RiverSnake

Lovely screen name. Welcome to TTB.

There are many kinds of addictions....drugs and feelings of love and attachment are among the most powerful and destructive. She is addicted to chemicals that create a certain affect on her mind and emotions. This is not much different from you being addicted to the emotions her companionship creates in you. Your both addicted, recognize this.

Spring Forest also has many awesome Qigong exercises that help circulate chi for free on youtube.

I agree with Karen's sentiment. Don't walk.....but run your ass out of this situation. Run like your house is on fire and the roof is about to collapse on you. Your too close to the situation to be of any help to her at all. Furthermore the fact that your drawn to women like this means that there is an aspect of your energy body that is blocked and causing you to be drawn to this kind of women with self-destructive tendencies. This means your part of the problem that is enabling her and need to tend to your own internal garden. Unconditional Love is detached and self-less. Unconditional love is liberating and empowering. Unconditional love would remove it's self from this situation and allow her to process these life lessons on her own terms, even if that means she dies and has to learn it again next time around. That's Unconditional Love....it's detached, understanding, and completely brutal. Most people don't quit drugs and learn until there on the street giving hand jobs for crack (rock bottom) or they get killed. Don't just leave the house, leave the state or country and don't turn back.

Welcome to TTB.

Mercury Retrograde

"There are those like Norfolk who follow me because I wear the crown; and those like Master Cromwell who follow me because they are jackals with sharp teeth and I'm their tiger; there's a mass that follows me because it follows anything that moves. And then there's you..." A Man for All Seasons

A lot of people don't like Donald Trump, as he represents the worst of what America has to offer. But my experience is that he is simply an external manifestation of cultural blockages that the U.S. is working through. Whenever there is drama on TTBs i see it in that same light. Drama is a manifestation of blockages that were are struggling to process. Keeping up ones cultivation and looking deep within to see what subtle energies are causing this obstruction in the flow and cleansing ourselves of them is key.

Martial Arts Madness by Glenn Morris :)

Low Jing definitely. Karezza is excellent and keep practicing the Qigong motions as there taught. Systems of qigong are put together in specific ways to trigger certain types of flows of energy in the body which are beneficial to cultivation. Free flowing is fine, but do it outside of your normal Qigong practice.

Viator was and is such a lovely chap. Many thanks for his knowledge, presence and service. Unfortunately i do detect an undercurrent of sour apples in this posting.

Welcome to TTB. Practicing Qigong is one of the best ways to understand the Tao. Cheers.

Welcome to TTB. There is actually a whole section here dedicated to women's practice. You can request the forum to join.

Your correct that sometimes a "group mind" can come along with a practice and Falun definitely has some dark shadows. No matter how enlightened an individual is, they can still have issues that there not dealing with and fall like an anvil from there Ivory tower. If you can develop a balanced and healthy friendship with a teacher, then thats great, if not it can be helpful to just take the technique and go. Here's a list of systems: 1. Stillness Movement 2. Spring Forest Qigong 3. Yigong by Jenny Lamb 4. Flying Phoenix Qigong Call it an intuition....but for some reason i think you'd like Flying Phoenix Qigong. Cheers.

Welcome to TTB.

Welcome to TTB.

Interesting discussion on diet.

Lovely pic. Welcome to TTB.

Emptiness can be quite scary at first.....but it grows on you after awhile.

I dig the humor. Welcome to TTB.

Sorry, but no spoon feeding, gotta go on that adventure yourself.

Useful: https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Healing-Survival-Magicians-Healers/dp/1940671434/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1472134057&sr=1-3&keywords=Magicians+health

Yes, dude was a drug addict.....also yes magick done in an imbalanced way can cause any number of "life problems". That being said, if done skillfully, Magick can help make your life an amazing abode of Bliss and Joy.

Nice circle jerk you guys got going on over here.