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I never found it scarey either. Giving the attention like a child and listening. Listen to your lungs throughout the day and they will tell you want they want. Benefit comes from this, but the real benefit comes when you act on what they want. This is my trouble, i don't want to listen to them because it distracts me from my course. So i use qigong to patch it up, like a western doctor, heal them. But then the root problem pops up again somewhere else, and patch it up again. Then i spend some time listening to them, doing it their way and calm down the root cause... fix it at the source. Then continue on my way again patching up when needed A true western and eastern approach hahaha. Benevolint dictatorship i call it

I want to add Iron shirt, especially number 1 is very helpful with healing tao. It also advances beyond the book with your imagination with more practice. But it helps with the moving of chi using the physical body. Infact the perinium has big percentage of control over the chi flow in both iron shirt and the MCO. Also wanted to add since i've been doing Bowen Therapy i have felt the effect on the chi within my body when being worked on, as well as transferring to anothers body when working on them. Bowen works on the facia and releasing it from sticking to each other, it can be seen clearly in big changes in range of movement of body parts, but it also works on internal organs with an energetic effect. The moves are very light, just rolling over muslces and waits of 2-5 minutes between each move to let the body respond to the moves, or let the energy 'sink in' so that the body changes from the change of energy flow or the releasing of blockages (my interpretation not anyone elses). So the chi pushes open blockages, and the inner smile does that too, but it is concentrated on more in MCO or opening belt, thrusting and what mantak chia calls the psychic channels, just extra channels. I understand intimately how qigong works for healing, and how projecting chi can create balance and transmitting chi through channels clears them. I can channel energy that has it's own intelligence on what to do and just let it flow into anothers body. Alas i have no idea how spiritual healings work. I understand that by following the light you stop the resistance to it which releases blockages. But how does one person spiritually heal another? How can you make somebody see / feel the light? With QiGong, because it is mainly for health, a physical approach one must not neglect doing exercise and doing it in a balanced fashion or the chi will also be unbalanced and the connection to tao lost. Taking a spiritual approach i guess one needs to follow the light and can't ignore it too much or one will lose their connection to tao also. Is this true?

I think in me the special abilities are more of an attraction than the banana. Really i think following the spiritual totally for me is not enlightment, enlightment is having spiritual guidance not spiritual dictatorship. I've had the right balance before where everything was perfect, but that got boring and stale too for me. Always in motion is what i feel is right now. That is the way the 5 phases works too. For me the smiling chi i bring in feels different from the heart energy, and all the other organ energies also feel different again. I never bought the heart energy to the other organs, it was more the other way around. I do bring the other organ energies into the heart and combine them there to get compassion. Then it is easy to keep balanced regardless of what is going on around because one is loved up. If the heart is open and clear, balance between the organs exists more easily. Balance is centered. Like you say looking into the eyes of the child, and shaking hands with the major players.... this is very benefitial. I should have done more of that and it would have balanced my practice earlier on. It does work, but i have found other ways to do it now that i have practiced more and work more easily for me now because of that practice. It's interesting what you have said, especially you're last sentence, because it's very right, however the aspects of qigong that you are most attracted to are opposite to me. It's the listening you are attracted to. It helps me to understand you're previous practice better. The taoists actually believe the organs have souls/spirits. The Po, the Hun, etc. What you are doing is listening to the organs spirits according to my understanding. That is a very spiritualist approach

