Harvesting Energy

[Jessup2]

Hello All,

I am interested in sharing a few quick methods for harvesting some extra energy when you need it. Please feel free to add your own!

 

Here's a starter:

Rolling on the ground. Simply stretch out your arms and legs and roll yourself parallel to the ground, outside, open ground, mountain is best, better than water or sea. There are also laying down Tai Chi practices of course.

 

Scientific testing proved that just Qigong breathing alone increases and changes things. I have the link someplace...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9051169

Breathing is primarily involuntary and generated for metabolic and homeostatic purposes in the brainstem. However, changes in breathing can be voluntary or altered by various environmental stimuli. Therefore, breathing is categorized as either metabolic or behavioral. Breathing that changes during various emotions is a subcategory of behavioral breathing due to the strong connection it has with emotion and behavior. The limbic system, located in the medio-temporal lobe of the brain, is the center that governs emotion.

 

[Jessup2]

Recapitulation? Any forms of this in Dao?

Recapitulation is a core Toltec technique used to heal emotional charges. On a deeper level, it is used to reclaim energy and return it to self.

 

One purpose of recapitulation is to eliminate emotional charges. Emotional charges cause one to misperceive the world around them and make it impossible to perceive the Nagual with clarity. For example, if a young girl is relentlessly teased about her curly hair by her father, she may become emotionally charged. Later, when she is a adult, whenever someone compliments her, particularly her hair, she becomes angry. She may not know why compliments cause her to get angry as she doesn’t remember how her father used to tease her as a young child. What is worse is that she misperceives another person’s good intent, i.e. giving her a compliment, as teasing her about her looks. This misperception causes upset both in her life and other people in it.

The average person is full of emotional charges, many that they are not aware of as they were suppressed as painful memories during childhood. This causes the average person to misperceive the world and the people in it. Systematic recapitulation decharges emotions and frees one up to perceive the world clearly. Recapitulation releases negative emotions that are trapped in one’s subconscious freeing up their life. Many people have a habitually negative emotional state, or are moody for reasons they do not know why. More times than not, the reason lies in the suppressed emotional charges that lie in their subconscious.

On a deeper level, recapitulation is used to reclaim one’s energy. Everywhere one has lived they leave an energetic piece of themselves. In every person you interact with you live energetic cords or filaments that, unless reclaimed back to self drain you of your vital energy. This is particularly true of sexual encounters. Through the consistent use of recapitulation you restore the vital energy necessary to progress on a spiritual path. Most do not realize how much energy is required to break free...

http://toltecnagual.com/toltec-tools/the-recapitulation

 

The theory of recapitulation is simple. Every interaction you have had with other people in your life has tied up personal energy.  Each memory you have requires energy to keep it alive and maintain the emotions you have about the encounter.You will be surprised after doing even a partial recapitulation at how much energy it was taking on a daily basis to keep those things from the past alive in the present.  Shamans know, or have seen, that we as human beings do not have an infinite amount of personal energy.  

 

The physical process is simple and is as follows: You can make a list - of people, experiences, life events - and follow it, not a bad idea actually, or pick a time period of your life that you are going to recap.  The technique is very simple.  Begin by arranging some time that you won't likely be disturbed.  You will need a space that compresses your energy.  A closet would do, or even putting a heavy blanket over you will work as well.  Quiet your mind and relax, setting the intent to retrieve your energy trapped in your past.  Bring up a specific memory or event.  Get it pictured right in front of your face in as much detail as possible.  (Colors, sounds, smells, people involved, etc.) Turn your head to the left and exhale, then slowly turn your head from left to right drawing in the energy of the scene in front of you with your breath (inhale).  When your head is completely to the right again, turn slowly back to the left exhaling the foreign energy (that which is not yours) that exists from the scene.  Keep sweeping the scene until you feel 'done' with it.  Go on to the next event on your list, or that comes to mind, and keep doing this until you have worked through each one.  Be aware of what you are doing and stay focused.  If you're just starting the recap, I would suggest fifteen to twenty minutes a day just to start out, give it two weeks, then take stock of where you are.

When you are finished the first time you may feel a little lightheaded, that's normal.  It means something is changing.  If the memories you are working with are especially painful or traumatic, it may take a number of recapitulations to completely suck the energy back out of them.  You will know it is working when you recall one of the memories and find that the emotions it was evoking in you have lessened, or even completely disappeared.  Sometimes you may look at them and feel like they aren't even your memories - they seem as though they happened to someone else.  This is a start; you may want eventually to do a complete recapitulation.  

https://www.shamanscave.com/self-healing/the-recapitulation

 

 

[Pavel Karavaev]

On 18.12.2017 at 6:21 AM, Jessup2 said:

Here's a starter:

Rolling on the ground. Simply stretch out your arms and legs and roll yourself parallel to the ground, outside, open ground, mountain is best, better than water or sea.

Rolling on the ground it is fun. 
By the way, even just being in the mountains makes it possible to gain a large amount of energy to any person, and especially for those who are engaged in energetic practices. 

So you can separately take out a simple way of selecting extra energy: 
go outside the city, where there are less people and more nature, in the mountains is best. Relax, enjoy and practice.

 

Sincerely, Pavel.

[Pavel Karavaev]

On 18.12.2017 at 10:01 PM, Jessup2 said:

Recapitulation? Any forms of this in Dao?

Recapitulation is a core Toltec technique used to heal emotional charges. On a deeper level, it is used to reclaim energy and return it to self.

 

I think there is different methods can give similar results in Daoist techniques.

 

I use one of the varieties of static work (Zhang Zhuang) to fill and restore energy. To succeed in this method,  practice of Qigong exercises. It helps  me to achieve graet relaxation of my body and open all energy channels. Such opening of the body can significantly increase the quality of energy collection. Also, for a better quality of refill energy, it is good to practice on nature, in good and strong places.

 

However, there is difficulty - Zhang Zhuang is necessarily to practice under the supervision of a teacher or an experienced instructor, since if you practice alone, then there is a risk of getting serious deviations in health.

[Jessup2]

What are examples of this deviation in health?

[Jessup2]

Jog on this spot, facing the west. The idea is to draw power from the impending twilight by raising one's arms to the sky with the fingers stretched, like a fan, and then clasp them forcefully when the arms are in the mid point between the horizon and the zenith.

[Jessup2]

 In moments of great danger, fear, or stress, push your belly down by pushing the diaphragm down while taking four sharp gasps of air through the mouth, followed by four deep inhalations and exhalations through the nose. The gasps of air have to be felt as jolts in the middle part of the body. Keeping the hands tightly clasped, covering the navel, gives strength to the midsection and helps to control the gasps and the deep inhalations, which have to be held for a count of eight as one presses the diaphragm down. The exhalations are done twice through the nose and twice through the mouth in a slow or accelerated fashion, depending on one's preference.