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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.
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.
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.
 First Stance - Indian SummerElement-earth, Colour-yellow, Emotion-worry,Virtue openness,Sound-whoo, Organ-spleen. Focus-grounded, secure. Relaxed stance, feet slightly apart, breathe gently into the solar plexus. Feel as if you are rooted to the earth, but growing to the sky. |  Second Stance - SpringThis stance relates to the Liver, the colour Green, the element Wood and the virtue is Growth. The emotion is Anger. The sound is shhhhh. Interlock the hands and inhale as you expand upwards. Hold for a second and then release the hands, exhale saying the sound "shhhhh" and let them come gently to your sides. Repeat ten times. |  Third Stance - SummerElement-fire, Colour-red, Emotion-arrogance, Virtue-joy/creativity, Organ-heart, Focus-strength,projecting energy. Imagine you are drawing back a bowstring and shooting a flaming arrow. You inhale as you pull the string back and say haw... as you release the string. |  Fourth Stance - AutumnElement-metal,gold or silver, Colour-white, Emotion-sadness, Virtue-courage. Organ-lungs. Focus-letting go,like falling leaves. With hands on the tops of thighs, inhale and exhale to the right, saying ssss....inhale, come to the centre. Repeat on the left side. |
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 Fifth Stance - WinterElement-water, Colour-deep blue, Emotion-fear, Virtue-calmness. Organ-kidneys, Focus-courage/working with energy. Stand with feet wide apart, back straight and hands in gently closed upward facing fists at your waist. Inhale, exhale, extend the right hand turning the fist to face downward as you say wo... (woe). At the end of your reach open and turn the hand in a clockwise circle, imagining grasping a ball of energy. Inhale as you bring the hand back to the waist. Repeat with left hand. |
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