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I used to get global a few years ago that were related to insomnia (which had also just started). My doctor prescribed me two really strong sleeping pills and neither one of them had any effect on me. As it turned out some of my abilities were expanding some and I had a lot of energy just trapped in my crown...my senses were heightened. I could hear and feel everything in mile radius, I could stare into bright lights without my eyes dilating. Well after I just tried forcing my body to relax and just accepting that it was part of me, the headaches left me. Now I only get headaches if someone wakes me. If I wake up on my own it's fine but if someone else does it...my head will throb for hours unless I meditate.

We usually write it Qur'an (Q has a different sound from K in Arabic, and the apostrophe represents a glottal stop). To add to what you wrote, it hasn't been changed--only the translations. The original Arabic text is kept in every printed version whether English is added or not and the original written texts can be found in The Middle East.

I have to agree with manitou on her definition of karma--that for every action there is an equal and opposing reaction. Much of what we are now is based on the choices that we made in the past and sometimes those choices weren't simply a matter of good and evil but maybe the lesser of two evils, or the better of two goods. At any rate we all have the potential to do good and evil but we can choose one or the other based on our understandings of our individual situations. As far as why "bad always seems to win over good", I don't think it that's true. I prefer to believe that there is a balance of power between the two--you can't have one without the other. And where you see someone doing bad and being rewarded for it, there is always someone doing good and being rewarded for it sooner or later.

Slightly off topic but I have always been a little confused about the concept of Kundalini. Is it just the manifestation of second sight and serenity? or is it more than that? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

I thought so. Add cranberries to your diet and if you are already eating them, have some more. They'll help your body retain moisture longer.

I see. I'll check it out. Thanks

I haven't had much formal training. But in high school we were taught some Tai Qi Quan. The rest I've learned on my own through reading and experience.

I'm not sure of the difference between Kundalini and the sensations felt during Qi Gong practice. However when I feel my energy rise, it's a mix of hot and cold forces. First into my upper belly, then my chest, and as of recent my throat. It lasts all day as well unless I suppress that energy but I can call it at will now.

That's just it. DON'T think about it. Let it happen naturally.

The meditative state is the area between sleep and being awake so you don't focus on anything when you've reached the meditative state. You also lose track of time. But you can focus on something to get yourself to the meditative state. Or at least that has been my experience, that is also what John Chang has noted.

Do any of you ever get the urge to urinate around the time you are using your power(s) or when you feel most powerful? I know it's a random question but I'm very serious. It's part of the journal that I'm keeping and I want to see if anybody feels the same sensation or something different.

I had a physical earlier this year and had myself checked for everything I could think of from cancer to diabetes and the doctor found nothing wrong with me. It only just dawned on me yesterday that I felt like urinating. Many times when I do actually need to urinate it is a lot (do to all the water that I drink. But after a practice session or meditation I don't actually urinate, I just feel like it (if that makes any sense). It could be nothing but I wanted to know if anybody else had felt like that and what they did to deal with it in case it might be dangerous

No, I haven't experienced that. And when I do get the urge to pee after practicing a power, I can suppress it because it's not a great effort to me (probably the result of PC exercises earlier on). I don't actually have to pee it just feels like it and only when I've meditated or trained.

Bump Does anybody else have any input? or is it something that you've never really paid attention to?

I see. I do drink water more than anything. Especially every morning when I have that first cup of water (health tip). But when I'm not meditating or training I don't have the constant urge to pee...luckily it's only a slight urge. Only when I am projecting energy from my body probably because the energy is around that area. I'm aware of myself in the physical sense (knowing to use to control the urge) as well as the ethereal sense (sensing my own energy).

You said that your fingers started peeling. Is it just at the base with the nail or is it more like all over your hands including the palms?

I guess it would be your yin qi when you want to project energy from your body... Let's say you're having an OBE and you wake up you're slightly aroused or you feel like you have to urinate...does this anything like this every happen to you?

