Hi Gallen
Thanks for this advice.Plenty of things to act on here. I like the comments about not re-reading - I continue to work at feeling my confidence and am making progress here. The idea of a basic roadmap is a really useful idea but I like your suggestion that there is more than one way to do it.
I almost always do any healing with actual hand movements but I wasn't sure if you were implying that it is 'better' to do the healing 'physically' ie with actual rather than visualised hand movements and that was what made you suggest the level 2 exercises. I need to have a look at these, but meanwhile confess that I've never tried them. I've been working with specific level 1 active exercisesand small universe meditation to build my kidney energy which has been low. I have a kind of hernia that makes it more of a challenge to stand for a long time to do exercises so I tend to sit so that I can put in the time that I feel is necessary with eg moving of yin and yang. However it sounds as if there is useful advice about aspects of healing contained within the level 2 exercises which I need to look at. And I guess I can do those sitting for part of the time if necessary.
Plenty to follow up here!
Many thanks
Love
Kev