Zakyrus, I'll see if I can give you what looking for.
First, I noted a statement "...exactly what Iam2 is doing( rethink and restructure ). I had the whole energy concept wrong." I'm not sure exactly what impression I've made, but I'll spend a little time chatting about me. It is one of my favourite subjects.
While at a LSC retreat in Aug. 2003, I had some very new and moving experiences. One type were dreams that were very informative, and easily interpreted by me. One of these dreams involved Chunyi Lin and meant that I was to study SFQ. Once I returned home I started SFQ with a fervor, which is the way I start just about everything new. Shawn can tell you stories of the posting fool called Iam2.
Within about three months I was regularly doing 2 to 4 hours of SFQ a day, everyday, at the same times. I was having all sorts of new and wonderful experiences. I was still pulling information from other personal development sources, and reading about things like hypnosis, time dilation, esp, Buddhist monks, auto-suggestion, and .... The nice thing is that I found that the SFQ model of qi conveniently and completely explained all of the other things I read about. I like this.
One day, After about 6 months, I knew I was to fast. I immediately did. I also bought a book on fasting, searched the net, and solicited help from this forum. It was a eye opening experience.
By this time I had also started the level II material. Not that I felt I had mastered level I. I have intellectually covered the material exhaustively.
A little later, I became interested in the level III material. Not that I had mastered the level I or II. I did the meditations in silence and from memory, which is my prefered methods since it allows me to match my own pace.
So about a year after I started SFQ I attended the level II retreat. I juice fasted the whole weekend (it was only powdered mix juice, but it was more than water). Again I had moving experiences, and learned much.
I returned home and continued the level III meditations. I edited my standard meditations mp3s to make multiple meditations, like the ones we followed at the retreat.
I have mastered the level III even less than the level I or II, and yet I am now planning to attending the level IV retreat this summer.
I have not spent the last 4 years doing 4 hours a day of meditation. In hind sight I wish I had. However, at the time I made other choices. I now have about 40 personal development books on my bookshelf, and over a dozen ebooks and CD based courses. I'm learning the best of what many masters have to offer. However, my foundation is SFQ.
Multiple goals in harmony and balance; mastering the flow of qi to create the many things my mind dreams; that is what I've been doing. So I may have said rethink or restructure, I merely meant that I've changed the balance of where I direct my energy. The teaching I acquired from SFQ has only broadened and been enriched by others lessons.
I think that will answer many of your questions, and is probably more than you were looking for. It's more than I had intended.
Now as for active meditation. I always do the level I active meditation. It is the start to my day, even now. When I say always, I mean when I am practicing SFQ meditations. For I have gone months with hardly any meditations. I'll say now that life is better on a regular meditation cycle. However, the child must touch to the fire to truely understand it. Ouch!
So at my peak I was doing 1 hour of level on active exercise. I did two 15 minute coffee breaks of Small Universe or Self-concentration. I woudl do a 1/2 hour at lunch time of small universe mostly, and an occaisional self-concentration. The evening would be a one of something like:
- 1 hr small universe
or
- 1/2 (or 1 hr) level I active + moon meditation (1hr)
or
- 1/2 (or 1 hr) small universe + moon meditation (1hr)
I have done the level two active, but I keep rooted in the level I active.
I have done the sun meditation, but it has never been as powerful for me as the moon.
I quite like the saturday afternoon group healing meditation. I do it for about 1/2 and hour.
Anything else you can try searching for, or ask. I've put just about everything; or at least the core of most things on this forum. The post count says, I missed a lot of meditation time just typing. However, I find that I learn a great deal by when trying to help others, which makes it very worthwhile being here.
You are perfection,
Iam2
