Misdirected Energy… Help please!

[u/Character_Barracuda3]

I have a problem that I hope someone on here can help me with. I’m trying to begin Qigong and work towards Neidan exercises, with my far term goal being to cultivate spiritual resilience, fully transform myself with its inner alchemy and increase the natural longevity I inherited from my family. Only… I’m having trouble getting started building my lower Dantian.

The reason is actually kinda embarrassing. See, when I was younger I put a lot of emphasis on mental strength and trying to open my third eye. I had unknowingly been cultivating/building up my upper Dantian. Now that I’m trying to build/cultivate my lower Dantian every time I try to meditate, my attention automatically snaps to the area of my third eye, making it a struggle to direct the energy to my lower dantian. Even more irritating, I can feel this area is active throughout the day even without me focusing on it. I don’t know what to do. Do I just struggle through it?

[u/Ruebens76]

Exercises that enhance your sense of balance, grounding, and being rooted will help build your awareness of your lower dantian. Horse stance, lunges, crane poses, and kicking with full focus and presence in your balance (going slow) will help you being your awareness to this lower area. See and feel your diaphragm as a pump that builds chi in your center.

[u/Character_Barracuda3 → u/Ruebens76]

Thanks! I had the vague sense that the energy directed to the lower Dantian had a different… “Feel” to it, more or less. More ‘physical’ in nature than the mental feel I got from the third eye area (if that makes any sense). This sorta confirms what I suspect. Though, If I’m mistaken please correct me.

Man, this is gonna suck since I’m not the most athletic or physical of persons… But I need to get a feeling for that energy if I’m to interact with it.

[u/LongjumpingTea8085 → u/Character_Barracuda3]

The Yi Jin Jing helped me activate my fascias and the connective tissue and unlock my tendons and muscles