Ocean Breathing
Ocean Breathing." You Create a rhythmic resonance between your physical breathing and the wave movement of the ocean. It becomes a form of "internal chi breathing" because your mind focuses the wave movement deep inside the core energy channels of the body.
1. Stand comfortably, feet shoulder width apart. Relax your breathing, smile and focus in on the center of your body at navel level.
2. Start to rock back and forth gently, inhaling as you rock forward onto balls of feet, exhaling as you rock backward onto heels.
3. As you inhale, lift your relaxed arms to the sides, as if they were waves. As you exhale, let your arms float down. Hands, never touch, but you can imagine they are pulsing around an imaginary ball of energy emanating from your navel.
4. As the wave pulsing feeling grows, feel it penetrating deeper inside your body, into inner dimensions, and then pulsing back out again. Feel the outer wave expanding beyond your body into the room and as far as you are able to feel it. Practice for as long as you feel comfortable. You will get both relaxed and energized by the process.
5. Afterward s, cover your navel with both hands, and focus inside on any subtle feelings of vibration, warmth, or pulsation, teaches us to actually understand and experience deeply what it is that we are already doing with each breath.
What is "internal chi breathing?" This involves understanding the relationship between physical breathing and our energy body breathing. Our energy body is just the sum total of all energy channels and all the body-mind's subtle energy functions that underlie our personality traits. Most people are not aware of this relationship because they are looking at the world as a solid physical world full of solid objects. They are not seeing everything as an energetic process. The deeper you get into the Chi Gung way of living, the more you begin to embody and experience the world as changing energy fields. Your own body and breath is no different. There is a relationship between an energy field and a physical process. The pattern in that energy field is what determines the pattern in your physical breathing; it is not the other way around. You can change your physical breathing pattern. In order to do that, you have already made a shift energetically. The energy field shift always precedes the shifting pattern of physical breathing.
When we focus on internal chi breathing, what we are doing is acknowledging that there is something subtler than just the air going in and out. You can call that chi field your mind, the matrix of your mind, or whatever you like. It is pulsating, it is vibrating, and breathing like everything else in this living universe. It has to move. If it stops moving, it's dead. If it stops pulsating, it's dead.
This doesn't mean that if you have very light physical breathing that you are about to die. It is possible to have very shallow physical breath but very deep chi breath. This is not the case for most people. Usually those that have very shallow breathing also have very shallow movement of energy. This is not a healthy condition. Organs start to feel starved for breath and all kinds of problems start to come up. Internal Chi Breathing cures those problems at the deepest level where they begin by unifying the physical breath and the subtle breath.
Microcosmic Orbit Meditation
"What is Microcosmic Orbit Meditation?" you might ask.
According to Mantak Chia's Awaken Healing Energy through the Tao, The Microcosmic Orbit practice is the beginning of the process of the integration of mind and body in Taoist esoteric practice. The circulation of the Life Force or Chi in the Microcosmic Orbit is the first form of circulation in the developing foetus. This energy flow continues, normally unnoticed, throughout life. Much of modern living consists of unnatural diet, stressful work patterns, poor posture and sedentary entertainment resulting in the gradual accumulation of blockages to the natural circulation of Qi. The opening of the Orbit is the beginning of the reversal of this process. It is an important and tangible form of self-healing.
Taoist Meditation practice start with the opening of the Microcosmic Orbit. The Life Force (Qi) is introduced to each point on the body's two primary meridians or Yin and Yang energy channels. The front or Functional channel and the back or Governor channel are joined to form a circuit of continuous energy flow. This circuit is called the Microcosmic Orbit.
Practical, tangible health benefits result from opening the Microcosmic Orbit. Increased resistance to stress and illness are the most evident. A heightened general level of energy follows from the conservation and recycling of the Life Force. A distinctly more centered and harmonious awareness results from balancing of internal energies through their circulation in the Orbit. Lowered internal tension helps the immune system by promoting the freer flow of lymph fluids.
The Healing Tao is a practical system of self-development that enables individuals to complete the harmonious evolution of their physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Through a series of ancient Chinese meditative and internal energy exercises, the practitioner learns to increase physical energy, release tension, improve health, practice self-defense and gain the ability to heal oneself and others. In the process of creating a solid foundation of health and well-being in the physical body, one also creates the basis for developing their spiritual potential. By learning to tap the natural energies of the Sun, Moon, Earth, Stars and environmental forces around us, the practitioner attains the ability to develop and nurture a solid spiritual body. The ultimate goal of Taoist practice is to transcend physical boundaries through the development of the soul and the spirit within man.
The Healing Tao practices are derived from ancient Taoist and Buddhist techniques rooted in the processes of nature and are linked to Traditional Chinese Medicine. They have been gathered and integrated into a coherent, accessible system for well-being. The Healing Tao is not a religion and does not require the belief in any set of deities or gods. The techniques work directly with the life force, 'Qi,' flowing through the meridian system of the body. The aim of the Healing Tao is to restore the individual to a condition of harmony with the flow of the forces of nature. Master Chia's method of teaching is direct and practical. Years have been spent developing and perfecting techniques for passing these traditional practices to Western students. The emphasis is always on mastering the actual practice.
As a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner since 1983 and a Qigong master (Pranic Crystal Healer), the practice of the Microcosmic Orbit meditation is indispensable in my clinical healing practice and my spiritual growth. The Microcosmic Orbit is the key to balancing energies in the body and the basic foundation for other advanced meditative practices such as the Melchizedek method and Holographic Sound Healing which I also facilitate. The Earth, Cosmic and Heavenly Energies derived from Merkabah activations are circulated, stored and grounded in the body's Microcosmic Orbit enhancing the physical, energy and spirit bodies while preventing at the same time Kundalini syndrome (psychosis) and other side effects of ungrounded energy practices.