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Alchemy PracticeFrom: singing ocean
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2009-01-24 17:06:00
Remote IP: 207.6.236.26
MessageHello Patrick,
Good to hear that your practice is going well! The most important aspect in cultivating the different levels for me has been to strengthen the lesser and greater kan and li levels.
This may also be partly because, like yourself, I was really interested to learn all the formulas in a relatively short time frame (with 6-12 months between, sometimes doing the audio course first then the live session in the summer). It may also be that each person has a different configuration so benefits from spending more time at a particular level. As michael has said, though, we are the current innovators in this experience so we have to gauge for ourselves!
After learning and practicing all the formulas, I went back and focused on lesser for a year, and that made huge changes in my feeling of rooting the yuan qi into the physical-energy-spirit body. Doing the advanced lesser Kan and Li also made huge changes. Now I am focusing on greater for a while, but still do star and all the others semi-regularly.
Your concern about the safety of focusing on higher formulas only, in my opinion may be restated bluntly as to say "how much is your entire being benefiting from focusing only on the higher formulas (without a solid root in the body?)?". There is really no right or wrong here, but I would think it would be more difficult to "hold on" to and root in the yuan qi if there is not enough yuan jing in the picture, or to root in the yuan qi to your personal self. So you may be accomplishing a lot in the stellar level but then still have issues to deal with in the personal. Its your choice where you focus your attention, and will receive the fruits of what you choose to focus on.
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