interesting awareness targeting problem

[Jarrod]

I'm not really looking for a solution to a problem, just thought I'd share an interesting one with you guys here on the AP.  I've been practicing awareness targeting in my feet.  I use a slight stirring motion with my finger to help the tactile awareness feeling in my feet, not moving my finger on my feet, I mean just moving it around slightly somewhere else to help me imagine that it's moving on my feet so I can imagine the feeling better.  It's like using your hands to talk with I think, just makes it easier.  Recently though I've been being distracted from trying to feel my awareness in my feet by a feeling coming from the motion of my hand.  I can feel energy around my hand strong enough to hinder the small stirring motions of my finger which distracts me and moves my focus to my hand.  Simple enough problem to solve, just stop moving my hand when I practice.  I thought it was a cool problem though, you know, accidental energy. haha

[horaciocs]

When I do such work, I usually try to stimulate the smaller centers with my hand's center's energy, they're much stronger than my feet's. I try to use my awareness to follow the energy in my hands.

[blis]

lol maybe you could try reversing it. Stir with your toe while targetting your hand and see if you get sensations in your foot.

[Jarrod]

Haha.  Good idea Blis.  Horaciocs, do you mean that you usually just work on your hands, or that you use your hands' energy to try to stimulate the centers in your feet?  My hands are the only part of my body I can feel energy with cuz I used to practice making psiballs.  I still do on occasion but I never developed past that level.  I'm trying to develop the energy centers in my feet now after reading some stuff Robert Bruce wrote about NEW.

[horaciocs]

Haha.  Good idea Blis.  Horaciocs, do you mean that you usually just work on your hands, or that you use your hands' energy to try to stimulate the centers in your feet?  My hands are the only part of my body I can feel energy with cuz I used to practice making psiballs.  I still do on occasion but I never developed past that level.  I'm trying to develop the energy centers in my feet now after reading some stuff Robert Bruce wrote about NEW.

That's about right, it is much, much easier to practice with my hands, I can do it anywhere all the time, so they're much more developed than the rest of my body. Later, when I have the time, I use them to try t activate smaller not-so-active centers. I don't practice it that often, though. I'm with you on my progress with NEW, I need to get through it and I think using the hands that way will be helpful.

*I don't touch my skin, though. If I do it messes up my awareness, so I have to keep a distance.

[Jarrod]

I'll try that, putting my hands close to my feet to try to use their ambient energy to stimulate my feet centers.  The thing that's supposed to be actually doing the stimulation though is the awareness itself...so is the energy from your hands really helping any?

[radman32]

I've stimulated my whole legs by focusing awareness to from my energy hands waving. I hadn't thought of it to work, but once i prompted my legs soon followed. Now I'm not sure what energy motions the feet follow, but i bet this could apply.
Now for feeding the legs energy, I've sat meditating and place my palms on my feet, and I could feel the energy climb up my calves (very trippy for a first experience). I think you might have to in some movement focus the energies and align them with the feet to give it energy. I don't know how exactly they would absorb it by absorbing the ambience with your hands ... ?

[horaciocs]

I'll try that, putting my hands close to my feet to try to use their ambient energy to stimulate my feet centers.  The thing that's supposed to be actually doing the stimulation though is the awareness itself...so is the energy from your hands really helping any?

I think that when you focus to feel the energy that comes form your pointing hand, you're exercising the awareness on the receiving hand. At least I feel the awareness moving as I focus it on where the tip of the moving finger is pointing. That way I combine moving awareness and feeling energy from the outside.

[Jarrod]

I tried awareness targeting in my hands and was surprised at how easily I can feel my awareness moving around in them.  I've just never tried it before and didn't know.

[CFTraveler]

I always felt it strongly in the soles of my feet if I imagine someone is tickling them with a paintbrush.  This really gets the feet going.

[horaciocs]

I never got the feet right, I tend to neglect them 

[Jarrod]

I've only been able to physically feel my awareness moving in my feet one time.  Most of the time it's just a vague feeling that's not quite physical but I can still tell it's there somehow.  The thing I think is most interesting though is that randomly throughout the day I will get random feelings in my feet and legs, especially the left side.  It's kind of like chills but slower and not as sharp, just feels...like energy I guess.  And at night as I'm drifting off to sleep I can feel a lot of energy activity in those same areas.