Microcosmic orbit VS NEW

[kajaLove]

hi

I want to start working with body's energies.I've heard opening microcosmic orbit(tao way) is a good start,but I'm wondering if perhaps with NEW method I would get results faster,and also if method itself is easier to learn and master?

what do you think?

cheers

[Tom]

NEW is an approach that you can use with the microcosmic orbit. I liked to imagine a ball like a tennis ball rolling along the path of the orbit. In addition to the tactile sensations, I often found myself creating sound effects while the ball rolled. It felt a lot more substantial than trying to just visualize some light going through the orbit. The important thing to keep in mind is that at some point, the energy might try to circulate differently than you expect it to. Mine reversed directions and started flowing on its own, but my teacher told me which way to make the energy flow so I used NEW to grab it and force it to flow the way I wanted. That was a mistake. It only took a couple of months of regular practice before the energy wanted to guide the practice instead of just going like the books and the teacher said. My teacher expected it to take years to reach that point, where the energy would guide the meditation instead of the meditation guiding the energy. NEW really made a difference.

[karnautrahl]

You will get results more easily with NEW however if you look carefully you'll find the same principle applies with each method. You have the full body sweep in the NEW system which when you bring in the spine and come up over the head into the mouth and down to the subnaval centre is the same virtually. The subtle differences which I incorporate anyway are, the closing of the perineum and the touching of the touch to the roof of your mouth to close the circuit.

It's certainly better to develope all the secondary systems properly before doing the orbit I would suggest.

[kajaLove]

I'm just wondering how safe NEW is.I mean other thechiques were developed over thousands of years and here we have one guy comming up with a system as good or better as those older ones?!

So it's perfectly safe to practice new without a teacher?

[karnautrahl]

It is. For a start the NEW system is not so much new completely as a carefully worked out and tested translation (for want of a better word) of many other older systems.
In the west we suffer from translation issues in learning eastern systems such as tai chi as many things are already explained in metaphor already in dialects of chinese and other languages. So when it's turned into English it gets tough to learn-harder than it needs to be.

Basic simple energy work actually gives you solid tactile awareness of the same energy structures that other practices are talking about. But it's given to you in a way that most people reading can follow with a little application and patience with themselves.
Intelligent use of the system as advised is definitly very safe. What isn't safe is to rush in and really try to work hard on primary energy centres before building up the supporting secondary systems.
I would suggest thoroughly reading through the NEW tutorials and also some of the chapters in astral dynamics-some of these explain the origins of the NEW method and how Robert tested and worked out the solidness of what was his idea initially. It's backed up by experiment and personal experience.

[kajaLove]

thank you

[karnautrahl]

You are welcome