1. Buddha takes a stand
I've been doing this everyday for a few years now, I've told friends about how great they are, but nothing beats seeing it in video to convince you to try it.
Great for meditators and sedentary modern people.
I've been doing many of the exercises shown in this video, that I learned from others or improvised myself, it's great to see others see the health benefits discovered independently.
People do things that work, improve health, etc.
This person just made a video a couple of days ago, they're probably paid to promote a certain brand of rings.
I don't know what my rings are, I just picked one up on amazon with high volume of purchases with good ratings.
(more detail to follow another day)
Both of these moves done starting from full lotus sit.
if you can't do full lotus, this also works from an easy partial half lotus kind of position, so long as you have good access to your feet with your hands.
For most people, this will have the effect of toe spacers
right hand 5 fingers to 5 toes of left foot.
If anything hurts, it shows poor circulation of blood, qi, etc.
Doing this move acts as accupressure and will help dissolve blockages, pain, and discomfort over time.
with your interlaced hands and feet still attached to each other, you can make circular motions
the centers of your palms on the hands, and the equivalent spots on your feet (bubbling wells),
are major centers of energy.
Slapping hands to feet very hard, helps to dissolve blockages.
How do you know it's working? Over days and weeks, You may feel itchiness, on other parts of your arms and legs, or dark spots on your skin forming from lymph fluid carrying away particles that were stuck in your lymphatic system.
When qi is flowing better in not just your hands, feet, but whole body, you will be able to tell the difference if you pay attention.
I always go with the buffet sampler approach. I do 48 reps and then my body tells me if I need to do more.
It's just like 4 jhΔna progression. If your body feels pain, it's part of the process of your body transforming from stiff and blocked into soft and smooth energy flow. When it's getting soft, body gives you large physical sukha as inducement to tell you not to stop yet.
When transformation is complete, just like fourth jhana you get neutral sensations.
I slapped my feet about 48 times, and then I had to go excrete feces. After doing move #2, I had to go to use the bathroom #2.
Remember the PV=nRT formula from chemistry and science class?
Jhanic force and the physical hand slap go where the "P" is in the formula.
I've also had to excrete feces after soaking my hands or feet a few minutes in hot water.
Science and jhanic force. It's real, it works, it's universal.
There's an important lesson here on guerrilla warfare (meditators looking to add to their bag of tricks to improve pliability and flexibility).
Split squats have been around forever.
I dismissed the exercise, thinking it's just for muscle heads trying to get big muscular legs and toned butt.
And I dismissed the wushu martial artists version in Jade's video, because that crowd, like gymnasts and contortionists, practice extreme and dangerous methods to gain super flexibility.
But all these years I missed out the fact, had I not experimented with it sooner is if you tune the exercise just right, it's great for stretching many parts of the leg and thigh quickly, in one exercise (whereas normally you need 4 or 5 exercises to stretch all parts of the leg).
So the lesson as always, it's NWBH.
It's not what you do, but how you do it that determines if something is useful, safe, or dangerous.
Ideally should move with the whole body.
What happens in practice, beginners learn by looking at what the hands and arms are doing,
and imitate that first,
and then dragging the rest of the body along with the hands.
Tail wagging the Dog.
It takes years, even decades for energy channels to open up,
for one's whole body sensitivity to reach the point where one can directly can clearly see
what body parts is leading what, and whether the whole body moves together in perfect unison.
For beginner and intermediates, if you're going to err better for the hands and arms to lag the torso and legs (tail moved by dog, lags the dog).
