michael young's blog

I know that I have only been doing this stuff for several weeks, but I can't help but be frustrated that I still can't feel the rising energy or anything that resembles the stuff that is described by sifu or anyone else who has been doing this a lot longer than I have. I thought I may be able to get a sense, at least, of some of these feelings but I've got bupkis...Don't feel pressure that is applied to my body going effortlessly to the floor through my structure or any where close. Blah Bla Blah. You get the picture.

I have noticed for about the last week that, when I properly breathe to dantien, I have a sense that something is moving down from mingmen and up from mingmen, both vertically. The upward movement goes all the way up my neck and stops there. It feels as though my breath is filling up the area around my spine from mingmen up and mingmen down the whole thing seems to inflate. This concerned me because I thought that there was not supposed to be any pressure in the neck. The feeling occurs during the inhale. The fuller the breath gets the farther up and down the fullness travels.

I went back to lesson 3 expand to absorb condense to project. While doing the seated meditation I noticed soon in to it that I had a warm sensation in the dantien it seemed to be horizontal circle and not a sphere. That was new. I have felt a kind of fulness there before but not to the point that it felt like an actual shape or that I could feel its specific dimensions. Later, I noticed my mid back becoming either tense or feeling a stretch  or maybe both.