Jawsman - no one will force you to read this, just stay away if its not interesting.

Necronos: Read through my post earlier on this page. I give a description of the exercises there. its a genereal discription though, but it should be sufficient for those who have the skills, to recognize and understand what I describe.

And as I mentioned, maybe this inner power test, can be done by ANYONE with some chi gung background! I have no idea, but if someone wants to test it and see if it works for them, it would be great. If some of you possess healing abilities I think there might be a goode chance it could work, but the only way to find out, is to try for yourself.

It would be extremely interesting if someone outside of Tridaya can duplicate the resulsts (also with the exploding egg). Especially it would be interesting to find out what kind of training you have done, and it that training somehow is similar to the Tridaya exercises. Then there might be nothing special about the Tridaya exercises after all!

Based on my own experiences, I find the basic breathing of Tridaya very similar to other well known breathing techniques and principles. But the extreme holding of the breath and tensing of certain areas in the body COMBINED with these techniques, are quite different from what I have previously trained in chi gung before. But, maybe that is the "secret" of the Tridaya inner power exercises. I don`t know, but I think it is the combination of everything which makes it very effective. It is very hard and takes enormous self control and discipline to do these exercises (especially if one has not been training holding of the breath before), but at least my experience, is that these breathing techniques really boost the energy level, unlike any chi gung exercise I have tried.

Embracing The Tree is a very good exercise. it gives lots of energy, and makes your body very relaxed. The Tridaya gives you a lot more energy in much shorter time, but I don`t think it makes you so relaxed at Embracing The Tree. Well, at least thats my experience with the exercises.

Some chinese say the chi simply is breath! Manipulating, control and strenghtening the breath will then also strenghten the chi! Maybe it is that simple. Because thats what the Tridaya really is about: Controlling the breath.