Question On The Function Of The Dan Tien, and its role in circulations Options

My acupuncturist recently treated me for some persistent injuries and through the course of the treatment I noticed many of the sensations I have learned or have been taught to know as sings of malfunctioning energy work. When I checked for other signs (burgeoning chi on hands and feet, inability to place my awareness at that spot) I found that no other signs where present. I talked to my acupuncturist about this and my energetic practices and he commented that the dan tien is a reservoir not a dam. This indicated to me that although I do circulations (admittedly not well) and also dissolve of the energy gates I still have a poor circulation probably arising from my cultivation techniques.

I have been using dan tien as a place to store energy -and have gotten rather good at it- and have been taking that energy and either using it or circulating it and when the circulation is complete I lead the chi back to my dan tien. Most of the sources I have looked into suggest that this is what I am supposed to do until I reach I point where energy is able to circulate on its own- some 100 days by most counts, though others say a year. However, the amount of chi that I felt moving during the acupuncture treatment was far in excess of what I can normally circulate.

My question then, is on role that the dan tien plays in circulations and how this might be effecting my ability to circulate chi - assuming of course I am not simply bad at it.

What your practices are sound fine. If there are circulatory problems then they ought to lessen over time. The microcosmic orbit is clear enough. Instead of calling them nadis, a term from yoga, you might call them 'jingluo'. I may be mistaken but perhaps you are referring to the belt thruster meridians rather than the liver. I'm going to try to attach a diagram of what I mean. In the diagram they refer to them as left and right channels.

As for where I send the qi out to do good, well where do you send your blood out when doing cardiovascular exercises? The answer is basically all over. You can try to focus it more on areas in which you want to soften up and dissolve blockages when you think of it, of course.

The mixing of fire and water is difficult to describe. It uses Taoist meditation but it is hard to put into words. Perhaps I would be better to direct you to a book called Taoist Yoga -The Sexual Teachings of the Ancient Chinese Masters (Alchemy and Immortality). It was written by Chao Pi Ch'en (born in 1860) and translated by Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk), Rider Press 1970. It may or may not be in print at the present time.

What your practices are sound fine. If there are circulatory problems then they ought to lessen over time. The microcosmic orbit is clear enough. Instead of calling them nadis, a term from yoga, you might call them 'jingluo'. I may be mistaken but perhaps you are referring to the belt thruster meridians rather than the liver. I'm going to try to attach a diagram of what I mean. In the diagram they refer to them as left and right channels.

As for where I send the qi out to do good, well where do you send your blood out when doing cardiovascular exercises? The answer is basically all over. You can try to focus it more on areas in which you want to soften up and dissolve blockages when you think of it, of course.

Thank you. I learned something new. I will look that Book up.