tensegrity/misc_tensegrity/gathering_yourself

Gathering Yourself

New York - April 15, 2000

from: tango ; http://intento.narod.ru/tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#12*
orig: rus ; http://intento.narod.ru/gatheringyourself.htm*

From: "George" <[email protected]>
Subj: [tango] the pass for gathering yourself

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Here is my recollection of the pass for gathering yourself
from the recent workshop in New York.

It was said that it could be used when you feel depleted.
If you are doing/thinking of many things at the same time
you might feel exhausted. All the things that we do take
some of our attention and we need to gather it back from
the outer parts of the energy body back to the vital
centers.
It was shown while standing on a chair (like when we sit at
work I guess)

• take a deep breath
• command your body to relax
• wait for few moments and command yourself to be silent
• tap the right side of the body on the back at the level
  of the waist with the palm of your right hand 3-5 times
• inhaling drag both hands from the thighs up your legs, up
  your chest ending above the head fully extended
• holding your breath bend the three outside fingers of
  both hands, index finger extended, thumb sticked next to
  the index finger.
• bring down the hands to the level of the chest and push
  out to the front (still holding the breath).
• inhale and pull back both hands to the level of the chest
• holding your breath make a circle with both hands moving
  up back behind the head and then forward and down back to
  the axillas(this is just a simple circle with both hands
  parallel and fingers still curved).
• swallow
• inhaling extend your arms laterally as if to grab a very
  big ball and bring them back to the chest while crossing
  them - the palms are at 90 deg. Push the hands to the sides
  while still inhaling
• while exhaling bring back the hands to the crossed
  position in front of the chest.

As you do all these movements try to pull the energy from
the outer parts of the energy body to the vital centers.

The second version of the pass is done using only the eyes
following the same line of movement of the hands without
actually moving the hands. The beginning of
the pass remains the same until the tapping with the hand -
then you start with the eyes, again pulling the energy.

It was said that the version with the eyes is if you do not
want to attract attention with "strange" movements for
example at work, etc.

This is such an easy pass and yet so many words to explain.
It is great to learn the passes from somebody actually
showing them to you.

Slide.
(for those who have seen the movie "Fight Club")

by bolt: http://intento.narod.ru/tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#8 , 2 May 2000