In this posting (which, for reasons unknown, came out in blue print), I would like to set down some guidelines for doing energy exercises. These come from having done and taught meditative energy practices since the early 1980s, in which time I have developed a good deal of respect for what they can unlock within us if they are used well. Motivations shift over time. What begins as a strategy for fixing something in ourselves, for example, can give way to an open-ended explor