I am quite flabbergasted on seeing how my fellow practitioners refuse to acknowledge energy, instead, relying on the term “mind.” There is a difference, yes. And that difference is enough to alter the understanding and conceptualization of what is going on, what one is attempting to do, and the ability of one to attain it.
The basic understanding of the energy anatomy is severely lacking to the point where it is being completely ignored and replaced with what I would deem “incomplete” concepts such as those of visualizations and “the mind”. For example, take the visualization technique “imagine the joints to be spinning.” Now joints cannot spin. Yet applying this visualization and mental technique does produce results. So what is the diagnosis? Joints cannot spin but the chakras located at where joints are can. They are energy centers and propel the movement of energy inside and outside the body. This fits in perfectly with the concept without altering it in the slightest. It is not a shift from side to side but rather from bottom to top. Or to explain it another way, it is a lateral view as opposed to a horizontal one.
There are other concepts as well: run the mind up the repeatedly. Again, the key terms are missing. One of these terms is “create an energetic circuit.” Another term is propel energy up the spine using the mind. Although the results are roughly the same, there is a difference in understanding and explaining of what exactly is going on.
Another issue I am seeing is that everyone is now “teaching” meditation. This is not so simple a thing as to do! The term has been stretched as to mean concentration on one thing. Meditation is actually a lofty activity – it is to reunite you with your Higher Soul. Such concepts do not come into the play of regular people who advocate for the “teaching of meditation.” I, myself, meditate. And I, myself, advocate for meditation. But I never teach meditation. I always refer to Masters or Gurus who have achieved a high state of spiritual progress. Why would I do something that others have done so well and whose resources are still readily available? It does not make much sense for me.
It is a shame that there is a real shortsightedness and lack of willingness to engage in spiritual and energetic understanding. The physical is nothing more than a gross condensation of the energetic. It cannot be understood by itself alone. It must be taken in context with that which is energetic, that which is spiritual. Or in other terms, spiritual is everything and holds the key to understanding even the physical.