My Mood Kit

Chi Kung - working with energy ... these exercises may be done as many times as is comfortable, but usually 7-10 times to absorb the subtle energetic changes and preferably every day. It will only take five or ten minutes. Try to incorporate all the moods that you have explored up to now; the emotions that you have related to in viewing the artworks; the sensory journey in the yoga nidra meditation, the notes you have made and the doodles and sketches you may have done. Now you take the physical journey of shifting all these energies into productive states in your mind and body or releasing them through the actualising process of chi kung.  

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How to do these exercises.  

As you do the specific exercise, for example Second Stance - Spring, try to bring up the Emotion of Anger and imagine or look for the colour Green and the Element of Wood in your surroundings. Visualise breathing in all the energy around you as you raise your hands and then direct it into the Liver (on your right-hand side of your waist). Say the sound "Shhhh" as you exhale. 

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After you have finished your chosen routine, lie down in the resting yoga pose of shavasana; take a few minutes to observe your physical body - are you holding any tension? where? do you know why? and what thoughts and emotions may have arisen. Do your best to simply release the tension and visualise the negative thoughts dissolving into dust. Take a few deep breaths, slowly sit up and continue with your day.