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My advice is - start white tiger taming with 16 kg KB swing, If you`re woman - beginning is where green dragon lifts it ...
Thanks for the advice! I realize now that a local Tai Chi teacher, John Du Cane, helped launch the kettle bell training in the U.s. -
Dragon Door author Pavel Tsatsouline gave a modern explanation of how elastic winding works in a past issue of Milo magazine:
"Muscular force is generated by actin and myosin filaments overlapping each other and forming cross-bridges? once the actin and myosin filaments have maximally overlapped, more tension can be realized by spiralling of the myosin filaments. A change in the length of the pitch of the actin helix may also boost force production during a very intense muscular contraction. Both processes can be compared to twisting a rubber band after it has fully contracted? it enables the muscle to store high amounts of elastic energy as the descending weight stretches the bands and the twists in the bands on the way down."
https://www.dragondoor.com/articles/six ... h/?F_All=ySo the qigong master I took classes from - when he trained at Shaolin - he did the horse stance with thighs parallel to the ground, 2 hours a day, no movement, every day for 3 months. Then upon finishing - the teacher said they could now practice long distance healing as the third eye was fully open. But of course that training depends on celibacy.
The qigong master told his assistant, JIm Nance, who told me, that he warns against weight training intensively after 45 years old since it can burn out the "green dragon" liver qi.
But what I noticed is that - for example anger and aggression are closely connected to lust since both are controlled by the hypothalamus. And so when I had a bench press - if someone yelled at me - in the house - instead of me yelling back (and being considered abusive) - I just realized that their anger was amazing "extra energy" that my body had absorbed. Then I would literally not say one word and in silence immediately go down to the bench press and convert their anger into my muscle. haha. It worked great.
I teach taiji - with great attention to posture, alignment, and generation of power from the hips and legs. I couldn't believe the parallels. Each class taught me something that I could apply to my own taiji practice. One day I realized that the way my knees tended to fall in during the squats was the same way my knees tended to fall in during a transition in a particular taiji move, and resulted in sharp pain in my knees. I had adapted that taiji move over time to avoid the pain, and lost strength in the move as a result. I went to taiji class that night and corrected that move, and from that point, my knee pain diminished and now, it's completely gone.
https://www.dragondoor.com/how_kettlebe ... e/?F_All=y I call it energetic strength. It's psychological, and relates to how you choose to see and approach life—the way you think about situations and respond to stress. This absolutely effects the other two layers, physiological strength and neuromuscular strength.
Wilhelm Reich, a student of Freud, describes physical character structures that are manifestations of a given psychological profile. For example, if you're fearful, you can feel it in your muscles. Your neck and shoulders will tense and start to hike up. Breathing will become shallow.
https://www.dragondoor.com/dragon_door_ ... e/?F_All=yI'm not sure Elliot realizes the potential of what he is describing. Reich had a book that didn't get translated into English until recently - from 1903 or so - describing how he realized a close relation between the vagus nerve, lecithin, and potassium.
Anyway - we can say that Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard had very similar research - the Relaxation REsponse - on Tibetan Monk tummo energy:
Documented in a 1985 study by Dr. Herbert Benson: The altitude was 15,000 feet and the temperatures reached zero degrees Fahrenheit as the Tibetan monks in the Himalayas slept, apparently comfortably, through the night. With as little insulation as a thin wool cloak and laying on the cold rock separated from one another, this should have killed the monks. But they were all fine and the cameras didn’t even catch them shivering at any point. When they woke, they walked calmly back to their monastery, not seeming to notice the cold at all, unlike the scientists and camera crew who were all bundled up and freezing by morning.
magnetic resonance imaging scans of the monks brains while they meditate have shown “marked differences in blood flow to the entire brain”, Benson explains. “At the same time, certain areas of the brain became more active, specifically those that control attention and autonomic functions like blood pressure and metabolism.”
All three monks were able to achieve substantial temperature changes by at least 17 degrees in fingers and toes within minutes of beginning their meditation. At the same time their heart beat did not increase.
The authors said the most likely physiological mechanism was dilation of the blood vessels in the extremities. A decrease in oxygen consumption directly correlated with a decrease in metabolism rate. The results found that the participants significantly lowered their oxygen consumption during meditation, more so than through sleep. They were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. “It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result,” Benson exclaims. To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent during simple meditation.
Increasing alpha wave activity, decreases in the rate of metabolism, oxygen consumption and blood lactate production are all measured, observed side effects of the relaxation response. Tibetan monks reportedly stopped their own heart beat or confined themselves in a steel metal box and continued to survive by slowing their oxygen intake to extreme rates. (p. 105,
The Relaxation Response
and 1982 report in the scientific journal
Nature
. The authors were Herbert Benson, John W. Lehmann, Mark D. Epstein of Harvard, Ralph F. Goldman of the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, M.S. Malhotra of India’s National Institute of Sports and Jeffrey Hopkins of the University of Virginia.
So we can say that the pineal gland is a kind of "master gland" that controls the hypothalamus as well - but it also works via external light - the biophotons then activate the pineal gland.
So if we see an image externally our brains process it at the speed of light via the pineal gland - normally subconsciously - and this is what then triggers the sympathetic nervous system reflex of lust - that causes ejaculation during sleep.
So that video I posted - of the Mantis qigong martial artist - he can suck his reproductive organ back into his body because he no longer produces semen. His body-mind training ionizes all the neurohormone energy into qi - as the White Tiger or Yuan Qi energy of the lungs.
And this is the only way that the horse stance can be held like that - parallel to the ground for 2 hours nonstop - only after the lower tan t'ien qi energy is filled up - alchemically.
It means through meditation the biophotons ionize the serotonin - and Dr. Jack Tuszynski goes into this in recent research - it is similar to how plants capture sunlight through quantum entanglement. Humans can do this also - as what Shaolin qigong master Yan Xin calls "the virtual information field" that is the source of the tummo heat.
So Yan Xin describes this in a book that is freely readable online -
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... FPmtSFXL-PThat's the pdf link - Secrets and Benefits of Internal Qigong Cultivation.
He met this weight lifter - and then charged him up with qi and the dude was lifting weights like crazy. haha.