The Physical Exercise Set - By Justin Dane

The Physical Exercise Set

The exercises of Evolving Consciousness are thorough and complete, starting with the circulation and working systematically through to the extremities nothing is left out.

We start with a brief warm up for the arms and hips to loosen the body and open the lungs. Then we have a Kundalini power set which is the foundation of  Evolving Consciousness. The circulation is controlled by three organs; the lungs, heart and liver and of these we can only fully control the lungs. Kundalini yoga comprises fast breathing that strengthens the lungs stimulates the heart and massages the liver bringing all these into full function. More than this fast breathing opens the mind and creates a powerful ‘natural high’. Once ‘high’ the mind comprehend higher levels of consciousness and the emotions will automatically begin attach to exalted reality and this is the secret of Evolving Consciousness personal change.

After the Kundalini we loosen up more fully and use ‘yin and yang’ postures to make the hips more flexible and improve overall body synchronization. Yin and yang postures are fundamental to chi gong and tai chi and although unfortunately seldom taught to foreigners just about all Chinese Students learn this way (I met an old Chinese lady practicing Tai Chi in Chiang Mai and she asked to see my chi gong. She clapped her hands with pleasant and said “Oh, you know yin yang postures very well, I have never seen a foreigner who could do this, how did you learn?” I told her I had learned in Hong Kong (Actually from a Serbian Tai Chi Master!), and she said ‘You are lucky we don’t usually teach foreigners this way” I asked her why not and she answered “They wouldn’t understand”. Chinese logic!).

At the same time as loosening and working the arms legs feet and ankles we begin a set of finger and wrist exercises to insure full strength and proper circulation in the hands. We continue the hand exercises while practice slow walking. This is quite like the Buddhist slow walking excepts there is more attention to posture and the set is used to correct to the walking gate at the same time as calm the mind and exercise the finger – in Evolving Consciousness we don’t waste any time!

After this we practice some unique and powerful physiotherapy exercises that thoroughly and completely work and correct the lower spine, sacrum, sacroiliac and coccyx.

The last exercise set is chi gong with eleven special Chinese exercises combining posture with slow movement and the yin yang hips. This set sends all the blood and vital energy to every part of the body and corrects and improves balance, strength, flexibly as well creating a clear and peaceful mind. For those who know how this set is the perfect warm up for Tai Chi practice.

This is the full set and takes about two hours, however, it be broken down into units which are practiced on alternate days for those who do not have time for the full set every day.

 

How I Discovered the Meaning of Life - by Justin Dane

How I discovered the Meaning of Life How I Discovered the Meaning of Life

Like Nirvana, the Evolution of Consciousness is eternal, continuous without endings or beginnings. From whatever level you have reached, you have get to the next - that is all.

I discovered the Meaning of Life in March 2011, it didn’t come with a bang or clap of thunder, there wasn’t any sudden flash of bright light; it wasn’t like that at all. What happened was I working on a title for a new YouTube channel and it just came to me: the Meaning of Life is the Evolution of Consciousness. That stuck and I thought, ‘Hey, that’s right’. It all just seemed very natural, like it was no big deal at all and I think that’s the way an inspiration should come. If you get the ‘big clap of thunder’ and strong feeling type of inspiration often later you are disappointed with it, but if comes naturally and you just ‘know’ its true, like you’d known it all along, then that makes a much better start. Because, its not what happens when you get an inspiration that counts, its what happens after and I found that this simple little concept, gave me a centre from which I could expand in some very interesting and useful directions. Actually this process all started four years ago back in 2007 when I discovered my ‘true self’ and that was when the Evolving Consciousness idea really started to work for me. Before that I didn’t know my ‘true self’, and if you don’t know your ‘true self’ what do you know? But, I don’t want to get into all that just yet. These concepts like the ‘Meaning of Life’ and the ‘true self’; these are what you might call ‘elevated concepts’. To get into an elevated concept you’ve got to get on to an elevated level, a ‘high’ first before you can appreciate them. Now, any idiot can pop some pills or whatever, get on a ‘high’ and think they’ve discovered ‘the Meaning of Life’. Well, maybe, that’s for real, maybe not, but when they come down from the drug it’s all blown away anyway. The simple reason is that drugs always mess your mind up, some mess it up a little, some mess it a lot, that’s the problem with relying on drugs to get high[1]. When you get on a ‘natural high’ it’s not like that and you remember most of what you experience pretty clearly and that’s one of main things that Evolving Consciousness is all about - getting on a ‘natural high’. Once you are on the ‘high’, these ‘elevated concepts’ will start to work for you, and you will know the truth for yourself.  To that get a natural ‘high’ and more important hold on to it, takes a lot of concentration and a lot of knowledge - like the knowledge of all things that ‘bring you down’ and how get around them. You need insight too otherwise you can get lost, carried away chasing ‘willow the wisps.’[2] The ultimate ‘high’ requires the ultimate dedication.

Now, maybe reading this it has already made a ‘hit’ with you and that’s great, you just carry on, but more likely this is still just ‘words on paper’.  That’s because although your mind probably understands perfectly what is written your emotions have not connected to it. Unless you emotion get ‘hooked’ onto an idea it never ‘feels’ real, and this is something I hope to teach you, to link your emotions to concepts that most people think are lofty goals that cannot be reached, ideals that can never exist in the ‘real world. I hope to show how attach your emotions to noble dreams and so make them glorious realities. That’s what I mean by turning ‘a chump into a hero’.

I’m going to ask you to take ‘leap of faith’ with me, not faith in the Catholic sense like you have to believe, believe; believe till you drop, but a leap of faith in the sense that I want you to suspend your disbelief long enough to give it your best shot. This is a really good idea whatever you are learning, be open minded, believe what you are told, then when you have mastered it, make it ‘your own’ and do what you like with it. That’s the way that I study so I know it works.

So, read what I write as if it was true, and as if you had never read anything like it before, and see how far it takes you. I am sure this program is really going to work for a lot of people and you could be one of them. Whatever happens you will have learned a lot of useful things.

I’m 57 and I’ve been working this kind of stuff since I was 13 or younger and as I say it taken me till this year before I really started getting the whole jigsaw together. You can learn what I learned in years in months because these concepts I am giving are really good and solid and the program is well worked out.

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[1] As far as I know marijuana is the only drug that may help Evolution of Consciousness in the long term. Other drugs? Maybe useful in very special circumstances. What I know for sure is that my generation, the Peace and Love people, made the terrible mistake of ‘relying on drugs’ to get high. If you want to reach the truly exalted levels you got to go for the ‘natural high’.

[2] ‘Willow the wisp’ is caused when methane gas produced by a marsh burns. Someone lost at night may think that the light comes from house and wander further in the bog.