Where Should I Start?
The first part of the Healing Tao system, the basic meditations, was so helpful in changing my emotional attitudes. They also helped my physical body by strengthening it and getting me out of my mental body. Bringing energy down into my physical body, with some awareness of all this wondrous information being exchanged, these feelings, these sensations, and this consciousness alive in my body, was transformative.
The Healing Tao basics, the Inner Smile, the Six Healing Sounds, and the Microcosmic Orbit were the first practices I learned, and they provided profound benefits. The Inner Smile is a way to go through a checklist of your internal organs, bringing your awareness to each one, thanking it for the work it does, and understanding how it feels.
The Six Healing Sounds are a way of breathing to release and exhale trapped energy, including emotional patterns. It isreally a process of releasing heat, cold, and stagnation from the body. Left unchecked, these energies can lead to more serious disease.
The Microcosmic Orbit is a way to connect the two primary energy channels in your body. One channel runs up your spine, and the other runs down the front of your body in a loop. The microcosmic orbit goes through point-by-point, openings of the different energy portals around those two channels. Eventually, you are connecting them and moving the energy through so that you areneither too hot in your head nor too cold in your lower organs, such as your kidneys, bladder, and reproductive organs. You have lukewarm energy going through the body.