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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trataka Trataka (in Sanskrit, n., त्राटक, trāṭaka, to look, or to gaze) is the practice of staring at some external object. It is used in yoga as a way of developing concentration, strengthening the eyes, and stimulating the Ajna chakra. In its first stage, the practitioner fixes his attention on a symbol or yantra, such as the Om symbol, a black dot, or the image of some deity, and stares at it, paying attention to each thought and feeling as it arises, and letting them go, so that the mind is completely absorbed in the symbol. The practice continues until the eyes begin to water, at which point they are closed, and relaxed. The second stage is staring at a candle flame. The practice is the same up until the eyes begin to water, after which the eyes are closed, and the yogi tries to concentrate on the after image, and hold it for as long as possible. At first, it will be a real after-image, but later, it will exist only in the mind's eye, and the exercise in concentration comes from trying to maintain it there for a long period of time. Trataka is supposedly the technique which sadhakas use to develop psychic powers. Trataka on the Sun or one's own mirror image is considered to be extremely powerful, but without a guru's assistance it can be dangerous to try these.

No fusing, I drill a pilot hole, put it on a mandril and hammer away, expanding the pilot into the center and turning the hole inside out. After just a few minutes my focal point shrinks and a rhythm forms; completely entrancing!

In rereading my last post i want to make a distinction (without editing and re editing) in the opening aspects. sometimes "movement" is more appropriate to open a center than stillness, and neigung is based in stillness. I have encountered students with very limited ranges of motion that when encountering standing meditation find it difficult because of inhibition in areas of injury. What i've done is explain to them that in stillness is motion, and by slowly following their pain, their inhibition, they also follow the pathway to freedom. I induce a small amount of natural motion into the area via their own passive tendencies. Once this is underway normal practice will keep opening up the area. Sometimes it is in stillness that one finds the physical or spiritual answers that they are looking for, other times it is in motion that everything falls into place. i hope this helps. good training to you.

Like me. Raw and unfinished, the more you work on it the less that gets done. ;o) These are made out of a quarter, each one seems to get a little more "finished" look, and thanks for looking.

Another thing that makes visulization strong is emotion passion or love. For instance it is very easy to imagine someone you love when you miss them. When learning forms I sometimes get mental snapshots and visualize them later. The neat thing about the minds ability to visualize is the imagination is not limited to the six senses. You are free to be as detailed as you wish.

It is where they meet in which it manifests. The 8 pointed stars relationship to pi. It is neither inside nor outside. Peace to your practice. DS

h, Your description is accurate, and that is exactly what it was for me as a young practitioner, i did not experience the inner light of transmission for another 8-10 years.

Candle Gazing aka Scrying Da Liu wrote some good pieces on it.

"how does the specific neigong energy interact with the body's own bioenergy? it seems that they do to a certain extent, as training seems to ease and even heal some ailments, however the process is still fuzzy, because you'll get improvement in some parts, and no response in others. hmm." This has to do with clearing and tuning the meridians so the tissue related to the ailments can receive the energy you are cultivating with practice. Although a specific practice, i.e. "abdominal breathing" will change the state of the bodies chi, area's of specific ailment will need to be treated as well with rest, direct manipulation, tui na, herbs, linaments, etc. From my perspective it's important to have a system that compliments that natural processes of the body and doesn't overly mystify the experience, that is why good practice is about tuning! It's about amplifying the natural physical processes, not just tuning into some mystery energy source somewhere under your feet, but realizing wuji, and experiencing stress relief on a daily basis instead of letting it build up into "dis-ease" ... the system that i was introduced to when i was a teen does this, at the time i was very strong anyways, so it helped me smooth out my chi and comb and cultivate it, as i've grown older (i'm 36) i recognize very similar sets of experiences with but now can bring about much more cultivated outcomes to a variety of "stimulus" "regarding that, if the neigong energy does interact fully with the bioenergy, would it primarely focus on repairing physical damage? that will explain why more aged practitioners, as well as the ones that have (minor) health problems, take longer to FILL the center. " neigung will both open and fill. part of good alignment and posture is to uninhibite the bodies natural stress responses, when this occurs in conjunction with proper breathing, the chi is cultivated through your breath, the more you practice, the smoother the chi, like turning pebbles to sand and sand to dust. The centers fill naturally as we move about eat and breath and the sun and moon take their course. What practice does is speed this spinning process up. This is shaping the wave of chi and you are breathing it in and out with each and every breath. Good practice will change the way you perceive your breath on a daily minute by minute basis, and stress will literally MELT off of you one breath at a time when these sensations occur. Often times during the day when i'm not "practicing" i will get the sensation of every single hair on my body pointing in a single direction when i breath in, and changing direction when i exhale. Chi Gung is an art of feeling. It is difficult to put into words.

