Fire in the Heart. The First Energy Exercise I Practiced Before I Encountered Chi Kong.

The first chi kung I am sharing is not Chinese but is from a mystical school in Nicosia Cyprus. Their web site is worth checking out.http://www.researchersoftruth.org/

I studied with a branch of this group in Cleveland Ohio before I had heard of chi kung. This simple to do exercise was my first introduction to energy work and resulted in me having a very powerful and transformative experience. There are some things I am going to leave out about how to do this exercise in a more profound way because I do not want to be responsible for any consequences you might experience. You can get in touch with the people of the above web site if you want to explore further. The parts that follow are very good and powerful independently and I urge you to try it out over a period of time.

I had done this exercise everyday for a number of weeks when at the end of a practices I felt a huge wind sweep through my room and felt like I was about to be blown off the bed. I was wide awake but unable to move. Other things happened inside and outside my body that are inexplicable but they did happen. I did not do the exercise again for almost a year. Nothing like what happened that day has happened since. Then again I do not do the parts of the exercise I left out. Maybe one day I will do it again, but not now. (sigh)

This following exercise has three important aspects. The first is physical sensing. That is being aware of an area of your body. The second is kinetic sensing. That is moving your awareness over and through an area of your body. The third aspect is using visualization within an area of your body and an area surrounding your body.

We start with physical sensing.

Let your mind calm and your body relax from head to toe and from outside too deep within. When you find your mind wondering during the practice gently let go of the thought or emotion and return to the practice. When you find any unnecessary tension in the body gently relax and return to the practice. This holds true for any chi kung practice you are doing.

1) Bring your awareness to your feet. Feel your feet. One of my friends recommends that if you have a hard time feeling a part of your body that you touch and even rub that part and then feel it with your awareness. Feel the bottom of your feet. Feel the sides and the top of your feet. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones. Just feel as much and as deeply as you can without too much effort. The more you do it the more you will feel. One of my teachers said the key is "effortless effort." another teacher said that it is like doing like you are not doing but still do. Another said use relaxed intensity. Take your pick.

2) Feel your lower legs. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones.

3) Feel your upper legs to the hips. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones.

4) Feel your lower abdomen. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel your sex organ. Feel your buttocks. Fell the muscles and tendons and bones. Fell the bladder and the intestines.

5) Feel your chest area and shoulders. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones. Feel the major organs, stomach, spleen, liver, kidneys, heart, and lungs.

6) Feel your upper arms. Fell the skin, front back and sides. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones.

7) Feel your lower arms. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones.

8) Feel your neck/throat. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel your muscles and vertebrate. Feel the inside of your throat.

9) Feel your head. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the muscles and bones. Feel the mouth and tong. Feel the eyes and ears. Feel the brain and its cavity.

10) Feel the space around your whole body where the skin meets the surface it is touching be it air or floor or your clothes or shoes or anything else. Just feel as much as you can.

Part 2 Kinetic sensing or moving awareness.

1) Let your awareness move or flow through the tips of your toes through your feet to your ankles.

2) Feel your awareness move from your feet through your lower legs to your knees.

3) From your knees let your awareness flow up through your upper legs to your hips.

4) From your hips flow through your lower abdomen and sex organs and buttocks to the diaphragm and the floor of your rib cage.

5) From your diaphragm and floor of your rib cage move through your upper chest to your shoulders.

6) From your shoulders move your awareness down the upper arms to your elbows.

7) From your elbows move down the lower arms to your wrists.

8) From your wrists move your awareness through your hands to the tips of your fingers.

9) From your upper torso move your awareness through your neck.

10) From your throat move your awareness through your head to the top of your skull.

11) Feel the space where the skin or hair on the top of your head meets the air.

12) Finally using your imagination and your awareness move from the space above your head through your whole body including the area around your body to a place just below the bottom of your feet.

Part 3: Visualization sensing. 1) See and feel your feet and legs filled with bright vibrating white light.

2) See and feel a bright blue white ball of light vibrating in and filling up your abdomen.

3) See and feel a bright pink white ball of energy vibrating in your heart area filling up your chest.

4) See and feel your arms and hands filled with vibrating bright white light.

5) See and fell your neck/throat filled with a vibrating orange white ball of light.

6) See and feel your head filled with a bright vibrating golden white ball of light.

7 See and feel your whole body surrounded by a beautiful gold and white egg shaped bright light.

8) Rest in the golden egg as long or as short as you like. When you are ready, see and feel the golden light moving from the outside of your body through your whole body into your lower abdomen. Feel the lower abdomen expand as you inhale and contract as you exhale for three breaths. Than relax. You have completed the practice. You can do this exercise in bed, sitting down or even walking. You can do it as short or as long as you desire.