| | If you are interested in the neurological technical nitty gritty, I highly recommend Brian Austin's Zen and the Brain.
But basically what happens is you bring the awareness in and with the body not looking outside, it categorizes and reapplies energetic potential - so by doing things like concentrating or focusing the awareness on the mechanisms of breath, we are accessing the "fundamental root-core" energy and utilizing it before it manifests as something, i.e. thought-stream-energy. When we look outside and stretch out with the senses, the cranial nerves react accordingly and begin their excitatory neural firings, like a powered signal antenna.
By bringing the awareness in we are either causing inhibitory neural firings, or none at all, depending on the structure in question.
Seems to be why that is basically the first technique mentioned in Taoist Yoga - fixing the spirit at the seat of awareness - combine that with streamlining and enhancing the breath protocols of the subconscious (by often adding angular momentum to the phenomena via practice) so long as you do the work sincerely, you will obtain the result. With practice, the subconscious ingrains the instruction and only requires small amounts of Yi-direction to keep the habit going. |