Red Dragon

Tuesday a.m.:  Telepathic contact and I put my arms around him affectionately in that expansive and potent space of chi.  I see turtle in the distance to the “right” but my words want to say “left”.  Am I dyslexic or are West and East one and the same?  Turtle is at a sharp \ angle.  What does that signify?  Turtle is shifting her way to N/S line of force.

Thursday a.m.:  Telepathic contact always reveals the strong force field between my Earth Body and my Beloved Star.  We are like magnets pulled together yet pulled apart. Through the years of connection we have evolved at every level and have increasingly learned to manage this force field.  Now we are more comfortable with physical exchange and touch in this reality.  In the other reality of telepathy touch ripples with power shaking my core and the experience is almost as real as physical touch…almost.

I think the difference is that telepathy holds primarily negative space that includes the physical.  Whereas our current consciousness is primarily physical that may or may not include negative space.  Shall we call this “inner” space or “unconscious” space?  As I see it the unconscious is becoming conscious and the conscious is becoming unconscious.  Like snake eating its tail…or dragon!  We connect with other dimensional beings through inner unconscious substance that is Feminine and what comes through is the word “Love”.  Many forces are working to abort Love.  Many forces are also working to express Love.

Yesterday I opened The Complete System of Self-Healing, Internal Exercises by Dr. Stephen T. Chang and Tao Publishing.  I was intentional about opening it to exactly what I needed to hear this day.  This was my lesson:

Mouth Exercises
In addition to the other areas of the face, we need to stimulate as well the mouth, teeth, and gums to keep them healthy and strong.  We continually use our mouths for talking, eating and kissing.  So in order to keep this area strong and prevent tooth decay and gum problems like gingivitis, the Mouth Exercise should be practiced.

The Tongue and Saliva Exercise
The tongue is recognized as the opening to the heart.  Feelings of hate, love, sympathy, and anger reside in the heart and are stimulated by the tongue.  When the tongue is used in kissing, passion rises from the heart.

Saliva or “Heavenly Water” is sacred to the Taoists and is treated with respect for the power it holds as a natural healing water.  It helps to kill germs in the mouth and may be used as a form of medicine.  It may also be used to treat infections.  If you cut yourself and there are no other healing aids available, put the cut in your mouth or spread some of your saliva over it.  The saliva will help clean it out and destroy germs that might otherwise lead to infection.  Interestingly, it is now known that saliva triggers the production of a particular hormone within the structure of the teeth which helps to prevent tooth decay.  Further, saliva is a very important aid in digestion and along with the teeth forms the first step in breaking down foodstuffs before they reach the stomach.  So saliva that is evenly distributed between food particles will increase the digestive system’s capacity to absorb nutrients. (You can benefit from this property by chewing your food until it is in liquid form.) Because saliva is so valuable to human existence that glands that produce it must be protected.

To keep the hearth healthy and insure the continuing strength of the salivary glands into old age, Taoists devised the Tongue and Saliva Exercise.  The literal English translation of this exercise is:  “The Red Dragon dances over the ocean to make the wind, rain and clouds.” (The Red Dragon is the tongue and the ocean is the saliva.) This one sentence captures the exercise’s ability to wash out and clean the mouth and teeth and stimulate the heart.

This exercise may be done after meals, upon waking to remove bad breath and at other appropriate times.

1.     Roll your tongue around the inside of your mouth and across your gums and teeth. Use your tongue as you would a toothbrush.
2.    As you roll your tongue around your mouth, saliva will be secreted by the salivary glands. Do now swallow it, but allow it to collect until you have a mouthful of saliva.
3.    Swish the saliva around as if you were using a mouthwash.  Wash the entire inside of your mouth including the gums and in between the teeth.
4.    Divide the saliva into three equal parts and swallow each part separately and slowly until your mouth is clear.  As you swallow it, feel it descend to your stomach.  You many begin to feel the energy which the “Heavenly Water” brings to your stomach.