Opening the Energy Gates of the Body
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pening the Energy Gates of the Body is Taoist energy work. A natural system that is boundless and makes use of what we can all directly perceive as a means to refining our perception until we realise the absolute Tao.
That is a long journey! Using water as our natural guide we relinquish attachments, obstacles fall away and we learn to move, to feel, to concentrate, to balance and to be more graceful, softer and stronger.
Opening the Energy Gates of the Body is a Taoist Chi Gung set designed to promote good health, longevity and, if required, martial ability. In Opening the Energy Gates of the Body the practitioner learns to align the physical body while standing, moving and stretching. It is a natural process that restores good bodily function, increases stamina and positively assists the healing of sickness.
It does this through the physical body using the natural process of dissolving energy. Applying the ‘heat’ of gentle attention, the ‘ice’ of [stagnant] energy is slowly dissolved. The mind undergoes training and becomes agile, the energetic effects of good bodily alignment and movement begin to be felt and the body-mind-being begins to grow awareness that is powerfully connected to the natural energy of water.
Practitioners begin to readily perceive directly and gently connect with the innate intuitive intelligence of chi, the life force of all living matter.
Much becomes evident in practice, many benefits and insights may be gained. We begin to move more freely and fluidly. Our minds and emotions become more stable as they become more familiar with what to many of us is a different approach to achievement. In Opening the Energy Gates of the Body, we attain through releasing, through doing less and allowing more to occur through softening, through opening and through a growing familiarity with the abundant life force, chi, that supports all life.
Practitioners begin to readily perceive directly and gently connect with the innate intuitive intelligence of chi, the life force of all living matter.
This is a gentle practice, it is the water method. As a natural phenomenon, water might arise from a mountain spring and feed a stream that makes its way down ridges and slopes, weaving its way into a valley that feeds a mighty river. This is an evident truth, it can be seen anywhere such phenomena arise—which is on virtually every landmass. We all know how water behaves and we all know that our physical bodies contain a high percentage of water.
Opening the Energy Gates of the Body does not require that we ponder these things, it requires that we feel what is happening in our bodies and that we study and feel our own physical alignment from the inside. The philosophy is irresistible. Opening the Energy Gates of the Body is a rare opportunity to meet a philosophy and watch it transform into truth.
Along the way, look forward to improving concentration, feeling more relaxed, reacting badly less often, feeling and being healthier.
Everyone should try it once before they die.
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