Simple Chi Kung_ Exercises for Awakening the Life-Force Energy - Mantak Chia [40]
Smile to your heart and feel your heart grow soft.
Move the energy from your heart down to your lower tan tien. Feel your three minds rest in your lower tan tien. Be aware of your tan tien filling with chi (fig. A1.2).
Boisterous Laughing
Place your hands over your lower tan tien and laugh loudly from your belly. Feel your laughter shake your sternum and lower abdomen and reverberate deep inside your body. Continue laughing for 5 minutes.
Rest and place the tip of your tongue on your upper palate. This allows the energy in your head to drop down to your tan tien.
Guide any excess chi in your body to the area behind your navel and in front of your kidneys.
Turn your eyes down to your abdomen. Spiral the energy there counterclockwise, like the earth spirals around the sun. Keep on spiraling until the area becomes warm and filled with chi.
Direct the accumulated chi up to your crown, until it pushes down to your nose. Feel your nose open; then breathe deeply as the chi starts to flow down to your tongue. This will help open the Microcosmic Orbit.
Rest and enjoy the sensations of lightness and peacefulness. Feel the spaciousness inside your body and mind.
Fig. A1.2. Empty your mind down to the lower tan tien.
Giggling
Rest at the lower abdomen and start to laugh again. This is a quieter, more internal laugh.
Place your hands over your lower tan tien and giggle from your belly. Feel your laughter reverberate throughout your body. Continue giggling for 5 minutes.
Rest and place the tip of your tongue on the upper palate. This allows the energy in your head to drop down to your tan tien.
Guide any excess chi in your body to the area behind your navel and in front of the kidneys.
Turn the upper mind down.
Rest and enjoy the sensations of lightness and peacefulness. Feel the spaciousness inside your body and mind.
Silent Giggling: Hit the Belly Drum and Feel It Vibrate Inside
Place your hands over your lower tan tien and giggle silently from your belly. Feel your laughter shake and reverberate throughout your body. Continue laughing silently for 5 minutes. Rest and feel the energy rise up to the crown.
Place the tip of your tongue on the upper palate. This allows the energy in your head to drop down to your tan tien.
Guide any excess chi in your body to the area behind your navel and in front of the kidneys.
Gather the excess energy in your body by spiraling the energy around the navel 36 times outward and 24 times inward. Men spiral clockwise outward and counterclockwise inward; women spiral counterclockwise outward and clockwise inward. You may use your hands to help you spiral. Feel as though your intestines are physically spiraling.
Rest and enjoy the sensations of lightness and peacefulness. Feel the spaciousness inside your body and mind.
Hold both hands near your heart and smile into it. Breathe in to your heart, and feel its calmness. Feel peace, and feel that all three tan tien are alight together.
THREE MAIN GOALS
The practices of Taoist Laughing Chi Kung have three main goals:
Learn to heal, love, and be kind to ourselves as we develop compassionate hearts and a wholeness of being.
Learn to help, heal, and love others from the abundance of healing and loving energies we receive from the forces of nature, heaven, and earth.
Learn about Original Source and help it to unfold within us.
I trust that you will use these techniques for the benefit of your health and well-being. When you create joy in your life through laughter it will heal your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies. This is why comedians in the entertainment industry are loved by so many people and earn so much money—because they heal people with their comedy. Laughter heals, so enjoy the practice of healing yourself with laughter.
Appendix 2
Scientific Research on Universal Tao Practices
On October 25, 1996, Dr. Rhonda Jessum, Ph.D.,