Crosses of Limbs and Torso

[Anonymous]

My whole practice has gone through another major transformation. I no longer experience the sides as separate. They are always interacting. This includes all directions (left/right, up/down, front/back, and in/out). The Lake Palm change again has functioned as the integrator. I couldn’t go back to the way I used to work with my body if I wanted to.

One thing that appeared was all of the crosses. I’m currently using them all of the time. It is just part of the Lake Palm. Without the crosses you can’t produce the double-helix spirals in the torso and limbs.

So, prior to this phase of my practice, I would stretch in a more linear fashion. Now, I’m always using the crosses. In fact, this opens yet another possible interpretation of the 16 and the 64. I realized that I tend to focus on only one side of the body or limb at a time. However, it is possible to work the opposite side equally and that opens up the 16. Basically, I’m able to work the crosses on both the yin and yang sides of the body either separately or in combination. If you define the eight palm changes by these patterns of movement, you can then perform one pattern (one trigram) on each side – that’s two trigrams. It takes in insane amount of training but it is doable. At the end of the day, you will develop a lot of mastery of the spiraling energy body.

Meanwhile, in the middle of all of this I’m continuing to explore the central channel. I’m continuing to access it and “fuel” it for lack of a better way to describe my practice. It is the main point as it provides the necessary balance for all of the spiraling complexity. Without it, the body would likely get injured repeatedly because it wouldn’t be able to handle the stresses properly. I’d be ripping things apart all of the time. The crosses provide a natural balance to my movement no matter how complex it gets.

If I get ambitious I’ll try to describe a concrete example. I should be able to explain it in just a single palm. From there you just repeat the same patterns in all of the limbs and torso. So, you are doing it with the palm, the forearm, the upper, the foot, the shin, the thigh, as well as the torso.

[Anonymous]

From one perspective what I’m describing is nothing more than spiraling. But there is an important integration that wasn’t present before: the two opposing circles are connecting in the middle. It is that connection in the middle that creates the in and the out.

So, you can train the crosses, but you’re still essentially hyper-focusing on only one aspect of the whole. Until you find the next step.

This practice begins to enable cellular access. The blood flow begins to be accessible down to the tiniest of blood vessels anywhere in the body right down to the exchange of blood into and out of the cells.

I’d guess this is what is meant by the body of individuality.

[Anonymous]

In Module 16 video 2, Bruce demonstrates the crosses in the torso. You’ll probably never get a clearer attempt to explain this in any of the mastery programs. Here, in the Mountain Palm, Bruce is more concerned with the yin and yang, the ends of the movement. In particular how the top and the bottom effect each other. The Mountain Palm creates stability through these opposite forces. In the Lake Palm, we become more concerned with what is happening in the middle, the flux field.

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