Tani-Rahl Neigong

Becoming Aware of Your Energy

At this stage, you simply wish to become aware of your internal energy.

Start by focusing your awareness on the thumb, index finger, and the space on the hand between them (the "Tiger's Mouth" to Chinese Martial Artists.) With all seven senses (touch/feeling, sight, smell, taste, hearing, sense of space, and sense of time) become aware of this area. After awhile, you should feel a change in the sensation of the area.

This awareness is due to the movement of energy there.

Next, try moving the sensation, by imagining the energy moving. With practice, you should be able to move the sensation with you mind alone. This is how you will move the energy in all following stages -- with your mind, or imagination.

Microcosmic Orbit

At this stage, you strive to move the energy up the back from the root chakra to the crown chakra and then down the front of the torso to the root chakra again along the two center meridians, using your imagination.

Macrocosmic Orbit

At this stage, you strive to move the energy from the Bubbling Well points on your feet up the legs and back to the crown chakra, then down the front of the torso and legs back to the Bubbling Well, using your imagination.

Filling the Lower Dantien

At this stage, you strive to condense energy in the lower ("false") Dantien using your imagination.

Bone Marrow Neigong

At this stage, you strive to condense energy into the bones of your body, using your iamgination, rejuevenating the marrow.

Kundalini Awakening

At this stage, you strive to link the internal energy channel, or Kundalini circuit, that goes from the crown chakra down through the middle of the torso, to the root chakra by using your imagination to open the chakras and let energy flow through.

I absolutely recommend that you follow Sri Aurobindo's method and proceed opening the chakras from the crown to the root. Doing so otherwise without a master is twice as fast, but can lead to insanity.

Filling the Body

At this stage, you strive to fill the whole body with energy using your imagination.

Filling the Aura

At this stage, you strive to fill your whole aura with energy, starting from the heart chakra or "assemblage point," using your imagination,

Linking the Earth and Heaven Chakras

At this stage, you strive to open the "Seven Seals" or 7 higher chakras stretching an arm's length above your head to the Earth chakra, a leg's length beneath you Bubbling Wells, by using your imagination to direct your energy through the chakras and open them to let energy flow through.

Three Stone Balls Neigong

At this stage, you imagine three stone balls while walking. The middle ball is your aura, with the crown chakra touching the top of the ball, and the Bubbling Well of ONE foot (the other is suspended in mid-air, as you are walking) touches the bottom of the ball. The top ball contains the "Seven Seals,"with the crown chakra touching the bottom and the Seventh Seal touching the top of the ball. The bottom of the bottom ball just touches your Earth chakra.

Imagine that all the stone balls should be filled with your energy.

As you walk, the middle ball rotates up the back and down the front, while the other two balls (naturally) rotate  in the opposite direction.