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Awaken Healing Energy Through Tao | 
 enlarge | Author: Mantak Chia
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Not bad July 28, 2008
James Beauchamp (Dunkirk, MD, USA)
The author gives pretty good instructions for performing the meditation he describes. But he isn't quite as organized as I'd have liked him to be. I found myself constantly going back to the text to find out what I was supposed to do next. He have some cautions which were highly specific and didn't apply to me, then left it vague as to details on about knowing when you were supposed to move on to the next chi point. I kept feeling like I should buy more of his books to get more data, but resisted the temptation, thought I'd try his method first.
Had to take a break from meditation because of increasing migraines. He warned about that, but pushing through when you're in that much pain isn't an option if you want to show up for work. Coincidence? I'll try the method again to find out.
The good news is he does give a lot of how to advice, and you really can work his method on your own with just this book. It is consistent with other Taoist meditation books I have read, so further study and a good acupuncturist might be a good idea if you are serious about this.
 13 energy centers of the body July 23, 2008
Golden Lion (North Ogden, Ut United States)
1. A true smile is a sign of love, a transmitter of energy which has a warming, healing effect. In China, the Taoist taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insure health, happiness, and longevity. Smiling to yourself is like basking in love.
2. Points & Energy Centers: 1) Tan-Tien - Chi Chung (navel) 2) Kuan-Yuan (sperm place - men & ovarian place - women) 3) Hui-Yin (Perineum) 4) Chang-Chiang (Coccyx) 5) Ming-Men 6) Chi-Chung 7) Yu-Chen 8) Pai-Hui (Crown) 9) Ying-Tang (between eyebrowses) 10) Hsuan-Ying (palate) 11) Hsuan-Chi 12) Chuan-Chung (heart) 13) Chung-Kung (solar plexus) Direct your vision (thought and intent and chi) to the point you wish to active, and concentrate your mind on that point in the body. Do you create a visual image of the energy point in your mind. Instead concentrate thought and intent at that point.
3. Tan-Tien (Navel) The navel servers as a generator of electricity that supplies all the other points. As blood and chi are drawn to this point a deep rhythmic breathing is established, and the entire mid-section of the body becomes a huge pump, vigorously circulating the chi and blood throughout the organism. This circulation distributes the life substances and relieves the heart of its heavy burden. If you concentrate on the navel for a long-time and do not feel any energy, change your focus to the Ming-Men, the point opposite the navel on the spine. This helps the energy rise to the top of the head and down the front of the body to the feet. The experience of chi is different for everybody. For high blood pressure focus on the navel, it will help reduce pressure. Don't focus on the midbrowe or crown because that will increase blood pressure.
4. The second energy place is the Kuan-Yuan. To locate the point place your hand on your stomach with your thumbs at your navel. Sexually energy can be used to greatly increase the circulating of your chi.
5. The third energy center, Hui-Yin or perineum, the gate of life and death is found in the lower part of the trunk amidst the endings of many blood vessels and nerve endings. If you have congestion in chest or heart pain as a result of concentrating on this point shift your focus to the Ming-men. The Ming-men is the chi safety valve. Concentration on this point can often lead to vibration or warmeth.
6. The fourth energy center, back channel, the governor, Chang-Chiang, Coccyx is a very important point because it is here that energy is either returned to the body or lost. When the generative power is returned, it passes through the back channel into the spinal cord and then into the brain. This has been called the Passage door to the door of life and death because it is here that the warm current is said to enter the central nervous system.
7. Fifth energy point, Ming-Men (opposite of navel point), door of life. Ming-men is the mid-point of the kidney, L2 and L3 of the vertebrae. The Ming-men is the harmony point, containing Yin power. When you concentrate on this point power rise up to the head or descends to the feet. Concentrate on the Ming-men is power suddenly surges towards the head.
8. Sixth energy point, Chi Chung (opposite of the solar plexus on the spine). Those with diabetes may find that concentration on this point will help them to lower their blood sugar level. Allergy sufferers may also find relief by concentrating here.
9. Seventh energy point, Yu-Chen, back of the neck, the cerebellum. This part of the brain controls breathing, heartbeat, and various functions associated with automatic nervous system. People who have shoulder and upper back pains may find that the power will not be able to flow beyond those areas, at least will be slowed so that it take much longer for it to reach the head. If power builds up in the brain you may experience pain, nausa, illusions, irritability, insomnia, mood swings, and sleepiness.
10. Eighth energy point, Pai-Hui (Niwan) is the crown or pineal body and located above the mid-brain. The Niwan governs the hindbrain, hearing, body rhythm, equilibrium, perception of light through the eyes and skin, and is the superior counter-support of the brain and spinal chord. When power passes freely through this area, you will be afflicted less by illusion, you will be able to concentrate better, and your head will feel lighter. Light is associated with chi flow through this energy point. Those people with weak kidneys or sex drive see black. Those with liver disease see green. People with heart disease see red. Lung disease is expressed as white. Spleen and stomach illness is indicated in yellow and gall bladder disease is black.
