Are there any Side Effects with your Method?

In China, Taoists have been studying, experiencing, passing all of

their lifetime experiences down to us for 8,000 years. We know the

route and so it is very easy to guide one along. The nature of the

warm current or Chi is that it tends to flow up to the head, which is

the most important part of the nervous system. If it gets stuck there,

and you don’t know how to bring it down, it can damage the brain.

By gradually exposing yourself to increasingly larger amounts of

energy, however, it is possible to adjust to it. The price for not allowing

enough time to adjust and of affording enough safeguards

is an overload, which can result in pain, fear, outright injury and

insanity. There are those who succeed quickly by pushing power

into the head without side effects, but they are the exceptions.

The Microcosmic is a safe system because once the two main

channels are open, the energy will circulate automatically in a loop.

Energy flowing in a circle will never build up enough energy at any

single point to cause serious discomfort or pain. But if you try to

force the energy to flow in one direction only, such as to the higher

centers in the head, it may burst like a water hose with a kink in it.

The water pressure has no where to go but explode.

Additional safety routes are available in this Taoist practice. If

too much energy gets stuck in the head, just reverse the flow and

send the energy down the back to the feet and then up the front to

the tongue/palate. Putting the tongue up to the palate completes

the circuit, joining the energy of the Governor and Functional channel.

It is like building a tunnel through a mountain; it will shorten the

time if you dig from both ends and meet at the middle. This is what

we are doing when we join the two routes into a single loop.