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Hello!
I asked this in general meditation forum but will ask again here.
I’m stuck right at the beginning.
How do you put your attention to the crown of the head? Most every other part of the body has muscles, you can move it a bit and know it’s there. And it doesn’t work with the top of the head. If you don’t touch it you get no sensation.
How do you do it?
Hey Yaroslav
That’s been a tough one for me too, but what really got me was watching the Q and A video for month 6 and hearing Bruce talking about us living in an age of doubt or however he put it. I’ve found for myself that it isn’t so much an inability to feel the crown of my head as much as it is that I refuse to think or perceive that it is possible.
There are so many instances in which I was overlooking that I could; when I do a hair-shift out of shock or surprise and the scalp slides back or in interest where it slides forward, or when I’m having fun and mimicking the reaction, I can clearly feel the crown of my head.
Janak had a good post in answer to someone with the same predicament that I can’t find that says to lightly tap the top of the head, and I could see how it worked but I was still missing the obvious that was really hit home in the Q and A video; I tend to doubt quite a bit.
For someone else, if there is a lack of sensation or some kinda health thing, I can see how tapping works like a charm, but, for me, exposing my inherent doubting is pretty important.
Dan Kleiman produced a series of on-line audios, “Standing Qigong.”
Dan was a student of Bruce.You do it by placing your FEELING AWARENESS at the crown of the head.
Suspend your intellectual mind. Feeling awareness is not thinking.
It is not visualization or using your imagination.
Feeling your body is fundamental to all these energy arts.
It is not feeling your muscles or blood.
It is being aware of your internal energy.So avoid thinking and visualization a.
The dissolving process is grounded in the feeling of ice turning to water.
(Hold an ice cube in your hand and feel it melt into water.
Ice to Water to Gas.Feel the whole surface of your foot while standing.
Likewise, feel the whole surface of the top of your head.
The Bai Hui point is at the center of a bulls eye at the top
of the surface of the head.Notice how it feels when someone gets closer and closer to you.
How does it feel if someone is about to touch the top of your head?That’s the awareness of the feeling of the crown of the head.
I add my own trick to Dan’s process.
I draw a cube.
Notice how you get a feeling of 3 dimensions no even though the cube is drawn on a 2 dimensional piece of paper.
It’s this feeling of depth that you want to be aware of.Transcribe that same feeling to the crown of the head.
In Month 6 Bruce talks about anchoring your feeling on one point in the body–like where the diaphragm attaches to the spine and enlarging that to all points of the body.
It may be like Swiss cheese and many holes at first, but with practice the holes begin to fill in.
Thanks you guys!
All these suggestions, different directions… still tricky but now it’s fun to contemplate!
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Meanwhile a reversed idea came to mind. Since there are no muscles in this area you can’t have any tension there. Anything that needs dissolving. (Not serious)
Which anatomy book indicates no muscles at the crown of the head? Also, surely every tissue in the body can be stressed, tensed, etc.
And also, it’s not just the muscles you need to sense, it’s the nerves. It takes a lot of practice…
Thanks for raising this Yar.
I have been working with EC modules, Old Yang D T for almost three years…the feelings I read of in letters posted make me that somewhere I am missing something very important? As yet I have had me “feelings” of Chi.
Working on it all the time, every day.Your letter takes me back to the emphasis Bruce has made, many times on the “Ice to water-gas” technique. I shall now work with that in mind and see how I get on.
Thank’s to everyone else who replied with some very good tips
Good luck in your practices……………………David Castle
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