S: This approach does involve guiding the energy to wherever
you’ve been asked to. It’s done mentally because where the mind
goes that’s where all sorts of physiological effects have their ori-
gins.
Dr. Young: And how do you feel about that?
S: The method was suggested and I found that it wasn’t difficult
to do. I can feel the heat in my belly and if I think it’s going to my
back in the area of the Ming-men, it does and when I think/feel it’s
going up the back it does.
Dr. Young: If you don’t try to guide it, will it also rise up the back
and flow by itself?
S: Sometimes it does.
Dr. Young: Would you say that those times would give you some
clue that your imagination is not needed?
S: Well, I did something in the beginning that he later told me not
to do and that was, after the route was established, I let it go by
itself and I wasn’t concerned about the points along the way.
Dr. Young: That would mean, then, that you have to guide it
continually.
S: I’d just let it go by itself and the energy just seemed to zoom
around along the route.
Dr. Young: How long have you practiced?
S: About 6 months.
Dr. Young: How many minutes a day did you practice?
S: Maybe three quarters of an hour each time, twice each day.
I’ve been told that I don’t have to cycle the route as many times as
I had. Originally, I’d been asked to do it 100 times which I never
could because I’d lose count.
Dr. Young: How about the timing? How long does a cycle take?
A second? A minute?
S: I can’t say. It varied but it was not measured in seconds be-
cause I had to visualize stations as it were along the way. Even-
tually, though, he had me just touch on four points at the navel,
perineum, lumbar region and at the top of my head.
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