River's Chi House

The following energetic 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. 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. We start with physical sensing. Let your mind calm and your bod...

"Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired." Technique for Relaxation by Paramhansa Yogananda:  First, close your eyes and expel the breath; switch off the attention and energy from the sense. Feel and mentally watch the heart and circulation. Calm the heart by the command of will, a s you stop a watch by gently touching its spring. With calmness you can arrest the activities of the entire physical machinery. Then switch on the Life Current in the spine and brain, disconnecting your Life Current from the five sense telephones. Convert your brain into a divine radio, receiving the Cosmic Sound of AUM. "Heavenly Father, Thy cosmic life and I are one. Thou art the ocean, I am the wave; we are one." "Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of ...