Morris Methods

This list is a compilation in progress. So far it only includes techniques and principles from four of more than 14 written sources…

Most of Dr. Morris’s Methods for meditation, energy development and perception, and some personal development methods are listed below.
Dr. Morris’s Methods for leadership, management, organizational dynamics, and martial arts will be added to the list in the near future.

Basics:

  1. Emptying the Mind
  2. The Ptolemeic Stretch
  3. Herbert Benson’s Relaxation Response
  4. The Ericksonian Mental Vacation
  5. Dr. Death’s Bad Ass Brain Scrub
  6. Self Massage for Chi and Bllod Circulation
  7. Twisting, Rotating, Undulating, and Shaking to open and lubricate the fascia
  8. Breathing like a Baby
  9. Simple Meditation Postures:
    1. Seated: Fudosa/Sage Seat, Seiza, Egyptian Style
    2. Standing: Wuji, ZhanZhuang
    3. Lying Down: Supine/Savasana, Fetal on Side

Glenn Morris’s Secret Smile

  1. KAP1 version
  2. PG-13 version
  3. management and leadership version
  4. healing version
  5. manifestation version
  6. Advanced Secret Smile (KAP2)

Breathing Styles:

  1. Baby Breathing/Zen Breathing
  2. Taoist Reverse Breathing
  3. Vase Breathing

Breathing Exercises and Modifications

  1. Pelvic Breathing
  2. Chest/Rib Pump
  3. The Shy Monk
  4. Tortoise and Crane
  5. Wisdom Breath
  6. Alternate Nostril Breathing
  7. Doc’s Tummo Breathing
  8. Nine Sip Breathing
  9. Nine Elders Breathing
  10. Qi Packing

Moving Meditations, External Chi Kung (WaiKung), Breath-Synchronized Physical Culture:

  1. Walking Meditations: (Earth/Warrior Walk, Water Walk, Fire Walk, Air Walk, Void Walk, Yang Walk, Yin Walk, Neutral Walk, Power Walk, Buddha Walk/Warrior Strut)
  2. Harmonizing the Chi
  3. Wisdom Breath
  4. Lifting the Sky
  5. Drawing the Moon
  6. Tracing the Halves of the Circle
  7. Carrying the Moon
  8. Sinew Metamorphosis 1
  9. Sinew Metamorphosis 2
  10. Martial Sun Salutations
  11. Five Tibetan Rites

Elemental (GoDai) Attitudes and Techniques

  1. Shaking the Body Open/Skeletal Shaking
  2. Becoming Feminine and Feeling More: Awakening Your Inner Princess
  3. Water Walk/Moving from the Hips
  4. Moving Forward with the Entire Body (Fire Walk)
  5. The Chest Rib Pump
  6. Spider Stretch
  7. Reading the Phosphenes
  8. Seeing in the Void
  9. Looking Inside your Body (Inner Vision/Learning to Look Inside)
  10. Aura Viewing

Feeling, Smoothing, Circulating, and Moving Qi:

  1. Chakra Breathing
  2. Aura Feeling
  3. Magnetizing the Hands
  4. Harmonizing the Chi
  5. Feeling from the Belly
  6. Bringing Qi to the Palms
  7. Qi Palpation using the hands
  8. Chi Spiralling
  9. Chakra Diagnosis
  10. Splitting the Energy of the Heart and Basic Energy Healing
  11. External Chi Concentration and Projection
  12. Microcosmic Orbit
  13. Chakra Energy Circling
  14. Generating the Healing Field/ Healing Meditation
  15. Macrocosmic Orbit
  16. Five Point Breathing/Five Gates Breathing
  17. Feeding the Chakras in Zhan Zhuang
  18. Tree Hugging
  19. Iron Shirt Breathing (Pore Breathing var.)

Sexual Gong Fu:

  1. Female/Male Deer Exercises (physical and shamanic qigong versions)
  2. Developing the Gate of Jing
  3. Ovarian and Testicular Breathing
  4. Yab Yum with Inner Sword and Orbits
  5. Gogyo Sexual Positions and Dynamics
  6. GoDai Sexual Dynamics/Chakra Puja**

Esoteric Bodily Techniques:

  1. Hand Rub, Foot Focus, Following Energy Tracks
  2. Tongue Placements (Nabho Mudra, Kechari Mudra, tickling the Pools of Bliss, more)
  3. Drawing Energy Appropriately
  4. Squeeze Plays and Quick Draws
  5. Rectal Directing
  6. Vaginal & Penile Tightening
  7. Erectile Strengthening
  8. Bone Breathing:
    1. Bone and Marrow Washing
    2. Creating the Bone Pump (Rocking or Pulling and Pushing, Twisting or Bending, Hiding the Movement)
    3. Bone Breathing/ Opening and Closing the Skeleton for Energy Breathing (Lower Ribs and Shoulders, Knees and Elbows, Hands and Feet)
  9. Finger Weaving/Kuji/Hand Mudras
  10. Yin and Yang Building Massage

Visualization Meditations:

  1. Damo’s Cave + the 5 Doors
  2. Internal Sword/Secret Sword/Burning Sword/Templar Sword/Flaming Taoist Sword (internal and external variations)
    (internal: up & down, out & in, reinforcing the elements, drawing earth, drawing heaven)
  3. Hakuin’s Healing Ball
  4. Golden Light Meditation (Middle Pillar Variant)
  5. Generating the Healing Field
  6. Healing Screen Meditation
  7. Nourishing Chakra Visualization
  8. Laser Light/Buddha Mirror
  9. Ice Cream Swirl
  10. Stone Sanctuary
  11. Shadows on the Stones

** via UMAATantra/Santiago Dobles

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