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Relaxation wise I have a bunch of great relaxation CDs, you put them on and go. Actually I just found that one of the best is now on youtube it's very good, try it maybe you like it :

Aloha ...

The human body is very beautiful but just look how fragile it is in this vast cosmos, we are so small, our ideas are so big, but we are tiny cuddly monkeys. So we are very protected of course, in many ways, otherwise we would never live for a minute. Many forces protect and try to instruct us. If you have problems again and again, attract attacking people ... there is a message for you. What is it that you benefit when this happens ? Is it easier to feel small then to grow ? Is there some deep wounds that need to be met, that are unavoidable ? What is it that holds you in this place ? Nasty powerful beings are not that common, but what use do they have for hurting little people, it is boring for them. Just wait and they will leave, just be a "grey man", let it all pass before you. Do not judge them, mostly they are hurting inside and are lopsided inside so not really that dangerous, the bark is worse than the bite. You can become more true, more real. Life is growing, and you with it. Every moment is an opportunity to fully express yourself. Is there something that you refuse to express, either positive or negative .... why don't you flow ? When someone is bad just avoid them, and as you walk away send a true prayer to them that they may find the way again. Pray, silently for them.

Once they start handing it out like dog biscuits, you can be sure it has little value. What value is it to you if someone gives you a billion dollars. You will rush around and rush around, buying consuming and dreaming. Then you will die happy, but what did you ever do except stuff your face ? Is that really happiness or a sickness ? Are people happy with all the dancing and neon, or is something quite suffering inside .... can you see into their faces, do you dare look ? The more technology we have the less we need to do anything and we degenerate until we can do nothing except eat. What a sad sight. Once men walked over deserts and to the poles, they sang, and fought, and loved .... and they became, they became because they did. After a hard day of real work, dinner tastes good, because today you were worth something.

Yes it is, in my experience I have worked intensely with about a dozen serious qigong forms and basically my conclusion is that it's rubbish !!! If you want healing ZZ should imo be central, but you have to learn it, I like Mark Cohen like I keep rabbitting on about. It's important to comprehend the practice as a dissolving softening awareness practice rather than the Iron Shirt rubbish being tough and toughing it out which is a disaster imo, which strengthens energy at the expense of yourself. As for Qigong, yes it's very nice to choose one to do as well, do something that is fun and nice and feel good qi. I don't for that reason like the up-their-backside systems which say you can't do anything else and have all sorts of weird energies or breathing in them. Apart from the fact of their ridiculous exclusivity, and long expensive DVD series, their whole approach is highly questionable and not really spiritual. Spiritual is the unhidden truth source simplicity within us, so for me ZZ is like an arrow straight into that. Others want purple eagle energy magic power but for what ? Where will you go with it ? Does it help you to return to your own being ? Like ZenPig says physical strength is important, must not become lazy floating Taoist who escapes from simply looking after muscles joints and bones like a normal man. I think if you do something beautiful like Dayan Wild Goose then it is like art and I can see a point to it, you take on the art tradition for art sake not power sake, for the love of the Wild Goose that leaves no shadow. 8 Brocade is for me a little boring too, life is not meant to be boring, on the other hand 8 Brocade does open up the body very nicely which is very valuable. Recently I have been doing "Smiling Heart Qigong" from an unknown Alaskan Institute with Cynthia McMullen, and I love it, because I love her. If you have no heart love joy, why bother with anything, so I go here. Also I sometimes do BK Frantzis Dragon & Tiger which is a powerful allrounder with high quality DVD instruction. I even stopped doing the beloved 5 Animals HT practice because I don't need more emotions flying around that is ungrounding even more. So yeah that's where I am at. Return to the source, to your truth, to you .... it is way, and the only way. Others will be collecting energies and promising higher levels of whatever .... like new apps on their Samsung. ZZ also has very strong effect on mental and spiritual development and if you flow into it it might all happen on its own and quite quickly. Like the soles of the feet are soft and melting, releasing, flowing down, structure is there from the feet to the crown, but flowing down, eyes soft. Efficiency clarity simplicity is important in such a world.

What's the point ? Is it better than Zhan Zhuang ? I don't think humans have the luxury of being inefficient with things, I tried lots of qigong systems but ZZ is far better.

1 tin of sardines every day for a week makes for massively accelerated bone healing. Yes there are some ZZ postures for opening the shoulders detailed in Mark Cohen's book. One of them is Wufi with the hands at the side so that the thumbs touch the centre line of the side of the leg .... for a few minutes then .... move hands back so the back of the hands rest underneath the crest of the pelvis, in the depression below. The back of the hands rest there at the top of the buttocks without the shoulders lifting and the effect is for the shoulder to be slightly opened. It's a posture that is not used in general but for beginners with closed shoulders. Other postures detailed in the book.

