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Hi Ryan! I have three or four blisters on my left foot at the moment, each from a different pair of sandals, and NONE on my right foot. I have noticed that my right side leads the way and my left pads along peacefully in time. I have to keep working on balancing my left and right. But my right side doesnt want to delegate! I'm usng protective padding on them and hypercal cream, which is made by Nelsons - "It combines natural healing properties of Calendula and pain relieving properties of Hypericum. A topical herbal remedy, traditionally used in the symptomatic treatment of cuts and grazes." and himalayan salt in my bath! Let us know what works for you!

Someone here linked to a video of someone doing this stuff, on youtube. Very fast, somewhat surreal! I'm sorry I cant recall who posted the link/what thread it was in, but if you do a youtube search, you may be lucky and find it.

People here do different practises, have different aims, and are at very varying levels of experience,as you have noticed. You'd probably find out more by just reading the many threads, than in this survey. Embodiment rather than sloganising or self advertising is one of the keys here, I venture.

horribly true!

<---------- for Yoda! yep, all the conscious attempts to deny ego are a far cry from the laughing buddha, because the bliss is abundant and flowing through him. he's literally out of his head. I liked the MWinn response to LOA, which I read thanks to this thread, which says how visualisation is limited, and to use your whole energy body. Which really underlined what I found was happening anyway, that if I imagined something wonderful had happened to me and my family -in a LOA visulisation way - then I flipped into energy body bliss, a spontaneous and untiring smile arose, and it was undistinguishable from meditating. ( although I dont quite know, practically, how I'd use my whole energy body consciously in this process. Mine just joined in for the feelgood factor.) It was partly this experience, and then listening to Esther with those experiences under my belt, that made me hear her as a buddhist teacher without her formally naming it. Focusing on the good feeling I would be living, when I got my desires met, flipped me into a laughing buddha state, energetically. It's like it took me straight to the soul's purpose of it, without going through the physical process of it. ( yet. I still dont have my hot tub... but of course, I aint focussing on that, I'm happy in the process.. )

Ok, I will look you up. Have fun!

Yes. Thankyou Yoda. I agree and I think you articulated it very well. You get what you are, untill you become something else. That's the LOA. So funny, I asked the other day, ( in a LOA way ) to meet some male energy who knows who I am in some significant way, and would give me some positive strokes. Later that week I dived into a clothes shop to avoid an old tutor of mine from Uni who was always kindly but cantankerously interested in me, amazingly he was in my local shopping centre, even though he lives in a different country these days. It made me laugh. I gave too broad a brief, I guess. I recall reading about a buddhist training in which the adept is given a task of manifesting a god. This well may take years. When they return to their teacher to show that after years of focus and devotion they have manifested the god, they are given a god of a higher vibration to go manifest, and so on and so and so on, untill they realise that all gods are merely manifestation of projection and desire. and if gods are that, then so is everything else..

I was lucky to do a workshop with Ken when he came to England. He seemed to me to be the closes I've ever come close to a true androgyne. His energy transmission was so soft. And he was so amusing and erudite. I'd love to be able to work with him more. Do you go to Colorado to do it? How is it going?

I'd really be interested to know what Yoda thinks about Abraham, and the question of "what if abraham is mistaken?" I've been watching some Abraham videos lately, got intrigued by Esther in the film of The Secret. I guess at the moment, it looks to me like what esther says, ultimately, is a very very intelligent ( ie palatable to this culture )way of drawing people onto a spiritual path of bliss and being in the moment.

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I noticed the dramatic shiift in my dream life, when I began practising. Prior to that I had a dream diary and studied dreams and had a therapist with whom I worked on my dreams. Once I started doing qi gong. boof! no dreams. I dream a handful of times a year now, usually abut moving into a bigger space!

I'm sorry you are having problems with this point. Maybe it is because I'm a woman it never was an issue for me. Like Burgs said. It's unmistakable. All of these things are. Like falling in Love! Something Spectrum said - " If your practice does not allow you to open specific points as of yet then you must continue to thread the coins from the beggining again and again until your ready to progress. " rings absolutely simply true to me.

ha ha ha, excellent.

I think there are some 'traditional' signs of the dt 'evolving' or 'getting full' and they are warmth in the abdomen, movement of energy in the abdomen. those are physical signs. say, for example, when the dt is full of chi it is simple as falling off a log, to meditate. best chi is refined chi. experiment and find what you like/need/enjoy. It's an ice cream parlour. Find your favourite flavour. Then ask yourself, can I tell I ate it? Tune in.

Hi. No problems at all, I dont feel attacked. I know everything you said already, of course. It is all very familiar. It's building block stuff of spiritual awareness. I feel I have gone the opposite direction from you. I had the awareness of no self, intuitively. I have it, as part of my being. Nothing I said contradicts that. Many of your assumptons about my sexual responses are false. You link desire with feeling 'sexual' energy. I dont link those two things. Your response to me posits dualisms which I simply dont feel. I am not at the stage of needing to distance myself from physical reality, or intellectualise about it. I dont feel the need to emphasise that "I" is a construct. I guess this really does point out to me that I have been alive quite a while now. edited 5 years later to add.... been alive a bit longer now and have a deeper understanding of others doing precisely what is outlined by aiwei. Have no real idea how I managed to escape this common trap. can only be karma. My energy is more refined today than it was 5 years ago and I 'm as happy with my current state as I was with my state then. An attractive man will no longer make me feel on fire. I just may notice, or not, and ..like... whatever.. I'm much more neutral.

Gosh. I dont like this attitude of control at all. But then, I'm a woman. I feel the ebb and flow of sexual feelings in my body and welcome and enjoy them, and they arent specifically related to the opposite sex or the act of sex or erotic thoughts or attractions. I'm a sexual being. I love it. The energy is a wonderful pulse. It IS a natural thing. And if I feel on fire from looking at a beautiful man, that's a pleasure of life I can savour as I do a hot cup of tea or the smell of roses. Isnt it possible to revel in the Big Draw as an accentuation of one's sexual response to life? edited, 2012 to add Ai Wei is a very wise sage.For myself I didnt have to work on 'control' to move forward, it happened as a result of life practice. Ironically, seeing others pulled around like puppets on a string by their fiery sexual desires really really helped me to let go of it, to see through it as distraction. Probably be back in 2017 with yet more commentary..

I can do The Big Draw and have sex as long as I like. I dont have a penis though.

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what happens if you just gently place your awareness there and breath in and out through it? try it daily for twenty mins.

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I have such a stubborn wart virus living on my right palm. If I get rid of one manifestation of it, it pops up somewhere else on my hand. Any ideas how to get it to go live elsewhere?