the reader/ dreamer work with "dream figures." I found myself remembering more dreams as I read the book and culminating with a lucid dream, my first in a few years. Curiously though I found the techniques at the phase to be both simple and very effective, although I haven't been able to devote as much time to it as I would like. At the ob4u website the author feels that the lucid dream and an obe are different stages of the same experience.

I am interested in what one reviewer has said that it is similar to the nei gong taught by the Wu Family taji school.

I just found this which I have found to be very helpful immediately. matrika

See interviews with Emil Stejnar about Bardon which my wife and I translated.Bardon click on Emil Stejnar's page. There are three interviews about Bardon and his life. Some of the ideas in the Veritas article come from those interviews.