10-18-2010, 07:47 AM
You can do this with generic energy work and breathing exercises. It's like training a physical muscle, with the added challenge of not being aware of having the muscle in the first place and it potentially being so unused that even when you do accidentally activate it you don't really notice..
The outline is
1. Get a sense of energy so you know what's going on when it's going on.
2. Basic energy manipulations. Moving energy about your body. Especially the hands.
3. Massage the energy centers with your energy control. This is the step that takes some time.
4. As soon as the centers become stronger and you become aware of them start using them. This takes forever to perfect.
First off, getting a sense.
People feel energy in different ways, heat, cold, electric, pressure. Heat and pressure being the most common. To cause the first sensations there is a trick, it's useless after you get your first sense of control. But untill you have control here's how...
Close your eyes. Put your fingers flat on the table in front of you. Visualize hitting your index finger with a hammer.. Visualize! Doing this bit for real would be counter productive and well, stupid.. Then go wild imagining your finger is really hurt, shake it, protect it in your other hand... All things you do when you hurt your finger. Just vividly imagine it hurting. The idea is to fool your body into believing it's hurt so it will start a healing response. The first step in the healing response is to send energy to the hurt area. Allowing you to get a sense of what it feels like to you. So after about 10 seconds of exaggerating how incredibly hurt you are. Stop, put your attention on your hand and feel what it feels like. If all went well you should feel a heat pressure or tingling.. Congrats you are feeling energy...
Repeat this process a few times per day. It only takes 30 seconds in total. Ideal would be doing the exercise, going on with life, then when a few moments present themselves do the exercise. This will make you comfortable with the feeling and improves awareness. Don't do the finger all the time, do the trick with various body parts. Fingers, hands and face to start with as these are the most sensitive. But eventually all parts of the body are game.
Second, manipulate!
To do this we extend the first exercise.. Do it without imagining hurting yourself. Open your hand, look at it.. And use breathing to push the energy towards the hand. On the exhale imagine energy being pushed by the breath into the hand, on the inhale imagine the energy being pulled into the hand by the breath. This is called circular breathing. It creates a continuous energetic push unto an area. If you sucesfully finished the first phase. Then you probably feel your hand starting to charge up right away..
The trick here is to amplify the effect. By using breathing. 30 seconds of circular breathing should be enough to charge your hand. If you don't feel it getting stronger around that time. Stop, do something else, do it again later. Like a muscle this will grow with exercise, you cannot force it in one meditation session.
When you are confident that your hand is glowing. Hold it palm facing your face at a distance of an inch or two from your face. You should be able to feel the pressure you feel in your hand in your face. As if the hand is radiating. Which incidentally is exactly what it is doing.
Play with this... Explore your body, some parts of it are extremely sensitive to energy. Some parts are not. Ironically bones respond to energy pretty well. So check your knee joint and the large bones in your lower legs.
Third, the energy centers.
I presume you have a basic understanding of where your chakra's are, I'm not going to explain them and their associations as a google search will dig this up faster and better than me.
It takes longer to charge chakra's than the hand because the energy centers have a relatively large capacity for holding energy even untrained.
Start working on the third eye. It is the most sensitive chakra in my experience. Charge your hand, move your hand over your third eye. Imagine your energetic hand gently opening the petals of the third eye flower. See it opening in your minds eye. At the same time use circular breathing to charge the third eye. You can do this for longer stretches, up to 10 minutes. After that I don't expect added benefit for doing it longer.
After the third eye go for the heart. Think of a time when you were in love. Or when people have acted lovingly and beautiful. This naturally charges the heart and helps your exercise.
Third go for the belly chakra. This is a monster when it comes to energetic capacity. To many it takes a while to get this to respond. But steady practice should help. It works the same as the others.
Finally, you have to incorporate this in your life... This is why I gave the many short exercises. Short is better when you want to incorporate things into life... Eventually you will become constantly aware of your energy body. You'll begin to discover your own energetic rhythyms. Shifting energy around your body becomes a process of seconds. It will begin to feel like a body part which moves naturally at will.
If you want to use the chakra's to change parts of your life this is not the exact way to do it. That requires actively participating in those parts of life related to the chakra. Exercising your leg muscles daily in a gymn doesn't make you a fast runner. You need to run to become a fast runner. Same with chakras. Training them doesnt make you an adept. Using them does...
So for example if you're working on the chakra at the root of the spine, you'll need to participate in material well being. This means participating in a job, building on your house, taking care of loved ones.
