Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Techniques for Rejuvenating the Blood and Bone
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ISBN-13: 9781594771125
ISBN-10: 159477112X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 185 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 159477112X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 185 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Colecția Destiny Books
Locul publicării:United States
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Notă biografică
A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Healing Tao System in North America in 1979 and developed it worldwide as European Tao Yoga and Universal Healing Tao. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northern Thailand and is the author of 50 books, including Taoist Foreplay, Inner Smile, Cosmic Fusion, Sexual Reflexology, and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.
Extras
from Chapter 2
Healthy Bones
Bone Breathing and Bone Compression
There are many health benefits to Bone Breathing and Bone Compression. These techniques can be used independently of the other Bone Marrow Nei Kung exercises. They can be practiced anywhere, even while riding on a bus or waiting on line, as long as there are no serious distractions. They help to remove fat from the bone marrow and create space for the marrow to grow, thereby increasing one’s ability to produce blood cells. They also relieve tension in the muscles, permitting Chi and blood to circulate freely.
The use of external energy to fortify the bones is a meditative process which uses long, deep breathing cycles. Bone Breathing draws Chi in through the fingertips, the toes, and all of the protruding bones, spreading it throughout the skeletal structure. This energy is then compressed into the bones through muscular contractions, forcing Chi into the cavities of the body. Bone Compression thus completes the Bone Breathing process by retaining the accumulated energy.
BONE BREATHING
Bones are extremely porous, and they are always “breathing.” The pores allow the passage of oxygen, blood, and nutrition through the bones in the same way a sponge absorbs and releases water. Bone Breathing draws external Chi in through the skin, muscles, and tendons to be combined with sexual energy and compressed into the marrow of the bones through the Bone Compression practice. This process uses the combined energies to create the heat necessary to burn the fat out of the marrow.
Bone Breathing Step by Step
You should be certain that the Microcosmic Orbit is clear of any blockages before starting. Regulate your breathing, then circulate your energy through the Microcosmic Orbit for several cycles.
Look at the illustration of the human skeleton. Notice the size, shape, and placement of the bones. Then, one arm at a time, trace your way up from the fingertips, through the bones of the hand and wrist, the radius and ulna of the forearm, the humerus of the upper arm, the collar bone (clavicle) in front, and the shoulder blade in back. Trace the legs in the same manner. This illustration should help as a guide for the energy flow in your practice.
Initiate Bone Breathing with the fingers of one hand until you feel energy moving in and out of that hand. Continue breathing up into each section of the arm. Begin your practice with the fingers of the right hand if you are right-handed, or with the left hand if you are left-handed. Practice using the fingers of the opposite hand, and then both hands together, moving up both arms, and so on. Similarly, practice on the right (or left) toes, and then the toes of the opposite foot, and then continue up the legs.
Some people find it useful to extend the hand they intend to breathe into, palm down, pointing outward horizontally, at chest level. This aids in concentrating on the fingers of that hand. Between each step, rest for as long as you feel the need to do so. Place your hands on your legs, palms up, and close your eyes during each testing period.
Initiating Bone Breathing: Breathing through the Fingers
With your hand raised gently pull up the sexual organs and anus with each breath. Draw the energy in as you inhale; push the energy out as you exhale. As you inhale, sink the elbow down, and draw the energy in. Then exhale, extend your hand out slightly from the rising elbow and release the energy. As you watch with your mind’s eye, see the fingers beginning to breathe. Breathe through your nose in long, deep, but gentle cycles.
1. Start with the index finger. The bones in the tips of the fingers are pointed and can draw in energy. Begin the Bone Breathing process from the index finger, which offers the most sensation of the energy entering and leaving. Bend and sink the elbow while holding the lower arm up. Relax the wrist, hands, and fingers.
2. Draw warm energy into the cool fingertip. Sense a cold feeling in the tip of your index finger. Sink your elbow and slowly pull in the entire hand--finger extended--with a long, gentle breath. Be aware of the energy as it enters into the tip of that finger only.
