Post by Icarus on Feb 1, 2007 8:58:54 GMT -5
Originally posted by Jinsei***
This exercise is a good way to learn how to pull energy up from the ground, and send it out through your hands.
1. Feeling your finger: Hold a finger in the air, tune into the sensations in your finger. Spend 2 minutes or more feeling as much sensation as you can by focusing your awareness there. By increasing the awareness of the sensations, you are causing physiological changes to occur there as well. actually sensing life-force energy.(Gordon, 30) You might feel tingling, or a sense of vibration, heat, thickness, or heaviness. If you can't feel any of these sensations, try imagining you are stroking your finger with a feather, and pay close attention to the sensation.
2. Feeling your body. While you are lying down, have a friend lightly stroke upwards from your feet to your ankles with a gentle sweeping motion for 2-5 seconds, then move away. Focus on the sensation of her touch, and then hold the awareness of that feeling in your head for as long as you can. When you are ready, have your friend stroke from your ankles to your shins. Focus on that sensation for a while. Continue this pattern up to the head working in short sweeps, and then down from the shoulders to the hands.
3. 18" sweeps. Repeat the exercise above, doing longer sweeps: about 18" long, still lasting only 2-5 seconds. This will help you more fluidly and consciously move the energy through your body. If there's a blocked area you're having trouble feeling, have your partner sweep it again. If you can't bring sensation to that area after three times, just move on to the next exercise.
4. Full body sweeps. Have your friend do one quick stroke from your feet all the way up your front, down your arms and out your hands. Then try to re-create for yourself the experience and bring as much sensation through your body as possible. Do this until it becomes easy to bring about whole body sensation with the power of intention. Then do one large sweep on the back.
5. Recreate the sensations of the full body sweep using your mind. You can practice running this energy any time, anywhere. The more you practice, the easier it becomes. Use your inhale to pull the energy up from your feet to your head, then send it down your arms and out your hands on the exhale.
(Summarized from Gordon, pp. 30-39)
This exercise is a good way to learn how to pull energy up from the ground, and send it out through your hands.
1. Feeling your finger: Hold a finger in the air, tune into the sensations in your finger. Spend 2 minutes or more feeling as much sensation as you can by focusing your awareness there. By increasing the awareness of the sensations, you are causing physiological changes to occur there as well. actually sensing life-force energy.(Gordon, 30) You might feel tingling, or a sense of vibration, heat, thickness, or heaviness. If you can't feel any of these sensations, try imagining you are stroking your finger with a feather, and pay close attention to the sensation.
2. Feeling your body. While you are lying down, have a friend lightly stroke upwards from your feet to your ankles with a gentle sweeping motion for 2-5 seconds, then move away. Focus on the sensation of her touch, and then hold the awareness of that feeling in your head for as long as you can. When you are ready, have your friend stroke from your ankles to your shins. Focus on that sensation for a while. Continue this pattern up to the head working in short sweeps, and then down from the shoulders to the hands.
3. 18" sweeps. Repeat the exercise above, doing longer sweeps: about 18" long, still lasting only 2-5 seconds. This will help you more fluidly and consciously move the energy through your body. If there's a blocked area you're having trouble feeling, have your partner sweep it again. If you can't bring sensation to that area after three times, just move on to the next exercise.
4. Full body sweeps. Have your friend do one quick stroke from your feet all the way up your front, down your arms and out your hands. Then try to re-create for yourself the experience and bring as much sensation through your body as possible. Do this until it becomes easy to bring about whole body sensation with the power of intention. Then do one large sweep on the back.
5. Recreate the sensations of the full body sweep using your mind. You can practice running this energy any time, anywhere. The more you practice, the easier it becomes. Use your inhale to pull the energy up from your feet to your head, then send it down your arms and out your hands on the exhale.
(Summarized from Gordon, pp. 30-39)