Spectrum

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  1. If you've cycled rifined sugar or other refined carbs out of your diet there can be an adjustment period where you feel hungry after full meals. try drinking essentia bottled water its structured and is ph adjusted.
  2. Your on the right track. Keep practicing and eat the best quality food you can get. Combinations and Variety to diet is key. Fill your belly with bomb fuel and keep practicing.
  3. I was under the impression that to sit and forget is to experience emptiness. It is a matter of vernacular no?
  4. Zhan Zhuang

    Experiment.
  5. working with the abdomen

    Japhy- I notice when I focus on pressing the belly button outward on the exhale this internal shortening of the soas is relieved. I do this in a variety of situations. Experiment. Try easy.
  6. "I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em zen lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures...'" Follow more highly periodic micro weather system extremes to follow. follow to extremes system weather micro periodic higher more follow.
  7. Zhan Zhuang

    Omgenius form of exercise.
  8. Kunlun Portland 2008

    When and where is the Portland Kunlun Afterglow meet going to be?
  9. i think i found Li Jiong's school

    cool another trinity posture. left hand looks high, finger goes to point under nose or lower lip.
  10. Winning Browie Points

    how do you save money in the bank? conserve when you feel justified enough to spend it all preserve the peace of ground under your own two feet
  11. Thanks Drew Must be Raining Phosphenes Its important to note that Synthenasia is not just experienced visually, but can blend any sense into another. What is it to experience all sensations at once? What is it to experience no sensation at all? Star through a ceiling or similar fan and practice getting the double image to speed up or slow down with intent.
  12. Zhan Zhuang

    Arn't these call Jongs and are for conditioning the tendons connection to bones and muscles? second part of the internal classic I think? I seem to remember once the form is learned these is normal progress. I do same. squats, plank, iron buffalo, dips, inversions, general body weight schema I use self acupressure in tandom while standing, and associate these points into practice as indicators of larger patterns that need addressed. The goal of every practice is to even out all the parts into a smoothly suspended "sung"... a connective whole, doing work as a whole. As long as pain is localized sung is elusive, as soon as deeper levels of relaxation allow the dan tien to take over as the power center, movement however small produces a balanced sensation of dynamically shifting compression and tension. the goal of pile standing is to fuse the pain pleasure response into a dynamically shifting release of S T R E S S. Perhaps this is why crying and laughing can be experienced back to back.
  13. If this was a short while ago, within a year, you should probably ignore them (wave/light phenomenon) for now and keep practicing quiet observation, after a while you can associate internal/external states with what you are percieving through the "senses", this can happen faster when you are directly present with a teacher or group as subjective experience can align with objective social fabric. That way la la land aligns with reality, and the natural gaps and seems are backfilled with practice. These practices produce the opposite of falling apart, rather you fall together. Speaking specifically general, along these waves and points various schools fork paths on how to proceed. On a generally specific plane it might be wise to seek natural settings or still quiet, to find safe footing for a another step.
  14. Kunlun Portland 2008

    From any of the attendant forumites; does Kunlun practice Universal Post ie Wuji?
  15. Doing favors

    favors don't seek any return love see no color
  16. Zhan Zhuang

    I practice both. Its my opinion that practicing while motivating your movement w/ chi, you get a quicker feeling for sensationless feelings in stillness and the still flight of complete movement. Da Liu addresses this in one of his books "Tai Chi Chuan & Meditation" where he coincides the changes of the I-ching to the energy changes of the body during taijiquan. His descriptions include relating the three burners to the yin yang changes of the b ody during micro cosmic and macro cosmic orbits. I believe he describes the micro cosmic under the pretense of standing in wuji, likewise, he describes the macro cosmic orbit in relationship to the moving forms. His descriptions lend some fine rhyme and reason to even some of the preliminary sensations of heat/blood movement from leg to leg, legs to core, core to limbs, etc.
  17. Winning Browie Points

    kinda like groundhogs day mindfulness of life's lessons
  18. Kunlun Portland 2008

    I thought this was October 17th?
  19. //

    Gold fish don't get to choose the bowl their swimming in. Humans are a bit different.
  20. Muscle work

    Paradoxes of Internal Training Come Up & Down Body weight exercises to warmup are best for baseline. Isolation exercises make break one part apart from the whole. Internal exercises focus on integrating the whole structure.
  21. getting paralyzed from chi kung?

    It's all about the girls though...
  22. Esoteric Chi Gung

    Fun Stuff. Noticed Wuji as centralized connective posture brings wudang style into perspective as a manifestation of the taiji principles of 4 part interchange. Beautiful Classical Postures and Transitions. Principles of movement which work fast or slow. MTpzJ9Go3n8&NR Embodiment Spontaneous Movements Filtered Through Bodily Consideration Blends Empty Space w/ Times Fullest Dialog Daoga Esoteric Qigong interesting circuits, continuous transitions using wuji as central pivot, classically inspired postures by virtue of wuji (not a style) Y8O3N1OzudU Animals : Bear Play 1:18 hlG95T2KZJo Note Major Facial Assymetry @ 4:44
  23. man of principle

    "Art of Peach" by Ushieba