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FLUTTERING THE CH'I

This healing Qigong protocol is designed to produce the same results as Weaving the Ch'i
in
and
out
. It employs the same intention but requires a different hand technique. Instead of a weaving motion, the practitioner raises and lowers the hand in a fluttering manner (see Figure 5.3). When married with the mind's intention, the hand becomes a transmitter of energy. That's how energy works. All healing Qigong exercises are most empowered by linking the mind's intention with demonstrative emphasis.

The practitioner must once again focus on the subject's specific
area of organ imbalance. If there is organ deficiency, it calls for fluttering the ch'i upward. For this exercise, I prefer to place my nondominant hand directly on the deficient organ of focus so as to make a kinetic connection with it. This helps to awaken the energy of the organ. Next, the practitioner must begin engaging their action hand in a fluttering motion as they raise and lower their dominant arm. The emphasis with this motion is both the hand fluttering and the upward raising of the arm.

FIGURE 5.3
Fluttering the Ch'i

As always, intention is paramount. The practitioner's mind must focus on the intention to increase the subject's ch'i. They must attempt to synchronize this strong intention with the upward dominant hand fluttering and the dominant arm raising. Weaving and fluttering will never fail to direct the healing ch'i as intended.

WEAVING AND FLUTTERING THE CH'I NONLOCALLY

In the event that you are trying to balance a subject with the weaving or fluttering techniques at a distance, practitioners will need to use both hands to perform the two balancing exercises described above. The right hand remains the “action” hand. The left hand is
what I call the “movie” or “visualization” hand. The key is to visualize the distant subject in the left hand and to generate the ch'i balancing action from the action hand. Make sure to engage an energetic interaction between your two hands. Both weaving and/or fluttering motions must be directed from the right to the left hand. The left hand is representative of the recipient (subject) of the transmitted healing.

When performing these protocols at a distance, one of the most important aspects is the visualization. We are materially programmed to such an extent that many of us have a difficult time with visualizing something that isn't present before us. I am often asked by students what they should be visualizing at a distance during nonlocal healing. Here is a sample of some of the most common questions I have been asked over the years:

• Should we try to visualize the person?
  
• What if we've never met them?
  
• Should we try to visualize the organ that we're working in?
  
• What does a liver look like?
  
• What if I lose my visual concentration in the middle of the exercise?
  

My answer is: “Do not worry about your material weaknesses. Instead practice developing your energetic strengths!” It is all about the energy of your intention and the empowerment of your compassion. Fill your movie hand with a generalized picture from your mind's eye of a human being who has experienced great pain, suffering, and confusion. Feel their innocence and their deservedness. Open your heart and let it be drawn to the transcendent power within you that heals. Here there is no need for pictures of people's faces or organs. Here there is only energy that transcends all limitations of time and space. This is not a place of pictures. This is a place of miracles.

SPIRAL POWER

The spiral is a sacred shape that is ever present throughout the natural universe. To the ancients, the spiral symbolized the sacred dance of evolution, the ever-unraveling, infinite birth-to-death continuum. Where the circle represents a continuum that keeps on going around and around, the spiral represents change and new beginnings. According to ancient Ayurvedic and Buddhist traditions, the spiral represents the shape of the chakras, or body centers, where life force is collected. The word
chakra
means “spinning spiral-shaped wheel.”

The Ayurvedic culture from India paralleled that of the ancient Chinese when it came to energy mastery. One of the central themes of their energy healing wisdom was that of
Kundalini,
which means “coiled” or “spiral energy.” It espouses greater self-realization through yoga, diet, and spiritual discipline, which are believed to result in the ascension of spiraling life-force energy that infuses the body's life-force energy centers (chakras). The higher the spiraling energy rises, the more evolved the individual's consciousness, the more balanced their energy systems, and the greater their overall well-being.

In accordance with the beliefs of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sufism, there are numbers that are sacred. These sacred numbers ultimately arrive at sacred shapes. Spirals—unlike squares, rectangles, and triangles—are open-ended, infinitely extending the potential expression of their shape. All sacred shapes have great power, but none more than the spiral.

The spiral was represented at the birthing of the universe. When proton formations first gathered, following the Big Bang, spiraling particles began swirling and forming energy fields. The positively charged protons moved in a counterclockwise direction and the negatively charged electrons circled in a clockwise direction. The
movement of these fundamental particles represents the power and force of spiral motion.

Throughout nature, the spiral is a recurring theme. Examples of the spirals of life can be found everywhere—in the formations of galaxies, the orbiting of planets, hurricanes, tornadoes, the DNA double helix, the umbilical cord, seed patterns (think of the sunflower) and vines, ammonites, and the nautilus and many other shells. Carl Jung referred to the spiral as a symbol of cosmic force.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Many years ago, on a warm summer's eve, I decided to relieve all my workday stresses in the cozy comforts of a lawn chair in my backyard paradise. I distinctly remember putting my head back and gazing up at the radiant glow of luminous starlight, flickering in infinite space. The majesty of it all was awe-inspiring, so much so that I fell asleep in a mere matter of minutes. But it really wasn't just sleep that I fell into. It seemed I had slipped into a trance. My eyes were closed, and I was in a deeply relaxed state, but I almost immediately started having very detailed visions. One vision was of an ancient Chinese man who kept making spiraling motions before me. Over and over, his arms swirled in circular, spiral-like motions. First he swirled his arms and hands clockwise, then counterclockwise. He repeated this over and over. I merely observed confusedly. He had a disturbed look on his face, as if he was growing intemperate with my ignorance. He then began repeatedly showing me images of the T'ai Chi Circle (akin to the yin/yang symbol). As he did, he once again began circling his arms in spiral motions, but this time he did so around the symbol, first in a counterclockwise direction, then in a clockwise direction. He did this for what seemed like an eternity. I pulled myself out of the trance, suddenly came to my senses, and just laughed and shrugged it off.

