1. A true smile is a sign of love, a transmitter of energy which has a warming, healing effect. In China, the Taoist taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insure health, happiness, and longevity. Smiling to yourself is like basking in love.
2. Points & Energy Centers: 1) Tan-Tien – Chi Chung (navel) 2) Kuan-Yuan (sperm place - men & ovarian place – women) 3) Hui-Yin (Perineum) 4) Chang-Chiang (Coccyx) 5) Ming-Men 6) Chi-Chung 7) Yu-Chen 8) Pai-Hui (Crown) 9) Ying-Tang (between eyebrowses) 10) Hsuan-Ying (palate) 11) Hsuan-Chi 12) Chuan-Chung (heart) 13) Chung-Kung (solar plexus) Direct your vision (thought and intent and chi) to the point you wish to active, and concentrate your mind on that point in the body. Do you create a visual image of the energy point in your mind. Instead concentrate thought and intent at that point.
3. Tan-Tien (Navel) The navel servers as a generator of electricity that supplies all the other points. As blood and chi are drawn to this point a deep rhythmic breathing is established, and the entire mid-section of the body becomes a huge pump, vigorously circulating the chi and blood throughout the organism. This circulation distributes the life substances and relieves the heart of its heavy burden. If you concentrate on the navel for a long-time and do not feel any energy, change your focus to the Ming-Men, the point opposite the navel on the spine. This helps the energy rise to the top of the head and down the front of the body to the feet. The experience of chi is different for everybody. For high blood pressure focus on the navel, it will help reduce pressure. Don’t focus on the midbrowe or crown because that will increase blood pressure.
4. The second energy place is the Kuan-Yuan. To locate the point place your hand on your stomach with your thumbs at your navel. Sexually energy can be used to greatly increase the circulating of your chi.
5. The third energy center, Hui-Yin or perineum, the gate of life and death is found in the lower part of the trunk amidst the endings of many blood vessels and nerve endings. If you have congestion in chest or heart pain as a result of concentrating on this point shift your focus to the Ming-men. The Ming-men is the chi safety valve. Concentration on this point can often lead to vibration or warmeth.
6. The fourth energy center, back channel, the governor, Chang-Chiang, Coccyx is a very important point because it is here that energy is either returned to the body or lost. When the generative power is returned, it passes through the back channel into the spinal cord and then into the brain. This has been called the Passage door to the door of life and death because it is here that the warm current is said to enter the central nervous system.
7. Fifth energy point, Ming-Men (opposite of navel point), door of life. Ming-men is the mid-point of the kidney, L2 and L3 of the vertebrae. The Ming-men is the harmony point, containing Yin power. When you concentrate on this point power rise up to the head or descends to the feet. Concentrate on the Ming-men is power suddenly surges towards the head.
8. Sixth energy point, Chi Chung (opposite of the solar plexus on the spine). Those with diabetes may find that concentration on this point will help them to lower their blood sugar level. Allergy sufferers may also find relief by concentrating here.
9. Seventh energy point, Yu-Chen, back of the neck, the cerebellum. This part of the brain controls breathing, heartbeat, and various functions associated with automatic nervous system. People who have shoulder and upper back pains may find that the power will not be able to flow beyond those areas, at least will be slowed so that it take much longer for it to reach the head. If power builds up in the brain you may experience pain, nausa, illusions, irritability, insomnia, mood swings, and sleepiness.
10. Eighth energy point, Pai-Hui (Niwan) is the crown or pineal body and located above the mid-brain. The Niwan governs the hindbrain, hearing, body rhythm, equilibrium, perception of light through the eyes and skin, and is the superior counter-support of the brain and spinal chord. When power passes freely through this area, you will be afflicted less by illusion, you will be able to concentrate better, and your head will feel lighter. Light is associated with chi flow through this energy point. Those people with weak kidneys or sex drive see black. Those with liver disease see green. People with heart disease see red. Lung disease is expressed as white. Spleen and stomach illness is indicated in yellow and gall bladder disease is black.
11. Do not spend more than a month concentrating on one energy point.
12. The nineth energy center, Yin-Tang, point between the eyes, original cavity of the spirit. Yin-Tang is the master endoctrine control gland, regulating growth, gonadal function, the adrenals and the thyroid. Yin-Tang is said to govern the forebrain, the right eye, as well as being the seat of love, compassion, knowledge, integration or the seat of intelligence, conceptual memory(reading, thinking, studying), linear sequential time consciousness, abstract and conceptual thinking, compulsiviness, racism, sexism, and paranoia. The pituitary (Yin Tang) and the pineal gland (Niwan) are extremely important when completing routes, for it is at these points you can check power. When you concentrate on the navel and the store power, energy suddenly rises up and passes through the Niwan (pineal gland). The next check point is the Yin Tang (the pituitary gland. The rest of the points are not sensitive to test for power. To complete the route, the power has to flow down from the soft palate, through the tongue, into and through the throat, the Hsuan-chi, the Chuan-chung (Heart), the Chung-wan (solar plexus) and finally the navel. The completion of the microcosm energy cycle returns chi back to the navel cultivating internal power.
13. The tenth Energy Center, Tongue to Palate. Even though the palate is constructed of soft bone it takes a considerable period of sustained effort for most practitioners to penetrate it and complete the route. The palate links the front and back channels, and the tongue on the palate links the switch that enables the energy to flow in complete circuit.
14. The eleventh energy center, Hsuan-chi (throat) is the energy center of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Most people feel calm and less worried when this energy flows from the navel up to the throat and to the tongue and with no congestion in the chest.
15. The twelfth energy center is Shun-Chung, heart. Concentrating at the heart leads to great stores of energy, and so many people tend to concentrate longer on this point.
16. The thirteenth energy center, Chun-Kung (Solar Plexus). This area is the frontal site of many power centers (spleen, adrenal, pancreas, and stomach).
17. Always bring energy back to your navel. Collecting energy gathers up excess chi in the body and stores it in the navel. Gather protects your body organs from accumulating too much energy.