Saying Mu Silently Does Stress Lower Abdomen

Saying mu inwardly places
tension in the tanden, provided one breathes and takes the recommended posture. It takes some practice before one feels such tension as something immediate. But when feels this tension, it is unmistakable feel. It is there. Some scientific research shows that lower belly houses what they call the second brain. When tension is located in the lower belly, the chatter box or the inner voice or thoughts or what have you that go on in the head stop. One also feels more stable at this time.


I conjecture that this, whatever it may turn urn out to be, and its likes, sprits or ego, or what have you, is sort of things that places stress on different parts of the body, depending on where it stresses,different effects emerge, case in point is when it is located in the lower abdomen,it stabilizes the body and the mind.


It is probably chi or nafs, as Arabs would have it, or things of that nature.

I have extended the bamboo method, the author suggests to the contraction of abdominal muscles in view of expelling air that can be expelled from the lungs, that is in technical terms expelling expiratory reserve volume, so that I contract the lower belly in four phases. In this way,each time I start the contraction in fresh way.

I also apply the bamboo method in exhalations as suggested, by waiting between exhalations 5-20 seconds, four times, that is four different exhalations, spaced by 5-20 seconds, to repeat, so that the process of contraction and relaxation mirror each other.

This methodical way hastens my ability to stop thoughts,and by implications empty myself from pressure, egos.

After exhalations, I count four abdominal inspirations,inflating the lower belly first and then tensing it. Having finished this, I repeat the process. In this all breathing activities mirror each other.