As taught by Master Mantak Chia, Universal Tao Center, Thailand www.universal-tao.com

In the Taoist tradition, positive and negative emotions are associated with the internal organs. One of the keys to good health is to become aware of the emotional energies that reside in the organs, and to transform the negative emotional energies into positive virtues. Taoists believe that we are all born with the virtues of love, gentleness, kindness, respect, honesty, fairness, justice, and righteousness.

Figure 1. The positive virtues.

Unfortunately, as we mature and encounter more stress in our daily lives, negative emotions such as fear, anger, cruelty, impatience, worry, sadness, and grief often predominate. The negative emotions have deleterious effects on the internal organs and glands, draining our life-force and undermining our health.

Figure 2. The negative emotions are the body’s garbage.

In the Tao “emotional intelligence” is a process of recognizing emotions by their effects on the body, and employing exercises that transform the negative emotions into positive life force, or Chi. Two important exercises are the “Inner Smile” and the “Six Healing Sounds” techniques, as taught by Master Mantak Chia.

Figure 3. The negative emotions affect the body’s organ systems.

Taoists learned the relationships between emotional energies and organ systems over many centuries of study and meditation. They developed methods to transform negative to positive emotions from their practical and intuitive understanding of the human body. Many of the Taoist insights are supported by observations and evidence from modern psychology and medicine. The “Inner Smile” and “Six Healing Sounds” exercises focus on five organs or organ systems: the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, the liver/gall bladder, and the stomach/spleen.

• The heart is associated with the negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation strongly influence the heart’s rhythm and its relationship to the body’s physiological systems
• The lungs are associated with the negative emotions of sadness and depression, and the positive virtues of courage and righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by a physical depression and collapse of the chest and lungs.
• The kidneys are associated with the negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness. Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of the kidneys. The adrenal glands secret adrenalin and noradrenalin when stimulated by the body’s fight-or-flight response.
• The liver is associated with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid availability of metabolic energy stores in the body.
• The stomach/spleen are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the “butterflies” and “knots” in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to a network of network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system (Gershon, 1998).

The Inner Smile and Six Healing Sound exercises direct our attentions to the body’s organs and associated qualities. We successively visualize each organ, cleansing the organ and transforming negative emotional energies into positive virtues.

Figure 4. The Inner Smile

In the Taoist tradition, each person assumes responsibility for the emotions that arise within, regardless of the external events that trigger the emotions. Taoist exercises take us into our bodies and transform emotions by transforming the associated physiological systems. The Inner Smile and Six Healing Sounds exercises help balance and integrate our sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, promoting health, resilience, and vitality.

We are taught by following the instructions inherent in Life that we discover through Awareness and reflection. When we miss the Instructions we are taught through pain. Pain is a wake-up call that demands our attention.

True Gratitude is when we can accept all of Life’s Lessons whether gathered through Discovery or Pain.

True Gratitude is the Spiritual catalyst that frees the Unconditional Happiness (True Joy) of your True Self.

Unconditional Happiness (True Joy) is the Highest Practice. (you become what you practice)

Unconditional Happiness (True Joy) is the demonstration of commitment to a Life of Learning and Spiritual Growth.

Unconditional Happiness (True Joy) allows us to enter directly into the state of Grace and Spiritual Freedom.

Openness to Life and True Gratitude are the keys to unlocking the Illusory Prison created by the cycle of … Self-pity -> Fear-> Dishonesty -> Self-pity ….round and round…

Gratitude unconditionally developed, opens the Heart . It is the Master Key to Opening the Heart.

Gratitude catalyzes and quickens growth and freedom.

Gratitude is Advanced Forgiveness.

True Gratitude can expand into the Unknown with a sense of wonder for what may yet be.”

May were all experience and choose True Gratitude.

May we remember the Jewels and Roots of refuge with Great Gratitude.

May we experience Great Gratitude for our lineages of Transmission.

May we have Great Gratitude for all of the Authentic Spiritual efforts of Humanity.

May we have True Gratitude for the Work and having found it not waste anytime, fully opening the Gifts of our lives and sharing the treasures with each other.

May we have True Gratitude for that which is yet to be.

–From the Way of Radiance

“There is no good and bad karma; there is self-created experience that presents opportunities for spiritual advancement.

As long as we react to karma, we must repeat it.

That is the law.”

– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today

Inner power is a natural ability that appears to be supernatural in its effects and results. It is like a powerful magnetic shield that will protect you from hostile threats. Understand here and now that the threats have to be real and not sport. Inner power only works when someone has immoral intent directed towards you or even your personal belongings. After having studied inner power training methods with several masters, it can be assured that this is in fact a real power that will protect you when needed. Those attacking you will be thrown and/or powerfully repelled by your inner power. You can even control and manipulate their physical actions (much like a puppet), once they have fallen under the influence of your inner power as a result of their aggression, but you should never abuse this particular situation, as your only objective is nonviolent self-defense, not an all out offensive attack. Compassion is an important quality to cultivate if you are to become a true inner power master.

