Heart opening exercice

[nickyro]

Hello!

I would like to share a new technique I use to open a very important blockage in the heart area and front channel.

Symptoms after a few days of cultivation:

-Irritability,

-Accumulation of stagnant energy on the chest area, impossibility to move it with the mind.

-Inability to use front channel but back channel seems ok,

-Instant overload with practices like AYP which doesnt use front channel,

-Accute/blockage precise pain in the heart while doing energy circulation like MCO.

-Inability to enter Silence , meditation or bliss when the blockage is still here.

 

These symptoms caused the end of my cultivation, I had to treat the jing/chi stagnation by ejaculating more than one time (one time doesnt drain enough energy from area above the pelvis). It was a failure.

 

First, here is my background, I practice internal alchemy (taoism and indian yoga) and my routine is something like this:

Cool draw and MCO circulation

Normal Abdominal Breathing

Anapanasati

 

My diet is now Sattvic because meat or tamasic food cause the blockage to appear ealier in the cultivation of energy.

 

 

Techniques I tried and didn't work to relieve the blockage:

-Vipassana and mobile body awarness in the blocked area.

-Anapanasati

-Alternate breathing (Nadi shoddana pranayama)

-Using the front channel

-Walking and concentration on foot, ground/earth.

many many more.

 

Technique which worked:

-Ustrasana (asana which open the heart area)

WHILE doing

-Nine bottled-wind type pranayama(from Bodri's book) (a kumbaka holded till we cannot anymore) I do it only 3 times and not 9.

 

It creates a huge flow of energy in the front channel and relieves the heart and I can cultivate energy again without overload/symptoms.

 

 

I would like more advanced people to comment on the technique. Bodri says it is awakening YANG CHI (kundalini), I heard it was not very wanted since I consider myself a newbie on the path (lots of blockages, no silence etc...).

And if I am moving this YANG CHI up the front channel is it dangerous? It doesnt seems what taoism teach.

 

Thank you

 

[johndoe2012]

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Edited August 18, 2013 by chris d

[Seeker of Wisdom]

Maybe try http://thetaobums.com/topic/25763-zhunti-mantra/.

 

I take the approach of only doing a little chi work, to help speed things along. I put much more attention into shamatha (through anapana) and virtue (metta bhavana helps).

 

Mental development naturally dissolves blocks and releases chi - in the right places, at the right time.

 

Also, only mental development is capable of opening all the tiny channels efficiently - if we try to direct chi into them, most of the chi will just take the path of least resistance through the wider channels around it.

 

And let's not forget, why are we doing this? Enlightenment. Having great chi doesn't reveal Tao to you, it just gives you a good foundation. You need prajna, and to get good prajna you need shamatha and virtue.

 

So I would suggest actually doing LESS with your chi, instead focusing more on anapana, trying the Zhunti mantra and metta bhavana. I recommend getting 'The Attention Revolution' by Alan Wallace, as a guide to shamatha and anapana.

 

I do under 15 mins of chi practices, which don't involve trying to direct the chi: horse stance, nadi shodana pranayama and surya namaskar. I have chi clearing up much faster than when I tried to manage the process.

 

As for AYP, stay away man! http://thetaobums.com/topic/25632-a-review-of-ayp-from-an-ex-practitioner/

Edited April 4, 2013 by Seeker of the Self

[z00se]

I think the pain you are feeling is the pressure that is being used to unblock the blockage. If you continue practice the blockage will resolve it's self, you will only need to put up with the pain for a few days. There are so many techniques you have listed that i have not even heard of, i'm sure they are all very good, yet for you to practice so many at an early stage means too much mind activity. Go with one you like best and continue on that path, don't always switch and change, they will all reach the same goal.

 

That is the best advice you would ever be given i feel, since every path has it's ways to overcome the weaknesses and obstacles of that path, is to follow the path you like best and keep to it until you can deicde for yourself what you should do and you don't need to ask others opinions. The need to ask others implies you don't know, when you know you will be on the home run.