Absorb The Colors Chi Kung

There is a wonderful chi kung I would like to share with you today. I call it Absorb the Colors Chi Kung. It was taught to me by Lady Fxi. It is something that is good for the whole of your being and has wonderful benefits for your eyes. I highly recommend you do this chi kung while walking and if a woods or park is nere by do it there. First do a few Sky Nourishes Earth. Remember Sky Nourishes Earth? Ok, for those who do not know it, here it is once more.

Sky Nourishes TheEarth.

This is good for relieving or preventing the harmful effects of stress. It is also good for eliminating or preventing headaches and many kinds of pain. It is also a good way to monitor and release unnecessary muscle tension and bad breathing patterns. First, become aware of or feel the area around the top of your head. Now feel your g.v. 20 or bai hui area. You can find the acupoints I am writing about and what they do by clicking the highlighted links..http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/locations_theory_and_clinical_applications Place a smile there. Feel your upper dan tien. The upper dan tien is in the middle of the brain. Let it smile. Feel your middle dan tien and imagine it smiling at you. The middle dan tien is in the middle of the chest cavity between the nipples. Feel your lower dan tien. The lower dan tien is in the lower abdomen about three inches below the belly button in the bladder area. Imagine it smiling with you. Feel your kd.1 or gushing springs at the bottom of your feet. http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/kidney_meridian_graphic  Notice that they are smiling and happy. Now we start. The intent of this practice is two fold. First to bring Heaven and Earth energy down through bai hui into your whole body and relax, heal and strengthen it. Then, to guide or move any bad or toxic chi out through our hands and feet and into the Earth and Sky where it will be used for good. While there are two aspects to this chi kung, they are done as one fluid and continuous movement. It is important to understand the intention of any chi kung practice before you do it. The Universe responds to our intentions. The clearer and stronger our intent the stronger will be the Universe's response. There is a saying in chi kung that " Chi follows yi." That would mean in English that energy follows disciplined intentional actions. In practice that means if you want chi to move in your body you must bring your awareness to that part of the body and move your awareness in patterns that you want the chi to move in. Thus "chi follows yi." There will come a time when you will pace your internal movements through your body with your breath. When you first start to practice chi kung do not worry too much about pacing with your breath. Just breathe naturally making sure you are belly breathing. Now let us start.

Bring your awareness to your hair and top of your head. Feel your bai hui. Let your awareness guide Heaven chi by flowing like warm water, down through bai hui into and through your body. From the top of your head move down through your smiling upper dan tien. Release any unnecessary muscle tension you encounter as you journey through your body. From your neck move through your shoulders and down your arms and out your hands. At the same time move down through the trunk of your body ( notice the middle and lower smiling dan tiens as you pass through them) to your pelvic floor. From there flow down your legs to the bottom of your feet and out through the gushing springs into the earth. As your intentional awareness guides Heaven chi through your energy/material body intend and know that it is cleaning out any toxic energy that has accumulated within you. Imagine that the chi of the Heaven is strengthening and healing and loving you. Know that as the chi from your body enters the earth any toxic energy is transformed into healing energy for the mother earth. As you move through your body you will find areas that are tight and pulled in and up with muscle tension. Just gently relax and soften these muscles and feel them sinking down towards your center of gravity in the lower dan tien. You might notice a subtle current like sensation as you move through your body from top to bottom, skin to the core. The more you can feel and pay attention to that current the stronger your ability to cultivate chi. Do not worry if you can not feel the current at first. Sooner or later, as you practice more, you will feel it. Feel yourself as you go down through your body from your skin to your connective tissue to your muscles to your tendons to your bones. Try to feel your organs as you pass through your body from head to foot. Notice all three dan tiens and especially the smiles in your middle and lower dan tien. When you can, smile at the smiles you meet as you flow through your body. Be aware of your breath as it enters and leaves your body. As you breathe in remember to feel the lower abdomen expand and as you breathe out feel it contract. If this is not happening, please pay more attention to how you breathe until it becomes natural for you. This will take time for most people. You must learn to breathe this way to rid yourself of headaches and reduce high blood pressure. Notice what areas of your body you can feel easily. These areas arecalled "awake." Notice areas of your body you cannot feel. These areas are called "asleep." Every time you pass through your body try to wakeup more of the parts of your body that are "asleep." Do many passes of Sky Nourishes Earth. Do Sky Nourishes Earth many times during your days and nights. It is very helpful for releasing muscle tension and making sure your breathing is healthy.When you want to end sky Nourishes Earth bring your awareness back toyour lower dan tien. Take three complete breaths. In hale to lower dan tien and exhale from lower dan tien. Your intent is to bring any excess chi generated during the practice to your lower dan tien. Excess chi stored in the lower dan tien can be used whenever and wherever it might be needed in the future. This bringing excess chi to the lower dan tien is called gathering the chi. You gather the chi to your lower dan tien at the end of any chi kung practice. This gathering of the chi is very important do not forget it.