The next day someone accidentally left in my offices a book entitled
The Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan
by Master Chee Soo. I picked it up to have a look. I turned immediately to a page that described an ancient healing art called Wenchiech'u (“thermogenesis”)
,
an ancient healing discipline that balances life-force energy through the artful implementation of spiral energy. Literally translated,
thermogenesis
means “creation of heat.”

Traditionally, the practitioner would make spiral motions with their hands ever so lightly on the surface of the subject's skin. This stimulating healing touch was referred to as “contact thermogenesis.” The heat generated by contact thermogenesis was believed to circulate the movement of blocked ch'i. Not unlike the other eight healing brocades—acupuncture, acupressure, massage, nutrition, herbal medicine, physical exercise, and meditation—with Wenchiech'u, the goal is to balance the body by unblocking the ch'i.

Following my backyard trance and kismet book discovery, I immediately engaged in further research and study of Wenchiech'u. I also received a great deal more channeled information on the topic, which I adapted through the endless muscle testing Q&A trials. I eventually began developing styles of noncontact Wenchiech'u into my daily work, which enabled me to advance the healing art form nonlocally.

Around that same time, I came to realize that my vision of the T'ai Chi Circle was intended to awaken me to the realization that the Great Circle, while visually static, represents the fluid movement of clockwise and counterclockwise spirals. These motions in turn represent the spiral patterns and movements that balance all universal energies (yin and yang).

As we've discussed, with energy there are only three possible outcomes—excess, deficiency, or balance. If you wanted to stimulate a subject's deficient metabolism, you might assume that they had an energy blockage in their thyroid. Blockages such as this represent an energy deficiency. Blockages and the energy
deficiencies they create are classified as “cool or cold.” Your intention then would be to stimulate, or strengthen, the thyroid energy by generating “heat.” It is important to point out that in classical Chinese medicine, heat is not only a physical, material manifestion; it is also considered a phenomenon of sorts. The kind of heat that they refer to can't always be physically measured. This heat is representative of what they call
Yang Ch'i
or “activating life force energy.” The practitioner of Wenchiech'u gains access to the power to either increase or decrease the amount of this heat or life energy in themselves, other people, foods, and environments.

Let's say the food you are about to eat is highly processed and lacking nutrients. It would be considered deficient, and therefore “cooling.” If you were adept at Wenchiech'u, you could, in effect, add life force energy to your deficient food, making it healthier for you to consume. Or, if the room you had just entered was hot and stuffy with a crowd of nervous people, you might consider releasing some of the excess energy in the room in order to produce a more comfortable experience. Perhaps you are with a friend who is fighting the flu and is weak, chilled, and fatigued. Your friend is deficient, cool, and in need of warming immune stimulation. To look at your friend in another way, instead of charging up their immune system, you might consider draining the energy out of their virus. My suggestion would be to do both. Charge up their immunity
and
drain the virus. Regardless of whether the practitioner wishes to increase or decrease the ch'i of anyone or anything, Wenchiech'u spirals provide an extremely powerful solution.

WENCHIECH'U PREPARATION EXERCISE

Before beginning body balancing, one should first perform some preparation exercises. In order to effectively transmit healing ch'i with Wenchiech'u, you must energize your vital organ systems by linking them together with light. Our organs perform miracles
every day of our life without ever being the focus of our attention. The only time we tend to focus on our organs is when they speak to us in their language of pain. If we are going to ask them to help us generate and transmit healing power, we must first energize them for the task at hand.

This is a simple procedure that one can easily do with or without a partner. Just as it suggests, the intention is to link up the organs with a laser-like beam of white light. You can begin in a seated or standing position.

Linking the Organs with Light: The Five Elements Vital Organ Cycle

1.
Liver to Heart:
Close your eyes, take three clearing breaths, and relax. Place your right hand over your liver and your left hand over your heart (see Figure 5.4). This initiates the linking of your liver energy with your heart energy. Now envision a laser-like beam of healing
red light
being directed from your right hand (liver) to your left hand (heart). Maintain that intention and vision for approximately two minutes (again, do not worry about timing yourself exactly—concentrate more on the exercise). Now you have light-linked the energy between your liver and heart.

2.
Heart to Spleen:
Next, place your right hand over your heart and your left hand over your spleen. In your mind's eye, visualize a laser-like ray of healing
yellow light
being transmitted from your right hand (heart) to your left hand (spleen). Once again hold the intention and vision for approximately two minutes. Your heart and spleen are now light-linked.

3.
Spleen to Lungs:
Place the right hand over your spleen and your left hand over your lungs. Visualize a
white light
flowing from the right hand (spleen) to your left hand (lungs). Hold the intention and vision for two minutes. Your spleen and lungs are now light-linked.