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Hi everybody! the aim of this post is to give valuable support for people that started their journey into Chi with Mantak Chia's Book Healing light of the Tao, I'll give few of my advice and I hope that either Healing Tao and non healing tao Teachers could contribute with their knowledge to help me and other out there looking for some help. This is not a topic about Master Chia validity or not. I'm just writing this little review, trying to make it Google friendly in order to help someone like me to crack this big fat book. What I wrote could be annoying for advanced practitioner. Said that, this is a short biography of my last 3years, I have to write it to make some sense : I'm 28 and 3 or 4 Years ago I realize two things : 1) I wasn't happy, nor had inner peace and that sex was sth I was using to cover my "pain body" as tolle would call it; 2) That ejaculating was draining my vital energy. I wanted to know more about it. Looking for a solution for the first, I started Sahaja yoga, a kind of chakra meditation, and the solution for the second was the book Taoist Secrets of Love. I tried to learn the method to have the dry orgasm, but in the middle of the book was written sth like "if you want to get deeper and effective, you must learn first the Microcosmic Orbit", since I wasn't getting nowhere with this book besides becoming more and more guilty about loosing sperm , I started to read Healing light of the Tao. The Sahaja meditation I was doing was not for me, I could feel it, didn't get inner peace nor small benefit, plus I'm a really logic person and I want everything explained. Mantak Chia was my man. I was astonished reading through the Healing light book and the promises about this magical Microcosmic Orbit benefit. I dropped the first meditation and started to practice taoist inner alchemy. I did it for 4 months 20 min at day, but I was not constant and the result was that I never really felt this notorious "Chi", whatever it was. Kind of lost interest and dropped also this practice. ADVICE NUMBER ONE : If you are new to meditation and want a jumpstart...GO VIPASSANA! 2 years ago I heard about Vipassana retreat, 10 days in silence, and around 12h meditation per day. I gave it a try, since in the book The way of the superior man David Deida said that a man to discover his purpose in life should spend at least half and hour in silence...With more than 100h of meditation I just wanted to be sure to find it I guess . Here is where THE MAGIC HAPPENED, on the 5th day I started to clearly feel my Chi, during the meditations, everyone was covered with blankets because of the cold BUT me, I was on fire, I started to feel it more and more, was a great experience. That gave me a purpose in life actually, help people to heal naturally. At the moment I'm specializing in Craniosacral theraphy and on the way to study QiGong Healing. HEADACHES : Once back I thought I could easily get through the Mantak Chia book, was easier but still the learning curve was slow and frustrating. I was actually progressing but had HEADACHES for like 4-5 month, all day (I started to practice seminal retention to increase my energy level), basically the energy was coming up the spine, but since the front channel was all closed was keeping to load in the brain. This is not totally a negative sign, reading in the Taoist Sexual secret is written that all this energy helps soften the cranial bones allowing more energy to flow in from heavenly source. ADVICE NUMBER TWO : Look for GOOD help. Have to say that I tried to search a local Tai Chi Master, I took the class for one year hoping to get more advice, but I got (besides physical benefit) info's that I could read in 10 pages of Chia's book, plus many of the older practitioner there where doing taichi since 4-5 years WITHOUT NEVER FEELING CHI or being acknowledged about the MO, I couldn't afford such a waste of time, I wanted to see benefit now, not in ten years. Also the master was a lot of things but not a master. I got great benefit from my solo practice, with no teacher and no advice, and I tell you was hard, It would have really speed my up to have a toist inner alchemy teacher close by to refer and ask advice and guidance. ADVICE NUMBER THREE : Lee Holden is Mantak Chia 2.0, will help you a great deal. I found out on internet that there was this guy, Lee Holden, who is a senior instructior of the Healing Tao that was having a lot of success selling his products, so I bought Taoist sexual secrets audiocourse and after this one, basically all of themt : Qi for health and healing, qi gong for self healing, posture of power and Healing Sounds. No need to buy all, would be enough to have Qi for health and healing to almost immediately start to have benefit, he basically teaches the Mantak Chia stuff but in a easier way, really smoothly. It's much more easy to close the eyes and follow a guided meditation on the Healing Sounds or the MO than read the 100steps in the Healing Light right?. Plus the guy is really friendly and surprisingly answered me in two email I sent to him. Little ADVICE : Actually to try out with no expenses and check if you like him, do like this : Get an Audible account, they give you a free credit, with this credit you can buy a 8h course "taoist sexual secrets" by Lee Holden. ADVICE NUMBER FOUR : Read Robert Peng's book, The master key. Peng book is awesome, it's a kind of fusion between the Healing Light of the Tao and The power of Now by Edkar Tolle . His system as a totally different approach by Mantak Chia but this is the good thing, they are complementary, while Chia and Lee will focus on the Microcosmic Orbit, Peng focuses on the Three Threasure. Easy to follow, easy to get results. The book speaks for himself. Little ADVICE : if you are planning to buy the video series or the audioseries, go for the video, much better, check from his site or soundstrue, whichever is cheaper. ADVICE NUMBER FIVE : You need a digital recorder. What will speed up your practice with the Healing light of the Tao is to register the single step described in the book and hear them while practicing. ADVICE NUMBER FIVE : Always keep Healing Light of The Tao handy. This book is really really full with precious info's and advice you'll need to know, besides is not easy to digest, you will eventually in a year or two, and I promise you will change your life. ADVICE NUMBER SIX: Cultivate your VIRTUE. Sex helps get the motivation BUT BE