Hello all. As I stated in my introduction post, I learned about different energies intuitively but I still have some questions in regards to energy what one should feel when they are meditating (I didn't start doing it until recently) My first experience with yang qi happened when I was 8 years old. I shot energy from my index fingertip from 3 feet away that left a burn mark in one of the walls at my first house. All I remember is that my fingertip felt very hot afterwards. I didn't feel that kind of heat coming from my body again until recently when I began seriously meditating. Only now my upper belly feels hot...not painful in the list, but it feels very warm as though I had just had a hot drink. I DO like drinking hot tea, but the warming sensation I get from drinking tea lasts only an hour or so. The warming sensation I get from meditation lasts all day. It's only then that when breathe deeply that I screw up any bit of machinery I come in contact with... Why is this happening?? Am I doing something wrong or different from those of you who have experience with yang qi? Do you have any suggestions for me? Edited--I am not sure whether it makes a difference to mention that I experienced an orgasm during the more recent meditations...

My understanding is that they repel eachother inside the dantien. Outside the dantien they coexist with one another. So maybe there's something in the dantien that causes them to react like that?

Thanks for the advice. I've kept a small diary about it over the last few years but there aren't many entries. There were times when I'd forget how to trigger the power and occasionally I still do. So I guess I'll be writing about it more often to make sure I don't forget.

Here's an excerpt from the book: When we are finished with Level Three, we send our yang down to the hui yin. There it gathers as much yin as we have sent down yang. After a time, maybe even months or years, yin and yang rise together like this. The white circle is the yang and the black the yin. They float around in side the body, and the pain is incredible, constant, unbelievable. Only if you have the discipline to ignore it can you control them and put their power inside your dantien. At that point, they become squeezed together and take this shape, like the t'ai chi symbol. If you are successful by forcing the two together, you also force them to react. Remember, they are not like electrical poles; they do not attract each other, but repel. This is how the spark, the lightning bolt between the two is generated, and you begin to become as I am. And on the next page: "Can you show us what yin and yang are like, individually?" Andreas asked. "Yes. Touch my hand." John extended his arm, and Andreas touched his fingers with his own. John sent a burst of ch'i to his fingertips; immediately Andreas pulled his hand back as it had been burned. I had suffered the same display many times in the past. "Hot isn't it?" John laughed. "So when you demonstrate by setting a newspaper on fire, it's yang ch'i that you send down to it?" "Yes." "And what is the yin ch'i like?" "The yin is passive. It can only follow, never lead. It can absorb energy but never initiate motion. You know the rites where people walk on coals and such things? When people walk on coals, it is yin ch'i that they are using. Sometimes it is the yin of their own bodies, sometimes it is the yin ch'i of spirits. The yin absorbs the yang of the fire." He then proceeds to pass yin onto Kosta and Andreas by touching them. Kosta described the feeling as feeling "full". "I could feel my belly distending and my bladder being squeezed; I wanted to pee. There was no other sensation; no cold, no rush of energy, no electrical discharge, nothing. Just the feeling of fullness." My understanding is that they will always repel each other in the dantien but you can use one (yang) to manipulate the other to get different effects. Both can be passed through touch but only yin can be passed through space like you said.

I have that book too--The Magus of Java. If I understood correctly Yang Qi can easily move through any materials except for insulated & synthetic ones. For example when John levitated in the hotel room he could only rise up a few inches and only for a few moments. Had the floor not been synthetic he'd have risen more or sustained levitation longer. So maybe the effect of Qi can also be contingent on the material it's applied to? I mean that's what I got from reading that part.

I see. I'm now 24. I'm not sure about rebirth, but my family uses some form of energy manipulation. My mom can see the afterlife and know when someone is going to die (although I think she's not fully aware of it), my brother was unusually strong from birth and by the time he was 3 he could move the furniture in the house. I don't know about the rest of my family, though.