Ok, i guess i'd like to ask the same question about your practices, what does it do for you specifically? I haven't done much spiritual stuff, but QiGong becomes spiritual, as i'll explain later. It's a pretty big question but i'll answer the best i can. QiGong is about energy, the object of the meditations are energy. Generally healing tao and an advanced inner smile can be seen (in my way) as simultaniously dealing with two broad aspects together at the same time. Attention / consiousness and awareness. The third thing is grounding, i'm sure you know what that is but i'll mention it incase others don't understand. The attention is focus, like a magnifying glass, and awareness is just that, awareness. So one expands their awareness outwards, their whole body first, then beyond and it expands further and further. Obviously as it expands you have access to more energy and different types since you are now 'aware' of the things that are there. This can go from earth to galaxy to universe, etc. Grounding keeps you centered, a bit like a boat travelling on an international journey that puts its anchor down overnight so that in the morning it knows where it is, otherwise it could be anywhere and you don't know where you are comming from or going to. The consiousness lets you do stuff with the energy, move it, direct it, make it flow, change it, etc. Focus it in one spot in your body, focus it on your whole body, balance the energy in different parts of your body or expell it out of your body. Energy becomes like medicine, it effects the way your body works. How it works i think is standard in every body, however every body is different and so has different requirements as to how the energy should be changed to achieve balance. So the inner smile as it is normally taught takes in smiling energy which is chi, the middle-god/dantien/emotional type energy, you take it in through the third eye. Because it runs down the channels it also helps with the bringing down of energy in higher levels when you work with more energy. Energy goes up easily but doesn't come down as easily. Smiling energy feels good, and it allows you to easily morph it into organ energy. Once you learn how the different organ energies feel, both good and bad versions, it allows you to then access this same energy from without. I mean how can you bring in kindness energy if you don't even fully know what it feels like, can harness it with a lassoo, (or more accurately coerce it) and move it. External energy is more raw and doesn't feel as smooth as the stuff that comes out of your organs internally, but it can be smoothed out and fits in with what's in your body when you work with it. At the start i worked on feeling the organs, using the chi as a sonar type instrument to feel where my organs were, and talking to them like spotless mentioned. It works... but i don't use that method so much any more. Like i said it took me about 4 days to get it, and a few weeks to get it better. My progress was probably slowed by smoking weed, every time i did that i went back to square one with the progress, so i started fresh again at least once a week. The knowledge of my body was still there, the chi just wasn't and the power of the meditation had to be built up again. The chi builds up when you do it daily. The chi does take some time to 'sink in'. Even with microcosmic orbit you get the physical benefits after the meditation, not necessarily in it. The body has to 'sit' in the new way achieved by meditations and have a chance to 'catch up' to what you've been doing. Physical is slow, energy is fast. How do you know you were doing it effectively now? How do you know you weren't imagining it? What's are you using to measure you're effectiveness? Early on i felt increased emotions of the type i was cultivating. They came out more after meditations, and i started feeling outside of meditations the way i was practicing to feel inside of meditations. Detoxing was increased, especially felt that way around my spine. The chi directed by the inner smile increases or decreases blood, lymph, and just general circulation on the area the energy is directed apon. Increases or decreases depend on the type of energy projected apon the area. Later the chi made me need to go to the toilet, caused cracks in my neck, made me feel tired or super excited, rumbled my belly, stretched my skin, expaned and swelled up my organs if i directed the energy that way so that they felt like they were going to pop. Breath in stretch, breath out relax. Not deep breaths, no physical stress like iron shirt, just all energy, gently. I felt electricity from kan and li that made muscles jump like i was using one of those electronic muscle simulaters sold on late night tv. I felt bubbling in my belly from the coldren, boom boom boom, and i could look at my stomach and see it moving from the coldren boiling. Other things too but what i mean to say is that it becomes more real the more you do it. If you are very calm, and your heart rate very low, then you 'imagine' you are being chased by a tiger who wants to eat you, your heart rate increases, blood chemicals change and tension increases. Was this all just 'imagination' or did you really do something? I don't know what you mean by 'healing' or 'merging' but in healing tao there is earh energy, emotional energy and spiritual energy, the 3 treasures. Yes you can do the inner smile with all of these energies too, it's just directing energy. Thats what the inner smile does I'm not sure if you're other system works much with energy. In the last 5 years my understanding of energy, of the finess, quality, frequency, speed, direction, different channels of the body and smoothness/roughness, intensity, power, earth/emotional/spiritual energy percentage mix etc has really expanded. Originally i worked with organ energy, thats how you start off, and it can take many many hours of practice to work with those well. But the seasons, and weather has energy too. So does everything. All of these things are like labels for the energy, a bit like when you go to the hardware store and say you want a certain colour of paint. There are thousands of names for different paint colours. However thats only a fraction of the number of colours available. Mixing the colours yourself you soon find out that there are many more. Learning from the outside world, and from travel, and going overseas the numbers increase even further as your mind opens up to new things you've never seen before. So the inner smile is starting to train your body to feel the energies and what they do and how they work, as well as change and direct the energy for higher levels in the system. Then you have a 'handle' or a paint name so to speak that you can work with, rather than just swishing away in white paint that contains all the colours and who knows what you're doing Now as to how qigong is spiritual. This is not really inner smile, this is through opening the channels of the body. This allows the chi to move throught the body. The chi IS YOU. It is a denser version of you're spirit, it is like the holy spirit the christians talk about. It really really feels like you when you ball the chi up and run it through the MCO. It feels like you are going through the channels of 'a' body, which is obviously your own but it feels seperate. This seperate feeling is just as seperate as the chi feels from your spirit. When i was practicing lots, i felt like i was my spirit, who controlled my chi, which in turn controlled my body. I found it good to have spiritual insight as in what to do and where to go, but i wouldn't want to give into it totally of fear of becomming a madman haha. If i followed it without question it could send me anywhere. For eg. if i run i feel it leading me to different places, i follow it but later i know my wife will be home and i should head back and so just turn around and go back home. It feels good to follow it but not good to let it overtake me. Is it fear? yes. Is fear bad? no. In reality i believe if anybody really let it overtake them the whole time they can't really live in society. Even Lester Livingston followed the light for years but snapped himself out of it because he felt it wasn't right, he felt he had lost touch. Is you're previous spiritual practices anything like this? Qigong prepares the body for the spirit, it works with earth energy and chi energy and heavenly energy, but it is yin, it is working with the physical. The more one advances in healing tao the more prepared ones body is for the spirit, the deeper the spirit enters to us while we are living on earth. There is no tension, there is no restriction against the spirit, the body is overwealmed with chi and resistance becomes futile and can actually be physically painful. Thats why one should not rush through the process, bit by bit. Having the spirit fully in you is the pinnicle of qigong, but i don't believe its possible unless you are a hermit

