Cultivate Your Own Ch’i
by Tamara Aires
The formula for good feng shui energy in your home has two parts: the health of the physical environment, and the health of each person living in the space. It’s harder for negative, problematic feng shui around the home to affect occupants if their own personal ch’i is strong and healthy.
Strong, healthy personal ch’i must be cultivated regularly, tended and nourished like a sacred garden in your soul, so here is an excellent, highly effective, basic meditation to help you cultivate your own ch’i, called the Sunshine Buddha Exercise. The benefits of doing this meditation are numerous. You will feel stronger and more able to find relief from the stresses, pressures, and restrictions of everyday life, and your good fortune and good health can be more easily supported. I emphasize the ability of this meditation to support good health.
It is ideal if you can actually be outside in the sun to do this meditation, but if not, just visualize the sun shining on you. If you are sick or weak, it is OK to do it sitting down. The ‘three points’ are two centers of the palms of both your hands, and the center of your forehead between your eyes. If you prefer, the third can be through the top of your head.
Stand in the sun with hands above your head, with your feet shoulder-width part, with your face and palms facing towards the sun. Visualize you are breathing in sunlight and that it is entering your body through the three points. Visualize the sunlight racing through your body very quickly from the three points all the way down to the soles of your feet and on out into the ground. In your mind and heart, see all bad deeds of the body (killing, stealing, cheating) being carried out by the fast moving sunlight. Breathe slowly and purposefully and keep your hands up as long as you comfortably can. Release your arms to your sides and rest for a minute.
Raise your arms again and breathe in the sunlight through the three points. This time visualize the sunlight racing into your body, reaching the bottoms of your feet, and bouncing back upward very quickly, all the way back to the three points and out. In your mind and heart, see all bad speech (lying, swearing, hurtful words) being carried out by the fast moving sunlight. Breathe slowly and purposefully and keep your hands up as long as you comfortable can. Release your arms to your sides and rest for a minute.
Raise your arms again and breathe in the sunlight through the three points. This time visualize the sunlight racing into your body, reaching the bottoms of your feet, and then bouncing back up slowly, circling and spiraling all around your body and back out the three points. Visualize the sunlight touching and cleaning out every cell, every blood vessel, all your organs, tissues, and bones. Visualize the sunlight healing any part of you that is sick or is affected by illness (thing big here… clean away high blood pressure, diabetes, or even cancer… it has been said that you can actually make yourself smarter if you visualize the circles and spirals cleaning out your brain!). In your mind and heart, see all bad thoughts (greed, anger, contempt) being carried away by the sunlight. Breathe slowly and purposefully and keep your hands up as long as you comfortable can, then release your arms to your sides.
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Tamara Aires, Colorado Harmony
Feng Shui Consulting and Educational Services
2852 Country Club Cir
Colorado Springs, CO 80909