kingfred

I've been on this board for awhile, reading about all of the practices here and I'm a little overwhelmed. I found this board through a friend and am looking mainly for physical mental and emotional health. Ive looked into at least 50 practices so far but don't know where to start. Can I get some input on where each of you started and what you would recommend as the best practice to start with.

 

Andrew

This is what I did, and it worked out amazingly for me, and the sequence of practices that I went through, without me knowing, was exactly what my unstable body-mind needed. I had and have no money so first, I found Chunyi Lin's Spring Forest Qigong Level 1 practices via Torrent. This meditation is easy, simple and active. It will open up two of your main channels, Functional and Governor. This will set the groundwork for all of your goals, improving your emotional, mental, and physical health. Than I moved to Mantak Chia's Microcosmic Orbit. This has empowered my body, while further clearing those channels. While in the same time frame of me doing the Microcosmic Orbit I also started performing yoga practice. Kundalini for my third chakra, which contributes to willpower and confidence, which will overall contribute to practicing diligently. also general yoga for hips, so i can progress towards sitting in Full-Lotus. This is where i'm at, and I'm feeling great noticing improvements in the three said health areas. Well, i'm off to practice.

Sorry I dont think Mantak Chia would have helped you much.

Learning micro cosmic orbit can be easy for some people with good health and with energy channels that are more open than most people have.In this condition you can learn micro cosmic orbit from many diffrent teachers including Mantak Chia.But When your channels are not open,you can easily waste 10-15 years with no results,you can even end up disturbing your channels so you get unhealthy.There is really no secret how to open the channels,but most people dont practice enough or get sidetracked by trying to find better/faster ways all the time.Stop the mind,and things happen by itself.This will open your channels and starting the circulation the way it is ment to be.Whatever you pratice you should add emptyness meditation.Here Is a very good video if you are intrested.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...h&plindex=2

That video was extremely informative, thank you, i'm certainly going to integrate emptiness meditation into my daily practice.

Sorry I dont think Mantak Chia would have helped you much.

Learning micro cosmic orbit can be easy for some people with good health and with energy channels that are more open than most people have.In this condition you can learn micro cosmic orbit from many diffrent teachers including Mantak Chia.But When your channels are not open,you can easily waste 10-15 years with no results,you can even end up disturbing your channels so you get unhealthy.There is really no secret how to open the channels,but most people dont practice enough or get sidetracked by trying to find better/faster ways all the time.Stop the mind,and things happen by itself.This will open your channels and starting the circulation the way it is ment to be.Whatever you pratice you should add emptyness meditation.Here Is a very good video if you are intrested.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...h&plindex=2

it is good to know that about the Microcosmic Orbit, but I could feel the energy in my channels and my yogic practice i believe would have prepared me for the MO meditation. I feel it's not worth mentioning that the psychadelics I did, contributed to both the opening of my channels, and the pervasive leeching that has occurred on my aura by the entities. When my consciousness was 100% dialogue, the drugs converted it to pictures, and lessened my thought to stillness unless in communication. This led me to experience and meet who and what I was meant to. But that upaya is only karma-free for so long.

I am very interested in emptyness meditation, i've heard of it alot, and have never been sure if it's the same as mindfullness, so i'll check out that video right now.

I ask a question that relates to all. I must start by saying it seems to me that the value of the advice on these forums is quite lesser than I had recently believed due to people being concerned with spiritual politics, which is a concept foreign to anyone truely on a mission of growth and path of vitality or enlightenment. I know it is only ego and entity provoking this.

Some people(including myself), have come looking for advice on a practice that they were meant to find, practice, and discover if it is right or not for their etheric self. But what they have gotten in return is a dampening of spirits, of motivation, and curiosity of practice. I was told that Mantak Chia is a money-lover by people on this forum, and was strayed away from his practice due to this. Thanks to the ill-advice of unwise people on this forum, and my naivete to believe them, I was directed away from the practice that could have saved me from months of misery.

I have recently been blessed with advice from a person more humble and light than all else i've known. She doesn't not hesitate to go outside of her boundaries to truely learn, and I wonder if I will ever know myself what she does. She performed entity removal therapy on me, and spoke about my silent thoughts as they were happening, she changed the response of my body and mind in a single day, I felt amazing after she completed her work. She deducted that during the time of my drug use, entities connected to me (the way you stay spiritually synchronis and connected with loved ones) and my unprotected etheric body to feel what it was to be on drugs. They were the cause of my unexplained anger and depression that drove me to get high and let them experience that, for that's all they wanted. This idea is synonymous with almost all ancient and new age beliefs.

This amazing and beautiful human being, afterwards, suggested to other people with problems similar to mine to practice Mantak Chia's Microcosmic Orbit, which will wire up the etheric body, and increase the energetic force in the whole body, which will leave no vulnerability to entities connecting to the body's chakras.

