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Hello, my dear friend. My name is Chen Yilin. I'm the founder and creator of Spring Forest Cheegang.

What I will guide you through on this city is one of the most powerful meditations I have ever

experienced. It is called the Small Universe Meditation. It incorporates a focus on effective breathing,

the power of your mind and the power of sound to help you balance and enhance the flow of your energy.

It also helps you relax more completely and to heal physically, mentally and spiritually.

This meditation can help you experience your optimal health, wellness and happiness. In fact,

practicing the Small Universe can help you improve literally every aspect of your life.

Balancing and enhancing the flow of your energy is at the heart of the Small Universe Meditation

as it is with all Cheegang techniques. The development of Cheegang began in China more than 4,000 years ago.

It is one of the most profound health, wellness and healing practices ever created.

At the heart of Cheegang is the understanding that everything in the Universe is energy, just in

different forms. The air is a form of energy, a tree is a form of energy, so too is a star or a rock.

Everything is energy. Every cell in your body is a form of energy. You are an energy being.

When your body's energy is balanced and flowing smoothly, you experience optimal health,

wellness and happiness. When the flow of your body's energy becomes blocked, that is when problems

develop. As Albert Einstein discovered in the Western scientific tradition, energy cannot be

created or destroyed, but energy can be transformed. In fact, your body's energy is constantly transforming.

The only question is whether it is transforming for better or for worse. A spring-forged Cheegang

practice, such as the small Universe meditation, can help you transform your energy for the better

and even undo the worse. Cheegang teaches us that the underlying cause of any health problem is an

energy blockage. Remove the blockage or blockages and the healing occurs. I know this to be true from

my own personal experience. As a very young man, I suffered from numerous health problems,

including a painful bone spur in my back and two severely damaged and arthritic knees.

My knees were so seriously injured I could barely walk. Many days, I couldn't even stand

because the pain was so intense. I played for the miracle and found it in Cheegang. My knees

were completely healed. The energy blockage that was the source of the bone spur in my back was

transformed and the bone spur disappeared completely. It was these healing experiences that led me to

devote my life to the study, practice and teaching of Cheegang. I want everyone to know and to experience

the same healing, the same joy that Cheegang has brought to my life. The word Qi means energy.

Gong means work. Cheegang simply means working with the energy. The energy in our bodies

flow through numerous energy channels called meridians. The two most important ones are the

front channel and the back channel. The back channel runs along your spine and is also called

governing channel. It governs all the young or male energy channels in the body. The front channel

controls all the Yin or female energy channels in the body. Yin and Yang are the two different

types of energy in the body. During the small universe meditation, you will focus on moving your

energy along these two main channels. Nearly all the important energy centers are arranged along

the back and front energy channels. These channels supply energy to all of the other channels and

energy centers in your body. Keeping these two channels open and the energy flowing smoother

through them is critical to your optimal health, wellness and healing.

I will guide you through every step of this meditation. All you have to do is follow along.

I will guide you using two sounds like everything else sounds are also a form of energy.

When you chain or meditate on or listen to the sound on, the energy runs down from your throat to

the bottom of the torso along the front channel. When you chain or meditate on or listen to the sound more

the energy travels up the back channel. These two sounds help direct the flow of the energy in your body.

When you do the small universe meditation, you should gently place the tip of your tongue against

the roof of your mouth. Your tongue is the switch that connects the front channel and the back channel.

In effect, creating the small universe within your body for moving the energy.

Throughout this meditation, I want you to breathe slowly, gently and deeply.

Just breathing slowly, gently and deeply for sustained periods of 15 minutes or more is

extremely beneficial to your health. Among other things, it's great for relieving stress,

which doctors point to as the number one underlying cause of disease.

This meditation goes beyond that, combining the benefits of effective breathing with the power of

your mind and the power of sound. In this meditation, I want you to breathe in slowly,

gently and deeply when you hear either the sound, or more. You can tune your breathing in until

the sound stops. When the sound stops, you breathe out slowly, gently and fully.

As you breathe in, visualize or just say in your mind that this beautiful healing light energy

is flowing into your body and collecting in your lower dan tian. The lower dan tian is your

lower energy center and is located in behind your navel. Each time you breathe out, I want you to

use the power of your mind to move the energy you have collected to the next energy point along

your two main energy channels. There are 12 points in all. The 12 energy points are,

number one, your lower dan tian, behind your navel. The second energy point is your bladder.

The third is at the bottom of your torso between your two legs. The fourth energy point is at your

tailbone. Number five is at your lower back. The sixth is a point on your spine in between your two

kidneys. Energy point number seven is your spinal cord at the base of the neck.

Number eight is at the base of your head. Energy point number nine is the top of the head.

Number ten is your third eye position, which is located in behind the middle of your forehead.

And it's point number eleven is in the middle of your throat. The twelve and the final energy point

is your heart. From the heart center, you move the energy back down to the first energy point

your lower dan tian, completing the small universe. Then you start all over again, moving the energy

from point number one to point number two and so on. You will be moving the energy from point

to point in an oval pattern along your two main energy channels. As you practice this meditation

more, you will come to actually feel the energy flowing through you and moving from one energy point

to the next. Some people can even feel this right away, but whether you feel it or not, simply by

following along in your mind with my guidance, you will be moving the energy through your small

universe and receiving all the benefits of this wonderful meditation. One more important point

I want to make is this. Spring Forest Chigong practice helps you to connect your mind, body and spirit.

By spirit, I mean the power of your heart, the infinite power of unconditional love that

exists within each of us, whether we realize it or not. And by spirit, I mean your connection to

the infinite. The American physicist James Treffo said, it is important to note that every atom

of iron in your blood, of calcium in your bones, of carbon in your tissues was made in a star

that died long before the earth existed. The point he is making is not only that everything is

energy and energy is constantly in the process of transforming. He is also making the point

that we are all connected. We all come from the same infinite universal source.

In helping you to connect your mind, body and spirit during this meditation, I will ask you to say

a password. A password that recognizes your connection with a universe. The password is this.

I am in the universe. The universe is in my body. The universe and iron combine together.

If you are a religious person, you may wish to substitute other words such as God or the

Holy Spirit or the power of unconditional love. Whatever words you choose will be fine,

as long as they represent to you the power of limitless, unconditional love and your connection

to the infinite source of the universe. It is not a word that is important, it is the meaning

they hold. That's the end of this introduction. Please join me now to the next track

and I will guide you through the small universe meditation.