A meditation method for physical mastery and health
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Establish 6 directions in whole body from hair to toes. When force go up, it goes down too. When left, right too. When front, back too. Feel whole body always moving in 6 directions at the same time. Everything should move exactly the same from all smallest parts to the holistic force. This establish in standing meditation firstly.
Stay 30 minutes to 3 hours without moving at all externally, though inside(and aura wise)the body always moves in the 6 directions. This vibration becomes more and more subtle and strogly felt at the same time. It is the perpetual change in stillness achieved on physical body.
Feel the yin and the yang. To manifest external force, combine all wavelenghts like they push on each other, all multiplying force of one another; Thus 1 unit of internal power may produce 1000 unit of external power. It is a great accomplishement. Even 1% mastery is very good.
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@Hermes said
"Establish 6 directions in whole body from hair to toes. When force go up, it goes down too. When left, right too. When front, back too. Feel whole body always moving in 6 directions at the same time. Everything should move exactly the same from all smallest parts to the holistic force. This establish in standing meditation firstly.
Stay 30 minutes to 3 hours without moving at all externally, though inside(and aura wise)the body always moves in the 6 directions. This vibration becomes more and more subtle and strogly felt at the same time. It is the perpetual change in stillness achieved on physical body.
Feel the yin and the yang. To manifest external force, combine all wavelenghts like they push on each other, all multiplying force of one another; Thus 1 unit of internal power may produce 1000 unit of external power. It is a great accomplishement. Even 1% mastery is very good."
Good post, although I'd say 30 minutes is a bit much to start with for someone who's never done any of this kind of thing. No need to be macho
As with all these types of things, start with several small sessions of a minute or two interspersed throughout the day. Play with it like you'd play about learning to skateboard or something like that - take it as a fun experiment.A good entryway into the correct feeling is the standard qigong thing: put your hands in front of you, palms facing (as if holding a medicine-ball sized ball by the sides). Breathe normally and relax. Start to "play" ever so slightly with the hands, pulling them apart by a tiny, almost imperceptible amount, and back together by a tiny, almost imperceptible amount, as if you've got soft toffee or something like that between them. Just play like that for a bit. After a certain period of this, you may start to feel something like a "magnetic" flux between the palms (when you get this feeling, you can stop visualizing toffee or whatever, the visualization is only meant to induce the feeling). This can start quite small but get very strong-seeming (subjectively), and can eventually be sustained through quite broad expanding/contracting movements of the whole body (as in qigong and Taiji). The key is relaxing and breathing easily. If you feel like you're muscularly tense with any of this kind of stuff, you're definitely doing it wrong.
What you're talking about with the 6 directions practice, is an extension of this to the whole body, which feels like it's "gripped" by a magnetic field and held in a kind of vibratory tension. Eventually you can bring breathing more into a conscious relationship with the feeling (the "flux" expands and contracts the whole body, with the breath) - both normal breathing and "reverse" breathing (entry into reverse breathing: breathe in while gently holding the abominal wall firmly - i.e. simply preventing it from distending as it normally would, as the diaphragm moves down, pushing the organs out - and "sucking" up the perineum ever so slightly). "Reverse" breathing has a stronger effect, but it's best not to start that until you've done a good bit of this type of practice with normal breathing. As with all breathing exercises, it's important to avoid any feeling of discomfort or high blood pressure (if you feel anything "going to your head", you MUST stop). Generally, it's good practice to do a "closing" move where you bring your hands up above your head and press them down along the front of your body, imagining that you're "grounding" all the whateveritis that you've been invoking.
As the process develops, it will be found that the "shenfa" (body alignment method) of the traditional qigongs and martial arts is important (i.e. there are certain postural requirements that are constant throughout all these practices - any good qigong/Taiji text or school will talk about them). For more health oriented training, the standard "tree hugging" posture is all you need; for more martial training, you use varied, more strenuous and lower positions that build tremendous conditioning in the legs.
It's also possible to feel the same "body off" sensation with this kind of practice that you can feel with seated meditation (the feeling that Crowley says is the real entry-way into meditation proper) - i.e. you can meditate standing. But the 6 directions practice is more specifically aimed at the body as an active phenomenon.
It's an interesting side-thought whether this queer "magnetic" feeling is just a subjective feeling that just happens to feel for all the world like a kind of magnetic energy, or something to do perhaps with some kind of sensitivity to the body's (actually very weak) electromagnetic field, or perhaps to gravity - or perhaps to something else, some kind of "etheric" energy. At any rate, what's likely true (and certainly touted by qigong/internal martial arts traditions) is that over time this practice exercises the body's fascia in a unique way that's conducive to both health and strength.
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I agree with all the above.
Yes definitely 30 is big for a complete beginner... One can start as you say, and also 10 mintues morning and evening for instance. Very good precisions.
Also a practice wich relates with both Bardon's teachings and external applications is to drill the speed of "peaking" . What i mean by that is at the end of the day one wants to learn two main things from this kind of thing: the ability to manifest, and the ability to meditate. Magick and yoga. So, the goal of magick is not to perform long rituals for the sake of performing them, but rather induce fast, powerful, changes.
Thats why Bardon recommends to drill (some forms of)magick in short sets, for instance like in external sports, or like in bodybuilding or weightlifting. In bodybuilding and weightlifting, one focuses on maximum power and maximum anabolism(respectively) by practicing only short sets, from 1 to 10 repetitions. This works in magick and here for our practice. One can drill the ability of reaching maximum sensations in less than 10 seconds, then in less than 5, then in less than 3, then instantly. You can do a session of 1 hour consisting of say 150 very short sets.
Each type of practice is optimal for its specific results. Also for health a big factor is balance. One too "yin" will benefit from "yang" stuff, and vice versa. For external and especially martial application one must apply the above to actual combat, weightlifting, full speed and full power, against a resisting partner. One should get the performance to a similar level of professional athletes if done well. Also ground work is very good to enhance mastery, first hatha yoga like(static), then moving, like in brazilian jiu jitsu(fighting on the ground). Dynamic work on the ground againts resistance with all the above in mind will skyrocket dantien awareness and power of manifestation.
Weapons are very helpful too ! A flexible chinese sword(jian) is very good as it combines the yin and the yang in an easy percievable way. The tip of it moves and is very sharp, tiny, always be aware of it. At the same time the handle is big and rigid. It is like two weapons in one, and the to extremes move at the same time. Be aware of the weapon from top to bottom and just like the physical body, in 6 directions, with a center of gravity, two extremes and the yin and the yang working always. The weapon can be drilled too in several ways. Then see how magick rituals are enhanced after such practice.
A very good thing with weapons(especially sword) is rythm. In martial application (free fencing) it is awesome to feel the different rythms always there in potential, and several manifesting at the same time. It becomes a mind game, very close to magick. Then translate this to meditation(rising on the planes, tarot reading, whatever...) and empty hand martial work(very good for precision and timing).