MBAT Manual

2016-01-14 Contents

1. Justification
2. What is Energy?
3. Layers of Awareness
4. Awareness Options
5. Body Psychology States with Awareness Axes
6. How to Hold the Jack to Feel the Chi Movement Direction
7. High-Tech MBAT and Low-Tech MBAT
8. Loosening Up Your Energy
9. Following Your energy and Your Friend's energy
10. Healing a Problem or Clarifying an Issue

Justification

The better I get to know how my energy works, the better I know how your energy works.

What is Energy?

When Albert Einstein said E=mc^2, he said everything in the universe is made of the same stuff, whether solid or moving.

We're using the word Energy in the same spirit, but applying it to subjective experiences. Anything that moves back and forth, be it thoughts, emotions, sensations, body parts, or the whole body, is energy. Like current moving back and forth in a wire, doing work on electrical appliances as it goes, the body energy does work as it oscillates.

Keep your awareness region larger than the oscillation, and you can observe this process without getting swept along with it. If you're observing emotion keep the region at the chest; if observing thought keep the region around the head.

Layers of Awareness

1. Internal person with will.
2. Soft tissue including thoughts, emotions, sensations.
3. Muscles.
4. Bones and posture.
5. Things you're holding, wearing, manipulating.
6. External world, including people and signs.

Awareness Options

The MBAT app shows you what the basic energy movement options are, and helps you practice them. Some people like to be versatile, and move in any direction easily. Some people may like to be more clear about which directions they tend to go in so they can do something about it. Some people, such as sitting meditators, sit for hours trying to not go in any of the directions.

3-Space Axes

• Down - Up
• Back - Front
• Left - Right

1 Big-Small Axis

• Expand - Contract

3 non-Spatial Axes

• Energy Input - Energy Output
• Complex Awareness - Simple Awareness
• Fast - Slow

1 Universal Null Option

• Don't take any of your options.

Body Psychology States with Awareness Axes

1. Gray: General interest in what's going on.
2. Blue: Stack up your known materials, skills, and information.
3. Orange: Absorb the new information.
4. Brown: Combine the old information with the new information into a package, and give the package back to the world. (It looks like a basketball, but represents a Tai Chi ball.)
5. Black: Forget, heal, remember.

How to Hold the Jack to Feel the Chi Movement Direction

Hold a toy jack so that one end is between your fingers. Notice that the unit distances up, down, front, back, left, and right meet in the center.

Observe the energy moving in your body and identify which direction is it going relative to the Axes on the jack.

High-Tech MBAT and Low-Tech MBAT Combined

The Mind Body Awareness Tool is a high-tech way to represent how the energy is moving in your body.

The child's jack is a low-tech device to help you sense which way the energy is moving in your body.

Combined, they look like this:

Loosening Up Your Energy With MBAT

Make the awareness center pulse faster. Tap on the screen when you feel your energy in a different place. Continue until the timer ends.

Following Your Energy flow and Your Friend's Energy flow

The people below are using MBAT to show where they feel their energy is and where they think their friend's energy is. For each person, they are represented by Goldman, their partner by Silverman. Their smartphone screens are shown below.

Holding Your Awareness where the Energy is Strongest to Heal a Problem or Clarify an Issue

Place the on-screen awareness focus on the location where the energy is most active. Think an affirmation such as, "I am resolving the problem or clarifying the issue here." Hold for 5 minutes.