Bruno Loff:
Hi dude (how about letting us know your first name?),
Ah sure, guess about time for that! my pre-path dark night self was a scared one. (Actually I have been finding my self, period, is a scared one.. working on that though!)
Q1. This interests me very much. So you say that you got blockages released by going up from the belly, through the front of the body, then into the head through the forehead, and then what? Up the crown and then down the heart?
Then up the crown, and then there were no more blockages. The whole body felt unified and in harmony. All that was left that could be blockage-like was the sensation in the head, but it didn't feel like a blockage anymore, more just what was there. I didn't notice anything going back down, at least not leading into the cessation. leading away from it to normal, i'm afraid I don't remember.
Q2. What happens to your energy when you get a fruition? (I get a release somewhere in the head, sometimes in the crown, sometimes in the back of the head, and then a palpitation in the chest, a bit like miocardia)
Ah interesting you mention palpitations. I actually noticed I will get 3 quick palpitations in several parts of my body sometimes, a few groups of 3 in a row. I haven't thought to look for a pattern in the positions. not sure if each group is a fruition or if they all lead to one fruition. after stream entry i did notice the equivalent for concentric circles of my visual field, that would pulse white 3 times.
i guess the groups of 3 are impermanence-door ones? most often i just blank out without noticing what my energy is doing.
Q3. Do you ever get energy going down the spine or down the back?
I haven't tried it, and I haven't noticed it otherwise.
This distinction is called "fire path" versus "wind path" in chi kung (fire path is up the back and down the front, wind path is reverse). I wonder if the wind path is more relaxing.
Sounds like it, just going by the name =P. I was a bit scared going up the front actually, not cause it didn't feel good, but cause i heard it can be dangerous to bring your energy upwards if you're not careful.
With regard to standing meditation and the solar plexus, I have noticed that standing in the horse pose (knees slighly bent, slightly squatting, standing with parallel feet shoulder width apart) is very stimulating of that particular region. Doing this kind of meditation emphasized blockages in that region, and eventually cleared up quite a few of them. There is still one particular blockage there which is still recurring, and after your post I thought I would try to let it flow up instead of down.
Ah thanks! I'll definitely have to try that.
You have any advice on what to do with weak feet / a weak leg? I feel like the center point of my foot (i think Yong Quan) is very tender/has a hole in it, or something. I thought it was cause i ran into splinters a lot when i was younger, and that got my feet scared and naturally withdrawn, and thinking on that seemed to help, but the point seems to be weak again.
About my leg... when I do a standard tai chi stance, like
single whip, if i do it with my right leg back and relax, everything stays where it is. if i do it with my left leg back and relax, my left leg wants to collapse and get reduced to just lying limp on the toes. after noticing this, i've been feeling a weakness in my left leg, above the knee... might have somethign to do w/ being kicked there really hard a year or two ago, it swelled up and i couldn't walk normally for 1.5 months or so, never saw a doctor about it, I thought it healed fully but perhaps not?