ChiDragon

As a rule of thumb for all breathing exercises.... At the initialize position: One starts with the body in a relaxed position and exhale most of the air out. The movement should be coordinated with the breathing and vice versa. That said, one should start inhale as soon one moves the hands upward. When the hands reached to its peak position, that is where the inhalation stops. As soon the hands are going down, that is where the exhalation starts. Until the hands reach the lowest position, that is where the exhalation ends. There should be, only, a short pause in breathing between the time when the hands change position going toward the opposite position. For other words, breathing stops when the movement stops. Resume breathing when the movement starts again. One should never hold the breath while the body is in motion. If one moves slow, then the breathing is slow. The breath should go as deep as possible. The realm is to have the breath reach deep down to the lower dan tian. However, one should never force the breath down to the LDT. It will happen one day after a long period of diligent practice.

In that case, you may assist yourself to see through the illusion of mental formations.

Is "Amoghasiddhi Buddha of the North" one of your illusion of mental formations.....???

"my own plain self" is not a label. It is only a dscription of what you are as an unkown individual.

..........Then you are just your own plain self of what you are.

A name is to label what it is. A name is to describe what one is or believes in. One's action shall reflect what one believes in. For example, if one label oneself as a Taoist, then one will act like a Taoist by following the principles of Tao. A Taoist was an ordinary person before a label was atteched.

Yes, I think you had indicated that you are not into any kind of cultivation. At the present, I am slowly sinking into the cultivation as a semi-Taoist. A semi-Taoist simply means that I am not into the Tao religion but only follow the principles of Tao. It seems to me in the cultivation of the mind is not so boring but fascinating. My mind has been freed with less desire and resentment. Most of the time, sentiment is no longer a serious issue. That said, I think I have just added more commitment to my cultivation. Now, I would be feeling guilty if I don't carry on with it.

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........then life would be too simple.

Okay, 5' 6", when you get up, it is quite a distance change for your head to move up from the couch. As soon you stood up, the blood will try to rush to your head due to the drastic change in pressure. Thus your brain will act up because it cannot handle all the blood that was moving to the head all the sudden. You will resume normal after the pressure is stabilized. It is similar to an altitude sickness but in a short time as in your case. To avoid this from happening again, next time when you get up just do it slowly so the pressure won't change so drastically.

You must be a very tall guy, am I correct....???

This is exactly what the OP is all about. Cultivate one's mind is to be resolute and attentive, to be independent and not reliant on anything outside after getting oneself educated. Getting all the true facts stored in one's mind and use them as baseline to evaluate and compare with all the external confusing sources for assurance. Indeed, we want a cultivated mind to be invincible.

Good, congratulations, the proper way for breathing is to breathe deep, slow and long. The rhythm is inhale-exhale, inhale-exhale, inhale-exhale.....and continuous. This is where you had disrupted the rhythm in your breathing. Here is where you have made the mistake by inhale, excessively, which cause too much oxygen rushing to your head. Unfortunately, your brain cannot handle that much oxygen all the sudden. Normally, people will be very uncomfortable in the chest and feeling dizzy or lightheaded. In your case, you'd felt like your head is spinning. You should have control of your breathing, at all times, by breathing deep, slow and long; and never try to change the rhythm such as inhale-exhale, inhale-exhale, inhale-exhale.....and continuous. The duration of inhalation and exhalation should be the same to keep the oxygen/carbon dioxide ratio constant. So, your body won't get confuse.

Felcor... I believe I have detected your breathing problem. I have other business to attend right now. I will elaborate with more details later.

rainbowvein.... Nice nick btw..... I only go with one definition when involve with breathing, 氣沈丹田, chi sunken to the dan tian. In modern language, the breath has reached down deep to the abdomen which is known as the "abdominal breathing". That's all one needs to know about Chi Kung. All the other things had learnt are cosmetics. As soon as one has attained this condition, it was considered to be that one has attained the realm of Chi Kung. Hereinafter, one shall perform abdominal breathing as one's normal breathing.

For those who practice breathing, I always ask the same question to determine their level of accomplishment. Please answer these two questions: How deep is your breath when inhale....??? Did you breathe slowly or fast.....???

I don't think so. Bagua will make you a good fighter but not intentional to be a scholar.

Where does Wang Bi says that "straw dog" were interpreted as "straw" and "dog".......???

You guys are really getting very boring.......

I don't think that was his original interpretation, not from a native like him. It must be a misinterpretation and mistranslation from a non-native speaker. I would like to see his native original document saying it, rather than reading it from a translation in another language. Can you cite that source....???

Daeluin.... Thank you for not being evasive, defensive, or offensive but impartial and persuasive.

#1 Yes, you can use the Deep Abdominal Breathing technique all out during the day. This is the technique that you want to accomplish in Qi Qong. As soon you can have the breath reached the abdomen, then, do it as your normal way in breathing. I had emphasized that in many of my posts about breathing. Indeed, I am doing abdominal breathing as I'm typing at the moment. I only do it when I am awake. I don't do that, at bed time, to prevent insomnia due to over energizing my blood circulation. #2 I know there is one ,and only one, proper way to breathe is down deep into the abdomen(LDT). This is what the Chinese Taoists tried to accomplish by practicing Qi Gong. This is a big fallacy on your part: "I started it completely wrong by mostly or totally breathing into the belling. Ending up with very lose stomach muscles that overall screwed up my organ pressuring. Breathing into the sides, and especially creating a very slight bulging outwards towards sides and back is completely new to my mind." It is impossible to breathe into the sides. Your abdomen may expand outward during deep breathing; but it was not considered to be breathing into the sides.

I have been hesitated to click on the "like" button of the above post to avoid some uncomfortable feelings on the part of others. However, it is just utterly persuasive that the cultivation of the mind which taken effect in this thread. IMO It has met all the criteria of:

I believe the temple style was referring to the style that the Taoists are practiced in the temple of Mountain Wudang.

The term "negative" is an universal term. Each field has its own definition and meaning. As long as one stays within the definition in the field of interest, then, everything will be fine.