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    Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy
    Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy
    Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy
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    Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy

    By Mantak Chia

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    Taoist meditation practices for increasing and maintaining mental awareness, memory, and clarity

    • Details techniques to increase the level of chi energy in the brain

    • Explains how to synchronize the left and right brain by activating the body’s energetic potentials

    • Shows that by emptying the mind there is more energy to heal the body

    Wisdom Chi Kung teaches practitioners how to revitalize the brain: to repair function, increase memory, and expand capacity. Every day we use up so much of our brain’s capacity to function that we have very little left at the end of the day. By thinking or worrying too much, the brain can use up to 80 percent of the body’s entire energy reserve. Learning to stop the brain, to empty the mind from the ceaseless chatter of the “monkey mind,” and then recharge it with chi energy can increase our mental capacity, focus, and clarity.

    Using the Inner Smile meditation technique, practitioners learn how to recharge chi energy for the brain in a form that is most useful. Practitioners smile and empty the mind into the lower tan tien and the organs. The organs then transform this chi energy. When the mind is empty, the energy transformed by the organs is sent back to the brain to revitalize it. This process synchronizes the left and right brain by activating and tapping in to the body’s energetic potentials. As the mind continues to empty, receive, and also enhance the transformed chi energy, it is able to open itself to connect with universal chi energies and fill the body with enhanced life force.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions/Bear & Company
    Release dateJun 24, 2008
    ISBN9781594778391
    Wisdom Chi Kung: Practices for Enlivening the Brain with Chi Energy
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    Mantak Chia

    A student of several Taoist masters, Mantak Chia founded the Healing Tao System in North America in 1979 and developed it worldwide as European Tao Yoga and Universal Healing Tao. He has taught and certified tens of thousands of students and instructors from all over the world and tours the United States annually, giving workshops and lectures. He is the director of the Tao Garden Health Spa and the Universal Healing Tao training center in northern Thailand and is the author of 50 books, including Taoist Foreplay, Inner Smile, Cosmic Fusion, Sexual Reflexology, and the bestselling The Multi-Orgasmic Man.

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      Wisdom Chi Kung - Mantak Chia

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      Western Science Meets the Tao

      RESEARCH ON THE TAO

      The material presented in this book is a condensation of the knowledge and experience gained from thirty years of teaching. Over these years, I have been able to devise a very simple and effective way of gaining awareness of the mind, body, and emotions, through a series of meditations (fig. 1.1). In recent times, Western researchers have been studying the effects of these meditations, using the latest, most sophisticated technologies to measure brain waves and energy levels. As a result, research has recently proven these meditations to be among the most effective forms of quieting the mind and energizing the body with chi (or qi).

      You just need to learn some simple practices that will help your brain give up its unnecessary and unproductive hold on many of your conscious, intuitive, and emotional experiences.

      Fig. 1.1. Empty the mind down to the tan tien.

      Many research groups have investigated the methods and practices that we teach in the Universal Tao. More and more scientists have discovered, using these bio-electro-measurement techniques, that the details of the ancient Taoist forms coincide with their conceptual theories. But these scientists bypass a complete understanding of the connection of the wisdom of the body and mind. The understanding of these concepts is the link of information that we will expand upon in the upcoming chapters of Wisdom Chi Kung.

      Research has also been done on many monks and practitioners of other kinds of meditation than the ones we present to you in this book. This research has found that through various techniques, in a very deep meditation, practitioners can virtually stop their brain waves. However, in this state, the alpha and theta brain waves that cycle healing energy in the physical body are not present. Healing energy is a vibrational frequency that charges our system with its potential highest charge to increase the functioning of the body.

      So the potential of a clear mind, or a meditative state, is present when the brain waves are stopped. Yet healing energy, which is one of the main focuses of Taoist meditation, is not present at all (fig. 1.2).

      In 1996, I was invited to Vienna to participate in a scientific study using modern measurement techniques. Chapter 3 describes this study in more detail. To start, I was able to help the researchers verify the results of previous studies of the brain in a meditative state. But using Taoist practices, I was then also able to increase the measurable brain waves in a surprising manner. The meaning of this kind of testing was still not very clear. I myself really didn’t understand how I was creating these results. Basically, I was performing two practices: The first was the Inner Smile (fig. 1.3). The second was working with orgasmic energy to raise chi and energize the brain—Wisdom Chi Kung.

