suckinlhbf wrote:It starts in the feet, is directed by the waist, and manifests in the fingers. Like a wave along a spiral path. Up the inner leg channel, up the spine, to the palm on the outside of the arm channel
Thanks, Origami. I get this. Its like something flow from feet to spine to fingers. It can also like go out from the fingers and draw from the feet. Flow straight or spiral depend on the movement. Front up and back down for retraction. Back up and front down for release. But how are they related to the orbit flowing within the trunk of the body? Or is their another orbit?
So at the risk of sounding more foolish, I'll take a stab at laying out my current understanding.
We'll just use Qi as a term, but don't think by using this I imply I believe in making people move without touching them or any other poppycock.
Bear in mind when reading this that I have no credentials and don't know shit from shinola but love to run my mouth.
So there are eight channels. The first two are Tu Mo from the coccyx up the back to the top of the skill and down to the roof of the mouth, The Jen mo goes from the tip of the tongue down the front down to the taint/choad/space between anus and genitals.
The lesser heavenly circulation is consciously moving qi through a series of gates up the back and down the front. The qi follows the yi/mind/intent/awareness, so to circulate it, we simply move our awareness along these points in a circuit.
What does it do? I dont really know specifically. It opens you up. Gives you greater control over the articulation points along the path. Clears out blockages.... or maybe the blockages being clear facilitates it?
The physical and energetic feed into and amplify each other.Like the energetic refinement of jing-qi-shen-jing-qi-shen-jing, etc. Like the up and down of the circulation in the back and front, a continous cycle of energy strengthening the body and increasing control and that control and strength and release facilitating the flow of energy.
The lesser circulation in my opinion isn't lesser than, but it's simpler, so it's easier to start.
The greater circulation starts incorporating the limbs. You do as above then as follows.
First the Tai Mo goes around the waist to the back, then up from there to the heart along the Ch'ueng Mo, the Yang Yu Wei Mo passes along a similar path from around the navel to the chest to the shoulders then down the outside of the arm to the tip of the middle finger to the palm. The Yun Yu Wei Mo goes from the palms inside the arms back to the chest, picking up on the Yang Chiao Mo from just below the ears down the outside of the legs to the bubbling well, then the Yun Chiao Mo goes from the bubbling well up through the inside of the leg to the eyebrows.
And as with the lesser, circulating through these pathways opens the channels and nourishes the body which feeds the meditation, etc etc.
End result, as pertains to martial arts, stronger, more coordinated, with a better ability to let plain old mechanical energy move through m
ore freely. Faster healing. Temporary "healing"...
I've really only started to make headway here in the last few months. I still have a lot to learn.
So the channels open, energy moving freely, saturated with awareness. The energy moves to various parts of the body faster and more precisely resulting in more precise movements and articulation.
SO, what I have noticed as a result of this is the sensation of the energy moving through my body.
I had for many years been thinking of things like tensing up my whole body at once and sort of expanding as the way the energy was released.
What I'm feeling lately is that it's literally moving from my feet up through the gates in those channels out to where it wants to go.
Of course, understanding this here that it's different for movement versus fajin. Fajin isn't just normal movement sped up. It's a different thing. Store like drawing a bow, move like reeling silk, release like firing an arrow.
So yeah, the energy feels like a ball travelling along those paths. It has to pass through every point or it gets lost. If you keep it together it can produce a ton of power. It's like cracking a whip, kinda, not really but sort of. From the dantien it shoots down to the feet and then rolls back up the leg, coccyx up the back to the shoulder out the arm.
It's not one big tight mass. It is like a pulse traveling down a wire, a wave on a rope. Your arm describes a sprial wave and the energy moves along it, like a surfer.
Sometimes.
Other times it's different. It's not just one thing all the time.
Like in massage. if you just put pressure on the body and push directly, it takes a lot of strength and can wear on your joints. If instead you make a circle and push into one end of the circle, the hand at the other end can deliver a lot more pressure with less work and wear on your own frame. From the outside it looks identical, but you know how you're shaping the intention and that's what matters.
So yes, to me at this point it looks like there are a lot of different ways it moves around that have slightly different flavors.
Up the back down the front. If you look at the standard meridians they are denoted yin and yang. The yang meridians open the body, and the yin meridians close the body. 
