Which body do you stimulate?

[Tom]

Your energy body is bigger than your physical body. This is what you are really learning to work with. Congratulations on learning to work directly with your energy so quickly. You do not need to worry that you are draining parts of your body or that you are not correctly raising energy. When you are done raising energy you can intentionally direct it into your subnavel storage center. This keeps excess energy from being trapped in the heart, brain, or other places which are not as good as the subnavel storage center at storing energy. This drawing away of energy from the rest of the body is just to take away energy which is excess.

A technique which can help from Buddhism is to begin by seeing your entire body as composed of nothing but light. When your body and all of your energy centers and channels are seen as made of light then you can make much more drastic alterations to your energy currents without causing painful physical side effects for later. This can also be used to remove pains caused by blocked energy if it happens despite your best efforts.

[kakkarot]

well, krisajenkins, i suggest you do both. the "imaginary" one is most likely your spirit, while your physical one is quite obviously your physical foot. by learning how to feel and use both, you are learning more about yourself and can even later expand upon these two skills.

for instance, when i get injured, i usually signal my body to start healing the area, and i also get my energy to start healing the area as well: cuts healing time by a lot. one experiment i did last year was, when there was packed snow, i punched the snow with both my hands, thus causing dozens of tiny scratches all over the knuckles of both hands. i then used both my body and my spirit to heal one of the hands while i left the other one alone. the next day, the one i was trying to heal (don't remember which one, in case anyone would have cared) was healed completely (no scabs, no scars), while the other one took around 5 or 6 days to heal mostly (only the tiniest of scabs left, and only a few of those).

i can't remember if i have ever tried this experiment by healing one with the body and one with my energy, but i guess that would be an interesting thing to check out, eh? how 'boot, try it sometime and let me know the results?  

~kakkarot

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[krisajenkins]

Thanks very much for your responses guys http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>  Definitely room for more experimentation, but at least I'm not too far off course!

Tom, I'm intrigued - you offer this approach to "make much more drastic alterations to your energy currents".  I've never heard of this idea before.  I always thought the idea was to stimulate the pathways that naturally exist.  Am I mis-reading you, or is there a new branch of the subject I haven't heard about?  What kinds of alterations can you make, and why?

[Tom]

The primary chakras in Hinduism are 7 in number, but in Buddhism there are usually only 5. The difference is that the two top chakras of Hindu Yoga are regarded as a single chakra with a single location. The bottom two chakras are also regarded as a single chakra with a single location. Then there are the main three channels. Shushmna is the main channel going up the spine to the top of the head. Ida and pingali go along next to shushmna. They are often described as branching off of shushumna below the navel and going up to the top of the head, over the top to the face and down to the nostrils. Ida and pingali can be seen as going straight up and straight down or they can be considered as crossing over in three or more places and actually meeting each other and the shushumna at a single point: the third eye chakra. The description of the chakras and channels which is used depends on the meditation being used and the system being applied. If you have a reason to do it, you can meditate with particular chakras in particular places and then do another meditation with the same chakras but have them in different places or connected in different ways with different channels. This is all a bit extreme. Most of us will just have to worry about working with an unusually large amount of energy and pushing it through channels which are not open enough to handle it. Robert Bruce warns against rushing the development of the channels because if they are overstressed they can react by becoming more narrow than they had been before starting to develop them. Seeing the channels and the body they are in as composed of light can help to prevent or heal such stresses.

[krisajenkins]

Hey, that's good advice Tom http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/images/icon_Smile.gif" border=0>

I've been having some problems in that when I raise my energy more than a little, I tend to get a choking tension in my throat.  Seeing my throat as being composed of white light is really helping to ease that.

Thanks very much!

[krisajenkins]

Hey all,

I'm newly experimenting with NEW techniques, and I've reached a point where I'm not sure how to progress - perhaps someone can offer their advice?

When I try to mentally stimulate say, my foot, using tactile imaging, I find I have a choice.  I can either try and get actual physical feelings in my real foot, which works okay, or I can work with my foot as I naturally imagine it.  If I go with imaginary foot, I get much better results, in that I find I can locate & feel it much more easily, and in turn stimulating is easier.  Then, if I keep going for a minute or two, I usually get twitching or bubbling sensations in my real foot, or even feelings of cold liquid inside my bones, like evaporating petrol/gas.

Also, when I imagine my foot, it doesn't really matter if my imaginary foot is where my real foot is, or if I imagine it at chest level, where it's easier to 'hold'.  Wherever my imaginary foot is, I get the same feelings in my physical foot.

I think the feelings of cold liquid are what I'm aiming to achieve, but what worries me is that it's not my real foot I'm mentally stimulating.  Am I going to find, a few weeks down the lane, that I've not been storing energy?  Or that my results are from draining energy out of my physical foot?  Or something else frustrating!?

Does anyone have any experience in deciding between their two left feet?

Kris