King Kabalabhati

Great! Good luck with your new steps. BTW remember, you can help your wife heal by sending her your compassion, your pink heart energy in your meditation

May I inquire what's holding you? If things are so bad what are you waiting for? You will be surprised what kind of energy is released once your boulder starts a rolling.

Most of theses symptoms could also indicate toxemia, which means toxins in the tissues and in the digestive tract. Most people suffer from this condition more or less in these modern times. I suggest a holistic treatment, it could be your spleen but it more likely involves your whole body and being. Bodily purification will often trigger an emotional purging too, and vice versa. Senna or rhubarb root tea are great purgatives by the way. edit: sorry to bug you with this, but I think there's good reason.. read Daniel P. Reid's "Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity" or any good Ayurvedic self care book for reference.

The deepest relaxation so far I've experienced in Brasil.. I was listening to a self-hypnosis CD by Mark Cunningham with the waves of the Atlantic in the background. Man I went limp

Chunyi Lin gives a few benefits: -5 energy points facing heaven.. crown, feet, hands -stretching of the lower back bone -once you're accustomed to it, very stable Then I've also heard it helps to transform Jing, this is consistent with my own experience, read Drew Hempel's posts about it.

Hard to say.. But I wouldn't rule out toxemia. Most of us could use fasting or fruit fasting, preferably with colonic flushing. Emotional knots take enormous chunks of energy. Unresolved and undigested experiences and relationships are like the toxic mucus in your mental/spiritual "colon". I have experience of this, as I used to be much weaker, emotionally unstable and often tired. Using pungent and bitter herbs along with diet and fasting, as well as emotional clearing (a "crisis") helped free up more potential. I realise there's still more work to do though. Keep the ginger, that's good. I suggest cerassie or similar bitter. After your cleansing period (1-2 months of meat and dairy free diet and a couple of 2-5 day fasts) you can begin to buid your energy with tonics: My herbal intake per 24 h 1-2 tsp Ashwaganda half-1 tsp Brahmi half tsp Calamus half tsp Triphala 1 tsp Turmeric edit: haha I forgot to mention high quality espresso coffee 1-3 cups a day taken with Ghee, which is butter oil. Banyan Botanicals sells these herbs, their quality is excellent. Once you gain some strength you can start sleeping less and practicing more

Started out with Pranayama breathing about five years ago. Now, for the last year or so, mostly Spring Forest Qigong and some hatha yoga for stretching. All in all I do about an hour - hour and half a day plus things like Small Universe or mantras while driving and walking. Random healing. Interesting experiences... well healing is very interesting. Also peace of mind, clarity of emotions, freedom from excess desire.. You mean energy experiences? Things like high voltage surges of energy through the spine, spontanious whole-body orgasms, simultanious electric orgasms with a girl without intercourse, sudden tears of happiness, bliss bliss bliss.... Yeah.. But they're not important.

I don't care who says what about the small universe.. I left it out of my practice for one week and did emptiness instead.. Result: most disturbing stirring of Jing. After half an hour of small universe I feel cool and calm. I do it to Chunyi Lin's CD.. it's pricelessly functional.

I'm in. At least 30 minutes of full lotus sitting with Small Universe and/or emptiness edit: but lets make it 1000 days for starters

I understand this, but then I don't. Death is a great neutralizer. It doesn't necessarily make any difference whatsoever if we live with this kind of great "cease the day"-attitude. These kind of important sounding words have a very empty ring to them. Which is the Tao I think

No prblem Paul, I'm just kissing your butt cause you're a high level cultivatior

Mattdwads wrote: "But never to isolate theory from practice, how does one clear their throat chakra? Well I suppose there are a lot of ways to do so. People go to yoga, use stones, " Chanting is very good for opening the throat.

I don't know about deserving, maybe it's impossible to know that, but it may be useful to OWN what you get. By this I mean taking responsibility, like "stand back everyone, this is between me and the universe".

This was shocking news. My condolences.

Wait! "I seem get more constructive input on matters of cultivation from the bactieria that lives between my toes than from people like your good self" If you're referring to this, then you got it wrong IMO. I'm not defending the way Paul is picking on Gauss, though G. is very provocating. I just want you to read carefully what people write before moderating. Respectfully, KingK

I think it's obvious. But even "loving yourself" can be misunderstood. I think "having your heart open for the love of the universe" would be more accurate. That said, I believe loving and having a family with a person who does not too much respect your ego but speaks the truth and even breaks your heart with it.. That can be a practice. It could be called "the yoga of relationship" and it is, as I have myself experienced, not for the faint of heart.

Even the most advanced adepts will be tempted, however, with heaps of forbearance you avoid actually doing it.

Non, I really wish you would soon get some cool esoteric sexual experiences.. and then learn that they are only experiences, nothing to be so obsessed about.

As you grow older, it will be more and more beneficial for health and longevity to have sex with a woman without spilling.. Not all will have the time or proper partner for practice though. Once you get your spirit into accord with your soul through emptiness of the Tao you should receive more guidance also for this matter. So your spirit really isn't beyond this, this problem is a spiritual one as much as emotional/physical. Your spirit isn't giving you a "clean signal" from your soul right now.

Well my morning meditation didn't "enhance" by fasting, no I was in fact too sleepy to stay aware. I also felt colder than usual. It might be I have to fast for 2 or more days to get benefits, but I intend to train with a few 24 hrs fasts more and then maybe a longer one in the spring.

dmattwads wrote "I can't exactely explain why but I have begun to view needing/wanting to be in a relationship with someone as a "weakness" Because thats the way it is. Need is weakness. Longing for another weak person to feel close to, which is beautiful but also very taxing from a spritual practicioner's point of view. OK you might get REALLY lucky and find a woman who is actually spiritual and has juice of her own but is not a complete mental case (holds true for a woman seeking a man too).

I decided this morning to fast for 24 hours with plain water. I told my body there would be no food. It's taking it quite well so far. The purpose of my fasting is to burn some toxins, clear up the system and to have an enhanced morning meditation tomorrow I do want to slowly improve my relationship to eating altogether, I tend towards "eating for entertainment". This is my first water fast, just going to see how this one day goes and maybe later do 2 days. I'm listening to Chunyi Lin chanting the Heart Sutra. Powerful vibration, goes well with fasting/anything..

Hello! Welcome on board Vic!

OK someone might have something more helpful to say to you. But more probably you just need some time for "everything to happen". Sorry to confuse you with my "humour".. Use the search with words like "semen retention" "sexual kung fu" etc.

"Nobody is perfect, but I am quite a healthy guy and I consider myself to be relatively balanced. Balance alone doesn't seem to automatically make me a master of my internal sexual energy." The kind of spiritual balance we can achieve through emptiness training of the mind can make this (mastering your sexual energy) of very little relevance, because it will happen without effort. Get tuned to the higher frequencies and you will receive more and more of the guidance of Tao (the universe). OK if you want the techniques you could try them out. They might lead you to the same conclusions I have made from my experience, or your experience may be different. Anyway they might have that kind of indirect value. As for the techniques, "use the search Luke".