Tactile Imaging experiment

This is from astraldynamics.com

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The best way to learn Tactile Imaging is by doing it. Rest your hands comfortably in your lap, or on the arms of your chair, palms down and fingers slightly spread. Close your eyes and relax, then shift your point of body awareness to the base of your right thumb, topside. There is an important secondary energy centre (small Chakra) in each of the thumb joints, and you are now going to stimulate one of them. Most people will feel one of their thumb centres activate noticeably the first time they work on it.
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The area to be worked on first is on top of the large joint where the thumb joins the right hand. If you have trouble locating this joint (the second joint in from the thumbnail) flex your thumb while pressing this joint between your other fingers until you can feel it. Lightly scratch a circular area clockwise on top of the thumb joint, approximately half an inch (1.5cm) across, to highlight it with your awareness. Slowly trace a fingertip around this same circular path while following this touch with your point of awareness. That point of touch must become your point of awareness. Continue following this action until you can remember the exact feel of this circular movement, and can recreate this action with your point of awareness alone.
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Feel the tingling target area on top of your thumb joint with your point of awareness. Recreate and feel this circular action inside your skin. Move your point of awareness in a small clockwise circle in that area, as if you were stirring it with an imaginary pencil or awareness fingertip. Concentrate and feel this action, continuing the motion with your point of awareness alone. Keep stirring this centre around and around with one or two circling actions per second. After a short time this action will gain its own momentum. It will then become almost automatic and take very little effort to continue.
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After a while (anything from a few seconds to a few minutes during a first attempt) you should begin feeling a slight localized heaviness or pressure, or a tingling, buzzing or bonedeep tickling or fuzzy sensation in your thumb joint and thumb. This sensation indicates the energy centre there has been successfully stimulated into increased activity. Once you feel this, immediately move onto the next exercise. If you feel nothing after trying for a few minutes, move onto the next exercise anyway.
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Change the awareness action and move your point of awareness in a straight brushing action, up and down along the top of your right thumb, from just below the joint to just above the nail tip. Move your point of awareness continually back and forth through this area. You are now stimulating your entire thumb, including all the small energy centres within it. Feel this brushing action through the whole of your thumb as you do it. The sensations you may have felt earlier will intensify and spread throughout the whole of your thumb as you do this, as more and more small energy centres there are stimulated into increased activity.
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Pyro sent me a link to this website, and I began reading through the NEW (new energy ways) tonight. I tried this tactile imagine, described above. It was quite interesting. I didn't even need to touch the thumbs to stimulate them. It came very easily, both the circles and the sweeping along the thumb. However, I tried doing the same thing to my big toe, as recommended. I found even with rubbing my toes it was very very slow and difficult to feel anything where they meet the foot. When I moved to sweeping my right foot only stayed stimulated at the tip. I believe this is because there is a blockage at the location I broke my toe in last year. In my left toe it was the opposite. It felt like the energy couldn't reach the tip of my toe. Very interesting. I plan to try this again and see if it improves with practice.

So far I love the approach this guy uses. I haven't gotten very far, but it makes sense. He warns against trying to fill higher chakras without starting with lower energy points. For instance, if we try to put energy directly into the third eye we can throw ourselves out of balance. We deplete our energy storage and tire. But if we work on all the connections the energy will flow easily and we'll progress faster without depleting our energy stores. It makes a lot of sense to me. And while this is faster overal, it is not a shortcut. Just wanted to make that clear :-)