Dear Gallen,

Hi! Thank you for all your input, the kidney deficiency thing did not put me off at all and it would not limit me so don't waste another minute thinking on it. I did not find it limiting. I found the information useful. Couldn't what you relayed be seen as the part of the river dried up and if in fact it was it would not hurt to give a bit of extra attention its way, while at the same time forging ahead with my regular practice.

One thing I do hope you might elaborate on is the standing/ sitting thing in regards to building kidney energy. I would like to know more about this if you wouldn't mind.

As far as the chills they never bothered me, they interested and intrigued me much like the seeming illness begs our acceptance in order to learn of it's message. I am very surprised to find that noone else experiences this phenomenon, I would have thought it to be fairly common. I think the thing I enjoy most about the chilling, the heating, the prickling, etc. is that following their onset I somehow find myself different than what I'd been before them. Do you know what I mean?

In the past years, my meditations have been on truth, on love, and on God minus the CD so I know what you mean about the this type of meditation which I still practice. I look at small universe as more of a workout for the mind muscle. It demands you to stay focused while bordering and sometimes entering into the emptiness. I don't know maybe I sound whack but I love that meditation and believe at this point in myself such discipline is called for.

I must tell you this then I'll let you go. When Qigong first dropped on me I was in the middle of practicing holosync and quite happy with it. Many signs appeared as I questioned if it was alright to continue both. First there was a movie that announced the secret of life as being just one thing, then I saw someone in my meditation telling me remember just one thing. But if that weren't enough, I looked up the topic in the discussion forum and there you were saying pretty much just one thing. How you wrote in the letter at that time convinced me and for that I am most grateful.

Thankyou,
Marcy