Exhale and imagine spreading the energy into your body inside. You can imagine spreading the energy just to legs or from chest to all directions. During most of the time I imagine the first kind.
Important: With EACH exhalation, speak to yourself loudly inside "taller" and imagine your legs, (If you imagine the second way, then think about also your arms, and neck) extending longer. Soon you will find the power of speak is indescribable.
Explanation:
Imagination is so amazing that it can make you fly or swim or grow taller by just lying on the bed. Imagine, imagine, all you do is imagine. More importantly, you should make imagination real. You have to think your imagination is not just an imagination, it will become real and IT IS REAL RIGHT THIS MOMENT.
No effort is needed on your real body. This is very important. No physical effort. Sometimes we feel our real body responding to our thinking, we get excited and start moving our legs around trying to find out whether we really grow a little bit. Be calm, very calm, still be in the state of imagine. Why? Because any achievement is from our mental thinking, our physical move will disturb our mind. Nevertheless, I do not mean we should not do any physical exercises during the day, I myself love sports. But here we are in a completely different situation.
When you exhale and imagine the energy going down from the ball, you may find also at the same time it is easier to just follow your breath down your legs. You can do both or one of each. All of your thinking should be inside of your body, either going down to your legs or spread to your legs, arms, neck, spinal. You can imagine your body is the universe and you can stretch as much as you could inside. Or you are growing above your ideal height line. Anything that suits your mind should be good.
From my own experience, since just imagine the legs extended actually made the whole body grow, you should believe your body is smart enough to grow proportionally.
Finally, I need explain the importance of language, you can use the word I used or create your own. Why adding the element of language into our imagination will we speed up our practice more. I do not really know, but it works like this. Why there are the 'Six Syllable - ' or the 'Mani Mantra' Om Mani Padme Hum in Buddhism? I do not know, but here is something about the effect of sound may help us to see something more historical and spiritual: Seed Syllable
(from http://www.voxmundiproject.com/recommended_readings_13.htm)
A mantra is made up of one or more syllables, and almost any syllable can be used as a mantra. However, the most usual mantras are associated with a particular deity and appear as part of the ritual of worship of that deity -- a formula of praise/ invocation.
Certain individual sounds known as bijas, referred to as 'seed-syllables,' are thought to contain the essence of a mantra and, by association, the essence of the deity. For example, the Sanskrit (or the Tibetan) letter A (see red image below) is considered to stand for the essence of the Prajnaparamita (Heart Sutra) formula.
In the higher yoga tantras, the seed syllable plays an important role in the profound meditative process known as "taking the three kayas as a path," which is a technique to transform death, bardo and rebirth. Out of Space, we visualize the deity's seed syllable, the Samboghakaya (Enjoyment Body) understood as the mind of a Buddha, and this purifies the bardo state. The seed grows into the Nirmanakaya form of the deity, the actual manifestation which is understood to purify rebirth.
This ancient technique that uses the emergent and growing bija is a brilliant invention -- a multi-layered process in which the visual sign of a sound creates a kind of sensory synthesis. As it grows and transforms, we have an actual example of creation as in a "Word made Flesh" (New Testament, 'Gospel of John.') However, this ability is not to be thought of as the exclusive activity of omnipotent beings.
As we participate in this process of symbolizing symbols in which we draw out of Emptiness a name or label which then is made to grow into a form or object, in this case the actual form of a buddha, we are in immediate touch not only with the deity but with our own nature. We experience in an objective fashion, the basis and process by which all phenomena, including buddhas, arise.
Important: With EACH exhalation, speak to yourself loudly inside "taller" and imagine your legs, (If you imagine the second way, then think about also your arms, and neck) extending longer. Soon you will find the power of speak is indescribable.
Explanation:
Imagination is so amazing that it can make you fly or swim or grow taller by just lying on the bed. Imagine, imagine, all you do is imagine. More importantly, you should make imagination real. You have to think your imagination is not just an imagination, it will become real and IT IS REAL RIGHT THIS MOMENT.
No effort is needed on your real body. This is very important. No physical effort. Sometimes we feel our real body responding to our thinking, we get excited and start moving our legs around trying to find out whether we really grow a little bit. Be calm, very calm, still be in the state of imagine. Why? Because any achievement is from our mental thinking, our physical move will disturb our mind. Nevertheless, I do not mean we should not do any physical exercises during the day, I myself love sports. But here we are in a completely different situation.
When you exhale and imagine the energy going down from the ball, you may find also at the same time it is easier to just follow your breath down your legs. You can do both or one of each. All of your thinking should be inside of your body, either going down to your legs or spread to your legs, arms, neck, spinal. You can imagine your body is the universe and you can stretch as much as you could inside. Or you are growing above your ideal height line. Anything that suits your mind should be good.
From my own experience, since just imagine the legs extended actually made the whole body grow, you should believe your body is smart enough to grow proportionally.
Finally, I need explain the importance of language, you can use the word I used or create your own. Why adding the element of language into our imagination will we speed up our practice more. I do not really know, but it works like this. Why there are the 'Six Syllable - ' or the 'Mani Mantra' Om Mani Padme Hum in Buddhism? I do not know, but here is something about the effect of sound may help us to see something more historical and spiritual: Seed Syllable
(from http://www.voxmundiproject.com/recommended_readings_13.htm)
A mantra is made up of one or more syllables, and almost any syllable can be used as a mantra. However, the most usual mantras are associated with a particular deity and appear as part of the ritual of worship of that deity -- a formula of praise/ invocation.
Certain individual sounds known as bijas, referred to as 'seed-syllables,' are thought to contain the essence of a mantra and, by association, the essence of the deity. For example, the Sanskrit (or the Tibetan) letter A (see red image below) is considered to stand for the essence of the Prajnaparamita (Heart Sutra) formula.
In the higher yoga tantras, the seed syllable plays an important role in the profound meditative process known as "taking the three kayas as a path," which is a technique to transform death, bardo and rebirth. Out of Space, we visualize the deity's seed syllable, the Samboghakaya (Enjoyment Body) understood as the mind of a Buddha, and this purifies the bardo state. The seed grows into the Nirmanakaya form of the deity, the actual manifestation which is understood to purify rebirth.
This ancient technique that uses the emergent and growing bija is a brilliant invention -- a multi-layered process in which the visual sign of a sound creates a kind of sensory synthesis. As it grows and transforms, we have an actual example of creation as in a "Word made Flesh" (New Testament, 'Gospel of John.') However, this ability is not to be thought of as the exclusive activity of omnipotent beings.
As we participate in this process of symbolizing symbols in which we draw out of Emptiness a name or label which then is made to grow into a form or object, in this case the actual form of a buddha, we are in immediate touch not only with the deity but with our own nature. We experience in an objective fashion, the basis and process by which all phenomena, including buddhas, arise.
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