the vibration in your eye. Use the throat friction to intensify the
vibration and the connection.
Then try to become aware of the natural flow of the vibration
along the line. Once again, connect this flow with your third eye
and amplify it with the friction.
Try to locate the path of this meridian beyond the area you have
rubbed. Sense the energy flow in the hand (or in the foot). Then
sense it in the trunk; then the neck; then the head.
Then try to enhance the flow by contracting the ‘little hands’ of
energy all along the line (section 4.10). The more you progress in
channel release, the more this phase becomes the essential one.
Repeat the whole sequence on the same meridian on the other side
of the body.
As you become more familiar with the process, you can also choose
to rub both meridians quickly, one straight after the other. Then
become aware of the vibration and implement the whole sequence
on both sides at the same time.
Tips
- Being able to move the vibration consciously by contracting the
‘little hands of energy’ requires patient work. You have to persist,
persist, persist... until the feeling becomes clearer and more
tangible. Practise daily, contracting the ‘etheric muscles’ around
the line, squeezing the energy into movement, and these ‘muscles’
will grow stronger. - In channel release you first perform an action, such as rubbing a
meridian. An after-effect follows: a phase of ‘connected stillness’.
It is during this phase that the most important part takes place –
the movement of energy, the wave. The rubbing or any other
movement is like throwing the net. Allowing the movement of
energy during the motionless stage is like catching the fish.
In the motionless phase, the art is to allow the energy to be set
into motion. You are not doing anything. But still, it is not enough
to do nothing for the wave of energy to arise! A yin skill has to
be developed, like a passive magnetism, that allows the energy
movement to take place. You can't do it, you have to let it happen.
But if you don't do anything, nothing will happen either.
In Taoism, the example is given of a woman who seduces a man.
She does not do anything, she just ‘is’. And the man is drawn to
her. But on the other hand, if the woman does nothing, meaning
if she does not unfold her yin power, well, nothing happens! The