Mantak Chia's system is the 90% of what i have done for 10 years daily and i did spend 3-5 hours in practice daily for a period of 2 years and have practiced daily totally for 10 years. I feel i know the system pretty well but of course there are always new things to learn, it's only a system through which you can learn things. I started off with the inner smile practicing it daily from an audio tape, and it is really the basis of the whole system. To be honest i think when i first started i did the inner smile better than i do it now. It was much richer and probably more enjoyable. To make it a more rich experience try to smell and taste the different energies of the organs as well as see the colours and feel the emotions. To answer your question i had good experience very quickly, within a few days of practicing with the tape. I was sick at the time and had lots of spare time and listened to it 2-3 times a day after i started getting into it (it was about 40mins of meditation). Within 2-3 weeks i was having pretty good results with it, but it felt manufactured, yet still really good and fun. When i went and practiced on my own 10day retreat (9 hrs a day) it got really strong, but became moe difficult to do, and a bit pointless, shortcuts appeared to get to the same places without 'doing' the inner smile. I smelt and tasted the different energies very strongly and could feel others organ energies within myself when i came back from the retreat. Because i practiced with the inner smile so long i knew what was wrong in the others body because i knew how it worked in my own body. I could also see auras but i didn't know what they meant, as in what does what colour mean. Maybe a reason why i got a good result is i practiced every day and spent plenty of time practicing. I have done everything in the whole system and have all the books, but inner smile is the central part of it for me. It is the control mechanisim and the input sensor if you like that lets you see where things are at, and change things to how you want. These days i still do inner smile but i more just create the effects of the inner smile without actually smiling. All the energy is the same, and actually i even concentrate on working at a physical level, working with the organs and tension of the smooth muscle around them that the inner smile seems to effect. The higher levels of the system to me just boost up the inner smile. They say each have a big book with descriptions etc of how they are different but in essence it's all inner smile. I figure if i can do what i want on a physical level with a little energy it's not necessary to boost it too much. Like fusion is a tool to learn how to do the fusion meditations and get balance, but once you work out what it's doing, you can just go ahead and do it straight away without doing fusion. Mind you it was certainly an experience doing kan and li some amazing things seemed to appear in my life but i guess one needs to be careful what they wish for. In all i think the forumulas for working with energy in healing tao is a way to learn and provide insight. Once you know how to do it they all fit together as one thing/system, which ends up being a new inner smile I would really recommend healing tao it is good, but you only get out what you put in. And don't be afraid to ask for help from others who do healing tao. There is alot of different ways to do things (as with the smile) and doing it lots one way can cause imbalances. I actually feel the instruction book is incomplete. Energy runs through the facia, blockages are where the facia sticks together. Chi can push blockages open, but so can relaxation. It's like using a flood of water to bust open a canal lock door, or direct water to sit on the edges where the lock door sits so the foundation of the door is weak and the door just falls over with less power. I feel standard healing tao (or the way i originally did it) was a bit too marcho. Finess and the quality and nature of the energy are just as important as the strength and purity of the energy. I'd like to hear how you feel healing tao relates to your other spiritual practices. I think with a little healing tao your other practices will become easier, it will be attacking it from both ends. I likewise should spend more time attacking from the spiritual side but there are things i don't like about it

Does anybody believe there was a time when, with adults, this unlikely step was the common step?

