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    Taoist Meditation Circle Month 13
    Kidneys and Lower Back (20 min. a day recommended)

    Awareness Training and Breathing with the complete lower back and kidneys
    Settle in, find subtle comfort, complete balanced front and side breathing

    1. Three cycles of 10 breaths each, take a 20 second break and continuously repeat the cycle. Do all things from previous installments.
    –Notice Bodily sensations, gross and subtle thoughts, moods, emotions, and how your mind and internal world morphs and changes.
    –Complete lower body breathing esp. the kidneys. Incorporate kidney breathing and full movement of your diaphragm.
    –Smoothly coordinate several factors:
    Extra attention on balancing the fronts and sides of your diaphragm to smoothly activate the liver’s energy and the will to remain present derived from the spleen.

    2. Find a balance point that can sustain your ability to remain present because kidney breathing will tax that ability.
    –70 % rule must be used in this installment

    3..Feel your back and remain present doing it.
    Be aware of the anatomy of lower back, kidneys.
    Lie on floor with back completely on the floor with feet flat on the floor with knees up.
    Are some parts of your lower back tighter, looser?
    —1.Feeling just your spine
    —2.Now feel sacrum (bottom of spine)
    —3.Now all the muscles of the lower back out to your sides.
    —4.Focus on hips, buttocks, on muscles of buttocks, on ligaments and fascia.

    4. Place palms on different spots of your lower back.
    –Expand the back, then return to original position, and go back and forth. Inhale, exhale

    5. Feel sensations of lower back without touching your lower back, monitor the sensations and the ones your mind can recognize.
    —Is something not happy in your back, if you adjust it early in your meditation you can prevent problems later.

    6. STAND with a straight back, bend back and forth from your kwa
    Feel what’s happening, keep your head straight

    7. SIT straight, breathe into your lower back, bend gently forward and back
    Keeping head straight over perineum
    —Release stuckness, tightness, 70% rule, remain present
    —At the end of the bend remain still and breath in and out of your kidneys
    —What is it in the lower back causing you to be distracted?
    —Kidney breathing causes distraction when all the tissues get expanded and go back to original position

    8. Qualities of the kidneys:
    —Are in the middle of your lower back.
    —Energy of the kidneys kicks off and strengthens the entire energetic flow between all of your major internal organs including making your liver and spleen energy stronger.

    Kidney energy has 3 qualities:
    Neutral quality—causes you to be aware
    Negative quality—causes lack of confidence, depression, fear
    Positive quality—creates self confidence

    9. Breathing with the Kidneys—left and right side of spine
    —Lie on floor, feel the changing pressures in your kidneys, expand and deflate. This should feel good not painful.
    —Do any subliminal emotions arise?
    —Take 5 breaths
    —What is happening? Energy of doing, energy of will, what else? Feel for what’s there.

    10. Bring feet closer to buttocks. Feel the changing pressures
    —Are they equally felt?
    —Active, semi active or dead

    11. Kidney breathing increases your energy
    —See if you can find a quiet way for your body to get more energy, Goldilocks approach (just right)
    –find places where kidneys don’t expand. What emotions come up?

    12. Regular meditation posture. Sit in a chair or on the floor.
    —Crown of head over perineum.
    — Find your comfort zone (Smoother, easier, less effort.)
    —Gently find the sweet spot, where pressure smoothly goes into your kidneys
    —Make sure you are breathing with equal pressure—front, side, and back

    #132112

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    I know this was an illusion of my mind but during my session this morning chasing emotions I was transported to sit by this beautiful pond below a waterfall. I then began leisurely capturing emotions and dropping them into the pond where they would slowly be washed away down a second waterfall that went into a void. I tried to follow into the void but I couldn’t. I could go to the very edge of the void but not into it.

    #132113

    Anonymous
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    Reverse breathing into back OK.? I seem to get a better feel of the breath into the back with reverse breathing.

    #132114

    Anonymous
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    ….I’ve not heard Bruce mention reverse breathing on the Meditation Circle – I’d be cautious about adding in additional ‘variables’ to what is clearly a very carefully designed programme of gentle progression.

    #132115

    Anonymous
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    Thanks for the input Colin, it is always appreciated. I’ve started doing the spine stretch that Dan Kleiman has been discussing in another thread before working on the back breathing and that has begun to help me get the breath back there and start to open things up a bit. I’ve found it to be a tad tight back there.

    #132116

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    Just thought I’d share a tidbit of info that helped me better to feel the movement of my back while breathing.
    I was out hiking and meditating with my dog and was wearing a relatively light backpack. I ended up leaving it on when I decided have a beach session and it turned out helping me to feel the movement of my back and so I didn’t need to lie down.
    Hope this helps someone!:)

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