Nailed into the ground
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2023 6:46 am
Going back like... what, 15 years or so, I started to notice a sensation of strength in my legs that I hadn't known before. They began feeling solid and stuck into the ground like tree trunks that the rest of me sat on. Still movable and agile and all that, but just very, very solid.
And that was pretty much the state of things until this last year, but then something changed. Looseness in the hips or something? Song kua? They linked up across the pelvis and I got the same feeling across the legs. At this point in like a horse or goat riding stance I can really feel the flow down on the inside and up on the outside.
So that was the state of things for a while, not too long, and then I finally got the lowest part of my spine loosened up and positioned correctly, sunken, and the sensation shot straight up my spine to the headtop. Not really shot though, more like if my back was mud and there was a metal rod in the middle representing the feeling along my spine, it's like it was laying horizontal and emerging from the mud.
So at this point, I've got this delightful sensation rising from the base of my spine, just constantly. Even when I'm walking around if I put just a little thought into posture.
Stability wise it feels like the tree trunk is growing from the ground up through the top of my head, or like a giant spike was sticking through me. Again though, it doesn't impact mobility, it's just a solid base.
Transparency was pretty good, like when I press with my feet I can feel it in my hands, but it wasn't really hooked up.
I've been working with this feeling of expanding or inflating from the inside out (and compressing from the outside in) like the dantien is pumping the arms full and that seems like the final piece here, when I get all of that hooked up together the feeling comes from the back through the arms and then I can just sit and relax. I feel like I'm sitting on the barstool and my head is suspended and my arms are propped up and I'm just enjoying the seat like one of those faker fakirs in the metal seats pretending they're holding themselves up with one hand on a staff.
And that was pretty much the state of things until this last year, but then something changed. Looseness in the hips or something? Song kua? They linked up across the pelvis and I got the same feeling across the legs. At this point in like a horse or goat riding stance I can really feel the flow down on the inside and up on the outside.
So that was the state of things for a while, not too long, and then I finally got the lowest part of my spine loosened up and positioned correctly, sunken, and the sensation shot straight up my spine to the headtop. Not really shot though, more like if my back was mud and there was a metal rod in the middle representing the feeling along my spine, it's like it was laying horizontal and emerging from the mud.
So at this point, I've got this delightful sensation rising from the base of my spine, just constantly. Even when I'm walking around if I put just a little thought into posture.
Stability wise it feels like the tree trunk is growing from the ground up through the top of my head, or like a giant spike was sticking through me. Again though, it doesn't impact mobility, it's just a solid base.
Transparency was pretty good, like when I press with my feet I can feel it in my hands, but it wasn't really hooked up.
I've been working with this feeling of expanding or inflating from the inside out (and compressing from the outside in) like the dantien is pumping the arms full and that seems like the final piece here, when I get all of that hooked up together the feeling comes from the back through the arms and then I can just sit and relax. I feel like I'm sitting on the barstool and my head is suspended and my arms are propped up and I'm just enjoying the seat like one of those faker fakirs in the metal seats pretending they're holding themselves up with one hand on a staff.