Take care, if you try this let me know your experiences so I can calibrate the instructions for the next guy.
The outline is
1. Get a sense of energy so you know what's going on when it's going on.
2. Basic energy manipulations. Moving energy about your body. Especially the hands.
3. Massage the energy centers with your energy control. This is the step that takes some time.
4. As soon as the centers become stronger and you become aware of them start using them. This takes forever to perfect.
First off, getting a sense.
People feel energy in different ways, heat, cold, electric, pressure. Heat and pressure being the most common. To cause the first sensations there is a trick, it's useless after you get your first sense of control. But untill you have control here's how...
Close your eyes. Put your fingers flat on the table in front of you. Visualize hitting your index finger with a hammer.. Visualize! Doing this bit for real would be counter productive and well, stupid.. Then go wild imagining your finger is really hurt, shake it, protect it in your other hand... All things you do when you hurt your finger. Just vividly imagine it hurting. The idea is to fool your body into believing it's hurt so it will start a healing response. The first step in the healing response is to send energy to the hurt area. Allowing you to get a sense of what it feels like to you. So after about 10 seconds of exaggerating how incredibly hurt you are. Stop, put your attention on your hand and feel what it feels like. If all went well you should feel a heat pressure or tingling.. Congrats you are feeling energy...
Repeat this process a few times per day. It only takes 30 seconds in total. Ideal would be doing the exercise, going on with life, then when a few moments present themselves do the exercise. This will make you comfortable with the feeling and improves awareness. Don't do the finger all the time, do the trick with various body parts. Fingers, hands and face to start with as these are the most sensitive. But eventually all parts of the body are game.
Second, manipulate!
To do this we extend the first exercise.. Do it without imagining hurting yourself. Open your hand, look at it.. And use breathing to push the energy towards the hand. On the exhale imagine energy being pushed by the breath into the hand, on the inhale imagine the energy being pulled into the hand by the breath. This is called circular breathing. It creates a continuous energetic push unto an area. If you sucesfully finished the first phase. Then you probably feel your hand starting to charge up right away..
The trick here is to amplify the effect. By using breathing. 30 seconds of circular breathing should be enough to charge your hand. If you don't feel it getting stronger around that time. Stop, do something else, do it again later. Like a muscle this will grow with exercise, you cannot force it in one meditation session.
When you are confident that your hand is glowing. Hold it palm facing your face at a distance of an inch or two from your face. You should be able to feel the pressure you feel in your hand in your face. As if the hand is radiating. Which incidentally is exactly what it is doing.
Play with this... Explore your body, some parts of it are extremely sensitive to energy. Some parts are not. Ironically bones respond to energy pretty well. So check your knee joint and the large bones in your lower legs.
Third, the energy centers.
I presume you have a basic understanding of where your chakra's are, I'm not going to explain them and their associations as a google search will dig this up faster and better than me.
It takes longer to charge chakra's than the hand because the energy centers have a relatively large capacity for holding energy even untrained.
Start working on the third eye. It is the most sensitive chakra in my experience. Charge your hand, move your hand over your third eye. Imagine your energetic hand gently opening the petals of the third eye flower. See it opening in your minds eye. At the same time use circular breathing to charge the third eye. You can do this for longer stretches, up to 10 minutes. After that I don't expect added benefit for doing it longer.
After the third eye go for the heart. Think of a time when you were in love. Or when people have acted lovingly and beautiful. This naturally charges the heart and helps your exercise.
Third go for the belly chakra. This is a monster when it comes to energetic capacity. To many it takes a while to get this to respond. But steady practice should help. It works the same as the others.
Finally, you have to incorporate this in your life... This is why I gave the many short exercises. Short is better when you want to incorporate things into life... Eventually you will become constantly aware of your energy body. You'll begin to discover your own energetic rhythyms. Shifting energy around your body becomes a process of seconds. It will begin to feel like a body part which moves naturally at will.
If you want to use the chakra's to change parts of your life this is not the exact way to do it. That requires actively participating in those parts of life related to the chakra. Exercising your leg muscles daily in a gymn doesn't make you a fast runner. You need to run to become a fast runner. Same with chakras. Training them doesnt make you an adept. Using them does...
So for example if you're working on the chakra at the root of the spine, you'll need to participate in material well being. This means participating in a job, building on your house, taking care of loved ones.
Take care, if you try this let me know your experiences so I can calibrate the instructions for the next guy.