AWARE. My initial was not to lose vital energy, but later become not to be anymore slave of sex and masturbation. although one can accomplish the dry orgasm without getting along with the spiritual part of taoism, I would not suggest that. First of all because it could be dangerous to play with fire if you don't know how to handle it, and second because sexual energy has multiplying capability, means that if you have sexual cultivation and you are a person always angry with the liver full of negative energy, you'll be MORE angry. You need to know Inner smile and Healing sounds AT LEAST. ADVICE NUMBER SEVEN: Discover your right diet. The first 100 day to a year of practice, a vegetarian or vegan diet will help detoxify your body, later, you have to find if this diet is still good for you or not. I started vegan, I did my study , read the China Study, and ate properly, the first 6 month to a year I was feeling great, later I began to became skinny and weak. The more meditation I was doing and the more aware of myself I was becoming, the more I felt my spleen was suffering, and that besides the long meditations I was doing, seemed like the energy was always going away. When I started to eat with the taoist approach I realized that I have a COLD CONSTITUTION and since the stomach is the cauldron that should transform the food in a soup at 38C/100F and since the spleen is the fire, eating mostly row, was depleting my spleen from energy, to warm up the cold food. After 2 month change of eating habit was all another story, the energy I was gaining in meditation wasn't leaving me anymore to compensate the unbalances. So, check out the right way for you. Avoid extremes. WHAT I WOULD DO NOW IF I SHOULD START BACK AGAIN : So: I never felt Chi, I have not done much meditation, no good teacher close by and I want to : Learn how to get rid of negative emotions eventually gain inner peace developing my virtue not to be enslaved by my sexual drive heal myself ecc... I would follow this order : Realize what are my motivation, where I am and where I want to be, who I want to became, develop a visualization board as described in "the secret", put in my bedroom and look at it before and after sleep. Will help keep on track. Read The Power of Now book, get very good at being always aware of the present moment. Get to a Vipassana course, if possible. Develop my concentration and breathing. The Heart Rhythm Meditation is great, as well as the book Elizabeth Towne - Just How to Wake the Solar Plexus, that you can find for free. Get the book Healing Light of the Tao by Mantak Chia, and I would read it, but I would do the "warming the stove" practice and "opening the basic MO". There is the need to recharge the inner battery, will take time. Get and read The Master Key by Robert Peng, get the video course and start to practice along with point 4. Get at least The body of Light or Qi for health and healing by Lee Holden if not all of them and start practice along with point 4 and 5, this system is complementary to Peng one. I would not RUSH, because the better the foundation the more the benefits. After a good 6 month to a year of doing point 3 to 6 I would get my digital recorder and start seriously to develop a plan with The Healing Light of The Tao to add the earth force, than cosmic one, than universal love, sexual and finally Heavenly force. BENEFIT I GOT FROM MY PRACTICE : As you understood, I don't have a Taoist teacher and online product are the one for me. I did all by myself and again, wasn't easy, I had most of the detox effect that come from the practice, my determination kept me on track, I had UP and terribly DOWN moment and found out that right after the "down" one I almost always gained a new level of energy or awareness. At the moment I am at point 9 opening to UNIVERSAL LOVE, and guys, IT'S AMAZING. Here are some benefits I gained up to know : I'm not a sex slave, I look at woman in a different way. When I'm aroused, If love take place, I can last as long as I want and without having ejaculation get a LOT of pleasure (Besides I not yet experienced the full body orgasm, need to clean more my MO, and work on my INTENTION POWER.). If making love is not an option, no more blue balls or awake night, because I bring the energy up my spine, and into my navel. Awesome. Gained the famous inner peace, and when life is hard, I can detect and get rid of emotional energy quite fast. I'm grounded, more loving, confident... Got out the Sjogren Syndrome, without medicine...IN YOUR FACE DOCTORS! At the moment my navel is on fire, I have so much energy, but in balanced way. I'm able to move energy at will in my body and in other people, just need to touch them. Since I'm getting so much good energy my Craniosacral skill increased a lot, like having the capability to extend my heart aura to a point to envelop me and the client in order to have a more effective treatment. Also gave orgasm to a couple of woman I was treating, which was really funny (but I was able to keep being centered and not to take advantage of the situation because I'm not a slave anymore, and I connected the heart(love) with the sexual energy(arousal ) Able to absorb energy from everywhere, like nature, air, earth, food, ecc.. LAST ADVICE : REALLY IMPORTANT, LEARN HOW TO GROUND PROPERLY I didn't do the step as listed above and have to admit that my Healing Light book was developing some dust, I stopped with the book at the Basic MO practice, because I was super happy about the great deal of benefit and energy that I was loading thanks to Robert Peng and Lee Holden. When, a couple of month ago, I started to feel almost STONED, my head like exploding and for the first time since I started the practice I WAS AFRAID I couldn't handle that amount of energy, and I wandered if was the case to stop. But the answer was in the fact that I needed good foundations, basically I needed to LEARN HOW TO GROUND PROPERLY, so, I got back to the Healing Light of the Tao and following the seven step properly again, dedicating at least 2-3 weeks at each poing, most of all the part related with THE EARTH ENERGY. As soon as I learnt how to get the yin earthy energy all the problems left me, I was basically accumulating too much yand energy. Hope you'll find it helpful, if you need some question I'll try to answer related to my level, maybe some Teacher or more advanced practictioner will drop by, since I have questions too Enjoy the weekend taobuddies! PS= excuse my english mistakes. Wailonx