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I noticed today while doing arm swings, that when the arms moved out and expanded away from my body there was a suction feeling, almost as if water were being sucked into the palm. It had a very liquid feeling to it. I could feel a sort of turbulence in the flow. Very strange. The feeling of suction is right but i don't know about the rest of it.. I can feel the Yang expansion on the Yang surfaces at the same time.

Is it just me, or does the alignment of our structure in ILC make our breathing something that is like a combination of natural/diaphragmatic breathing and reverse/condensing breath? Unlike natural breath we don't pooch out the abdomen only, but the back also expands and we have a condensing at dan tien. and unlike reverse breathing we don't force the condensing through contraction.

I haven't felt well today due to allergies. My whole body felt a little bound up so I decided to do some training and bitter pill.   During the harvest, I noted that my fingers, in the area of the pads, felt full and a little heavy. The yang surface felt open and light or radiating. The rest of the yin surfaces of the hands felt like there were elastic bands pulling the fingers in and there was suction into the palm. I think this all fits! Yay! lol