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You're giving your energy body a continual boosted supply of energy by filling the sub-navel - I'd just trust it to know where the energy should go.

If you're in training for some track & field sport and you eat your Wheaties you don't have to inject them directly into your feet ! As you use your legs, your body'll route the energy where it's needed. Of course if you're on the edge of malnutrition then it may take a while before the extra energy reaches your legs, but when things get balanced from the steady supply of energy (er, Wheaties in our metaphor) then the surplus will find its way there when it's healthy for it to do so.

Mmmm, Wheaties...!


Pres in Japan

Oh, and yeah, I just put the book down in the meantime. I kept up on the forum of course.

And that also gave me a chance to pick up any of the dozen or so other books I'm in the process of reading... (:

Pres in Japan

I started work on NEW and got fairly proficient at the full body circuit in September of 2001, and it's just this month that I've started looking at progressing to the primary energy centers.

It's not like I set out saying "Thirty days? Ha! I'll wait six months, so there!" It was just so unexpectedly effective that I wanted to do it right, and it just seemed like getting a solid base would be a good idea. Initially I thought "Man, I gotta wait?" like everybody else, but in the meantime I just did the FBC until it seemed right, and as it happened that turned out to be about six months. In the meantime I got in a lot of practice as I made it a part of my everyday life, and I also got to watch as I got more experience in how to be effective and not so effective in energy raising.

Warning: Geeky role-playing game metaphor:
It's like the idea is to get up to at least level 2 in FBC skill before starting primary work. If you're still at FBC level 1 when you start the primaries, your primary development will be that much weaker because it's dependent on your FBC skill. As it happens, I wound up waiting until I was already at FBC level 3 or so before starting.

Is this good? I dunno. Since I'm literally still going through the primary energy center exercises, I can't really comment much on the specifics of that yet.

Pres in Japan

If you do find you want to check into Reiki, http://grassrootsreiki.tripod.com/ seems to have a good attitude.

I tried it sporadically in high school (way back when the decade began with an 8!) but got bored with it so I stopped. It never occurred to me to try it in combination with meditation, probably because when high I could easily just sit for a couple of hours staring at the fireplace going, "Whoa..." and that would be the sum total of my cognitive processes. Not exactly a sharp and clear state of mind.

Do what you like, I just found from experience that it blurred me out more than anything. These days I don't so much as drink alcohol or even coffee...how pure can you get?!

I've found that visualizing the awareness actions is pretty much unrelated to the degree of energy movement that I achieve.  I can get energetic sensations well by using my awareness hands in the way you'd use your real hands to do the same actions in an absolutely dark room. In a dark room you don't have to make the effort to get a visual image of where your body is before you can touch it, you just kinda know. Even lacking any visuals you could probably touch your nose without much trouble.

I just kind of disable my visual input by calling up that sense of being in a dark room, and that seems to make it easier to let my other senses take over. Works for me anyway!

Pres

Tia,

I went through the online NEW exercises during the first week of September 2001, so I'm still very much a NEWbie.

When I started, I had planned on a more laid-back course of study, but at the time I suddenly found myself with the urge to concentrate basically full-time on it for a week. I completed the exercises on Sep. 7th, and four days later 911 happened. I thought that was an interesting "coincidence" so I found myself trying to send some form of healing energy to the situation, and to maintain my own levels. Without the experience of the reality of energy movement that I got from NEW, I wouldn't have bothered trying to send energy anywhere -- in that sense NEW came at just the right time for me.

Since then I've been endeavoring to practice the full body circuit every day.

Pres

> and had energy stuck in my eyeballs!

Ow! Makes my eyeballs hurt just thinking about it!


Here's something interesting:
I tried the "taffy pull" awareness action when I woke up yesterday morning. Did both legs and arms, then my back, & around to the sub-navel EC. I got some pretty good results (which is notable in itself, in the morning, and for my back, where I usually don't get a feeling of much energy flow), so I went on with my normal morning stretches while still in bed. When I got up and went over to check email though, I found that one spot in the middle of my back suddenly hurt. This is kind of mysterious, as I'd already finished my stretches without a hint of anything. It was the kind of dull pain you might have if you inadvertently slept with, say, a balled-up sock under your back all night, except you'd probably notice that sort of thing the moment you woke up. Not a "Yeeowch!" pain, more like a "Hmm, what happened here?"

Some options:
  I slept in a stupid position but didn't notice it until I stood up (you think I'd notice while stretching).
  I overdid the stretching, but somehow didn't notice the slightest thing out of the ordinary at the time (how?)
  I pulled too much energy through my back with the "taffy pull" but it took a while for the signals of pain to reach my dinosaur brain.

Don't ask me what the cause was, but on the off chance it was connected with the new awareness action, I figured I should post it here to see what you all think. My back is always the least responsive to energy movement, so maybe I pulled a bit too much energy through it too quickly?

