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Exercises


The Dragon’s Statue:

The Dragon’s Statue is the beginning exercise and focuses on the fledgling getting into the most relaxed position possible.
Begin with 5 minutes of complete motionless.
Eyes can be closed as to avoid blinking so there is no movement what so ever beyond breathing.
The Fledgling should clear their mind and think about nothing at all,
Feeling the world around them through all of their senses and being aware of their heartbeat, breath and sound.
Once 5 minutes have past successfully move on to 10 minutes, then 15.
Once this has been mastered the fledgling should move on to the Dragon’s breath.


The Dragon’s Breath:

Is not a complex but essential exercise. Here the fledgling should enter the Dragon’s Statue and focus mainly on breathing. They should slow down their breathing process to as slow as possible, inhaling and exhaling while focusing on controlling the movements. Once 30 minutes of this have been successfully reached the fledgling should move on to the next step- The Mind Blank.


The Mind Blank:

The Mind Blank is the first serious exercise of mental trance and moves beyond the physical realm and deeper into the mind.
The Dragon’s Statue and The Dragon’s Breath should be done first and then the fledgling’s mind should be clear.
This is not easily done, but even a few minuets of mental stillness is an achievement.


The Walking Harvest:

Is a simply exercise which is used to experience and refine mastery and application of surface ambient & distance communions. This is very simple, as it applies the teachings found in the Communions Pillar of Liber Bellah, then alone ( this also serves as a dynamic walking meditation) go out into a crowded area and observe people, remove yourself completely from contact with everyone else and creep deep into your mind. Fill yourself up as much as possible, using shielding and filtering techniques, then go home, meditate refining and “digesting” this harvested energy.

In the breathing exercise should it be in through the nose and out through the mouth or does it matter?? I am familiar with some of the focusing techniques... it's a common practice in the martial arts to help focus ki or chi energy....

The presented exercises are indeed useful, as I can attest. However, might you be able to expand this into a discussion by offering up a question? I would hate to see this end up as a simple "thank you" thread.

Sekment, I would personally recommend breathing in deeply through the nose and exhaling slowly out the mouth through slightly pursed lips. It works for me at least.

This reminds me of the zen meditation I have attended. I found it easier to become focused on the breathing by imagining the inhaling breath as a certain color and exhaling a different shade of that color., and w/ each following breath the color became more faint until clear.For me it made it easier to stay focused on the breath until and get to the point of having a blank or empty mind.

I have found that in crowds, it's very easy for us to lose our focus or concentration. This seems normal enough but I think that any method of learning to connect with yourself while in a crowd is a good method for dealing with adversity in general as well as a great focus tool.

Learning to reach a more meditative state in a crowd will also greatly contrast the massive flux going on around you...showing you a deeper sense of self awareness though I would say that achieving it would be rather advanced.

Thank you for sharing. I find that deep breathing helps me focus. Some times humming helps to.

your all welcome, I would like you to try it out and tell us how you are coming along.

I tried something else.
I start with simple meditation.
Take some comfortable position , close ur eyes , start to breath slowly, the breathing is the most important thing.
Clear ur mind , don't think on anything and try to extend ur aura on the entire room so that u can feel anything what is moving even the insects.
When u reach this point of meditation ur able to focus on almost everything even u can sense other people from far distances.
But this is also a good exercise to all hyper-active people

Meditation and breathing is important in almost any ritual or focused situation (like martial arts, magic, etc). I recall early teachings from a circle i was in (long long long ago heheh) about manifestations. There was a great deal of time spent first learning how to stay calm and control your breathing.

Sorry, I wasn't implying something other than to say that i think there's a universal benefit to it.

I think that even something simple can be used as a focusing exercise.

Positive visualization of your goal has long been used in everything from sports to relationships. There's definitely something there. Negative reinforcement often has effects too in the way of self fulfilling prophecies.

It would seem that taking some actual time everyday to center and focus could have a wide benefit in western society and already shows benefit in a lot of eastern societies (at least in older eastern societies).

How do you find meditation helps you? I've never really tried but maybe it would be worth it. But almost every morning on a weekday I spend a little bit of time thinking of who I should thank and who I care about and I find it improves my whole morning and maybe much of my day. I just know it feels so good thinking about all the wonderful people in your life and it helps relieve any built up stress.

Meditation, When properly induced, Lower's cycles' in the brain and allows our mind to rest, Or the first layer of conscience to comunicate with the next layer, Either the subconscience, or the Ego. But never the ID.

In studies, it is found that memory and other associated chemicals and bodily tasks is performed in a much more efficent way then achieving REM sleep, on a short term basis, not long term.

Very interesting. Though I didn't understand the entire thing what it seems to me is that your mind can rest much better through meditation than just sleeping, of course for short periods of time because sleeping is quite vital. And when you're mind is better rested you can go about doing things much more effectively. It also seems to help the more hyper person settle down. I've heard that it's very relaxing and many people enjoy meditation. I guess I'll just have to reread some of these techniques and see if they are good for me.

You should personal exploration is the key to personal insight.

I know some of them and sue them but one I never used and will never cause it has caused to many trouble in my mind, the empty mind one, I keep instead my mind on the one and only thing that is not related to waht I seek to focus on and for about 20 minutes.
The breathing is the best, moving away also form where you are and go to see a totally different thing form the current situation.

Thank you for sharing this. I am looking forward to trying it. Maybe a stupid question, but, can this be used everywhere? would it be easier to do if you found a tranquil spot away from the rushings of the modern world?

To put a lighter spin on this, but truthfully:

When I really need to focus I:

• close the door
• get a couple of real beers (i.e. not american frozen gnat piss, sorry)
• lean back

meditation exercises help us to concentrate.. It also is a fact that chewing gums help us concentrate..

mediatation is the key to all locks.

Me - I generally go running if I want to focus... and or let go of pent up energy... I ALWAYS mentally feel better afterward.

Oh, yes, I do practice meditation. I started when I was very little because I couldn't sit still, and I would get in trouble. I started practicing, and gradually I learned to meditate and think more clearly. It's really relaxing to me. I suggest it even just as its own exercise, like breathing and stretching, without any spiritual meaning.

Of course, if you'd like to attach one, that's fine too.

thanks for this info. yes these days we can easily loose concentration and focus. damn materialism.

To help with the breathing, and to slow the breathing there is a little Bio Feedback trick I learnt many years ago.

Concentrate on the heart beat, Breath in for a set number of beats (say 7 or 8) and breath out for the same number.....

Naturally the heart rate slows slightly on the out breath, which means the out breath lasts for slightly longer then the in, this forces you to breath deaper and deaper incrimentally each time.

Also by concentrating on your heart beat you are automatically filtering the rest of the world out.

Its a great way to simply and easily slip that little deeper without "working" on it.

On a side note there are a couple of "Standing" excercies taught as part of Tai Chi. They are designed to strengthen certain core muscle by nothing more then standing in place.

They also build concnetration, and feed the Chi energy.

The are also suprisingly exhausting! You would not believe you can get a sweat just standing still, but boy can you!

QUOTE "mediatation is the key to all locks"

I am with you on that Scarlett