Anything of worth u can post to me. Ill pay postage and make sure heaven knows how spiritual uve become

I haven't read the whole thread, just your post, however i have had a similar thing happen. Now when i'm really been practising lots the sneeze can begin to come but then i become aware of it, the sensation actually draws my attention there, and it goes away back to where it came. The same thing happens with hunger too, like i can be hungery, then practice and the hunger just goes away. It's like the chi just pulls your body into balance so you don't have any of these feelings. I don't think this is good, i think if your body wants to sneeze it should sneeze, and if you feel hungry to begin with one should eat. This is one reason why i don't think intense practice is all that great. The practice becomes you and to me it's not natural any more, it becomes artifical to me. Life becomes manufactured to balance. Although the feeling starts getting addictive and the depth of the balance and power gets stronger and stronger... i always had this inkling feeling that it wasn't the best way to go. And i think that inkling feeling is always something to listen to. However.... if i have a runny nose or a cold, and i don't fight it and let it run down my cheek before wiping it off, and don't blow my nose clear, in 15 mins or so my nose will clear up by it's self. It's like it just evaporates (obviously i gently tap dry anything left on the outside of my nose ). So the same attention can sometimes be good. Well, actually i would have assumed that blowing my nose to clear my blocked up nostrals would be good and common sense, but it is more benefit for me to have them cleared by ignoring it. But i get no inkling feeling with this one that it is better to blow my nose. Meanwhile similarly, when the sneeze feeling dissapears i have no remorse for it's going. Who knows...

Spotless Hmm but the looping and wrapping can be good and a tool to get to where you want to be, build what u want to build and motivate and give power to creations that were conceptualized using our own creativity. Hypnosis makes extensive use of this and it can be used for good or bad. I find these "buttons" are nothing to avoid, in my practice i have become good at escaping the loops so long as i don't let the momentum become too strong. The loops create intensity and intensity creates memories, and i like good memories. Lets face it to become a good meditator it takes lots of practice, and those who are good at it are so because they have a strong motivating force, they are sick, physically, mentally or have some other reason. Normal people don't reach great heights in it 99% of the time. So an important side topic i think is important is what does a person hope to get out of all this work to open the third eye and which by products would you prefer, because this would change the way you meditate. Although it is true - There are many paths up the mountain but the view from the top is the same, if you hated steps you could rock climb up there, and if i were in a rush i would take the helicopter. I don't mean to say anything is wrong with what you said, i agree with it all, it just depends on ones perspective and i offer another one. Even a painted jail can have a purpose, and its not a bad place when you have the cell key. If everything happens for a reason then... My point is that the point is less important than the rich content around, and far from the point

Inline with what Spotless said, i have been for meditation retreats by myself. I used to be right into fitness, gym running and swimming most days. When i went for 10 day retreats doing nothing but meditations and very short walks all day long is that i had excess energy from not burning it in exercise and feeling it in meditation. So what do you do? Scream, shout, fidget, but then there becomes nothing else to do other than take a deep breath and continue on where you left off before the tantrum. Day after day you become better at it. Then there is no tantrum. Then anything. Even several flies, flying around your tent in the middle of the forrest, landing on your face, crawling around your face and inside your lips on a 48C degree day when you're dripping with sweat bother you, you just watch and blow them to the outside of your lips Hours and hours on end. There is no easy way, there is only one way and that is through practice. And when you stop practicing it gets hard again. But having reached a certain point at some time in your life, that point is easier to reach again.... you know the way. It is like weight training, but for the mind..

