Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong Qigong breathing

Gallen,
Thank you very much once again. You are so helpful and patient with us.
So is the huiyin where the perineum is? Are we to pull up there as the abdomen pulls in during inhalation? I find it's easier to breath this way if I focus more on the upper body expanding instead of the abdomen contracting/pulling in (I hope I am interpreting this correctly, that when Master Lin says to pull in the stomach a little, he means the abdomen).

Bluebird,
Thank you for posting this very valuable info from the Master himself.

Yes, I think I am getting more comfortable with this way of breathing now. The restricting kind of feeling in the throat is reducing, sometimes not present at all. And I notice occasions of spontaneously breathing this way. The funny thing is, that years ago, I started to consciously practise belly breathing, to a point of always 'practising' breathing this way, ie, never letting that breath go, especially when I was thinking about it. A polarity therapist pointed that out to me last year. Until then, I thought I was doing really well, as far as breathing 'correctly' went, full bodied abdomen breathing. Now I just breathe. Or I let it breathe me.

Yes. I gently hold that area closed/up continually as I exercise, like the smile, not up and down with each breath. It can come and go as you focus. Be sure not to strain, it is a soft holding. It helps move energy up the back channel in your small universe meditation too.

I wanted to add, that you shouldn't focus "too" much on this huiyin info. If you are to focus on the lower dan tien, that is the focus, not the huiyin. Also, the idea, I think Margaret mentioned, quoting Master Lin's description concerning emptiness being a point where you have feeling, but that 'focus' takes away the feeling, or brings you back out of the emptiness.
Focusing on the lower dan tien brings energy there, I think, even up from the huiyin. Closing openings can be a subtle, secondary awareness, barely physically expressed. I am still learning too. Some of the things I am sharing may be work in progress, or universal qigong components. Master Lin's method is very open and "soft"/spiritual....I don't want to put additional "form" into that, inappropriate to his intentions. I am aware that I do something in the area of the huiyin, often, to close it, pull it up... especially , in the past when i practiced systems in low, demanding stances.
I really held it up then... I can't define though, what the mind can do without the body . I was reading some deep Taoist text last night, and when it spoke of , say, focusing on the lower dan tien, and that having an effect on drawing up energy from the huiyin, along with other areas, I felt I needed to add this message. This would be something good to clarify with Master Lin at some point. How much attention, if any, to put there. It is something I currently find myself physically doing to differing degrees, but I also could see affecting that area in non physical/ "mind moving the energy ways", without that focus... How's that for ambiguous and non commital! You can say, or think, a sound.