Inner alchemy: working with Emotions and Life Force (Chi)
For the taoist inner alchemy, working with emotions always implies also working with energy - the Chi. Many of the possible energetic blockages occur through or are caused by negative emotions.
We learn to listen to our body and to be in touch with our emotions through the techniques of the Inner Smile and the Six Healing Sounds. This allows us to dissolve blockages, strengthen our energy and further our health.
Chi - Source of all Movement
Chi, or life force, is the foundation of all the Taoist practices, in the same way that electricity is the foundation of modern civilization. Without Chi, one’s life would come to an abrupt halt.
In order to activate the Chi or Primordial Force, we need to purify the organs and learn grounding to the earth. The most powerful force that can be used to support us is the primordial force of Earth. Taoist practice is involved with the yin/yang, the PH balance of acid and alkaline. It is also the balance of negative and positive emotions—we do not look at negative as sin.
Inner Smile: Use the power of smiling to activate the relaxation response in the parasympathetic nervous system. Get rid of the negative emotion and rebalance the positive emotion. When we learn to smile to the negative and make friends with it, we can find a way to live in harmony together and enhance our health. Transforming negative emotional energy patterns into the positive components in the organs helps to reprogram the genes and DNA. The Inner Smile is one of the most simple and powerful tools for healing.
Six Healing Sounds: Each organ stores parts of the primordial force and negative and positive emotions. One part of the negative needs ten parts of the positive to balance it. With the special sound for each of the organs, the special healing color, positive emotion and special position for each sound—these will help to restore you back to good health and will help with the connection to the primordial force. The healing sounds practice will help to reprogram the cells so that when the cells split, the old negative information will not be copied to the next cells.
Microcosmic Orbit: Opening chi (body's life force energy) flow in the energy pathways from the perineum up the spine, through the head and back down the front side of the orbit will help to activate the orbiting of forces of the solar system and the universe. This will help draw in more primordial force from the earth through the soles of the feet up to the spine and from the universe in through the crown to combine in the lower Tan Tien (abdominal area), the heart and the brain.
Chi Self-Massage: Simple massage techniques are used to remove blockages and to enhance the healthy distribution of chi in the body from head to toe. This is good to do after meditation and other practices where a lot of chi is activated.
Enjoy the process of creating health and longevity; learn to know inner health as well as outer health.
