Maddie

I have experienced unwanted side effects from Christian practice, Qigong, meditation, mantras, and other practices over the years. I feel like this doesn't get discussed very much, but it should. Has anyone else had adverse reactions to their practices?

The Second noble truth of the Buddha is that the cause of suffering is desire. (poor quality paraphrase)

I think so as well as its at the heart of the Buddha's second noble truth. :-)

The last video I posted talks about this. Gender has a biological component in the brain. Gender roles however are a total social construct. All one has to do is to look at how gender roles have changed over time and vary from place to place.

Not at all. To me its like asking "do you miss being hungry and thirsty?".

He just saved money on his car insurance by switching to GEICO?

Soul Spirit

The six healing sounds were one of my early practices that I did a lot for a few years. Unfortunately I can't say I didn't have any experiences with trauma not coming up because it did but that seems to be the case for me with any practice I do for the most part. At the same time however I feel like I did make a lot of progress working on myself with them.

Yes! in fact very little of tantra is about sex, but most westerners don't realize this.

The question of all questions lol

Agreed. I can expand on this from a TCM point of view. As Nintendao said there are two souls from a TCM point of view. The Hun is the ethereal soul and is said to reside in the liver and is the part that is thought to reincarnate after death. It's thought to be where our deep seated personality characteristics are stored. The Po is the corporeal soul and is said to abide in the lungs. It has more to do with our animalistic and survival urges and dies with the body. The spirit the Xin is said to reside in the heart and relates more to the mind and intellect and is also said to not survive death. There is also a Shen that is thought to reside in the upper dan tien as well. To me as a TCM practitioner these are more of a functional description when treating a patient and not necessarily meant to be taken literally, but of course some can and do take them this way.

Traditionally Kundalini is from the yogic system which states that the Kundalini is at the base of the spine. Ming Men and Dan Tien are from TCM and are on the spine between the Kidneys and slightly under the navel respectively. They come from two different systems. Obviously many people have wondered if there is a connection and if so what it is, but they do come from two different systems with different goals.

Where did you learn this? Your take on Ming Men is quite different from the TCM understanding of it, which is basically the Kidney Yang fire.

Sounds like mindfulness :-)

That sounds like good advice. With Zhunti mantra practice I got pretty intense since I was trying to not go out of business. I knew it was going to suck and it is. I hope business improves to the point soon when I can back off a bit and be more chill with it. At least it has seemed to make a difference.

I was thinking this as well.

You can do it! 😀

I think all you have to do is become enlightened and transcend the ego and this kind of stuff won't bother you. 😉🩷😇

Lately I've noticed that if I'm going to work out and I do yoga to stretch beforehand I will get really emotional and often just ditch the workout because I'm not feeling so well. I had stopped doing Qigong several years ago for similar reasons and I'm just wondering is this an actual thing and if so why?

It's been a little quiet here so why not a gratuitous selfie for no reason LOL.

Imagine telling a version of this to children. The mom tells Jack and Jill to do their chores. Jack gets right to work but instead Jill asks for some money to go to the candy store and buy candy. She goes, spends all the money on candy, goofs off all day, and at the end of the day after Jack has done his chores and gotten nothing for it, Jill comes back and then gets to pick what she wants to eat for dinner. Which kid would want to do their chores if that is how it was?

True but it also give no incentive to do well.

Honestly I think this story is messed up because it shows that if you do what you are supposed to do you get nothing for it, but if you goof off it pays.