It can be found at any second of those 66 hours per week, but 66 hours makes it hard not to be distracted. Even christians have sunday as a rest day

Maybe this is useful.... I have done Healing Tao for over 10 years every day, and i have practiced everything in the course upto the highest level. When you get to the highest levels the time you need to spend in practice is huge, and it starts to eat into your experience of life - in my view. It's not that you need to practice for hours on end day afer day(although i did at times), it's that you become tao and not yourself. You need to be a little bit of yourself so that you can interact with tao. Sure richer life experience is gained through the practice, and you can do things you never thought you would be able to, but when it came down to it, for me it really wasn't worth it. The basics are. Lets face it you don't always get more without giving some. If you are ready to give up everything well then maybe higher level HT is for you, but when you find out what it is that you give up, perhaps you realise that you don't want to give up everything. EG. Would you protect your child with your life, and give up you're life protecting your child if they were in danger of being hurt, even if qigong gave you the power to believe you could still protect the child better in the long run by standing by and letting the child be hurt? I'm not talking about a push over, i mean really hurt. Healing Tao is a bit like a learning curve, where you learn about your body, then you can do your own style of qigong that fits with your body. I have never done SF qigong but i guess it would be the same deal. Learn the basics, learn and understand your body, then it doesn't matter what style you do, you just learn things that fit in with the direction you want to go. The only thing that is important is that you do a little practice every day, then you can begin understand it all. Qigong is really a distraction from what is really happening, but that distraction can improve health so that what is really happening becomes obvious Basics basics basics. Even a weekend course on the most advanced gorrilla warfare is useless if you can't run 5kms

Raising vibrations, association & disassociation. I wonder if people feel or label these things the same as i do, or if we all have different definitions. Also i wonder if these two common meditations affect people in the same way as me. It would be great if people could talk about if these different meditations make them feel different, and how, or if they both have the same result for them. For me... Mindfulness meditation is pretty widely known and most people have tried it and felt the effects. I feel like mindfulness meditation makes me feel disassociated from my body. Feeling disassociated i feel separate from my body and my emotions, i'm not carried away by them so it's fine to experience them, although i'm really not experiencing them deeply because i am disassociated! I feel increased stamina but less empowered and alive. Stamina comes from being slow calm and relaxed. However clarity is there and a much wider picture can be observed - these are the things that come to my attention. I feel like i am out of my body, like a playing piece on the board. Strangely the perception is from the sides, and all around, or inside but not connected, depending on if i'm 'watching' or 'feeling, but in both cases definately 'here', or nearby. Using qigong / MCO I feel my energy increased and the vibration rate increased. Then emotions and spiritual direction come to my attention, so the need for balance of organ energy and emotions becomes very important, or it's easy to get carried away. I have more stamina also but in a different way. The energy comes from a burning fire within. I feel deeply associated, like the feeling when you clench your fists and breath in quickly and deeply through your nose. When i practice lots i can start to feel disassociated, but it's different, I feel like i am in my body, a bit like a mech warrior (if anyone remembers that game) so to speak. With more intense practice i can feel like i am using a radio control to control the mech warrior from above, from very far away, but never from the side or all around. Both can be done at the same time but that becomes a real challenge. Doing qigong lots i can start to feel disassociated also, but it feels differently. Doing mindfulness lots makes me feel passively empowered, but not actively empowered. Anyone else?

I think, watch till ur tired watching, feel till ur sick of feeling, listen like a radio till ur tired of listening, smell? Maybe it doesn't work well for me, but then combine the different experiences as one and be. Then back to whatever u fancy when bored of that

Hmmm but it doesn't have to be a one way thing does it? They can heal you and you can heal them. Sometimes just laying your hands on them you can share and balance the energy between you both. Let the energy do it's own thing then balance comes. It's a bit like a wu wei approach, don't interfere. I've had great results even though i've felt my energy was sometimes polluted also, yet we've both felt better after. Sometimes it's the letting go of it and trusting that nothing bad will come of it that helps.

