I love overlaying maps of philosophy.
Blending ancient wisdom with present-moment revelation has always been part of my path.
For years, I’ve consciously imprinted Taoist Sexual Alchemy as the energetic and anatomical lens through which I understand and embody Tantra—especially in matters of metaphysical and energetic anatomy. The Tao has given me a precise, embodied understanding of how energy moves through the body, how essence refines into spirit, and how consciousness becomes lived physiology rather than abstraction.
Alongside this, I walk a Tantric path of devotion—the two-bodied yoga of intimacy, the lived commitment to becoming a vessel of love through relationship. Tantra, for me, is not primarily a system or technique; it is the ongoing offering of the body, heart, and nervous system to love itself. It is devotion made relational—love made conscious through another.
Where these paths meet, something profound occurs.
Devotion ceases to be an idea and becomes embodied intelligence.
Love is no longer something we feel—it is something the body organizes itself around.
As my devotional and bliss practices became more regular, more easeful, more embodied, I began to notice a quiet but undeniable shift. My Qigong practice was changing—not because I was doing more, but because I was being differently.
In that opening, I found myself returning to David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness—not as a belief system or lineage claim, but as a modern interpretive lens that suddenly made deep somatic sense. What once felt abstract revealed itself as profoundly energetic.
This wasn’t a mental insight.
It was cellular.
In Sheng Zhen Qigong philosophy, Qi and Love are not separate forces; they are expressions of the same original life intelligence. Qigong emerged from the recognition that when energy flows in harmony, the body remembers how to heal, regulate, and return to wholeness.
Hawkins’ map offers language for something Qigong has always known:
states of consciousness are frequencies, and those frequencies directly shape how Qi moves through the body.
According to this map, Love calibrates at 500, Joy around 540, and Peace and Serenity emerge as we approach 600. Healing begins at 540. Beyond that, higher states of bliss and unity unfold—not as peak experiences, but as stable, coherent fields of being.
Most Qigong is taught through the cultivation of jing (vital essence) and qi (life force). This alone brings tremendous benefits—emotional regulation, nervous system resilience, longevity, and vitality. It is no coincidence that serious, long-term practitioners often live well into their hundreds.
But there is a next level—one that emerges when we consciously invite Shen, the spirit-mind, into the practice.
Shen is rarely emphasized in modern Qigong instruction, yet it is the refinement that transforms movement into ecstasy. When Shen is present, Qi does not merely circulate—it becomes luminous. The body softens. The heart opens. Movement becomes devotional.
This is where the practice shifts.
We begin by opening the heart into Love (500)—not as sentiment, but as coherence. Love softens the tissues, opens the channels, and allows Qi to move without resistance. From here, Joy (540) naturally arises—the joy of embodiment, of being alive, of feeling energy dance through flesh and bone.
And then something exquisitely subtle happens.
When striving dissolves and we allow ourselves to be held by the sweetness of the moment, we enter Peace (600)—a state of deep serenity and tranquility. The nervous system settles. The mind grows quiet. The body knows, without effort: all is well.
This is where healing accelerates.
This is where spontaneous shifts occur.
This is where Qigong becomes a bliss practice.
At this level, movement is no longer something we do.
It is something we are.
This is the dance of bliss—the tandava of Qigong—the effortless, ecstatic movement of consciousness through form. Not performance. Not effort. Just energy, dancing itself awake.
When we practice from these frequencies—540 and above—we are no longer simply circulating Qi.
We are merging with pure consciousness.
We are becoming vessels of love, conduits of joy, and living fields of peace.
This is where true manifestation arises.
This is where the body heals faster.
This is where practice becomes prayer.
Ecstasy is not somewhere else.
Love is not something we generate.
Love is loving us in this breath.
And Qigong—when practiced as a dance of consciousness—becomes the art of remembering that truth.
Bella LaVey
www.bellalavey.com
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