11. Do not spend more than a month concentrating on one energy point.
12. The nineth energy center, Yin-Tang, point between the eyes, original cavity of the spirit. Yin-Tang is the master endoctrine control gland, regulating growth, gonadal function, the adrenals and the thyroid. Yin-Tang is said to govern the forebrain, the right eye, as well as being the seat of love, compassion, knowledge, integration or the seat of intelligence, conceptual memory(reading, thinking, studying), linear sequential time consciousness, abstract and conceptual thinking, compulsiviness, racism, sexism, and paranoia. The pituitary (Yin Tang) and the pineal gland (Niwan) are extremely important when completing routes, for it is at these points you can check power. When you concentrate on the navel and the store power, energy suddenly rises up and passes through the Niwan (pineal gland). The next check point is the Yin Tang (the pituitary gland. The rest of the points are not sensitive to test for power. To complete the route, the power has to flow down from the soft palate, through the tongue, into and through the throat, the Hsuan-chi, the Chuan-chung (Heart), the Chung-wan (solar plexus) and finally the navel. The completion of the microcosm energy cycle returns chi back to the navel cultivating internal power.
13. The tenth Energy Center, Tongue to Palate. Even though the palate is constructed of soft bone it takes a considerable period of sustained effort for most practitioners to penetrate it and complete the route. The palate links the front and back channels, and the tongue on the palate links the switch that enables the energy to flow in complete circuit.
14. The eleventh energy center, Hsuan-chi (throat) is the energy center of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Most people feel calm and less worried when this energy flows from the navel up to the throat and to the tongue and with no congestion in the chest.
15. The twelfth energy center is Shun-Chung, heart. Concentrating at the heart leads to great stores of energy, and so many people tend to concentrate longer on this point.
16. The thirteenth energy center, Chun-Kung (Solar Plexus). This area is the frontal site of many power centers (spleen, adrenal, pancreas, and stomach).
17. Always bring energy back to your navel. Collecting energy gathers up excess chi in the body and stores it in the navel. Gather protects your body organs from accumulating too much energy.
 Read "Taoist Yoga:: Alchemy and Immortality" instead, or also! June 24, 2007
Jonathan Garrison
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
If you want to understand what Taoist meditation is all about, and help yourself avoid the many dangerous obstacles of this very unique and wonderful - yet very serious - practice, you should at least read the book i suggested, as well. I can see people are deriving some benefit from Chia's book, but just from reading the table of contents and the first few pages, I can honestly recommend that you should study the methods of cultivating essential nature and eternal life from an immortal master of the advanced training methods, which Chia speaks of in the sample. The benefits you will derive from Charles Luk's translation of "The methods of cultivating essential nature and eternal life," called "Taoist Yoga..." will far surpass anything you will attain from Chia's, and incidentally help you avoid the many potential problems that can develop in this type of spiritual training. There are also some misconceptions about Taoist meditation in Chia's book that I can see right off the bat, and if you take my word, and check out Luk's book, you will at least be able to practice Chia's more effectively, and less dangerous! Take this sincere advice from someone who hasn't read but the first few pages of Chia's book, but who has actual first hand experience with the TRUE (complete, as opposed to Chia's incomplete) mechanisms of the generative force, vitality, spirit, the microcosmic orbit, and the original cavity of spirit, etc., etc., etc.. One thing I can't tell from the book is whether the whole method is based on turning back the flow of generative fluid, which is what real Taoist meditation is based on. One definite gross misconception that is readily available to view in the sample of Chia's is that Taoist meditation is not dependent on stopping the flux of thoughts in your mind while practicing. If you are TRULY SERIOUS about spiritual growth, progress, and prolonging and enjoying your life, then you must obtain and study Luk's book (AT LEAST as a companion to this one), which also warns against taking advice from the wrong guide, on numerous occasions. If you are NOT serious about attaining the many wonderful benefits that this advanced training method can give, I suggest you not practice Tao Yoga at all, and focus on something less serious for now. Those are my sincerest words, and I stand by them. I feel a responsibility to at least tell you my perspective, so you can make a more intelligent, wise decision.
Mind Training - Energy Circulation February 6, 2007
J. Lillevand (Sebastopol, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book describes the circulation of chi through the body. It is extremely helpful in pinpointing areas where the chi naturally builds. I have been using the techniques described in the book for several weeks now and feel more relaxed, food digests more readily as well as feeling more energetic.
Great book on energy practice December 12, 2005
L. POWER (San Francisco)
52 out of 55 found this review helpful
I am working through this book.
The main practice is the microcosmic orbit which uses the prenatal energy system. When you were in the womb you received all your nourishment and energy through the navel and this followed an energy pathway to the base of the spine and all the way up to your head, and back down the front to the navel to the dan tien where it is stored.
This exercise trains you get the pre natal energy flowing again.
Normally, as you go through life your energy does not flow upwards properly and becomes blocked contributing to the ageing process etc.
If you have any interest in energy practice, you should work with the microcosmic orbit. The only trouble is it may take a while before a conscious flow can be felt.
I recommend the five tibetans, which is a simple exercise routine you can do in five minutes. These are also referred to as the fountain of youth exercises. This also brings the energy up to your higher centers or psychic vortexes, and restores their function to youthful levels, thereby retarding the aging process. You can feel the kundalini (base of spine) energy being activated.
If you are new to energy, I recommend you also get Quantum Touch, which has some great exercises and visualizations which can literally have you moving energy within minutes.
Combining a few different methods has worked well for me. As with anything, the more you practice, the more you improve.
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