I would like to add a few points. I worked flat out with my own computer business, it was all running great, then i got sick and had to stop. It was all pretty full on and intense and i burned myself out. Not only due to work but also other life choices. Then i took up the cruziest job ever, im at work over 10 hours a day, but i don't do much, and can have a sleep most days if i want. It took about 3 years to settle into the slowness of it, from what i was used to, i always felt like i wasn't doing enough and felt nervous from that! It's hard to unwind after being pumped up for so long. However although i can rest and relax at work now throughout the whole day, i feel tension again because although i get pretty good money, i feel like i'm wasting my life away. There is that inner desire to do something that is special to me. My job is an old man job, not for somebody with energy. It's good that i can do my own thing - study / meditate / exercise or whatever i feel like in my spare time at work, however it just gives me a taste for more.... So the work environment doesn't matter, if i want to relax in a stressful envirnoment i will, if i want to stress in a relaxed environment i will. So if you like your job, i think just stick with it, just like other say manage your time and learn your warning signs of when you are going to topple over. I remember when i was in China meditating like 5 hrs a day, i would get the urge to expand out and do something. I think thats the laws of nature, expand out, then contract. As something gets old, it's ability to expand and contract become less and less. If a new thing expands and expands it breaks. If a new things contracts and contracts it breaks too. If something stays the same it gets stale and overcome so that it too dies. According to TCM and Chinese astrology we all have a stronger element, that IS us, it defines us and who we are. I have seen it in countless accounts in different people. It is real (at the most basic level i am certain). We all strive, but for different things, and the more we strive, the better and more alive we feel, yet as we start reaching too far we topple over. For me that is meditation, to keep yourself from toppling over. Now here is one great thing i realized. Different people complement each other, by working in groups you can balance each other out. This allows you to be you, and expand like you, but the group dynamic helps you to also contract and brings about harmony within the group - so long as the group is a harmonious group, not all die hard workers. I am certain Genghis Khan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and a host of other special people weren't centred all the time, thats how they became who they were. Then again i'm sure Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, and lots of other famous people that most people have never heard of were centred most of the time but expanded very little. Balance is kept by revolving around the center. You would know in your own job that you need to spend time organizing your stuff / paperwork, time to expand out and contact clients, time to interact emotionally with clients and sell yourself to get the contract and also have time to rest so that you can do everything all over again tomorrow. If you omit anything your career will start to fall apart. Same with work / life balance. Learn to time manage and bear the grunt from mother nature if you fail to heed the warnings. It's hard i know, i still struggle, but the secret i think is to not outstretch too much in any direction... and spending time with others, they can help you to maintain a state of normality Good Luck!

Hi Guys, I'm looking for a video that was on here quiet a while ago. It was a Tai Chi Push Hands video with some master that looked quiet young. I've searched high and low and i can't find it. There were i think 3 other men (or at least two) he was teaching in the video and he kept throwing them into the couch that was just behind them, using almost no effort and they were going flying backwards. All in the video were chinese and the teacher was teaching in chinese.

Ahhh you champion. The second one is the one, thankyou very much!

Yes because your right hand projects chi and your left hand recieves it, naturally. Left side of the body is more yin and right more yang. Left handed people are usually more arty and yin.

An aeroplane, window seat, feels like the ideal practice location

Yeah there is one, but there is also duality, 5 elements etc. Without division and science we wouldn't have tai chi, qigong or TCM, we would only have being. I am facinated by testing means because they give you some kind of proof within a narrow scope. Demonstrations can then be used to give merit to your skills and encourage others to listen to you and make changes in their own life for the better. That is the basis or religion, to spread the good. Is just Being enough? It can be but the universe yearned for more and henceforth we have 10 thousand things (plus more). By understanding within, we can understand without. Any testing means are valid in self discovery i think. Perhaps we should start a research group.

The MORA machine detects energies and vibrations and uses them to heal. I've been worked on by one and it was quiet impressive. Ultra long wave magnetic machines I've used and it felt like i was doing qigong with earth energy. Other machines hooked up to computers can measure organ balance and strength, I've been on that once too but it was very early on in my practice so i couldn't know if it was accurate or not. All these machines that operate from our energy there must be some way to use them in our practice. On a worldwide forum attracting enthusists from around the world, somebody must know a little how these things work.

Also you can strip back about 30cm of insulation off a copper wire and bury it in the ground and have another wire with all the insulation left on one side. The earthed wire will transmit electrons from the ground, see if you can feel the difference from a portion of copper exposed from the other ends. Interestingly feeling the earthed wire becomes so much less obvious when you close your eyes, drop the wires and pick them up randomly This is a scientific know thing that the earth emits electrons and yin energy is somewhat aligned with negative electrons. I find if i have quiet a few beers and put the earthed wire on the right foot, liver side, i sleep better and reduced 3am wakeups than if its on the left foot. You could practice without beer but i don't find it as fun

Also to the OP you can measure blockages and things in your body using a multimeter, on the resistance setting, between different accupuncture points. I can use my mind to alter the resistance between two points and watch the display change as i predict it. This is more of a physical tension exercise though, not energy. I don't know any way of testing energy so im interested in more details of this experiment you read about.

Mmm water into wine i haven't managed that yet, bit i routinely change water into home brew