Training Regime of Early Days

[Spectral Dragon]

Note: I know you guys are probably getting tired of seeing this posted on all sites. I am posting this here for information and *might* update it one day soonish.


Having been asked several times now because of people's curiosity and finally asked recently because someone wants to actually follow this, I am posting the regime I followed for myself (with quite a bit of help from a spirit guide and the findings of several sites a friend of mine found,) when I was first starting out in my non-introspective and purely psychic endeavors. The regime might seem quite extreme at first, but the truth of the matter was I found ways to implement my training into my day to day practice and thus training was as natural to me as going through my day. Having a fair bit of will to go at this helps tremendously, and simply enjoying the training helps even more

One of the first things me and my best friend started exploring was Qigong. Qigong can briefly be described as the art of utilizing breathing and sometimes physical movements to improve one's health, energy, strength and stamina. It is a key part of martial arts and a key part of Chinese medicine. There were four primary Qigong practices I started out practicing, and these were the hardest practices for me to do as I couldn't easily implement them into my daily regime.

The first exercise, (which is actually poorly described in that link,) was learning basic Qigong breathing. Since correct breath is essential in Qigong, I tried to practice this daily and eventually I got this down so well that I was able to breath in this manner in any daily activity with very little concentration involved. Sadly, I learned of this base exercise after I had already started Horse Stance and other internal exercises, but I feel it is essential that a practitioner learn this exercise first before moving on. A more correct form of the exercise is as follows(The website where this was originally found is sadly lost,): sit down in a comfortable position. Start focusing on your breathing. You should be attempting to make your breathing as slow and deep as possible. Take some time to do this until you can get to either one breath a minute or, if that becomes impossible two breaths a minute. This will easily get you into a relaxed and tranced state of being, albeit you will definitely still have the ability to be aware of your surroundings. When you have gotten to either one or two breaths a minute, feel the breath as it travels through the body. Feel what the chest and abdomen are doing and feel the spots that are affected most by the breath. Try to target how the following is affected: your abdomen, chest (lungs), Solar plexus area (or somewhere around that area,) and the area about 3 inches in and 3 inches down from your belly button. When you believe you have felt these areas sufficiently, imagine cleaning and energizing energy and feelings coming in along with your breath and to those target areas. The areas around the Solar Plexus and the area described 3 inches in and down from the belly button should be trying to absorb a good amount of this vitalizing energy. When you felt you have sufficiently done enough breaths, be they ten breaths or ten minutes worth of breaths, stop the exercise.

The above exercise is a very base exercise which will introduce you into Qigong. To a good amount of Qigong practitioners that exercise alone is good enough to improve their health to a level they feel comfortable with. Being the explorer and young kid I was I felt I had to shoot Fire out of my Ass however and immediately started on some exercises that I really should have been taught by an instructor first. What I didn't realize at the time was that my introspection and will for self improvement was vital to what I was doing. I am going to describe these next.

My reasons for doing the following isn't entirely important but it comes down to life had thrown me in this direction at a perfect time. One of the first things I did was to face down all of my largest fears and blatant mental blocks. I was largely afraid of people, for example and so I got a job at a supermarket to help me in this regard and to help me earn some extra cash, as my future was also a big fear for me. My self confidence was also a big fear and mental block to myself. I rationalized all of this out and tried to find a positive for every negative that came up in my mind. The positive couldn't just be any positive I thought of, it had to directly correlate and directly counterbalance the negative thought which had come up. I had no idea at the time how important this actually was to my psychic development. I did certainly know how important it was to my sanity at the time. I even dedicated hours upon hours of time to this every day for a good long while so that I could overcome my own personal demons. If anything comes up, I still do this.

At some point I found I was completely happy with myself save the fact that I could go even further in this mental capacity: I dropped all that I believed and rationalized based only on facts. Every rational conclusion I came to had to have a distinct reasoning which made sense and had a good amount of factual backing to it. I dedicated myself to this practice and still try to practice this today.

I furthered the above in trying to make a dedicated way of scientific thought. This was based largely on the scientific method I had been taught in school, but I largely changed this method to something that made more sense to me scientifically. The scientific method in my mind left a large amount of room for personal interpretation and large misinterpretations and errors in judgment, not the least of which was narrowing the viewpoint at key points of observation based on assumption. An outline of a scientific approach is as follows: (from Wikipedia)

1. Define the question
2. Gather information and resources
3. Form hypothesis
4. Perform experiment and collect data
5. Analyze data
6. Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypotheses
7. Publish results
   

When defining a question, I try to never form a question around something that has never been hypothetical, never factually proven, or can't be observed in some fashion (granted astral stuff is grainy in regards to observation, I will get to that when I get to astral travel.) Some scientists, including big names like Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin made quite a bit of hypothetical hypothesis (and both openly admit to both the fact that the hypothesis was in fact a hypothesis and the fact that it was hypothetical, despite what the common view wishes to think,) about the world around them. While I do often go into hypothetical thinking I clearly define it as that in my mind: hypothetical.