Sky Nourishes Earth Can be found in the "Swimming In The Ocean Of Chi "section of this blog.

After you have centered yourself and relaxed your body and are belly breathing to and from the lower dan tien you are ready. Now massage or rub your face and head for about a minute or so. Pay attention to the area around your eyes and make sure your jaws are relaxed and your mouth is slightly open. Keeping your head relatively still look up and move your eyes in a clockwise circle five to ten times. Be sure to actually see with your eyes as you rotate them. Look with intent and move slow enough to really see what you see. Now repeat the same thing moving your eyes counter clockwise, five or ten times. Remember to move slow enough to actually see what you see as you rotate your eyes. After you finish rotating your eyes, close them for a little bit and let them rest. Now open them and pick a small point ahead of you and look at it for about five or ten seconds and then, not moving your head or eyes use your peripheral vision to see as far to the sides as you can without straining for about ten seconds. Do this three to five times if you can. Then close your eyes and let them rest for a little bit.Now you are ready for "Absorb the Colors Chi Kung." When doing any chi kung it is always good to smile. When you cannot smile just turn the sides of your lips up now and then during your practice. As you walk, make sure you are belly breathing and notice and release any unnecessary muscle tension.

The intent of this chikung is to absorb colors from nature into the organs that relate to them and then to spred that good healing energy through your whole body. This chi kung will force you to look around you as you walk to find the colors you need. This movement of your eyes will help your eyes grow stronger and sense the liver is related to your eyes it will also help your liver. And sense liver relates to anger and creativity it will help ease anger and increase creativity. There are many wonderful benefits to this chi kung. Each organ you treat with this chi kung will benift and all the things that the organ relates to will benefit as well. The more you do this chi kung and the longer you do it, the better will be the effects. I urge you to make this chi kung a regular part of your life.

Imagine that your eyes and skin are one big nose and the organ you are nourishing is your lungs. As you look at a color imagine as you inhale that you are breathing the essence and beauty of that color into your body through your eyes and entire skin surface and through your body to the corresponding organ. As you breath out imagine the energy of the color is spreading out from it's organ through the whole body and pushing any bad chi back out though your eyes and skin into the air where it is used for good by the Earth. Look at the picture of the Five Elements and you can see the colors and which organs they relate to and how the flow moves.

First is Liver, and it's color is green. Look around and locate a beautiful green color. As you inhale guide the green healing chi through your eyes and skin and into and through your entire body to your liver. Imagine the healing green chi is cleaning and nourishing your liver, because it is. As you exhale, imagine the green healing chi is flowing out from your liver and through your whole body. Imagine it is healing and strengthening you and pushing out any bad chi through your eyes and skin and into the Earth and Sky where it will be used for good. Repeat the process with each ogran in their turn. From liver move to the heart.. The heart's color is red. Look around and find a beautiful red color. Repeat the process using the color red and the heart. From the heart, move to stomach, who's color is yellow. Repeat the movements using the color yellow and the stomach. From stomach, move to lungs. who's color is white. Repeat the movement using the color white and the lungs. From the lungs, move to the kidneys, who's color is blue-black or purple. Repeat the movements using one of the kidney colors and the kidneys. From the kidneys, move back to the green liver, and continue around the body.

I do this chi kung a lot while walking outside. Sometimes I do it a few rounds. Sometimes I do it for a half an hour. After you are done absorbing the colors, inhale and exhale three times from your skin to the lower belly or lower dan tien. The intent is to gather and store excess chi generated by the exercise to your lower dan tien.

While it is wonderful to do "Absorb the Colors" while you walk outside and absorb the chi from living plants, you can also do it sitting outside or even inside. Sometimes there is a lack of plant color so I use whatever I need from other things like paint or red from tail lights of cars or whatever it is I see. Sometimes I go to an art museum and absorb the colors there. Or I do it while I am a passenger in a car or just sitting in my house. I make sure I have all five colors in beautiful forms in the room before I start the chi kung. I urge you to experiment and play with Absorb the Colors Chi Kung, You will get out of it what you put into it.Have a wonderful time my friends. I wish you well.