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I’m beginning to experiment with outer dissolving now in my practice and have recently used Bruce’s audio dissolving session as a guide. It seems that he is suggesting that one is constantly dissolving everything continuously millimeter by millimeter from top to bottom regardless of whether there is a blockage or not. Is this so or should I continue to sink and scan until I find a blockage and THEN dissolve.
When I went along dissolving continuously I did feel that sense of ease as though chi was balanced by the time I had finished.
Also, just to be clear the sensations I’m looking for can be in the physical and/or the etheric field correct?
I’d love to hear other people’s experiences of learning to feel blockages and their experience with the process of learning outer dissolving.
Cheers,
Kevin
Hey Kevin,
One way to think of the blockages are landmarks that help you start to make sense of internal sensations. Similarly, Bruce gives us four conditions to look for: strength, tension, contraction, “something that doesn’t feel quite right.”
When you scan, these can be useful to make sense of what you feel….but one smooth dissolve all the way through works too. Feels great, right?
I think it’s easy to get stuck in the attitude that “oh, no, I have to dissolve all my blockages!” but one of the things you’ll discover if you do what you describe is that things will unwind and release when you work on the whole system. In fact, I remember Bruce saying once that the whole energetic matrix is way too complex for you to figure out one-to-one correspondences anyway, so don’t try to make it a guessing game.
Anyway, I find the “dissolve everything” approach a nice way to go.
D
hi Dan,That’s awesome; thank you. I’m still familiarizing myself with my internal landscape and so thanks for clarifying that for me. I’ll keep at it!
Most of the time I won’t feel ANY blockages. This could be my sensitivity to it but is that realistic to not have any blockages sometimes while dissolving?
Also, is it recommended or legit to breathe into the blockage or area (ice to water) then as you exhale to send it from water to gas?
I’ve also been doing this with the spine stretch as I release each section or vertebrae .Thanks,
Kev
Good to hear from you!
So the breathing thing is interesting. Breath and chi are so intertwined with how we feel our bodies that there often appear to be links…but I’ve heard Bruce caution against breathing into blockages too much. You can energize them and make them more what they are: blockages.
Where breathing does play a major role is when it can guide the mind to something in the body. In that sense, “landing your mind” on something by means of the breath is useful. Again, Bruce points out that breathing into something and feeling it directly are not the same thing. The breath is an aide that gets the process started.
Finally, I would just say that the timeline for ice-to-water-to-gas will general take a couple of minutes, if it goes through all three stages at all. You’ll often get some ice-to-water and that’s it in certain areas. Keep looking for the phase changes because they usually won’t shift with a single breath cycle.
Have fun!
D
Hi Dan,
You said:
“the timeline for ice-to-water-to-gas will general take a couple of minutes, if it goes through all three stages at all”Do you mean a couple of minutes for one block or for the whole body scan? Because for me two minutes could be too little even for one block.
Yes, I mean for one section or one block. It’s easy to get stuck just repeating the phrase in your head, but that’s not how it unfolds physically/energetically.
One time I got just one arm to turn to water. It’s completely unambiguous when you get it. It didn’t so much feel like water but more of a thick liquid. The process of water to gas would refine that so that it doesn’t feel thick but obviously more spacious like gas.
Other noteworthy points were that I had perfect shoulder alignment when it happened, so I guess you can’t fully do it without proper alignments, and it also felt like my arm was elongating right through the floor.
The process I used was a little different. I was merely connecting energetically inside which in turn fixed my alignments and then allowed everything to let go.
Very helpful-thanks Dan. A one-on-one coaching session would be ideal right about now; any chance you’ll be in in the Victoria BC, Canada area anytime soon;) your tips are always practical (and much appreciated)
Cheers,
K
Cameron I agree that alignments are important to getting a good ‘dissolving workout’ which I’ve found. Also, when doing outer dissolving I initially started with sinking chi but didn’t make great progress in this because I was so blocked. But since beginning with a full-body outer dissolving I’ve found that I am able feel my chi more. It’s not great but I can feel slight wave-like or pulsing sensations even for brief moments. That will hopefully become more pronounced as I continue.
Also as Dan commented above breathing into blockages is not conducive to releasing blockages as he’s right in that it does energise the blockages further. I used to do yoga and practised this for a year and found myself becoming ever more tighter by this practice.
I just imagine pulling the blockages down into my feet so they exit me or be recycled etc.
Ice to water to gas doesn’t work with me as I don’t work well with visualizations, but the physical sense of moving the blockages down and out is what I find works best for me.
Just send me a plane ticket….
I can say that sinking chi will naturally occur when you have the alignments correct and when I started sinking practices I would momentarily get a pulse or brief wave like feeling mostly in my spine. But I found that I am really blocked and this is what is preventing me from really feeling my chi. AFraid that if you want to feel more chi like-sensations then you’re really going to have to feel your body more and resolve to do more outer dissolving.
I used to do yoga so I had some idea of ‘putting my mind in my body’ and believe me its horrible when you can feel all that tension inside you. What’s more my yoga practices entailed breathing into those blockages and as Bruce and Dan mentioned above its not a good idea as it just makes you more tighter. It’s right as in it seems to energise the existing blockages.I work on my own body by trying to pull the blockages down into my feet where, I think, it should either exit or be recycled to where its needed. The whole visualization of ice to water to gas doesn’t quite work for me (I’m not really into visualization – find it too distracting). But I really try to penetrate (softly and without force) by intensely focussing on the spot and any sign of tension I immediately backoff and go in again for the area to try and become as soft as possible by quietening my breathing and making it as smooth as possible. Also helps to try and be exhaling during this period since in that phase the heart and organs are in a relaxed state. Initially the area does become warm as the tight area undergoes tranformation to the liquid phase but the more you penetrate and get it to relax and drop it should start to have a cooling effect kind of like when you chew those types of gum that leave a cooling sensation in the mouth.
Its a difficult practice and I find you have to work on the area until you start to experience the coolingsensation on the area being dissolved or it just comes back later albeit in a weaker state. Just try not to use any force by breathing into the area or tensing up.
Everyone has their own creative ways of dissolving but along with trying to gently move the area down further to my feet, I keep part of my mind on my dantien and part of it on my feet.
Like I said a difficult practice but well worth the effort.
hi Dan,
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