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Yesterday, I noticed, while walking, that, as I let go of the muscle more and more, the tissue around mingmen would release. It felt like it was moving away from mingmen in everydirection and around the torso to the front. The yin surfaces on the torsoall becamed very heavy and dense like wet wool. The belly became very full and hard with no effort. I can't reliably reproduce this effect. I can most easily find it while walking around, but it is near impossible to find it when I'm standing still or trying to train. Advice please...

Suspending the crown:I've had a few different senses of this. 1. Lifting the rear crown point giving a stretching feeling to the neck and back. (like stretching a hose)2. Releasing in such a way that fullness comes to the back which lifts the crown. (like turning on a water valve give fullness to the hose)I've opted for a combination of the two. Stretching the hose and turning the valve on. Thoughts?

Sifu continually tells us that the energy must move. The cycle has to be continuous. I have listened to this and thought, "Ok, the energy must keep moving." But, I have realized that I don't comprehend this yet. When someone applies force to my arms, I meet the force and my abdomen becomes very full and hard. Sifu said that the fullness needs to be there but it needs to move to the mingmen. I need help understanding this. The abdominal fullness remains; even though I move to open the mingmen. Any body, every body, HELP! ;)