3. Release the energy with the breath. Exhale, permitting the elbow to rise slightly as you slowly extend the hand. Feel the sensation of the energy leaving the extended finger.
4. Breathe into the fingers individually. Next, breathe into the second, third, and fourth fingers, and finally the thumb. These need not be done individually every time you practice. This is intended only to help you to isolate the feeling of energy by concentrating on one small area at a time.
Eventually all fingers will be used to draw energy simultaneously into both hands. The finger bones do not have much fat; hence, there is little resistance to the energy. Once you bring the energy past the finger bones into the ulna and radius bones of the arm, you will encounter more fat; therefore, breathing into them may require more practice. Now compare the fingers of the hand that has experienced Bone Breathing with the fingers of the hand that you have not yet worked on. You should notice a difference.
5. Inhale through all of your fingertips, filling the knuckles with Chi. Pull up slightly on the sexual organs as you draw energy in through your fingers. Then inhale, and hold for a while, feeling the energy as an increasing fullness, or swelling, in all fingers. Exhale and rest. Now breathe into your entire hand, visualizing all the bones you observed in the illustration of the skeleton. Then exhale, releasing the energy. From this point on you will always breathe into the whole hand when you begin the exercise.
Healthy Bones
Bone Breathing and Bone Compression
There are many health benefits to Bone Breathing and Bone Compression. These techniques can be used independently of the other Bone Marrow Nei Kung exercises. They can be practiced anywhere, even while riding on a bus or waiting on line, as long as there are no serious distractions. They help to remove fat from the bone marrow and create space for the marrow to grow, thereby increasing one’s ability to produce blood cells. They also relieve tension in the muscles, permitting Chi and blood to circulate freely.
The use of external energy to fortify the bones is a meditative process which uses long, deep breathing cycles. Bone Breathing draws Chi in through the fingertips, the toes, and all of the protruding bones, spreading it throughout the skeletal structure. This energy is then compressed into the bones through muscular contractions, forcing Chi into the cavities of the body. Bone Compression thus completes the Bone Breathing process by retaining the accumulated energy.
BONE BREATHING
Bones are extremely porous, and they are always “breathing.” The pores allow the passage of oxygen, blood, and nutrition through the bones in the same way a sponge absorbs and releases water. Bone Breathing draws external Chi in through the skin, muscles, and tendons to be combined with sexual energy and compressed into the marrow of the bones through the Bone Compression practice. This process uses the combined energies to create the heat necessary to burn the fat out of the marrow.
Bone Breathing Step by Step
You should be certain that the Microcosmic Orbit is clear of any blockages before starting. Regulate your breathing, then circulate your energy through the Microcosmic Orbit for several cycles.
Look at the illustration of the human skeleton. Notice the size, shape, and placement of the bones. Then, one arm at a time, trace your way up from the fingertips, through the bones of the hand and wrist, the radius and ulna of the forearm, the humerus of the upper arm, the collar bone (clavicle) in front, and the shoulder blade in back. Trace the legs in the same manner. This illustration should help as a guide for the energy flow in your practice.
Initiate Bone Breathing with the fingers of one hand until you feel energy moving in and out of that hand. Continue breathing up into each section of the arm. Begin your practice with the fingers of the right hand if you are right-handed, or with the left hand if you are left-handed. Practice using the fingers of the opposite hand, and then both hands together, moving up both arms, and so on. Similarly, practice on the right (or left) toes, and then the toes of the opposite foot, and then continue up the legs.
Some people find it useful to extend the hand they intend to breathe into, palm down, pointing outward horizontally, at chest level. This aids in concentrating on the fingers of that hand. Between each step, rest for as long as you feel the need to do so. Place your hands on your legs, palms up, and close your eyes during each testing period.
