Wisdom Qigong, opens the brain for wisdom. In 1995 Grand Master Mantak Chia introduced the meditations for the so-called Wisdom Qigong, opening the brain for wisdom. (Www.universal-tao.com) What was so special about that? Meditations enough you would think in the Nei Dan and Universal Healing Tao. Yet that day in 1995 was a special one. Mantak Chia showed us experience how the three Tantiens (belly, "The Yellow Court",heart "The Crimson Palace" and head "The Crystal Palace") associated with the three parts of our brains: the brain stem, the small brains and large brains. Wisdom 1 and 2, include 9 meditations. I will deal with three meditations in this article.( drawings by Juan LI) Condition before you start the meditations is that the three fires are warm: 1.Dantien/belly/earth, 2.Mingmen/kidneypoint between kidneys / water, 3. Heart Fire / heart / pericardium.
First some facts about the wonder of our brains: - Our brains consist of a two trillion nerve cells, neurons. - The nerves, axons are sometimes two feet long. - The astrocytes are cells that keep the nerves healthy and we have 15 times 1 to 2 trillion astrocyden in our body. - Between the billions of neurons are areas the so-called synaptic cleft. Here, signals are regulated, modified or sent. The signal transmission is via the so-called neurotransmitters or messenger molecules. 1000 to 1000 billion places there are contact points in the synapses. (Ramon y Cajal researcher) - We have 1000 billion glial cells (glial = glue), that our chemical messengers. - Our brain weigh eighteen pounds - Our brain is fixed but the gray and white matter changes nonstop as a kind of soft ware Health facts: - 27% of Europeans have a brain disease. According to Dr. David Servan Schreiber this depends for 75% with our 2nd stress in our brain, our limbic system - Pass between our 23 and 25 th year of life, our brains mature and the prefrontal cortex is formed. - Harmful substances for our brains are: domoic acid (found in algae and sometimes crustaceans), alcohol, drugs, DDT, antiepileptics, heavy metals. - Good for our brains: acetylcholine (fat proteins, fatty fish, soy beans and liver), organic fish oil, omega 3 and 6, blueberries, wheat grass. - If you learn Taichi or Qigong form a new movement is very conducive to your brains. Especially for the brainstem where our reptilian brain lives. Here you can learn new reflexes. - The Inner Smile is also key to your limbic system to relax (the middle ring in your brains).
3 the different parts of the brains: the brain stem, the small brains and large brains. The cerebral, hormonal, chemical and energetic processes in our brains are very complex. Everything reacts to everything. If you want to organize the brains overall than is the easiest way to do this in three divisions: 1. Brainstem 2. Middle brains 3. Big brains. Embryologically, the layout is slightly different and the brains originated in the early days of the embryo from three brain vesicles that become the rombencephalon (brainstem and the little brains), mesencephalon (mid brains) and Prosencephalon (large brains, thalamus and hypothalamus)
The Nei Dan meditation for the brainstem: The brain stem is evolutionarily the oldest part of our brains. Also called our reptile brain. They are responsible for our basic life functions and control our movements and reflexes. The brainstem is to focus on our five Rs: fight, flight, freeze, feeding, reproduction. Also does your basic sense 'it's safe, I'm safe'. Here you can learn new reflexes, which Tai Chi and Qigong are extremely helpful. It performs in this article and to treat. Various parts of the brainstem to be treated. And as you know we Taoists learn with our belly. We bring with Tai Chi and Qigong from our Tantien our structure in motion. Fortunately, in the last century brain science really taken with PET scans, EEC 's, electron microscopes etc.. This yielded t be able to study. Living neuronal networks in the body What now appears. We not only neurons in our skull but in our entire body, especially in our belly and organs in our connective tissue! Michael Gershon has written extensively about in his book `The second brain 'here. This means that our bodies can think and memories can hold. For us now the art of all the different neuronal systems to tune in to each other and to work together. That's exactly what you do with the Wisdom Qigong Meditations. The lower Tantien where our reservoir of Jing Chi houses, is directly connected with our brainstem. The middle Tantien where Chi Chi and Compassion Glow houses, are in direct contact with the Little Brains The top Tantien, where Shen Chi resides, is connected to the Neocortex and frontal lobes.
Exercise I: Black / White meditation: If you often repeat this meditation you the loneliness better tolerated in patience, warmth and satisfaction and you happy with life itself. Trauma in the brainstem often arise already in the embryo and during birth, if not be smooth. Make the belly warm. An ideal exercise to get the belly brains hot t shaking laughter and of course the so-called dantien Qigong. - Connect your consciousness or I force the black center of the earth, the pure Yin - Let t pure Yin in your perineum and pelvic flow and fill your lower Tantien. - Connect with the white of the universe above you, the pure Yang. Let it flow to your lower Tantien via your waist crown (also through your spine) - Let the pure pure Yin and yang coalesce into a Tai Chi ball - Experience the purity and power of the ball and let some of the essence flows to your navel and belly - The Tai Chi ball now leave you to your tailbone flows and still leave some of its essence - Let the ball through your spine transfer to your skull base and now has approximately the size of a ping pong ball - Push the ball through your skull to your brain and experience the glow and warmth and leave the bone marrow and breathe and open. - Reach the medulla oblongata, pons and rest classification. We do it very gently than the six healing sounds, but a smile is also very effective. - Push the get smaller Tai Chi ball through to the Middle Brains (Besides the "house of addictions") and let it breathe and heating - Finish with a Tai Chi ball the size of a pea in the pituitary glands. - Rest and experience the warmth of abdomen, spine and brain stem - Smile and relax. In the next issue I will discuss the Middle and Big Brains Brains and describe the meditation. www.taoteachingamsterdam.nl www.taoschool.nl Also appear from September ap s with various mediations of Ilona Botterweg and UHT Thanks to: Mantak Chia, Juan Li, Annette Derksen and Reinoud Eleveld Literature: Freud or Prozac - David Servan Schreiber We are our brain-dick Swaab Monkey - David Kherdian The heart's code-paul Pear Sell The second brain - Michael Gershon
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