Thanks Gallen. I don't visualize very well, so I don't see the energy pills, but I do have a pretty highly developed kinesthetic sense and feel the area "behind and below" the navel and actually sense it as you said, as "a dimensional opening" into the energetic realm.
As getting into that energetic awareness is so critical to all this work, I was somewhat disturbed by trying to relocate the area!! In retrospect I realize how silly that was but I am working on being less rebellious and a better student. Guess it backfired this time.
I will go back to trusting my sense of where the dantian is and if I ever get to meet master Lin, I'll ask his opinion. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he would occasionally visit the board and pick out some questions that are interesting to him and answer them?
I do appreciate all your help and especially your contant reminders to all of us to get out of our heads and trust the process.
Be Well,
Michael
