Expansion Breathing Meditation

Expansion meditation.

Stand or sit quietly,

Breathing in and out slowly and deeply into your lower dantien,

Located in your lower abdomen.

Breathe in,

Your abdomen expands,

Breathe out,

Your abdomen contracts.

So we do nine deep breaths.

Breathe in,

Your abdomen contracts.

So we do nine deep breaths.

Breathe in,

Your abdomen contracts.

So we do nine deep breaths.

Now as you inhale,

Feel your sense of self expand to extend several inches outside of your body,

Filling your auric field.

Now inhale once again and expand your sense of self till it extends six feet out from your body.

Now as you inhale,

Feel your sense of self expand to fill the entire room that you are in.

Again inhale,

Feel your sense of self expand until you fill the entire building you are in.

Expand once again until it fills the entire town that you are living in.

Now inhale and feel your sense of self fill the entire country you are in.

Really feel the sense of your being become larger and larger and fuller and fuller.

Now when we inhale we feel our sense of self become as large as the continent we are on.

Again expand your sense of self until it becomes the size of the entire hemisphere that you are in.

Now inhale,

Feel your sense of self expand as large as the entire planet.

Really get a sense of this planet as being your being.

You are a planetary being as large as a planet floating through the far reaches of space.

Your being,

Your sense of self,

Your chi extends on and on and on.

Now as we inhale we feel it expand to the size of the solar system including all the planets in our solar system.

Our vast,

Vast being.

Expand it again until it encompasses the entire galaxy all the worlds that we know and that we don't know all contained within our being.

And lastly expand our sense of self until it fills the entire universe and all that it contains.

Experience yourself as a universal being.

In qigong we say as far as our mind can reach that's how far our qi can travel.

So use your mind,

Your imagination to experience yourself as a vast,

Vast being taking up the entire galaxy,

The entire universe.

Really feel your sense of self expand far beyond your body and what you have already thought of as yourself.

Feel it mentally and energetically as your sense of self grows to contain all of life.

Now let us begin to draw our sense of self,

Our mind,

Our chi,

Our mind intent back down to the size of the galaxy.

Again down to the size of our beloved planet earth.

Now we can track it until it is the size of our hemisphere.

We can track ourselves down to the size of our country.

Now we can track our sense of self to it is the size of the town or city we are sitting or standing in.

Now we can track our sense of self till it just fills the room we are in right now.

Let's contract a little more till our energy is about six feet outside of our body.

Let's contract a little more till our energy is just a few inches outside of our body.

And one more time till our energy is just contained within our body.

A little further till our energy is just contained under our lower dantian and our lower abdomen.

Our lower abdomen and our lower dantian,

Our field of elixir.

We still are left with that feeling of ourselves as universal beings.

This practice is to give you a sense of expansiveness of spirit as well as energy.

We feel ourselves,

We experience ourselves as universal,

Vast,

Empty beings,

Empty yet full.

The Wu Ji,

The primordial oneness from which all being comes.

It may seem strange at first imagining yourself as containing the universe but there is a seed of Dao within you that does just that.

Bring your palms together in front of your face and rub them together briskly 36 times.

And then place your palms over your eyes and breathe the warmness of your palms into your eyeballs.

The energy of the Lao Gong.

And then rub your hands up and down your face three times and slowly open your eyes.