Third Stage: Activation-Sedation of Spinal Meridian Innervation

1. Lift your arms high above your head; then bend your trunk slowly and lean your palms against the ground at quite a long distance from your feet (your fingers should be facing forward). In that inclined position, leaning upon your hands and toes, bend your arms and lower your trunk down slowly. Without any tension (first putting one arm forward and then the other one) lie on the ground with your chest, or rather on the rear side of your palms. Bend your head downward – the forehead should be touching the ground. Stretch out your toes so that your heels would face upwards. So now you have found yourself lying on your abdomen.

2. Stay in that posture for a moment. Relax. At least two or three times make a deep inhalation pulling your abdomen in.

3. When you start feeling a deep peace in you, leaning upon your palms and straightening your arms completely, lift your upper trunk slowly (from head to waist). While doing that your body should be arched and your head should be cast backwards as far as possible. The lower trunk, from waist to toes, still touches the ground. Toes stretched out.

4. Raising yourself on your hands, make a deep inhalation (through your nostrils).

5. In that posture, having neither bent your elbows, nor dropt your chin and having held your breath, stay for as long as you possibly can. During you first attempts you will hardly remain in the posture for more than a second. Gradually you will extend that time but do not force yourself.

6. Bending your arms, slowly return to the initial position. When your head is touching the ground again and your chest is lying on the rear side of your palms, start breathing freely.

7. Repeat the series of positions 1-6 three times in a row with a 1-minute interval.

Note: While activating the spine innervation (i.e. the energy of spinal meridian which, in psychics, corresponds to the energy of power instinct) it has a stimulating effect on the kidneys and incretion.

8. Having rested for a couple of minutes put your hands around your head placing the fingers to the temples and upper part of your forehead. Do not pull your elbows and forearms away from the ground. Then get up slowly, raising the center of your trunk and leaning partially upon your forehead and elbows, and partially upon your toes. Having got up, put one leg closer to your head, then the other one, so that your body would outline an arch.

Note: It is a sedative posture. Stay in it for as long as you can.

9. In that posture make ten inhalations and expirations, concentrating on pulling your abdomen in.

10. Now bend your knees. Keep your legs together. Straighten yourself and sit down to your heels or in between them. At first it will be somewhat hard to do because of the inflexibility of your ankle-bones and because you are not used to such a leg position (with your soles facing upward). Soon it will be easy to do.

11. Put your hands on your thighs or put them together on your chest.

Note: You may limit yourself with those postures during two weeks. It will take you fifteen minutes a day. If you wish you may prolong being in each posture and the intervals between them. As soon as it seems insufficient to you, proceed to the more complicated third stage.