Going on to the second part of the method, observations are made, but often I hear of things being observed either through philosophical or egotistical filters or more accurately they are assuming things before they even start observing. I figured if I was to get an accurate view of the world around me, I would try my best not to let my ego or my bias get in the way of true fact. It is true, for example that I feel heat in my hand. It might not be true that heat is actually present. It is true that the thermometer isn't registering any heat. It is not true that that means nothing is happening when I am trying to heat the air between my hands Psionically (GOM WIKI).

[Spectral Dragon]

Note: I am only allowed 10,000 characters, so had to double post.


The next part is possibly the most important as it changes the rest of the whole scientific method. Forming a hypothesis can really derange cold hard fact. You can find evidence for any theory you can make. In this, science is partially flawed in my own belief. Since you can find evidence for any theory you can make (including what most would construe ridiculous ones,) then people can form many different models based on the same information. This shows me that a view of the world can be jaded still. If an apple fell, for example, the apple fell. Any indications of why the apple fell would have to be observed, but any theories about the phenomena would be just that: a jaded opinion. Unless sufficient evidence presents a clear course of further observation, the whole scientific method is dropped. As it so happens, you might get one out of every hundred observations make it past this point. If the data does not point directly to a clear answer that isn't drawn from bias, ego, or assumption then it can only draw theories. This isn't to say, of course, that theories shouldn't be drawn. At some point if you want to better your lives by doing a project you will have to act based on a theory. In this, science has chosen a course which better suits it to understand the world better. However, drawing definite conclusions before this point is a bias. Science has definitely made the world go in a direction I mostly like, but in my view it has it's flaws and that is the reasoning behind this type of thinking.

Again, I had no idea how important this way of thinking would actually become to my Psionic and Mystical pursuits. By doing this, I cleared most of my filters and bias on the world and this helped clear a lot of mental blockages which would have stopped my progress dead in it's tracks had I not already previously cleared them up.

To continue my mental endeavors, I decided to take a close look at myself on a daily basis. How did I react to certain situations? What did I do or think when this person did this or that? I observed all of this, rationalized it out, figured out why I did what I did and balanced myself. In practice, this seems hard to do. Having done the two above things beforehand, made this doable to me for the first time in my life (having previously attempted this at crucial points in my life to little avail.)

Coming to some base realizations was crucial to me. What is good and evil? How did it work in the world? Was anything so simple? What is the situation behind the individual I am facing? How do I affect him and him affect me? A deep understanding of Empathy and a balance between positive and negative emotions needed to be reached to me at some point before I could delve into some of the deeper aspects of understanding and psychic ability. Most of these exercises can be replicated in the works of Franz Bardon and most notably Initiation Into Hermetics, a fact to which surprised me when I noted how similar the mental regimes were to the ones I had put myself through.

There are many other specifics to the mental training I went through in my early days of practice and still go through today, but the start I gave should lead to the specifics needed to get to where one needs to go I hope. I could write a whole book about the specifics of the mental practices I had myself undergo, some of which at the suggestion of a spirit guide.

As stated before, I went through many practices before starting the base exercise above. In addition to the mental ones above these are mostly of three flavors: Psionic, Qigong, and Physical. I understood very early that if I wanted to keep my Qigong energy levels where I wanted I would need to be physically fit, as your energy and your level of fitness correlate directly as I observed very early on. I went to the gym with my best friend on a regular basis. This did me a lot of good both physically and mentally: I felt better about myself for doing this as well as feeling healthier and fitter. My diet was naturally healthy at that point because it had been ingrained in me from my parents that I should eat what I was eating. Unfortunately I didn't like my parents and started snacking. This didn't affect me while I was doing this regime, I could snack all I wanted and have no ill effects. This did cause a problem later on when depression caused me to stop the regime altogether. Be forewarned, if you stop it will be very hard to pick it up again in the same manner you were going at it before :cry: .

A great exercise that me and my friend did on top of the physical gym training was Horse Stance Training (there are three links there). Here is an example of a deeper souther horse stance:



Me and my friend never went past ten minutes on this stance and even then it was never that low. You don't need to get super adept at this in my experience (although it certainly wouldn't hurt!) and we never really did this on the regular basis we wanted to. I did this in short spurts of dedicated horse stance training for a week before stopping for usually two and doing my regular stuff. Once we got to an instructor, we learned a very strict horse stance system which I still adhere by today. Put your feet together. Spread your toes out to 45 degrees. Spread your heals out to 45 degrees from your toes, then spread the toes out to 45 degrees again. This should put you at about shoulder length. This is the standard horse stance depth for Shaolin Tiger crane. Even your feet out at the ball of the feet making the two feet as perfectly parallel as possible. Put the knees above the feet so that when someone looks at you from the front from a distance your knees are perfectly above your feet and parallel to each other. Tuck the butt in, straighten the back, and make sure the head and butt are aligned straight up and down. (Yes, no picture I have seen perfectly matches this extremely strict version of the stance) Now you are in horse stance. If you want to go advanced, you can go deeper than this and for longer. We did five minutes standard each session, going longer if you could. Remember to try out the self induced Qi Flow (only the practice steps on that page are necessary since your preparation was the horse stance proper. )

