Cosmic Healing II

Universal Tao Basic Practices and Preparation Exercises

Fig. 2.7 Bone Breathing through the Fingers

Bone Breathing

There are several variations in the Bone Breathing and Marrow Washing process. Here
we will introduce you to the first type of Bone Breathing, inhaling and exhaling Chi through
the skin and packing it into the bones. In this method, you imagine that your bones are like
hollow bamboo tubes and that you are breathing and drawing the Chi into them.
Bone Breathing is practiced in a three-stage process. Let your breathing follow a nor-
mal pace. Do not strain or hold your breath too long.

1. You can do this practice in the sitting position or in the Embracing the Tree posture (or
   any other Iron Shirt Chi Kung posture). You will use your mind and eye power to breathe
   in a short breath and at the same time feel suction. Suck the Chi of the atmosphere into
   your hands, eventually expand to the universe, breathe in a few times more. Use a
   combination of mind/eye/heart power (Yi) to suck the Chi from the atmosphere into
   your hands, while taking small sips of breath. Smile. Once you can clearly feel the
   increase of Chi-pressure in your hands, you extend the feeling throughout your arms,
   having the whole skin surface of the arms breathing in the Chi. Feel the skin hold Chi
   pressure.


2. Inhale one more deep breath and lightly contract the arm muscles to squeeze the Chi
   into the bones, hold for a while, condensing the Chi into the marrow of your bones.
   Exhale and at the same time, feel a distinct heaviness in the bone, meaning that the

Using the mind

and eyes, breathe

in through the

fingertips.

Direct the energy

to the head and

bring it down to the

middle back. With

practice, you will

direct it all the way

down the legs to

the feet.

In the beginning stages of

Bone Breathing, the mind

and the eyes are used to

draw and absorb the

external energy.

Spiral the energy from

the legs up the spine. At

the same time, spiral

from the hands to the

upper spine and into the

head.