Yes and a human is a "featherless biped". Hmm. Which points to the silliness of the human intellect which has got to differentiating things in the environment .... a 2 toed animal or a 3 toed animal. And thinks itself very clever for doing so. It is a young and immature type of intelligence that we are all instructed to live through. In fact our older animal intelligence is vast and deep and spiritual, it is in contact with the real and actually makes most of our decisions that's why we have survived. The intellect of the modern brain that has got as far as ... men have pipi women have nunu is far too stupid to protect us.

If you set a goal that is within your means, and you have a feeling of inner collapse about it .... what does that mean ? I think it means that you have something in your inbox that you need to be with before you think about goals; there is something inside that needs listening to right now, remembering, feeling, crying, facing, reconciling ... and that comes first. That's what it means. So do that. And sit with that, hold those feelings that are needing to be felt, be with yourself as you are, softly. Later maybe a lot later when in a more open place you can think again about making avenues and directions for yourself that represent what you actually want. The words "setting goals" bring to my mind the kind of unconscious force people in society use to plough through life without feeling anything at all, they are not good words ... and the "goals" are not really theirs but copied from expectations and all sorts of ideas about society that are part of a fake and silly world. They are not really your goals at all. I am here, I am, I am. I flow, which valley am I flowing in, flowing through, flowing within. My course, my life, my blood.

Thoughts emotions come from inside, from parts of us that are subconscious, therefore they feel outside and become corrupted with the outside's influence. But one day you must make them conscious. First Awareness is awakened then at least one thing is awake. Then the centres of thoughts and emotions can be awakened also and you take ownership of them. And all merges together. You will not awaken the centres of thoughts/emotions if you tell yourself to ignore them or that they are samsara ... that is just rationalisation. You could say that all my suffering is samsara and kill yourself, but at least you are smart enough to not do that. So be smart again and realise that everything that you experience comes from a part of you and awaken all parts and take ownership of all that arises.

Why so many rules ? Is it worth it ? Other Qigongs don't have such rules.

They are a product of their environment like all crops

What can you feel inside you ? What do people feel ? What do people have access to within them ? Initially a person feels the external world of society. And also, he doesn't walk around in society "nakedly", he has a role in that external world, a sort of character, and self-image, habits, and so on. It is like a social-person he can be and then when he walks around in society he can fit in to the gears and cogs of the outer world. So he feels the external world of society and also feels his social-person-image that fits in with it. He is social-person-image. But what else can he feel ? Well here is where "spirituality" begins. Whether a person can go beyond depends on that person. Can he feel him-self within, his Real Self. Meaning can he feel that underneath the social-person-image is a Real Being who stands alone, who can take off the cloak ? Is there a Real Me inside there ? Or is there only the social-person-image ? And can he feel God ? God-Consciousness, God-Love, or God-Tao ? God meaning the origin-truth that can be felt through different channels developed through different traditions. Through one channel or all channels. Can you feel God ? If you are a social-person-image and God is introduced to you, say God-love from Christianity, then you may begin to feel Real Me inside as a consequence. So you are going : social-person-image > God-love > Real Me Although in other cases it might be possible to feel Real Me without connecting to God first.

If you take on the negative energy of patients long-term it's going to be bad for you. Zhan Zhuang can make your internal energies strong. Pranic Healing they put positive energy back into the patients, it's quite easy you can get a book on it.. Also you can send a prayer into the acupuncture point silently. It is good to have a protocol for yourself to clear any negative energy. I know a pranic healer who plays a recording of his teacher saying "Om" mantra 24 hrs a day in the room he uses for healing.

Where Do Negative Thoughts Come From They are subconscious and shared collectively, the species history includes a lot of corruption coming from a lack of ability for the species to resolve its problems and the resulting depression, fear, and anger, and the species' inability to become conscious. How To Eliminate Negative Thoughts The subconscious has to be made conscious, this involves the awakening and embodying (making permanent) of the solar plexus and heart centre, and also the 3rd eye, all are finally required. For instance the power emotions (fear/ anger) emanate from the solar plexus (unawakened unembodied), one has to awaken and abide int he solar plexus first, then surrender the umbrella of fear/anger into it and it will be controlled permanently. Same for the other 2 centres. How ? Merge with the breathing at the belly, later merge with the breathing deep in the solar plexus, become present in the SP. This takes weeks or months. Later breath externalised emotions into it. Roughly the same for other centres. Secondly the conscious and subconscious must be bridged which involves other techniques, for instance when your mind is negative, you step into your mind and speak to it ... you give a rational and adult response to the negativity in your mind, you speak to the negativity as an adult to a child. Due to the repression of the subconscious it may also be necessary to do some spontaneous qigong to free it somewhat. The above are serious techniques for seekers who wish to work deeply, there is another type of answer which is "Remember God in Everything You Do". This also works and is quick and simple. It works in a different way.

