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In relation to the Water & Fire practices, I am experimenting with reversing the direction of breathing … so you breathe out Fire descending, and breathe out Water ascending.
The reason is that breathing in is Yang and breathing out is Yin .. therefore breath and element are syncrhonized, otherwise you are working against yourself.
There is the question of how you do the feet, K-1 and heel … but I think this is a lower priority … it seems to me the water still comes through K1 even if you are exhaling.
If the breath is in the wrong direction, breathing in Yang, whilst the Yin water element rises …. this is working in opposite directions which weakens the practice imo.
Worth an experiment.
In the Water & Fire practice, you can rise with the Fire as if you are rising above the waves into the sunlight … and you can fall with the Water as if you are submerging. Then the Element, Breathing and Direction is all aligned to the Yin or Yang. The only thing that is not is the toe/heel breath direction … not sure about that just yet.
Same goes for the Earth Element … Stomach is Yang, Spleen is Yin … breathing bright yellow bananas in to Stomach 1 under the eyes and flowing down the toes, and then exhaling mustard yellow up the Spleen meridien as you exhale.
In general there is a rising of Qi into the body and the fall on the exhale. But in the meridiens that is not followed .. the yang meridien can flow donwards so it would seem.
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