Help with my energy flow

[horaciocs]

Hello to all! This is my first post here. I've been working with Robert Bruce's energy work techniques for about 3-4 months by now and, although I've gotten some nice results, some questions emerged. Here is my story:

Since I was a kid (About 10 years old, I'm 21 now) I was able to trigger a sort of tingling sensation up and down my spine at will (sort of goosebumps). I never gave it much attention (I was a kid with no family background on energy manipulation) and ended up forgetting about it.

About a year ago I began reading about OBEs and all that sorrounds it. Eventually, I stumbled upon energy works and those tingling experiences as a kid came to mind. Initially, my efforts were focused on increasing those sensations. Nowadays, I have much greater control over those sensations and they can get quite intense and spread throughout my body (I can control their intensity). Also, I have been doing Robert's awareness point exercises and I do get some results, but they differ from my experiences with the goosebumps.

The two are different kinds of feelings. Robert's are just as described on his book (pulsing, tingling, vibrating). "Mine" are more of a generalized sort of goosebump, my body hair goes erect all over my body, I feel some "ballooning", I feel some pressure on my crown and frontal chacras (I mean in their locations, I don't know if it's acutally them). I can feel energy run all over my body (If that's what running energy feels like).

I've been doing, also, some energy healing exercises (with some success on head and back aches) and I can feel energy in the form of a field in both my hands (kind of like opposing magnets), and its definitely got something to do with my way of running the energy. Roberts' way never gives me this sensation. I try to direct it to my hands, feel it go through my arms, rub my hand together and then the field gets stronger (I get that "opposing magnets" feel even when my hands are 30cm apart, so there is definitely something going on).

When I run energy using that goosebump technique, although I can feel it throughout my body, it is much more intense on my limbs (specially my forearms and thighs). I can feel it acting on my head (crown/frontal chacras?), but in no other specific main-chacra-related region. I've tried imagining some colours to see if I could get a response from other chacras, but there was none. It has definitely got someting to do with my breathing, it gets a tremendous boost during my inspirations (in opposition to ALL energy healing books that say you feel the energy on the out-breaths, which just makes me more confused).


My main concern is whether I'm doing it right or wrong and what I should do next. The sensations are pleasant, but can only achieve them with my eyes closed and kind of staring at my nose** (I had been doing that instinctively, but after reading about the nose thing on a qi-gong ebook -real chinese stuff, not the regular web literature, it seems- I gave it more importance). It is much harder to get the goosebumps with eyes open, I only get significant results that way while listening to some nice classical or jazz music (it's related to inpiration/beauty/a more general kind of love).

Do you guys think I'm in the right path to exercising energy? What's to do next?

Thank you all in advance, the community is great!


**That staring-at-the-nose thing is really annoying when trying to project, it gets me quite tense and I can't relax, so I don't believe that's the best way to go. I do it because it's the only way I get satisfying results. (I've never AP'ed)


Horacio.

[Stookie]

I'm not sure I can tell you anything you haven't read yet, but I'll give it a shot.

If you haven't yet, I suggest becoming familiar with the NEW full body circuit. It sounds like you're having trouble feeling it. Once you can feel it through your entire body, it's just a matter of directing where you want it with your attention, and it sounds like this is your problem. I'd do exactly like he says and start with your toes and feet and do all the "wrapping" and "brushing" and all that stuff until you really start to feel it. Don't move on to your other foot or ankle until you can accomplish that. Because once you can feel it there, you should easily be able to use the techniques to move the sensation upwards.

Feeling energy is just one aspect. Directing, balancing, and storing that energy is another (important one).

Hope this might help a little.

[horaciocs]

Thanks for the reply, Stookie!

After doing some thinking, that's the conclusion I came to, also. His technique is well-explained and is laid-out in an easy-to-understand way. Have you gone all the way through NEW? Does it cover the directing, balancing and storing energy that you mentioned?

Thanks again!

[Stookie]

Yeah, I've been doing NEW for several years. I had experience with raising energy before (it sounds you've found it as well), but the full-body circuit was really the trick for me in utilizing it. With it you raise the energy and circle it up through every part of your body (organs, limbs, veins, muscles, EVERYTHING) and direct it to your sub-navel storage center. For me, 15 minutes of full-body circuits is amazing.