Well I've been at this for about a year now, and I've just recently come back to this issue myself. I don't think I've been wrong for treating the energy path as the small universe, but now I think it's time for me to spend more time experiencing the exercise and less directing it. To this end I've returned to the image of a single column of energy in motion.
I've added nothing to gallen's post except to say, I still return to the Master's words and find new guidance. How I heard is words before, is what I needed to hear. Now, I hear a different message in the same words, because that is what I need to hear.
You are perfection.
Iam2 