This is a powerful practice that you can have fun validating for yourself.
Basic Practice
- I relax deeply by letting go.
- I connect with the Earth’s energy field and let its vital energies enter through the “Bubbling Well” (in Chinese yongxuan) point, which in Chinese medicine is at the soles of the feet.
- I watch and experience the vital energy of the Earth combining with my own life force bubbling up through the back of my legs, hips, and chest where it joins the energy field surrounding my Heart. My hands are raised with palms inverted and stretching outward, as in the Happy Hotei below.
- I pay special attention to the palms of my hands, which in Chinese qigong practice is called the laogong point. It is a special energy plexus.
- Now I send a waterfall of love outward—Whoosh!—far, far out to the farthest reaches of the entire Universe.
- And then,
- Invariably, often instantaneously, Love returns, flowing powerfully back, like lightening, like a boomerang! The zing of connection!
- See for yourself. Needn’t rely on me.
A Variation–
- Imagine yourself for a moment as the happy Buddha Hotei who wanders the world open to what it brings. You simply stretch your arms over your head as in the image or extend them outwards at about 55 degrees, and imagine that you are holding a Great Ball or a Great Bowl, and that you are collecting the finest and purest qi of the Universe. The qi descends on you like showers of apricot blossoms in spring time. In this state of delight you forget yourself and merge with the Universe. There are no more boundaries.