Wow man .... yes, fuc4 this world, enter the real world ... invest in the great way ... be the great one

It's a paradox

Concrete Technical Solution Right, 5 minutes thought and I have the answer.` Real Life A The tortoise running against Achilles in an open race, Achilles always wins. Model A Consider tortoise moves 100m and stops, then Achilles follows. Then tortoise moves half that distance again 50m, then Achilles follows. And so on. In this way Achilles never overtakes the tortoise, hence the paradox. Consideration Okay, well let's take Model A into a real life situation and see what happens. We can call it Real Life B. Real Life B Tortoise runs against Achilles, but in the following manner, tortoise goes first runs 100m, then stops, Achilles catches up then stops, then tortoise runs half the distance again (50m) then stops, then Achilles etc... In this case, in real life, Achilles would never pass the tortoise. Hence it is evident that Model A is not modelling Real Life A, it is modelling Real Life B. And it models it correctly. Real Life A and Model A have little to do with each other, and Zeno has made an error in the setting of the paradox. One might as well ask to model the weighing of oranges through a model involving throwing oranges out of a window ! And then saying that the oranges weight nothing .... it's a paradox. No, it's not a paradox. Why can't Model A be used to model Real Life A ? Because they are different. In this "paradox" it includes both a Real Life case and a "Model". Why does it include a "Model", it should not, that should already be a red flag. Model A is an accurate model for Real Life B, but not for Real Life A.

Why did Zeno consider his paradoxes ? If you ask this seriously and don't want to play games, what is the actual answer to this scene? The answer actually is that Zeno was busy playing with his mind because he couldn't feel who he was, he could not feel the "subject" of the mind. It is like someone who looks in a lake but cannot comprehend his face, so he stirs the water with his hand. But still no recognition. He just doesn't get it. He is not conscious. For somebody like that and perhaps most of mankind is like that what does he really need ? He needs close contact with someone that understands 1 to 1, and he needs joy and pain, light and dark .... or he needs to live more lives and he will surely get enough shocks and pain to eventually create understanding. Then one day Zeno will see himself in the lake, he will no longer be a monkey, but approaching a man. Diogenese was correct and brilliant like lightning, a flash of ... truth, shattering the darkness of the daytime of man. Shattering. But .... is it understood by Zeno ? Anyway sorry for the interruption, I shall foff now.

I have been with the same Zen teacher for about 7 years and do a lot of sitting meditation, and auxiliary practices, and study very widely.

What is your path, do you have an Egyptian name ?

You can see the state of much mankind from Zeno's paradox. Humans treat themselves and life as a kind of game that they play with, and what they enjoy is a game that lasts a thousand years and a thousand headaches. They do not value reality, which is why they do not enter it. When they die they are still caught in the idiotic and meaningless masturbation of their mind, having successfully avoided existing. Somewhere inside is a monkey terrified of waking up and doing everything to prevent it. Nothing can be said to such people to come to a solution, because they seek their own confusion and will die pleased that they did not solve anything. It is a deceit. Such people are against life and should be avoided. "Whoever is not with me is against me; whoever does not gather with me truly is scattering."

My comments were about developing Free Will which was mentioned by some others here. Others wish to be in the flow that is something different. The greatest teachers worked very hard and intensively for their realisation, it did not come easily and if you wish to follow them it seems foolish to think that it would be easy. There is something "easy" about it, and something that requires hard work. Reading the life journeys of the great teachers tells a great deal, I don't know of a single one who didn't work extremely intensively for some period. Most were almost at death's door through their effort.

Because if you go along with the flow then you make no exercise of your free will, you are just dragged along by the river. This is the situation for most humans and creatures on the planet. No judgement of it. Free will is very rare, it means you have the ability to do something of your own, at will, you can make yourself do whatever you wish whenever you wish it. And the way to develop it is step by step by doing things that are not easy. If they were easy the would not require free will. Of course such things are of no interest to most people whose main goal is to be the biggest slob possible. Of course the human population tells themselves how wonderful they are and dream of being George Clooney at the same time, whilst wiping chocolate cake off their face lying horizontal in front of Netflix !!!!