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    Welcome, chunkstyle!

     

    Hopefully someone here can step in and offer advice on this for you.

     

    Michael Lomax, aka Yamu, is a member here, and talks about this. You can probably also find advice on this on the Facebook group "Clinical Medical Qigong"... a great bunch of practitioners, and very generous with their experience and advice.

     

    Glad you decided to join us Bums!

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    Glad you decided to join in, AussieDaoist...

    Looking forward to hearing your thoughts/observations on the TTC, especially how it brings you peace...

     

    Welcome!

     

     

     

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    Not sure where you want to go with this, but maybe helpful are the traditional indications of chi movement.  Some of the common sensations people report when they feel the chi starting to move in their bodies include: feelings of warmth, extreme heat, electricity, heaviness, lightness, expansion, contraction, pressure, an internal sense of wind or water moving.  Sometimes that is simplified down to hydraulic (fluid movement) or electrical (buzzing) feelings in the body.

     

    Re: "thought like feelings" you mention above, I can't say a I've ever felt thoughts.. but I have felt a kind of energetic chaos in my head.  When you write "like if inside my physical body there is another more subtle body that is in a chaotic state" ...this is exactly it!  See if you can track that "subtle body" when you do some simple energy practices... grounding and simple chi exercises can shift that, and you start to be able to notice the changes in that subtle body more.

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  9. Posted · Edited by cheya

    Hey Redcairo.....
    Not IP, but....How about some keto pancakes made with protein powder?  (also eggs, cream cheese, and butter...no flour) This recipe needs some tweaks, but SO filling!  There's a link on this page to a recipe for the same ingredients made into muffins. Haven't tried that one yet, but intend to.

     

    Opps! Here's the link to the webpage :)

    https://www.ketoconnect.net/keto-macro-cakes/

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    Thank you for pointing this book out, Wandelaar... 

    I read a little on Amazon "Look inside", and appreciated the way Dr. Yang gives a "General Interpretation" and then gives his own "Qigong Interpretation"... I found the few Qigong Interpretations I read to be very... apropos with respect to my current preoccupations on this DB board, which I found pretty amusing.  Sort of a little I Ching reading on what's going on with me (and the board and maybe even the country) right now.  Read Chapter 3 there if you're curious what I'm talking about.

     

    I put it on my list  :)

     

     

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    There's a lot of interesting stuff in private forums, so I would rather not have those entries eliminated from the Activity list... but I would be just fine having OG removed, solely due to the current preponderance of political topics in OG. Some mornings there is just a solid page of TT/DT posts, and honestly, I find the amount of energy dedicated to that topic on a theoretically spiritual/Daoist/whatever board really depressing. 

    I get plenty of info on that subject from other sources, and seeing it syphon so much energy from participation in other topics on this board is really off-putting. Of course I can't change that, but having it omitted from the activity list would be great.

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    Hi snowlan,

    Welcome!
    If you like, you could tell us more about what drew you here, what you mean by "starting this way"  Are you attracted to Taoism itself? Philosophy or practice? Energy arts? Or just the whole ball game, like lots of the rest of us? :D

     

    Whatever brought you here, I'm glad you found us and jumped in...

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    Welcome home, Home... :D

    Pretty sure you're going to be fun to have around...

    So... glad you finally took the plunge and joined  in. 

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    On 6/18/2016 at 5:58 PM, Spotless said:

    In the practice of Qi Gong one can at some point very clearly feel the movement of energy from one side to the other in conjunction with the eyes particularly in postures requiring the turning of the head. You will realize that you were "in" one eye and now you are "in" the other as you move from one side to the other.

     

    This energetic movement can also be felt during some "secret" postures and initially this movement when felt can feel like peanut butter moving from one side to the other - the movement of the energy is not from the sides of the inner head but more one eye then back slightly and around a "u" and then forward slightly into the other eye.

     

    When it is happening or when you are manipulating it - it does not feel as though it is from one eye to the other. The movement through the midpoint can have some effort and release as one side empties into the other.

     

    This is all slightly forward of the center of the head.

     

    Nearly all of these exercises help to relinquish proclivities that we have - many inborn - whereby we are based and fortified into our routine energetic patterns.

     

    As these fortifications are relinquished other energetic flows may now transpire and certain connections heretofore invisible are now possible to emerge.

     

    While the engineers love this stuff - it requires no effort.

     

    I manipulated it when it presented itself only for a few minutes while sitting with my master at his home - after that it became quit fluid and now I notice it in all the Qi Gong that I do and whenever it presents itself.

     

    Spotless had also suggested:

    "Fully turning head from one side to the other for at least 20 seconds. Moves energy from one eye to the other - this exercises the neck and it exercises certain channels inside the head. It may also work on the U shaped energy conduit in the forward of center brow chakra area of the head. This has a name that escapes me but it is very real and can eventually be felt very clearly."

    I started doing Spotless' head turning exercise just to lubricate my neck, lol, but found this exercise also produced immediately palpable energy sensations starting in the eyes and center of the head, which then spread throughout the body... Very interesting!

    Thank you Spotless...Always interested in hearing more about this..

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    When Fa Xin's question made me really look at the quote, I suddenly thought of the leaven as chi, and how this magical stuff animates the inanimate mineral world,  enlivens it, and allows it the possibility of growth... only living things can grow.... But I don't think so much of chi as being easily related as such in "The Father's Kingdom"... so I didn't reply...

    But Jeff's post nicely frames it in the language of Tao... 

     

    And now, I'm curious, Mark's question:

    Why two ears?
     

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    Hello...
    Becoming a healer can take many years and a whole lot of work before you become effective enough to attract  enough patients to support yourself. If you are really good, word gets around. Of course, if you're not, word gets around too, lol.  There are a couple paths I can recommend.

    One is to get trained as a physical therapist, a nurse, or a massage therapist. If you have some kind of degree (at least in the US), you can get a license that lets you lay hands on people legally... and that's a start. 

    Acupuncture is another possibility, if you have enough money to do that training... and it is more energetically oriented, so might give you a better start toward becoming a true healer...

    Alternatively, you can develop any other skill you have that will support you, do your energy/healing practice faithfully on the side, and then use that job/skill to support yourself through the long term training, study, and travel that will probably be required to develop your healing skills. 

     

    Good luck!

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