PRATIBIMBA DHYANA🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

You are always flowing outward. Your energies are always focused on the outside world. When you look at something, your consciousness flows towards it. Your focus is never on yourself, it is always on the object of your attention. At all moments we are aware of something outside of ourselves. Whenever we become intensely aware of something – a beautiful sunset, beautiful music – we lose ourselves completely in it. This is a tremendous experience – but this is unawareness. In awareness, one is aware not only of the object, but also of the subject. You become aware not only of what you are looking at, but of the one who is looking – You.

Ordinarily, your energy is always flowing outwards, into the external event. According to the Taoist experience, you could turn this energy back upon yourself, instead of squandering it in the outside world.

This is concentration.

INSTRUCTIONS

Stand before a full-length mirror and look at yourself. Take a good look at yourself from the outside. You are the subject, and the reflection in the mirror is the object of your attention. You will feel your energy flowing towards the object. Look at your eyes from the outside. You are looking, and the reflection is being looked at.

Now imagine a reversal of roles! Try to imagine that the reflection is looking at you. This can be frightening at first. You are not used to thinking of your reflection in that way, as something that can observe you.

Even if the feeling is strange and frightening, keep at it. In just a few moments, you will feel a great change. You will feel the energy start to flow from your reflection, towards you! This can be really frightening, really disconcerting. All your life you have been used to extroversion, to the outward direction of energ y flow. To suddenly experience this can be a shock. But you will definitely feel the flow- because you have now closed the circuit. By closing the energy circuit, you have ensured that

Practise this technique for a few days, and you will feel a definite change. You will be more energetic, more vital. You will feel more centred, more at peace.

You can practise this throughout the day – not just with yourself, but with anything you focus on. When you have passed your energy to something, imagine it as returning the energy to you. It could even be an inanimate object, it does not matter. You will feel the energy flowing back towards you, rejuvenating you, revitalizing you!