Every hundredth monkey my friend, every hundredth monkey. Every generation has it's greats, both known, and unknown. The condition of humanity is such.

Meditations Today:

As you are drifting off to sleep and waking up, these are natural transition areas of the mind for enhanced visualization. Spending some time in your routine devoted to meditation will enhance these states naturally. Specifically creative problem solving is a cinch as the conscious and subconscious blend and allow unprecedented solutions to perceived obstacles to manifest in your life.

It's a very good sign, it's not a bad smell right? I ionize the air in the rooms I practice in all the time, makes it smell sweet almost like ozone, sometimes other fragrance are there as well. Flowers or mineral and metal smells, it's an interesting phenomenon.

"Diana's Bath"

Grounding Wire. Good idea. Reminded of sitting on a hotplate full of stones in the am frost.

Technology eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way that Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World. It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible, and therefore irrelevant.

Ain't that the truth!

Single Point Exercises -Thumb Tack Drill: How long does it take for the wall to disapear from your peripheral focus after fixing your gaze on the center of a thumbtack. Pushing the thumbtack in at the onset. -Hanging the Weight: holding a one to two lb barbell weight from wuji in such a manner as to hang the weight through it's hole into the upper corner of the room. Suspending your thought on the manner in which you expend effort on such a small matter. -WuJi: suspend the weight of the body Dissolve sensation of effort. Relaxed Poised Active State of Waking Rest

Usually when you wake up in the morning with a pup tent there may be some pre sleep 'rises' in awareness preceding, use this opportunity to breath into your energy centers and let go into deeper levels of whole body consciousness. What you are experiencing is a state of mind awake body asleep. You will find natural windows of harmony in your life that precede other conduits or conditions. Opportunity is around every corner. The use of the mind in new facility accompanies I creases in energy levels.

It's halfway there looking at Midas storing the pot at the end of the rainbow, who coins in the pot mr greenman, retention asside, natural energetic empathic imprints leave psychic impressions which the other half of our race are keenly attuned to. I've stood next to unbelievably 'charming' girls who can very empathicly 'tell' when my 'attention' is elsewhere. Although I use inflammatory language towards sexualizing women in pornography I make distinguishing remarks towards the. Titivation of attention. Long live Ron Jeremy the Bum

Imagine this as a day, wake up (in the remo williams house gym of your choice) eat, train a private, teach a group class, eat brunch, teach or train or both. Change. Eat lunch. Teach a kids class. Shower. Go work a night shift in either a strip club or a night club and practice for another 8 hours straight "real time", eat, sleep, repeat 4-6 days a week for 5 years, "lifestyles" which direct the attention into the task at "hand" jump start circulations with good training, pleasent exhaustions; still riding circulating every waking moment into empty moments of crazy times with sometimes unimaginable people in completely outlandish circumstances. Fact is stranger than fiction! I would rather be ready for her when that bitch shows up, and believe me she shows up.

I don't think you can approach Samadhi and be looking at porn for two hours a day. Its a logistical impossibility. Disassociation of emotional meaning is not enlightenment, there's another name, attachment disorder. Sociopathy. You seem to feel strongly in justifying your daily actions as meditation, just as the primetme tv public justifies meditating on murder, if you were close to liberation a compassion would shine, but what I see is a formula for satisfying your desires to complacency. I'd be more impressed if you told me you ate breakfast at a strip club every day at 7am, and then sat quietly under George Washingtons apple tree waiting to give ol' Martha a squeeze. The most sensual experiences life occur with us as the primarly experienced. Sensualness is cultivated when experienced in the first person, exchange of the polarities occurs with all the people around us; isolating the attention cone into a 60hz field and drawing is not optimal in the freque cy spectrum seance either. Your missing the key elements on how to transition your whole life into one big french porno. Editing in pro

After all that I hope it's easy!