Breathing of the spinal (bone) marrow (Part 4)

If you exercise regularly, then every day it will become easier and easier for you to breathe through your bones. In the remaining four weeks, you will learn to breathe through your entire skeleton. This week you will become familiar with shoulder blade and collarbone breathing.

You have already seen that the key to success is learning the basics, in this case, breathing with the bones of the hands. Studying sexual kung fu exercises also contributes to a better perception of new material. Bones are a repository of excess sexual energy. This week, the sexual kung fu exercise will be part of the practice of “spinal (bone) cord breathing.” In particular, you will learn sexual massage, with the help of which excess sexual energy (jing qi) will accumulate in the bones.

In the fourth part of “spinal (bone) marrow breathing” you will learn to breathe with your shoulder blades and collarbones. First, you breathe with both hands, through which the energy rises to the shoulder blades and then to the collarbones. Finally, breathe through your shoulder blades and collarbones at the same time.

To make things easier, I'll introduce you to two new concepts. In the centers of the palms of both hands there are cavities called dragon and tiger cavities (Liao Kun). Their location can be determined by bending the middle finger and touching the palm with its tip. The dragon's socket is on the right palm, the tiger's socket is on the left.

This week's exercise begins by examining these two points. It is very likely that they are the most active points of the body, receiving and transmitting energy. As soon as you focus your attention on them, you will feel them almost instantly. Then repeat finger breathing in the sequence I told you about. Start with your index fingers. Now that you already know how to breathe with your hands, further actions will not be difficult for you.

However, it will take you some time to feel your shoulder blades and collarbones as clearly as your fingers. The shoulder blades are large, flat, triangular-shaped bones, and their stimulation activates the production of white blood cells. Some people experience pain in this area. The energy flow into the shoulder blades can be directed using visualization techniques and volitional effort. You met this last week. Breathing through the collarbones is not difficult. The breathing technique remains the same. Having mastered breathing with your shoulder blades and collarbones, you can easily relax and feel a significant surge of strength.

1. Take a tree hugging pose or any other static pose (including sitting poses).
2. Start breathing tiger and dragon hollows. For 30 seconds, focus your attention on how the energy moves in and out of these points.
3. Focus your attention on the tips of your index fingers, then breathe successively through your middle fingers, thumbs, ring fingers, and little fingers.
4. With your inner gaze, follow the movement of energy through the palms, radius, ulna and humerus bones to the shoulders. Breathe through all the bones of your arms for at least 30 seconds.
5. From the shoulders, direct energy to the shoulder blades, feel them. For at least 30 seconds, direct the energy from your shoulder blades to your fingertips.
6. Direct the energy from your arms to your collarbones, then from your shoulders through your upper torso to the V-shaped notch of your throat. Breathe through your collarbones, directing energy into your hands and out of your fingertips for 30 seconds.
7. Breathe into your shoulder blades and collarbones at the same time for 30 seconds.
As you practice, you will feel that a closed energy circle is forming around your shoulder blades and collarbones. At the same time, it is possible to activate the C-7 point, located on the large vertebra at the base of the neck. Try not to let the energy flow into your head. Next week I will go into more detail about this technique.