So, i come to say that the practice of kunlun might sound hoaky, might not be for you, but are you everyone else? Do you have the godlike wisdom to discourage people from a practice the universe has setup for them to discover? Please keep negative opinions to yourself, for this will only block you on your own path, and exploits the negativity that your own practice is not effective at letting you grow beyond. thanks everyone

only ignorance would deny the help his work can give

Can anyone describe or point me in the direction of learning the Dragon Breathing in Mantak Chia's book "Tan Tien Chi Kung"? He says it's a high pitched hunnnnnn on inhalation but I don't know if the sound i'm making is what he's describing.

Would screaming kids and barking dogs affect yoga and meditation practices? and would the practice be worth doing if this was going on 24/7?

This one has lots of tips on stretches all over the place: Full lotus techniques

I've been doing the yoga for hips from that thread for a week now, and I can get into full-lotus with great difficulty but can actually get there, that's a really great set. Would anyone know which chakras this set affects most?

is there any visualization in taiji or just motion? and what other motion meditation styles are there that you think highly of?

how's everybody?

I've been practicing kundalini yoga, tonglen, and shamatha-vipassana daily and have been feeling great. my tonglen and shamatha-vipassana actually only every other day. but my question is, what is tai chi all about? and is there any movement work like yoga or tai chi that I could look into?

Are there any techniques for gathering more energy as to not be so tired at night so I can practice when i have time to without dozing off and on.

What's the fastest way to go from basically not being able to practice in half lotus to full lotus? stretching, yoga, etc. thanks

we both are still caught in the ego. But we both believe that is why the world of coincidences brought us together the way it has, for every fault in her ego there is an equal and opposite fault in mine, thus we sometimes bring out the worst in eachother. She does unconditionally love me, but her self doesn't release negativity, even if she wants it to. You've all helped, i will understand where she is at and what's going on, and won't let myself be walked on in the process. any other advice?

My focus right now is to become more positive, find new ways to enjoy life,

to smile more often.

 

Also I do a(almost daily) mantra meditation as a base in my practice - OM mani padme hung

 

//abra

rad. the Chenrezig Mantra seems to affect how much i'm conscious of compassion, and how much i subconsciously act on it. That mantra and the Padmasambhava Mantra "Om Ah Hung Benzar Guru Peme Siddhi Hung" have helped me alot. the Chenrezig seems to bring me compassion while the Padmasambhava seems to purify my mind. How do you go about these meditations?

Could anybody name a few books or stories about people that are models of integrity? I'm just looking to read about some pure people to inspire myself towards goodness. thanks

Emptiness meditation and creating a yang body.

What are the benefits of creating a yang body? and is emptiness meditation basically an awareness meditation shedding all thinking until you have indeed gone into the emptiness, then staying there?

I thought it'd be interesting if you could talk about what you are focusing on right now, what meditation, technique, philosophy, whatever it is you may be focusing right now. maybe talk about how long you've been doing what you've been doing and how you are progressing would be cool too.

there is a book called "Chi and Creativity" by Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this, or any other creativity enhancement methods. thanks

Is there anything that can be done by a person to increase his communication skills. Would a compassion meditation also increase your ability to lighten a person's tense mood? how about be at ease and share conversation with new people? what would you do to help yourself with this? Without being specific, a loved human being gets caught in being stressed, angry, and frozen, when it's something as little as being pressed for time or caught up in housework. I'd like to call this hot temper, I want to use words to plant a seed in her heart, and than talk it's growth into flowering happiness. On spot Tonglen helps myself pull out of this nasty atmosphere, but i have not tools or way with words to help someone I care about, you have all helped me in the past and didn't think this was apart from The Way so I thank you for any offering.

Spring Forest Qigong, chinese medicine, and Ozone treatment. My girlfriend's mom had stage 4 for 8 years and didn't start getting better till she started ozone treatment on the 8th year but it was too late, may the universe bless her

thanks to all, the kunlun conversation is interesting. And yes, i'm very suggestable. I believe I can do anything with my brain as do alot of folks. I've personally felt that Chunyi Lin is sincere and very goodwilled, especially in comparison to Mantak Chia, who seems like he would have been able to put alot of books into one book out of care and not try to make money by making this book need that book which needs that book to be effect, although i've met neither of them.

I practiced SFQ and healed my skin from a fungus that had been around for near a year, and doing SFQ everyday helped me heal in about two months i'm convinced. But i was wondering what you all think of it, and if it's commercial and what not. I'm interested in what you think about the level 3 and 4, moon, sun, and rainbow meditations too.

If you had a very little muscle and a bit of a gut, all very much like myself, what would you do to get into a healthier shape? I just started resistance training but i'm totally unaware what lifting weights does with the subtle energy body, and was interested in more traditional techniques, any type of advice is good, thanks

is Tonglen a method of going a little farther into bringing about bodhichitta? are there any other meditations on compassion?

thank you freeform, you spoke to me.

"I'm trying to find ways to control my mind" "I'm trying to find ways to control my mind"

"I'm trying to find ways to control my" "trying to find ways to control my mind"

"I'm trying to find ways to control" "to find ways to control my mind"

"I'm trying to find ways" "find ways to control my mind"

"I'm trying to find" "ways to control my mind"

"I'm trying to" "to control my mind"

"I'm trying" "control my mind"

"I'm" "my mind"

"I" "mind"

......................................??

I like that alot too