Initiating Bone Breathing: Breathing through the Fingers
With your hand raised gently pull up the sexual organs and anus with each breath. Draw the energy in as you inhale; push the energy out as you exhale. As you inhale, sink the elbow down, and draw the energy in. Then exhale, extend your hand out slightly from the rising elbow and release the energy. As you watch with your mind’s eye, see the fingers beginning to breathe. Breathe through your nose in long, deep, but gentle cycles.
1. Start with the index finger. The bones in the tips of the fingers are pointed and can draw in energy. Begin the Bone Breathing process from the index finger, which offers the most sensation of the energy entering and leaving. Bend and sink the elbow while holding the lower arm up. Relax the wrist, hands, and fingers.
2. Draw warm energy into the cool fingertip. Sense a cold feeling in the tip of your index finger. Sink your elbow and slowly pull in the entire hand--finger extended--with a long, gentle breath. Be aware of the energy as it enters into the tip of that finger only.
3. Release the energy with the breath. Exhale, permitting the elbow to rise slightly as you slowly extend the hand. Feel the sensation of the energy leaving the extended finger.
4. Breathe into the fingers individually. Next, breathe into the second, third, and fourth fingers, and finally the thumb. These need not be done individually every time you practice. This is intended only to help you to isolate the feeling of energy by concentrating on one small area at a time.
Eventually all fingers will be used to draw energy simultaneously into both hands. The finger bones do not have much fat; hence, there is little resistance to the energy. Once you bring the energy past the finger bones into the ulna and radius bones of the arm, you will encounter more fat; therefore, breathing into them may require more practice. Now compare the fingers of the hand that has experienced Bone Breathing with the fingers of the hand that you have not yet worked on. You should notice a difference.
5. Inhale through all of your fingertips, filling the knuckles with Chi. Pull up slightly on the sexual organs as you draw energy in through your fingers. Then inhale, and hold for a while, feeling the energy as an increasing fullness, or swelling, in all fingers. Exhale and rest. Now breathe into your entire hand, visualizing all the bones you observed in the illustration of the skeleton. Then exhale, releasing the energy. From this point on you will always breathe into the whole hand when you begin the exercise.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Putting Bone Marrow Nei Kung Into Practice
Foreword: Chinese Secrets of Bone Power by Michael Winn
Introduction: Self-Enhancement Through Taoist Practices
1 Understanding Bone Marrow Nei Kung
2 Healthy Bones: Bone Breathing and Bone Compression
3 Sexual Energy Massage
4 Hitting
5 Chi Weight Lifting
6 Developing Your Bone Marrow Nei Kung Practice
Appendix 1: Supplementary Practices
Appendix 2: Meridian Points
About the Author
The Universal Tao System and Training Center
Index
Recenzii
"This system of Taoist exercises will create an inner fitness in addition to the Western ideal of physical and muscular fitness. . . . Even if you are just interested in living longer and living healthier (and who isn't?), this system will fascinate you."
Descriere
Most Westerners believe that a daily physical exercise program helps slow the aging process. Yet those whose bodies appear most physically fit on the outside often enjoy only the same life span as the average nonathletic person. It is the internal organs and glands that nourish every function of the body, and it is the bone marrow that nourishes and rejuvenates the organs and glands through the production of blood. By focusing only on the muscles without cultivating the internal organs, bones, and blood, the Western fitness regimen can ultimately exhaust the internal system. In Bone Marrow Nei KungMaster Mantak Chia reveals the ancient mental and physical Taoist techniques used to “regrow” bone marrow, strengthen the bones, and rejuvenate the organs and glands. An advanced practice of Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Bone Marrow Nei Kung was developed as a way to attain the “steel body” coveted in the fields of Chinese medicine and martial arts. This method of absorbing energy into the bones revives the bone marrow and reverses the effects of aging through the techniques of bone breathing, bone compression, and sexual energy massage, which stimulates the hormonal production that helps prevent osteoporosis. Also included is extensive information on chi weight lifting and the practice of “hitting” to detoxify the body.