I am sorry to know you are going through this. It sounds like it has been incredibly hard.

I am not a teacher or an expert in any way, but I have had significant difficulties after TMI for almost year and a half now.

time to switch to other practices?

I wanted to share some things that…[Read more]

I wanted to mention something that has been helpful for me in case it might also be helpful for others.

For months I have had some energy imbalance with resultant significant dis-ease off the cushion.

A few weeks ago I began very slowly learning the first movement in Dragon and Tiger Medical Qigong, a very old beginner qigong set with…[Read more]

What to Do When Energy Runs Wild

Steve

Oh boy not another “time to switch to other practices” post 🙂

Wow thank you Eric that is very interesting.

So I have had 3 acupuncture sessions and each day the day afterwords I have intense sadness/crying for some time. While I do have some things going on, this has not happened outside of acupuncture or retreat setting in recent…[Read more]

Thank you everyone for your thoughts.

Julian – the contractions of face, neck, or chest would last seconds and could occur in daily life – sometimes triggered by a circumstance that triggers a strong emotion sometimes not, and sometimes when I would settle in meditation. I believe I could always override them if I wished on and off the…[Read more]

The CD that accompanies the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook has 15,30, and 45 minute body scans guided by Bob Stahl. I have not done them myself but they seem good.

Steve

I wanted to update the group in case what I have found could be helpful for others.

To summarize earlier posts, I have had significant energy imbalance/blockages after doing a fair amount ofTMI and after having purifications. This process was directly affecting my life off the cushion and seemed to be definitely exacerbated by…[Read more]

I would like to thank everyone so very much for the collective wisdom. It has been a difficult time and the way forward has not been clear.

I have noticed that two days of walking has improved the feelings of imbalance. For me the energy imbalance has manifested itself as agitation and irritability well above baseline as well as…[Read more]

I ended up making gratitude the focus of my brief morning sit (I loosely utilized the HEAL…[Read more]

I am sorry to ask another question but I think this community may be my best shot at getting a question that I have had for a while answered.

After an 8 day retreat with Upasaka Culadasa at Cochise Stronghold where there were emotional purifications, I started doing compassion practice in addition to TMI and also started Neuroptimal…[Read more]

I ended up doing shorter practices and switching to compassion practice and noticed a large shift in my capacity to be present, my mood, and spaciousness of awareness. It felt like that it was the missing ingredient and just a touch of it made a huge difference.

Thank you again.

I think striving has definitely been a problem for me and I do think my attitude is different with other practices- there is more of an attitude of self compassion and an attitude “let’s see what is here and let it be – allowing myself to be as I am” when I do other practices. I try to relax and not try as hard with…[Read more]

I have been practicing with TMI since January of 2017 and other practices before that. Currently stage 5 but haven’t done too much body scanning yet with the TMI method. Generally have been practicing 60-70 minutes a day – more recently 45 minutes daily. I have been through a lot of kriyas, purifications, and energy movement since…[Read more]

Steve

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I am in stage 4/5. A few months ago on retreat I had a fair amount of emotional purifications (sadness, fear). After the retreat I enjoyed a time where I felt better than I can remember ever feeling. I was relaxed, the mind was spacious, and mood was excellent.

Over the last 3 weeks I started having more physical based purifications.…[Read more]

Steve

It is so nice to have this forum to be able to discuss practice and to ask the group questions – thank you all.

I am in Stage 5 practice and I believe I have difficulty not striving when practicing awareness of breathing.

I practice for an hour with breath awareness in the morning and 1/2 hour with compassion practice at night time. I…[Read more]

I am renting a Neuroptimal biofeedback system for a few weeks. Does anybody in the forum have experience with it? If so would you recommend breath awareness meditation during the sessions?

Thank you so much.

Steve

In further reading I believe I answered my own question.

thank you!

Steve

I understand in stage 4 practice we are learning to emphasize introspective awareness. Should we also hold the intention in this stage to maintain strong extrospective awareness?

I think I have been neglecting extrospective awareness to focus on introspective awareness and not maintaining an open, relaxed extrospective peripheral…[Read more]

Stephen

I am practicing in stage 4 and read the moment of consciousness model. When we are cultivating “continuous” introspective awareness, is that really moments of attention on the breath interspersed with many moments of introspective awareness? By trying to make it “continuous”, are we really significantly increasing the number of moments…[Read more]