Awaken Healing Light: The Microcosmic Orbit Meditation

I am working through this book. The main practice is the microcosmic orbit which uses the prenatal energy system. When you were in the womb you received all your nourishment and energy through the navel and this followed an energy pathway to the base of the spine and all the way up to your head, and back down the front to the navel to the dan tien where it is stored. This exercise trains you get the pre natal energy flowing again. Normally, as you go through life your energy does not flow upwards properly and becomes blocked contributing to the ageing process etc. If you have any interest in energy practice, you should work with the microcosmic orbit. The only trouble is it may take a while before a conscious flow can be felt. I recommend the five tibetans, which is a simple exercise routine you can do in five minutes. These are also referred to as the fountain of youth exercises. This also brings the energy up to your higher centers or psychic vortexes, and restores their function to youthful levels, thereby retarding the aging process. You can feel the kundalini (base of spine) energy being activated. If you are new to energy, I recommend you also get Quantum Touch, which has some great exercises and visualizations which can literally have you moving energy within minutes. Combining a few different methods has worked well for me. As with anything, the more you practice, the more you improve.

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I read this book when it first came out. You can and will open the microcosmic orbit using this book. I went on to spend some time with Mantak Chia. He's a fine guy and an excellent teacher and communicator. No one EVER left one of chia's events thinking, "gee, I really don't know how to practice this." He's the best actual teacher of this sort of thing I've ever been with. The problem with some of these lousy reviews is as follows. There's something about spiritual subjects--maybe because they're so dear to people's hearts--that arouses a nasty levelof fanaticism in human beings, especially westerners, but it's pretty universal. No matter how good and sincere a teacher you are there are always people in the back row sneering and screaming that you are "doing it all wrong!" On top of that, and not to be at all discounted, is the fact that Mantak Chia is BY FAR the most succesful teacher of taoism in the west and there are a lot of people who are just plain old green with jealousy and envy and they hate him for it. It's an ugly side of human nature but one we all know all about.The only legitimate criticism of Chia's books is this--he is consciously writing for "the ages" and he makes them almost encyclopedic, and the result is actually more information than you may need to do the practice. Some people find this confusing.Lastly, Chia is one of the great modernizers and debunkers, doing basically for taoist spiritual practice what TCM in modern china tries to do for chinese medicine: sift it to find out what we actually can use and separate it from what we don't need because it is just superstition. There are some goofy people who seem to want the superstition and this also angers them, but for reasonable people like us it can save us lots of time in the future.Chia's energy practices will make you healthier and you won't need any study to prove it to you--you'll know it cause you'll feel two hundred per cent better. Enjoy.

AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is written by Mantak Chia, founder and director of the Universal Tao Center. Chia has devoted his life to studying meditation, tai chi chuan, aikido, yoga, kundalini, and many forms of inner alchemy. Chia's books are intended to be supplemental guides to energy training, and are primarily intended for readers who are familiar with energy work. The focus in this book is primarily on inner yin and yang breath work (nei kung), rather than outer breath work such as chi kung -- although some of these techniques are described in detail in this book as well. AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is one of an estimated 35 books that Chia intends to write in order to fully cover the Universal Tao system (Chia has completed more than 20 of these books already). I am very pleased to see how Chia explains the founding principles of his Universal Tao system: "The system I learned from my master is based on the positive energies of love, kindness, gentleness, respect, and honesty; this is the highest Chi Kung practice. With these energies an adept can counteract all kinds of evil. It is said that even fire cannot hurt one who has perfected their use."At more than 550 pages, AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT is a veritable encyclopedia of information. It's the kind of book I like to read cover-to-cover and then return to as a reference book for refreshers on various aspects. This book is organized into sixteen information-packed chapters which describe: an overview of Taoist inner alchemy, the connection between chi and meditation, how to transform negative emotional energies, techniques for activating and amplifying original chi, points along the microcosmic orbit (a circular path for circulating chi in the body), the microcosmic orbit, how to work with Earth energy, how to work with Cosmic (higher self) energy, how to open the heart and practice the Cosmic inner smile, and much, much more.Chia includes numerous illustrations to thoroughly clarify how to work with yin and yang energy. I highly recommend AWAKEN HEALING LIGHT to anyone who is seriously interested in improving the energy flow in their body for improved mental and physical health and well-being and wants precise, detailed information on mastering the flow of yin and yang energy in the body.

This book was my first introduction to qigong, and as such I found it a revelation. I had been doing Tai Chi for some time, but due to unique difficulties, I often had to go in for surgery, and by the time I was able to work again, I had lost both form & teacher. There is no such problem here. The technique can be practiced anywhere, any time and can be incorporated easily into one's breathing. This small, simple book contains one exercise. which can be learned very easily. Half the book, at least, is nothing but testimonials, which I thought were just to fill out the pages. Each of his small books can be read quickly, and takes about three months' practice to learn well enough to go on to another one. I appreciated the fact that he left out the philosophy, and got right to the technique. It makes it easily available to anyone. When these books first came out, I bought each one as soon as it was published, and bought multiple copies of this one as gifts. I admit that at one time, I tried Yoga without a teacher other than books, and got in immediate trouble. There were no available teachers at the time, and I found the books left too much out. This book solved, and made me understand my previous difficulties.