feel your back get warm and you may find yourself unintentionally
doing yoga-style breathing.- In time you may feel something in the top of your head in the
pineal gland area. The energy, when encountered here, feels warm
or numb and as though something were pressing from inside. From
there, the Chi flows down to the mideyebrow region, making it feel
very tight. Once you’ve reached this point, the Chi has completed
the “Governor Route”. Thereafter, the power must be directed down-
ward, no matter what your level of development. - When you’ve reached the head, reverse it and direct it to the
Ming-men, directing it from there to the inner sides of the thighs
and ending in the soles. Concentrate there for a while and then
bring your attention to your toes, knees, Hui-yin and then navel
again. Stay there for a while and then go up one center to the solar
plexus and concentrate there. Since you’ve opened the functional
route, as soon as you concentrate on the solar plexus, you should
feel energy there and in the area between the eyebrows as: well.
The energy that is developed at this time flows in both the Gover-
nor and Functional routes. Doing it this way is much safer and
spares you side effects. - When you’ve developed more power, it will push up from
the solar plexus into the heart chakra. This should be your next
point of concentration, then, but if you spend too much time here
you will develop heart burn and find difficulty in breathing. - If you’ve concentrated for one or two weeks and the power
has not yet risen to the throat energy center, you can either direct
your attention to that center during your practice sessions or con-
centrate on your solar plexus and allow the energy to push its own
way up to the throat center. When the power does get to the tip of
your nose. This is a crucial point. Think the energy up to the tongue
from the throat area and bring the energy in the brow area or nose
down to the palate. When the energy descends along the nose,
this causes some practitioners to sniffle (so that you can have
some guide as to what might be happening).
Your tongue may seem to grow warm. When the proper place
on the palate has been touched, you will feel as though you had a
small electric shock in your tongue. When this happens, it marks
the completion of the Microcosmic Orbit by the fusion of the Func-
tional and Governor routes, known as the Small Heavenly Cycle.
Chapter VIII