There were other Qigong exercises I experimented with. Most of these I figured out rather quickly. If interested these were Lifting the Sky and Four Phase Breath. (Good luck finding the specific traditional practice, google didn't turn it up. You may however find it in the works of (master) Dr Yang Jwing-Ming And This one Specifically. I will type up the specifics of this exercise if asked.) Do your research, there is a lot of both good and bad stuff out there. For curiosities sake try out Any DBZ Radki sites as well, truth be told that's how I got started in Psionics, which is next on the list of things to mention in this regime of mine.

The psi ball was called "useless in of itself, but a great training exercise." At first, I disagreed, but upon reflection I find this partially true. You can do a lot of things with a psi ball, but you don't need the psi ball to do those same things. Btw, that's the exact same site the man who copied the technique onto his site came from. Lots of good stuff here. I won't detail the psi ball here as they do a good job there. I WILL detail things you can experiment with that they didn't mention. As a matter of fact, I played with most of that stuff on that site in my early days with much success with most of it.

I'm stopping for now, this post is large, I'm tired and I need a break from te comp. Spending this many hours on a post should be a sin :witch I'll detail the rest when I am refreshed.

[Spectral Dragon]

When I left off on my last post I went into how Psi Balls, Psionics, and the four phase breath were incorporated into my regime. I didn't show how to do these exercises though, being tired and figuring people could look them up. I will here. I also want to get into a bit more of the mental stuff and possibly how I might have gotten some remote viewing powers (which during a state of depression were lost to me a few years ago,) how I got into my subconscious and mental projection, and some of the things I explored with energy.

The first thing I want to cover here are Psi Balls. I gave Psi Pog as a good resource site for creating Psi Balls and just knowledge and training steps for Psionics in general, however I don't like some of Psi Pog's philosophies and claims regarding a few things, one being how hard they say it is to make a Psi Ball. The Psi Ball is the easiest Psionic exercise to learn how to do. Most adept practitioners take about one full minute to make a Psi Ball. I say they are holding themselves back for subconscious reasons, because myself and my friend got to a point where we could make a weak Psi Ball almost instantaneously.

For those of you who practice NEW, Robert makes you do this at the workshops (his NEW is basically using Psionic energy in the body.) I actually suggest reading his NEW energy ways to get a good grasp of learning to make one of these and learning to move it around. Basically, take your hands and put them up in front of you like you are holding a ball. Feel energy accumulating there in the shape of a ball, and once you feel it hold there you have a Psi Ball. Feeling that this is there is very important, and visualization isn't required although if you've practiced long enough it's suggested. There are other ways to make a Psi Ball, such as Sifu Wong Kiew Kit's method: hold your hands much like you were doing above, only slowly spread them out and put them together again, and over a period of time you will make a weak Psi Ball.

From the above exercise, you can start learning how to move the ball around with your mind, throw it, blast it, explode it, make it change shapes, or just learn how to summon this energy instantaneously. I never thought to use this inside the physical body until I went to Roberts workshops, always thinking that Qi would be all I needed for my in-body purposes (besides an exploit about 3 or four years back into learning about Etheric Energy.) I highly suggest playing with Psi Balls in all the above manners as it opens up powers and understanding very quickly.

Next up is the four phase breath. This is also called the Microcosmic Orbit by a lot of practitioners. Learning basic Qigong breathing is a requirement here, and if you do this practice wrongly and in a bad mood you can seriously screw yourself up. With that in mind, you start this practice in a comfortable sitting position. Note that many Qigong practices require you to be in a specific sitting position, this hasn't ever been necessary for me or many of the other people I have talked to, you can sit comfortably in a chair if you like, but having your back straight helps with the visualization and the ability to feel the energy move. You are going to want to start with forming a ball of Qi just below the belly button by breathing in deeply and feeling the breath form at the area where you want the ball to form, and your goal is to make it fist sized or the size of a tennis ball. On the next in- breath you are going to want to make this ball travel down and around under the skin to the chode between your two legs. On the out breath travel the ball up and around the spine about half-way, then on the in breath again travel it up to the crown Chakra just below the spine, remembering to keep it the same distance inside the whole way, and finally on the out breath bring it back down to where you started. You are going to want to make the whole process as slow as possible so that you can get into the deepest trance you can get.

To make reading easier, I am going to stop here and continue with another post.