In this video we just uploaded Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates visually how to cultivate and use Empty Force.

Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates the STANDING method of Katusmi Niikura’s Ki Breathing Basic Four which is primarily focused on teeth breathing. This is a very good method for accumulating and feeling chi. For more information go to http://www.ryokukai.com/.

Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates Katsumi Niikura’s Ki Breathing Basic Four in the SEATED position. For more information go to http://www.ryokukai.com/.

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Sifu Dan Ferrera demonstrates the method of Katusmi Niikura’s Ki Breathing Basic Four which is primarily focused on teeth breathing. This video is the traditional version. This is a very good method for accumulating and feeling chi. For more information go to http://www.ryokukai.com/.

Kinesiology is not far off when it comes to the mental and Andrew Kemp (Kinesiology site) at Quantum K (Guided meditation) in the United Kingdom is not far off. In its essence Kemp believes the body/mind healing process is an equation where both are variables in the equation. See the connection with Traditional Chinese Medicine? According to Kemp -

1. Healing should be simple.
2. Healing can be delivered through the focused intent of therapist or patient.
3. The Universe, including the human body, obeys the laws of fractal geometry and the correct equation can be re-run to correct imbalances in mind and body.
4. Numbers are understood by our bodies as concepts and 12 digit sequences can talk straight to our DNA to provide healing.

Kemp’s site Quantum K addresses this phenomena and explains how numbers and fractal geometry are a part of this body/mind equation. If this sounds far out there and a bit of hocus pocus Kemp has created a practice and method to try for yourself as an individual. Again, this relates to the role of technology in our practices and how it can advance us.

Quantum K is really a method to defragment your mind/body hard drive and get rid of the messy bits which have muddied the fractal dimensions in your mind and body.

From the Quantum K website -

To explain simply, Quantum K is a 23 minute guided meditation. You find a quiet place to sit and play the music along with viewing visuals of geometric sequences and various, somewhat intense, thought affirmations floating across the screen. These go way beyond thought affirmations like “I am a good person who is lovable and capable”. These are thought affirmations to correct the biological makeup of your cells, the way you breathe, and negative vibrations you have absorbed from people and things in this lifetime and those before. The first time is very exciting, it really opens you up to the way your mind and body works with one another. It is also worthwhile to come back often to defragment as all complex organisms need to.

As a suggestion practice the Qigong exercises in our Qigong 101 course followed by a meditation from Quantum K.

Binaural Beats – Technology integration with individual meditation

Binaural Beats, sometimes called binaural tones, need stereo headphones with different frequencies coming in each ear. The effect is a “beat” created by the brain reacting to the different frequencies. This was first discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilheim Dove and through the course of the 20th century seekers discovered these binaural beats can induce relaxation and even altered states of consciousness. More can be learned from the wikipedia entry and at the binaural beat page at  Auditory Neuroscience.

Our course for Opening The Third Eye uses binaural beats to aid in relaxation and even astral projection.

There are also apps from places like I-doser where you can download various binaural beats, not to mention the wealth of CDs and podcasts out there. Whatever you do, make sure you are in a safe and calm environment, not driving or using heavy machinery. The quality of the headphones you use also make a huge difference. I was using $15 Skullcandy headphones, the kind that go inside your ear and then upgraded to the AKG Acoustics K-240 Semi Open Studio Headphones. What a huge difference. The headphones opened up a whole new layer of textures and dimensions in the music. It was like hearing in 3D. With Binaural beats the experience is so much richer and for lack of a better word…. trippier.

Finally, the inspiration and motivation for this post to share with DevelopYourEnergy.net readers. Spotify. If you’ve never heard about it, now you have, and if you’ve heard but not signed up, go there. Spotify is a European based music social network (notice the ambient awareness again) like Pandora or Last.fm. However, they’ve figured out the balance between advertising and the choice of music listening. Unlike Pandora or Last.fm you can select entire albums or individual songs, create playlists, and then listen to them over and over in the cloud. Once I figured out what was going on I thought, why would I buy music ever again on a cd or even an mp3?

The Binaural Beat & Guided Meditation Spotify Tip

Once I got past all the artists and genres I listen to and set up playlists on Spotify I experimented with a search “binaural beats”.  Whoa. There is a huge list of choices for binaural beats. All free. The paid versions of Spotify will drop all commercials but as some of these tracks are over 50 minutes and commercials are sprinkled in gracefully, I haven’t found them obnoxious. I’ve found some great binaural beats this way, particularly J.S. Epperson. A whole universe opened up to me.

And that concludes with the final tip. Search for “guided meditation” on Spotify. See where it takes you. Happy travels.

Technology does seem to be taking a role in all this doesn’t it?