Cavities used in Heaven and Earth?

hi aaron

I don’t take notes, but instead try and remember with my body, so here’s what I remember.

short answer; all of them

longer answer.
first, your going for the joints of the hand, then arm (started with wrist, then elbow and shoulder socket)
then working the legs (ankle, knee and hip socket)

also do hands and feet, but bruce recommended getting them going from wrist and ankle, (faster and easier than doing fingers and toes individually)

next, work on the shoulder blade and shoulders nest, including the sternoclavicular notch. that also helps get into the organs.

next, work on the cavity of the kua, which includes the hip socket, but is not just the hip socket, it’s bigger.
getting the kua pulsing will get you into the spine.

theres a cavity in the midriff, on L and R channels, around the height of the lower ribs, and this also pulses, connecting the pulsing into the L and R channels.

there seems to be a lot of spillover, where you start pulsing one joint, and others start going along. I find it much harder to just pulse one joint, easier to focus on a joint, but kinda let everything get going. particularly when working on the kua or shoulder’s nest, it’s really one big system.

he also mentioned other stuff…

pulsing the joints of the spine
pulsing the cavities in the spine (brain and spinal cord)
pulsing the glands and sense organs
pulsing the rib joints
pulsing the plates of skull
pulsing the organs
pulsing the etheric field
pulsing the lower tan tien.
geting the etheric field and the lower tan tien connected and having the pulse initiate from lower tan tien.

ultimately, the entire body, including all 16 nei gung elements, and eventually all the bodies, get connected and pulse together.

hope this helps, and if anyone remembers differently, id like to hear it. I find I remember a lot more than if I take notes, but there was a lot of material, I may have missed something.

rock on
richard

I remember Eric’s list with the exception of the back of the knees; however, I’d always defer to Eric’s memory over mine.

So, now you have a list, What makes these cavities and what do you do with them? If all you do is pulse them like everything else that Rich mentioned, why make the distinction?

I think of them as diaphragmatic pumps.

I think we are talking about the same thing. There are three distinctly different ways I use the cavities as pumps. The throat notch is a lot like the diaphragm. The kwa can be done this way as well or more like a piston pump. When you drive pressure down the bone marrow of the leg toward the bubbling well in the foot, I shape it more like a piston. If I’m trying to pull up through the kwa toward the tan tien, it is more like the diaphragm. The solar plexus is on a different plane; more front to back. When it moves forward it creates a vacuum that should move blood back toward the heart. When they are used in “C” reverse breathing it is more like a peristaltic pump. I can explain this better if we get together some time. It is very concrete and creates pressure inside the body that is used for power instead of muscular strength.

Jim has some interesting observations on the possible functions or uses of the cavities. I will play around with that.

However, as far as the practice of Heaven and Earth goes, the opening and closing of the cavities has always been explained and practiced as a spherical opening and closing, going out and coming in in all directions. This is the same as the opening and closing of the energy gate within each joint.