ϟ The Microcosmic Orbit

The microcosmic orbit is a classic Taoist practice for conducting energy using the breath. The practice awakens, circulates, and directs energy through the orbit formed by breathing down the front line of your body from the top of your head to the perineum (the functional channel) and breathing up the back line from the perineum to the top of the head (the Governing Channel) 

Follow the instructions below. 

1.Sit in a comfortable position, relax your body, calm your mind, and regulate your breath. Notice your bodily sensations. Feel the weight of your body in your seat and the contact of your feet on the ground. Bring your attention to the present moment. 

2. Turn your attention inward and lower your gaze. As you breathe through the nose, feel, open to, and commune with all pervading energy within and surrounding you, especially above your head.

3. Visualize an especially intense concentration of energy above your head. Imagine that the top of your head is a blooming lotus flower, soaking up the light that’s always falling upon you. 

4. As you inhale, bring your energy and focus down to the area between (and behind) your eyebrows and draw energy forward toward this “third eye.”

5. Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth behind your front teeth to enable more energy to circulate and let your energy sink down through the palate and tongue into your throat to the heart.

6.Move your breath down further and deeper within the body, about two finger widths below the navel until you feel a concentrated pocket of energy glowing there-a point of golden light-clear, bright, warm, and pure. Allow your breath to naturally become lighter and subtler.

7. When the feeling of energy in your navel is stable and full, use your mind to guide this energy down into the genitals, the perineum, and then back toward your tailbone. Steadily visualize this energy as a small snake gradually passing through the tailbone.

8. Now complete the second half of the orbit by exhaling and visualizing the energy moving up the back of your body to where the ribs meet the spine, then right on up the spine to the back of the head. Imagine energy traveling up your spine to the center of your head and even above the head.

9. Begin another cycle, breathing in as the energy moves down the front channel from the top of your head to your perineum and breathing out as the energy moves up the back channel from the perineum to the back of your head. 

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