Month 9 Discussion

Month 9 (Weeks 1 and 2)

1. Balance the energy of the liver and the spleen
The energy of the liver and the spleen can create obstacles to remaining present.
Introduction to breathing that will either calm down or energize your liver and spleen.
2. Look for subliminal messages which cause you to be distracted.
This brink of distraction gets crossed under two conditions
a.(Overactive) Overly Excited
b.(Underactive) Slipping into Lethargy

3. The balance point between the Liver’s ability TO DO and the spleen’s WILL THAT CAN’T BE WILLED.

4. Is the Liver sluggish, buzzing, or OK?
Is the Spleen sluggish, buzzing, or OK?
Do you need to energize or calm down your liver and spleen? Or is one or both OK?

5. Calming down the Spleen
Close your belly to pressurize your spleen. Compress it and breath into it. Use the 70% rule.

Energizing the Spleen
Have a sense of a sphere beyond the spleen expanding. Spaciousness. The body expands as well.

6. Calming Down the Liver
Do this for 3 breaths (1 to 3 ratio)
Inhale 3 seconds—-Exhale 7 seconds
Inhale and expand the liver—exhale and shrink the liver
Use fingers to count the seconds.

Energizing the Liver
Do this for 3 breaths (3 to 1 ratio)
Inhale 7 seconds—Exhale 3 seconds
Inhale and expand the liver (3 times the volume of breath)
Exhale and shrink the liver (with only 1/3 the depth of the inhale)
The effects of this removes lethargy and removes blockages
Don’t overdo it and hypercharge it.
Goldilocks principle: not too much or too little

Month 9 Part 2

Develop a successful meditation posture

Finding the balance point from the crown of your head to the center of the pelvis creates an environment inside your brain for positive meditation.
This line is where the central channel of energy is located.
The physical nervous system link between body and brain is the spinal cord. It starts in the neck.
Finding this balance point can eliminate extensive yoga and qigong exercises.

Sitting and How to Raise and Straighten your neck.

1. Continue everything we have done before. Use front and side breathing in 3 sets
of 10. Poor neck and head positions divert us from the full benefits of meditation.
All computer work creates poor neck alignment. Any forward, back, side, or diagonal movement away from a balanced position leads to distraction or spacing out.
2. Breath and be aware of your neck. Feel the different parts. What is going on at this moment? How is it affecting your meditation?
3. Relax and release any tension, relax throat muscles and windpipe.
4. Take your attention to the back of your neck to the bottom to C7. Does it feel centered, comfortable, weird. Release tension you feel there. It just sits on the top of your spine. Travel upward to the top where your skull and neck connect. Most people have tension there.
5. Release all muscles of your face from top of face down to neck. Drop to shoulders, chest, upper back.
6. When the neck releases a little let the chest relax downward while the neck rises.
7. “What goes down, causes something else to go up.”
8. Get the sense of a straight line. Find the balance point from the perineum to the crown of your head.