Mokona

I like the idea of opening a chat.

Ill only speak for myself. Improved mood and increased energy. I wouldn't say that it gave me more motivation, but my motivation is creeping up as well. Probably a side effect.

Sounds good, asking my HS to tune me in while I work.

Why not just learn what it means in general terms and then equate that to your taoist practice? Such as finding the practice that most correlates to the secret smile? The effects and benefits are obvious and I suggest practicing it, rather than just discussing it.

Practible application, with others, is a must. Especially like the martial newbies like myself. I can't imagine just going through the movments without a real person on the other end. Its feedback of the best kind! Endless kata. That's what it is from the viewpoint of a newbie - I know of at least one guy who learned many movments, and alot of philosphy from books and dvd's, but crumbles when force is applied by an overenthusiastic me.

Thanks R! have noticed that on full moon nights I tend to get uncontrollably weepy. More to it than having a wolf totem. Will try your stuff with the secret smile tonight/morning/ whenever I get my rest time in.

Very nice! It reminded me a little of Tai Chi Chuan. (Just at first) Totally cool!

Two months paid vacation sounds awesome. My vacation time is broken up and can sometimes be difficult to use. Thanks above for the ghost clarification - I haven't noticed running into the cold ones before.

Like Robert Bruce? Although he doesn't mention using any pre-existing schools or martial application. I think he mentioned just sitting in a chair and working his energy one toe at a time until he had mapped his entire energy body. Edit: THe spirit thing.. Wouldn't it just depend on the spirit? Ran into one that was fairly warm when she gave hugs and held what seemed to be pheonix type energy.

There are a few types of cultivation and energy work that really have me interested. I can understand wanting to learn everything about them possible. I have ADD, and just today I started trying to use it to my advantage. Being able to ground while going about work, and keeping a sense of my energy while working. With my attention span moving back and forth the way it does, I think to funnel it into more helpful excersises.

Before I learned that martial arts movments and meridian stregthening by holding positions I would just walk, slowly and feel my energy expand in and out. Practice the healing modality Reiki and most of my meditation time was done while laying on my bed. I built a large amount of energy and it was without any training. MPG, maybe if you just follow your heart and do the energetic practices that connect with you - you'll find what your looking for. I found mine.

Passion is good, but - balance...Balance... IMO If you forget your earthly existence you will lose it before making any headway into spirituality. Although it seems the path continues in the next realm.

Creating small intelligences is something a friend of mine excells at. Continually developing something until they become a spirit itself seems tasking. Anyway, the type of thing you seem to be mentioning is similair tgo Robert Bruces' experience of one of his astral bodies spiliting off and becoming self sufficient, he even named it from what I remember reading. Destroying them can be done with the will and energy manipulation. Protecting them the same way. It takes some imagination and actual practice with energy, but is not a large task.

Falling into the mind is interesting. When practicing this I find that sometimes I forget to breath, or start to drool. All it is is going deep and its not really that hard. But if suffering from lack of sleep, sleep may overcome you before you reach the state.

Robert Bruce recommends White light visualizations and Salt Baths. What else Ive noticed is the building of shields. Anything that eats energy is normally not turned off by a shield unless you make it painful to digest. Such as adding a fire element and adding programming/intent. It can and will burn depending on what you want it to do, depends on the time and energy put in. The practice of looking inward is great as it allows you to find issues that arise, or catch them as they arise. Be it negetive emotion and energy from a client or entity. It only takes a bit of practice to learn how to heal without taking on someone elses pain. That is a beginner mistake in itself.