      Fig. 1.2. Many forms of meditation do not produce healing energy.

      Fig. 1.3. The Inner Smile meditation: healing energy is present.

      Fig. 1.4. Sexual energy synchronizes the left and right brain.

      When focusing on these energies, the frequency heightens and the beta, alpha, and theta waves all rise up to a very high level, at which the left and right brains synchronize (fig. 1.4). Normally it would be assumed impossible for all three brain waves to be at a high level at the same time. It would be similar to a person driving a car while asleep.

      But as we explain step by step in this book, the meditations actually increase consciousness and awareness by completely activating the physical body’s energetic potentials.

      BUDDHA, ZEN, AND THE TAO

      As part of my continued research in Vienna, I became familiar with the chi machine, which measures ultraslow brainwave potentials (fig. 1.5). The scientists there had also been researching this material for some time and had extensive information on the outcomes of meditation by Buddhist monks and Zen masters. With the chi machine they had amassed evidence similar to the points already mentioned, the most interesting information being that with these forms of meditation, the practitioner was creating no new energy in the body and was actually depleting the body of its vital force.

      Ultraslow brain-wave potentials are measured while in Vienna.

      Fig. 1.5. Taoist meditation increases physical energy.

      Brain activity determines how much energy we have, and if we do not do something with the energy in the brain, then our energy is lost.

      The researchers discovered that the brain-energy level of people during normal activity was about sixty units. This means that if you rest well and get up ready for the day, your brain energy should be at this level. If you start at this normal level and proceed through your everyday activities—walking, sitting, thinking, talking—at the end of the day your energy level may have gone down to ten or even just five units. At that level, you have no energy to keep working and you have to rest. So, the researchers concluded, if we could find a way to increase the level of energy in the brain to one hundred or two hundred units, we would have so much more energy to carry out our daily activities.

      This is exactly what the Taoist meditation practices accomplish (see figs. 1.6, 1.7, and 1.8). And, in fact, many of the other meditation techniques originally had this purpose as well. It would seem that this kind of practice would be very useful for people who want to continue to have their place in the world.

      Fig. 1.6. Taoist meditation charges brain energy.

      Fig. 1.7. Alpha and theta waves increase during the Inner Smile meditation.

      Fig. 1.8. (A) Alpha and theta waves alter in dominance during the Microcosmic Orbit meditation. (B) The Cosmic Healing Sounds meditation results in increases in alpha and theta frequencies. There are minimal beta brain waves; the brain reaches a state of stillness and internal focus. (C) Orgasmic Upward Draw increases the alpha and theta levels.

      The other forms of meditation, where all brain-wave activity stops, are fine if you want to live in a cave or a convent or a temple. You can sit there, so full of bliss, so content, with little energy in the body, and with no concern that when you come out of your meditation, you have no energy for going back out into the world. These meditations in which people are sitting down, stopping their brain waves, and raising some energy up into the brain, are just not sufficient because when the meditation ends, the energy does not hold. This is not what most of us are looking for. This sort of meditation is like trying to charge your battery when it will not hold a charge. That is not the way.

      So, for those people who wish to remove themselves from the world, the Buddhist and Zen methods of meditation serve a purpose. Just empty the mind into the universe and that’s it, forget everything, leave nothing in the body. But for the rest of the six and a half billion people on the earth, I don’t think we can do that. Too many people are too disconnected from their bodies already; the last thing most people need to do is give their energy away to the universe.

      CULTIVATE YOUR UNIVERSAL CHI THROUGH THE TAO

      The Taoists say, cultivate this chi from the universe, for the sake of both wisdom and energy (fig. 1.9). If we’re here on this planet, why not have as much energy as humanly possible?

      Fig. 1.9. Many forms of meditation may disconnect you from the outside world, whereas Taoist forms will connect you with the universe.

      What we are looking for is for the physical energy to rise up, and when we stop meditation, for

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