Meditation Circle–Summary of 16 months

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Month 1
Seated or standing meditation.
Count your breaths 1 to 10 using finger or beads
Focus on the head—crown, 3rd eye, eyebrows, eyes.
Feel the entire head at once but first separate the parts.

Month 2
Recognize the entire body at once after going through these body parts
–Head, neck and shoulders (crown of head to floor as balance point)
–top of torso, chest, arms, abdomen
–Add diaphragm, lower belly
–Lower tantien (how it connects to everything)

Month 3
–lower half of the body and its connection to the earth.
This is the most important process that keeps repeating itself in the Meditation Circle
–the countdown to distraction
–the complete going away
–reemergence
–getting back to stable
–scan the front and sides of the body down to the feet and connecting the lower dantien to these parts.

Month 4 Focus on the Whole body at once:
–Physical energy body
–Emotional energy body
–Mental energy body
–Psychic energy body
–Karmic energy body
–Essence energy body

Month 5 (3 sets of 5 breaths)
The Basics of Meditation. Breath is the link between our conscious and unconscious mind. Learn to feel the diaphragm clearly. If your diaphragm isn’t moving you are not breathing.

Month 6 (Use 3 sets of 6 breaths)
—Stabilize the diaphragm and belly breathing. Recognize the tone of your whole body’s emotional feeling and mental state.
—With belly breathing let your breath descend down the front of your body through hips and legs until you can feel your breath entering your feet and returning back up to your belly and diaphragm.
(3 sets of 7 breaths)
–Get to know your midriff and sit better.–Side breathing–using your midriff and dropping your chest, raise your upper back and spine. Lifting the midriff also lifts the diaphragm and activates the body’s left and right channels of energy.
Opening the Midriff (3 sets of 8 breaths)–Midriff will rise with the inhale. Simultaneously feel the front of body, face, chest, belly, legs, and feet with each breath.
Raising The Spine–The balance point for dropping the chest is raising the spine–When the upper spine collapses so does your head and neck.
Lower and Mid Spine (from tailbone to just in back of your diaphragm.
–Breathing into midriff and belly, feel the vertebrae and muscles that connect to them.
Upper Spine
–Breathing into and raising the midriff also links the upper spine

Month 7 (3 sets of 9 breaths)
The physical side of side breathing into the liver
–Presence and Awareness Training—upper side of torso breathing to physically activate the energy of the liver

Month 8 (3 sets of 10 breaths)

(Breathing into left side to Activate the spleen)
–Spleen energy integrates all your meditation experiences so the value of experience is preserved.
–activate right midriff, left midriff, liver, spleen

Month 9
–Balance the energy of the liver and the spleen
–Sitting and How to Raise and Straighten your neck.
–The balance point between the Liver’s ability “to do” and the spleen’s “will that can’t be willed”.
–Calming down the Spleen–Close your belly to pressurize your spleen. Compress it and breathe 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.
–Calming down the liver
Inhale 3 seconds—-Exhale 7 seconds
Inhale and expand the liver—exhale and shrink the liver
–Energizing the Liver
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)

Month 10
–Diaphragm and Neck
–Arrival at a Crossroads: Paying attention to subtle emotions.
–Water Tradition of Meditation

Month 11 Subliminal Emotions Continued

Month 12
The End of the First Year
–Tracking Subliminal Emotional Energies

Month 13
Kidneys and Lower Back

Month 14
Functions of the Rear Diaphragm

Month 15
Feel the mind settle its awareness in your heart
Breathing with the back of the lungs–above rear diaphragm
Breathing From the Physical Heart

Month 16
Breathing and Pulsing the Heart
Inhale and feel it go deeper into the heart
Exhale expand from that space deep inside as it gets bigger it carries with it a sense of moving through and saturating your body and then going outside your skin and into your etheric body

Conclusion to the First Taoist Meditation Circle
4 conditions that are blockages:
1. any sense of tension,
2. strength (ego)
3. something that doesn’t feel quite right
4. any type of contraction (physical, emotional or mental)

[Anonymous]

Thanks a lot. Your summary is really helpful.

[Anonymous]

Hi Joan,

great job you did.
Helped me a lot. I started to make summaries myself, but yours were always better, so I left the job to you
Hope Bruce will continue the Meditation Circle after Gaunts House Retreat.

Thank you
Helmut

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