There's still a twinge remaining if I arch my back, but it's 90% faded away by now. Obviously I'm playing it safe by going mild on the taffy for the moment, but it's an interesting phenomenon anyway. Looks like it might be as powerful an awareness action as it feels like! (well, duh!)

Or maybe I just slept on a sock...!


Pres

Ah, browser check, good point! It seems to work fine here running OmniWeb 4.1b1 on Mac OS X. (Except for the background color thing mentioned above which isn't a browser-specific problem)

I agree that the blue and white is a fine combination. Lookin' good!

When do we see an example of the next iteration?

Some impressions, hope they help:

The upper graphic while pretty, is huge (I think enough people have noticed that). If this were at the top of a single non-frames page (like the forum pages) then I could scroll it away and it wouldn't bother me. It'd still be larger than "normal" but no big deal, but in a frames set I'd get sick of it really quickly. A "normal" size  (to me) would size the top frame about even with the baseline of "stral" in "Astral," which unfortunately leaves the woman peeking over the edge of the frame like Kilroy...

Another vote for non-frames - linking within a frames set is a pain.

The content frame pages "f3.htm" and "whats_new.htm" have no background color set -- I have my browser's default color set to a tan color, so the pages (that frame) when displayed on my machine are mostly tan instead of white, with the pictures that want a white background looking out-of-place. Something to watch out for, if your browser is set to the same bg color you want your site's pages to be.

The left nav bar is about twice as wide as it needs to be, if all you're putting there are a dozen text links.

The text links should each be on separate lines - unless you're surfing on a Vaio Picturebook, there's lots of dead space down below them anyway.

There's no "Home" link to get back to the main page. Clicking on the face/logo does nothing, which makes it's hugeness stand out even more.

The Search and Forum links shouldn't be so far from the top of the page - at least put them high enough so that you don't have to scroll. As it is, it looks like the page has become just an ad for the books, and I don't expect it to change "themes" again down below.

Please date the entries on the "What's New" page so we can tell what's actually new.

Shouldn't the Search item be in either the top or left frames? E.g. if I go to the What's New page, I can't search anymore.


Pres

I had been doing NEW for about a month and a half last October when I got the mumps (great fun as an adult - I highly recommend it! ) and had to stop for a while as I was busy being delirious from the fever. Afterward it took me a little bit to ramp back to the level of energy sensations I had before, but I didn't have to do every exercise as a newbie. My body kind of remembered.

I'd just concentrate on ramping back up to the full-body circuit, and charging yourself up for a while. When you've gotten that down and the FBC is once again a comfortable part of your everyday life, then I'd start looking at working with the primary energy centers.

I find it useful to every so often just focus on diligently activating one part of my body (say my right hand) on a given day, just going through the energy centers in that area one by one, and seeing how my non-newbie skill compares with the feelings I got back as a beginner. That way I can get a feel for the progress I've been making, and keep from getting discouraged.

Pres

Hey that's pretty cool, Mark! Thanks!

I get a nice strong feeling in my legs with this, and a pretty good flow in my arms. Even some feeling of flow up my back when I tried it there, which has so far been my weakest link (as it were) in terms of energy movement sensations. I'll have to play with this some more, and happily add it to my repertoire!

Kind of like pulling taffy...

Pres

So are we talking about the tongue just resting against the top of the mouth like an everyday relaxed position, or something different?

I tend to keep my tongue in my mouth with me every day so unless I keep my mouth open so I can drool better, it's usually touching the roof of my mouth anyway...

(I assume I'm just not comprehending something here - enlighten me!)

Pres

Thanks for the NEW variations -- always good to keep an eye out for interesting variations!


>(Is there another word besides "sphere" that indicates energy moving in or radiating out from a center point?)

"Radial"?

Pres

> He then tells me that I am 'gifted' and that it takes years to learn
> that. I had to wait for a break in the exercises before I then said
> to him that in fact it only takes a month and anybody can do it - he
> disagreed but it's a fast paced class so I didn't have a chance to
> explain.

Using the methods that he's been taught, it may well be only the gifted students that get results quickly.

It seems that oftentimes people get "stuck" with the system they're used to using, whatever it may be. It's also natural when teaching to try to teach people the same methods that worked for the teacher. Being a leader of a group has a degree of responsibility, and not many people in that sort of situation would want to "experiment" on their students in the middle of a class, I would think. Your teacher probably has a full agenda already - you might try going and having a private talk with him after the class is over, or on a different day when he's not in "teaching mode." Depending on how much emotional investment he has in his current methods, he might be more receptive to taking a look at NEW then.

Any teacher would be doing well to keep a lookout for ways to improve what they're teaching, whatever the subject. It's just kind of rough to accept that, after all these years of effort, maybe there's a better way... (:

Pres in Japan