The 3-4 days before and after the Winter Solstice are characterized with very powerful positive energy in Nature. This is a good time for receiving energy from Nature, important time for more meditation and relaxation. Even in a non-meditation state one can feel how the energy and the blood in the body are very intensified as if in a meditation state.
Now the qigong meditation is very qualitative, it gets easier and faster to enter into the deep levels of subconsciousness. The daoists, buddhists and the qigong practitioners give a great importance to the meditation during the Winter Solstice and they utilize this period for more intensive cultivation. This is not accidentally. At the Winter Solstice the Yang energy starts to increase (and the days start to get larger), while the yin energy gradually starts to deminish (and the nights are becoming smaller). Slowly and almost unnoticeably the heat in Nature and in the human body is increasing from inside towards outside.
To a certain point, this is also related to the lunar month of rat (zi), in which we are now. It is represented by the “Fu” hexagram 24 in I Ching:
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Lao Zi says "Returning is the movement of Dao". Fu hexagram means “Returning, Coming back" and it consists of 1 yang and 5 yin. The past month (hai) was completely Yin – with 6 Yin, but now a new cycle is beginning, in which the first rays of the Yang energy start to appear. In Chinese, this is called “Yi yang chu” (“the appearance of first Yang”). That's why this is considered a great time for cultivation.
During the different 24 solar segments of the Chinese calendar, the qi is concentrated at different energy points (guan) of the small heavenly orbit. Now, during the 15 days of the Winter Solstice period, the qi is concentrated at huiyin energy point of the body as well as in the lower dantian. Now it starts to activate especially on the Dumai (the Yang meridian) of the small heavenly orbit. At the same time, the flow of energy can be felt much better and faster throughout the whole body.
In the past times, the Winter Solstice in China was regarded as an official holiday and the New Year's day. The scholars and practitioners of methaphysics have done important forecasts namely during the day of the Winter solstice.
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Four conditions for cultivation and spiritual development:
1. Ecologic environment, pure food, moderate climate
2. Proper methods of meditation and cultivation of the inner energy and one's character
3. Some money (as they can give some freedom and possibilities)
4. Friends of Dao (Dao you) – spiritual friends, who share common thinking and feelings.
The lack of any of these conditions can be compensated with the others.
Annie Pecheva
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Last Updated ( Apr 03, 2009 at 12:32 AM )
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