2005-04-23

tattva shuddhi (tattva shuddhi meditation): Tantric form of meditation whose theory posits chakras and five elements: air, earth, ether, fire, and water. It is adaptable to self-healing. Tattva shuddhi means purification of the elements.

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Zhang Zhuang (standing meditation): A means of generating remarkable energy. Zhang Zhuang and Zhan Zhuang Chi Kung may be identical. (See I-Chuan.).

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Inner Smile (Inner Smile Meditation, inner smile technique): A foundational component of the Healing Tao System. Inner Smile is a relaxation technique that increases the flow of chi. Practitioners smile inwardly at organs and glands.

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Middle Pillar technique (Middle Pillar exercise, Middle Pillar meditation, Middle Pillar practice): Mental healing system expounded by Francis Israel Regardie, a chiropractor, Reichian Therapist, and writer born in 1907 in London.

Its principle is that an omnipresent spiritual force (force of life) constitutes one's higher self and is one's link with Godhead. Middle Pillar theory posits telepathy. The Middle Pillar technique involves chanting or humming, rhythmic breathing, and visualizing balls of light that correspond to five specific chakras. The meditator imagines these spheres emitting a beam of light: the Middle Pillar.

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Quan Yin Method (Quan Yin Method of meditation): Ancient, theistic, lactovegetarian martial art unearthed and taught by Vietnamese-born Suma Ching Hai, whose father was a Catholic naturopath.

The Quan Yin Method is a means of conquering all manner of negative force in or around oneself. One of its teachings is that eggs attract ghosts.

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Healing Love (Healing Love meditation, Healing Love practices, Seminal and Ovarian Kung Fu, Taoist Sexology and Practice): A foundational component of the Healing Tao System.

Healing Love is a mode of sexual intercourse that cultivates, conserves, and transforms sexual energy through the Microcosmic Orbit,a major energy channel. For men, Healing Love involves the power draw: sex without ejaculation.

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Healing Tao (Healing Tao Practices, Healing Tao System, Healing Tao Warm Current Meditation, international healing Tao system): System of Body-Mind-Spirit discipline promoted by the Healing Tao Co., in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Healing Tao is a means of developing a solid spiritual body. Its ultimate goal is transcendence of physical boundaries. Healing Tao theory posits a soul and a spirit in man.

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creative visualization: Subject of the bestseller of the same name, written by Shakti Gawain in 1978.

In creative visualization, one clearly imagines whatever one wants to manifest (see manifesting); then one gives the idea, image, or feeling positive energy, by focusing on it regularly, until it becomes reality. Creative visualization's theory posits a spiritual source: a supply of infinite energy, love, and wisdom discoverable in the inner beings of humans.

Expressions for methods identical or similar to creative visualization include: active imagination, creative imaging, directed day-dream, directed waking dream, dynamic imaging, guided fantasy, guided imagery, guided visualization, imagery, imaginal medicine, imaging, initiated symbol projection, inner guide meditation, led meditation, magickal visualization, mental imagery, pathworking, Positive Imaging, positive thinking, positive visualization, visualization, visualization therapy, waking dream therapy, and willed imagination.

For example, willed imagination, also called creative visualization, is the magickal art of imagining the result one desires of one's magick (the word for Wiccan magic) in order to achieve that result.

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Tai Chi-Chi Kung (taiji qigong): path to self-mastery that consists mainly of Chi Kung exercises and tai chi. Its key is dynamic balance of the mind and body energy.

Tai Chi-Chi Kung includes Chi Kung Meridian exercises, Chi meditation, and Five Element Energy Balancing exercises. The Chi Kung exercises release very potent healing energy in the body for dramatic health benefits.

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dhyana:

meditation. consciousness without thought. image to be used in meditation.

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Samprajnata samadhi: State of superconsciousness, with the triad of meditator, meditation and the meditated. Savikalpa samadhi.

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dhyana:

meditation

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yantra:

geometrical meditation designs

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DHYANA: Meditation.

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Nididhyasana - Profound meditation.

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vibrational medicine (energetic medicine, energetics medicine, energy medicine, subtle-energy medicine, vibrational healing, vibrational therapies): Healing philosophy whose main tenet is that humans are dynamic energy systems (body/mind/spirit complexes) and reflect evolutionary patterns of soul growth.

Its principles include the following:

(a)   Health and illness originate in subtle energy systems.

(b)  These systems coordinate the life-force and the physical body.

(c)   Emotions, spirituality, and nutritional and environmental factors affect the subtle energy systems.

Vibrational medicine embraces acupuncture, aromatherapy, Bach flower therapy, chakra rebalancing, channeling, color breathing, color therapy, crystal healing, absent healing, Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV), etheric touch, flower essence therapy, homeopathy, Kirlian photography, laserpuncture, the laying on of hands, meridian therapy, mesmerism, moxibustion, orthomolecular medicine, Past-life Regression, Polarity Therapy, psychic healing, psychic surgery, radionics, the Simonton method, sonopuncture, Toning, Transcendental Meditation, and Therapeutic Touch.

The expressions energy healing, energy work, and energetic healing work appear synonymous with vibrational medicine.

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laksha:

Points in the body which are to be meditated upon.

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RAJA YOGA: the Yoga of meditation

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SIDDHASANA: a meditative pose

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SAMYAMA: concentration, meditation and Samadhi

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Dhyana: Meditation; contemplation.

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