This will be the feed page for our podcast on developing and using inner power.
Developing or cultivating inner power involves many aspects:
- Inner strength, determination and will power
- Focus and concentration
- Character
- Ethics and morals
- Knowing yourself
- Listening to your inner voice
- Self-discipline
- Energy awareness, use, communication and manipulation
- Creative manifestation
- Spiritual perspective, understanding, connection and communication
- Finding, connecting and following the source of life within you
- Reading energies, impulses, intuition, agenda, flow, bodily functions
- Balancing Yin/yang, hard/soft
- Meeting challenges
- No thought vs directing the thoughts
- Not doing
- Moderating thoughts, words, emotions, mental states, awareness, actions, and responses
- Expanding consciousness
- Pattern recognition, breaking and development (habit)
- Mastery of body, emotions and mind
- Breath, qi, jing and the flow of energy
- Alignment and ultimate unification of body, mind and spirit.
- Respect, honor, contribution and relationship to your outer world
- Control vs allowance
- Setting and checking intention
- Making choices
- Kaizen and striving for perfection
- Finding ikigai
- Applying your training to your life
Cultivation of your inner energies is typically a process involving several aspects:
- meditation, contemplation and prayer
- self-discipline, self-awareness/self-examination and self-realization (the MEsciplines)
- “going with the flow” – reading, following, guiding and reacting to energy
- satsang (to sit with others seeking the truth of their being in the company and guidance of a teacher)
- taking refuge in the dharma (a term with many meanings, but in this sense right living in accordance with cosmic and spiritual laws, teachings, and the Way) and sangha (community)
- standing (a form of meditation in various postures or poses to gather and cultivate energy, develop hollowness, sink the qi, movement of energy, relaxation, and settling of bodily fluids)
- qigong
- certain forms, styles
- certain weapons
- working with a partner (applying principles, practicing movement, techniques and developing fa jing)
- extreme training (body conditioning, physical and mental tests, etc.)
- mastering yourself
We will be addressing the intangibles of inner-development shortly. We invite you to join us.
Stay tuned.