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Often we postpone long-awaited events, keeping them in the status of a dream. It turns out that there are tasks, but there is something unrealizable … A familiar story? However, a dream can always be turned into a project that will soon be implemented. How? There is a special exercise for this in qigong practice!
In the Taoist tradition, it is believed that it depends on our view of the situation whether our intention will be realized or whether it will remain a dream.
The future is closer!
Our eyeballs can move not only left and right, but also back and forth (though with a very small amplitude). When we look at a physical object that we do not like, the eyeball literally moves backwards – inside the eye aperture (eye opening). And vice versa: if you look at the object that interests us, the eye seems to “roll out” forward.
In the same way, it works with imaginary objects: we look at events that we do not believe in as if from the depths, and at incendiary, motivating events, we look with wide eyes.
And since there is a relationship between a physical action and a psychological state, then, by resorting to this action, we can cause the desired mood in ourselves. This is what we will use!
What is stopping the dream from coming true?
Have you noticed that people at a certain age find it difficult to look at the world optimistically? It is difficult to plan something, to want, to dream. This is an unpleasant consequence of one of the signs of aging of the body – the closing of apertures.
Apertures are openings: for example, the upper and lower apertures of the pelvic bones, and, of course, the eye sockets. Over time, the muscular and ligamentous structures surrounding the apertures accumulate tension. For example, the pelvis becomes more static, the hip joints become less mobile.
The same thing happens with eye apertures: the deeper the eyeball is, the “heavier” a person’s gaze is and the more difficult it is for him to look at the world optimistically.
Various bodily practices work great with the “liberation” of the apertures, for example, the complex of the Chinese healing practice of qigong – Xing Shen Juang. The complex belongs to medical qigong and literally “straightens” the body.
Practice “Looking to the future”
Do a simple test: think about the upcoming unpleasant business and turn your attention to the eyeball and oculomotor muscles. What do you feel? The eye seems to be hiding, it does not want to look at it – note this sensation.
Now think about something you want. What’s going on with the eye now? Feel your eyes open. And while keeping your eyes wide open, bring back the first “undesirable” picture: how much can you keep an open look at it?
If so, how does your attitude towards performing “undesirable” activities change? I bet you’ve started to feel like it’s not that hard to get the job done!
Do you want to know how open your eyes can be and how optimistic you can look to the future? I offer you an osteopathic technique for this.
1. Write a wish on a large sheet of paper, stand on it and look in front of you. How are you looking forward now? How achievable does the dream seem? Assess the position of the eyes.
2. Use your fingertips to act on three points: at the base of the eyebrow, in the middle of the eyebrow, on the edge of the eyebrow. Press sequentially on each point for six counts.
3. Make a second approach to the same points, only now at each stop for six counts and at the same time open your mouth, stretching the masticatory muscles.
4. Put the pads of your fingers in the inner corners of the eyes and make 10 soft pressure movements.
5. Fix the tissue at the outer edges of the eye with the entire plane of the finger (we apply the fingers vertically) and stretch the eye-motor muscles – looking left and right six times.
6. Now imagine that there is an air cushion behind the eye that slowly inflates, “pushing” the eye forward.
The physical opening of the eye apertures will instruct the brain to form a more optimistic view of the world. And you can check it: stand again on a sheet of paper and look ahead. How pleasant and easy is it to “look” into the future now? How close is the desired image?