I think that I will add one of my experiences for the topic. Not an NDE, but some sort similar: Was resting in bed and relaxed into the feeling of my heart pulsing. Felt a strange falling sensation and found that the sound of my heart was gone, replaced by a feeling of being gently pushed and pulled as if by ocean waves. I thought of my younger sister. Was greeted by an in-my-face wailing and crying which awoke me from this strange state immediately. When she came back from her friends house I thought to ask her if she had been crying. Apparently she had gotten into a big fight with her friend and had come home sooner than anticipated, she had been crying. Interesting if nothing else. Also, what does it mean to say what is inner is also outer? Are you saying that our perceptions create reality or just flavor it? I was thinking about examples after reading the dialoge taken place and felt like simplifying it. 1. I see someone being beat up. 2. The person being beat up feels him or herself being beat up. 3. The ones beating are beating someone. Are you saying that after the fact, or even during said beating we can change the way we percieve the action? That is easy, its called perception and doesn't require a lengthy explanation. But then where does the rest of the debate come from? It doesn't change that a beating took place no matter how hard I bend and twist my mind around it. Perhaps language is flawed and can't explain this very well. I read Jed Mckenna's three books and think I understand what your saying as it pertains to.. Everything just is, right and wrong are just ideas and labels we use. That makes everything a useless opinion, which in itself is an opinion. Going to point zero the truth seems to support this, but again. No existance is no better or worse than existance. I just have this habit of wondering something... and I really would like to have some useless opinions on this then.. Why is there existance at all? Why even give someone the chance to percieve difference, types of thought and experience? Why not make everything one color, with the same structure. and just have stick figures walk about?

Humor extends to even the highest levels

Actually Astral Dynamics goes into great internet detail, also so do many books. I was just curious as to other experiences as I have been working alone and on and off for a few years now. My favorite form of learning is hands on with many different and varied people. I don't expect to get everything right, but I am sure that I can slow down and work out any issues I come across if things get to be too much. Other than that I appreciate your concern, but I am definetly on the right track. Besides the friends I have been able to attract - I have one or two fairly adept female mystics looking out for me via projection. Although, it begs the question: "How does one remove astral collars?" It almost makes me feel like property. My heart says to keep going, this is my love, my will caught fire and tells me never give up, my legs are steady and provide my base. (I just made a warcry!) Edit: My navel was telling me to make a creative silly warcry. Missed that on the go around. - James

Drugs drop kick you into states. Can you tell the difference between something drug induced and something brought on by practice? The states are similair. I do suggest working on it.

This would probably make more sense to someone who self-attunes to Reiki systems through manuals. If you take a book, fiction or non fiction you can feel into the creative energy behind its creation, or go further and find the author or possibly open up new avenues to your reality. Something to try, since I doubt many get into that, but it is fun. I promise. I suppose a bit of clairvoyance would help out too, if you manage to go somewhere interesting through this practice. I suggest your favorite book on energy practices, and even your favorite fiction.

The vibration of Chi always feels so much more physical than something like channeling. I'd love to better understand how to use my chi to heal myself and others, if you could expound on that just a bit, maybe some basic instruction on how to flow it within for a good healing effect. Micro/Macro cosmic orbit?

I want to increase my healing abilty and voltage. My healing has gone by the wayside recently due to work constraints and even my passion has died with my endeavors into learning everything it takes to do my new job well and putting up with the BS. A few abilities would be appreciated, I owe a few people greatly for the help they have given me and would like to develop myself uniquely and become a bit more interesting so I can teach or just show what I have become to thank them for the time they put into me. It really makes it distracting at work when I suddenly feel the need to practice something i've read recently. It seems that practice is the only constant that allows spiritual strength to increase (Endurance) So I need to keep working until I can work from a more stable platform and I can't wait to increase my previous levels of energy into a greater well to draw from.. Well, it is hard to say if it was all me, I did have psi vampiric qualities as I started getting into this. Hmm, maybe that is where my lack of physical energy has been coming from in past years. I stopped that..

Do you do any distance work? I like to practice with others, as the effects I have on myself are more subtle, how would you feel as to working via PM a few times?

No research is needed, just follow your breath in meditation until it clicks.

Anything that makes a healer more sensitive (Practice) or builds the internal power (Practice) is used after the intitial learning takes place, I've been using Reiki since I was around 17-18 and I really enjoy it. I cant say that I always know hwat is going on, but I practice most often on distance targets and have had good results, or just neutral results. I never had formal teaching so I am self learned with all of my self doubts. The Bandhas worked well for me, and since so much of my power comes from my chest I used to do deep chest breathing, until I learned that the stomach can be pulled into it as well. Edit: Many systems are available but the flavors are all different, Usui/Kundalini Reiki has worked best for me, although I continually look to deepen my understanding of healing, The Where/How/Why and how to be more proficient. I learned how to deal a bit with specific Aspects of people smaller pieces of the whole, its like talking to a child, or many children. It just keeps getting deeper. At some point, Im sure that my head will explode.