Returning to Your Wild Nature: The Power of Heng and Ha

"If you want to heal, you have to be wild." - Master Wei Qifeng

We've been conditioned to believe that accessing our greatest potential requires more discipline, more control, more careful management of our responses. But what if the opposite is true? What if the path to extraordinary health, creativity, and authentic power lies in returning to your wild nature?

Your wild nature isn't chaos or recklessness; it's your original blueprint, that pure, unconditioned essence that existed before you learned to squeeze yourself into the boxes of social acceptability.

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Beyond Social Programming

When we talk about returning to our wild nature, this isn't advocating for unconscious, reactive behavior. True wildness isn't about acting out carelessly or impulsively.

Real wildness is returning to our true self, our original blueprint. It's releasing the control we've imposed on ourselves to constantly follow social norms and morality. Now, this doesn't mean social structures are inherently bad—they help organize our systems and provide useful guidelines. But here's something crucial: we often use social morality to control each other, and more importantly, to control ourselves. This control might keep us safe, but it also limits our creativity and freedom.

The problem arises when we become so fixated on social norms that we equate following them perfectly with being a good person. This creates a constant state of judgment (of ourselves and others) which inevitably generates negative emotions and blocks our natural flow.

The Cost of Staying Tame

When we suppress our wild nature out of fear; fear of criticism, fear of ruffling feathers, fear of not being accepted, we don't just lose access to our authenticity. We also block our true potential, including our "super abilities."

Think about the incredible physical feats humans can accomplish; extraordinary athletic performances, moments of seemingly impossible strength or agility, or even that "6th sense" that provides us with precognitive understandings. These emerge when we transcend our conditioned limitations and tap into our natural power. When we consistently prioritize social acceptability over authentic expression, we cut ourselves off from this wellspring of potential.

Surrendering to our wild nature isn't just about personal freedom; it's about breaking old patterns, dismantling blockages, and opening up inspiration. It's about trusting ourselves and the universe enough to know that we'll respond appropriately in each moment, even if our actions might not always be socially conventional.

Enter the Generals: Heng Ha Practice

This brings us to the practice of Heng Ha.

Heng and Ha are known as "the two generals". You'll often see statues of Heng and Ha flanking the entrances to temples in China. If military terminology makes you uncomfortable, as it initially did me, consider this: these generals represent incredibly powerful forces that reside inherently within all of us. They have the energetic capacity to manage and flow the energy of 100,000 soldiers. Imagine the executive presence, the energetic bandwidth, the ability to navigate complexity and conflict that would require. These two generals are known for banishing "devils" or "demons", in other words, the things that block us from accessing our true potential. We access the power of the generals in the Heng Ha practice.

Heng corresponds to the lower dantian (behind the navel, source of our innate energy). When we practice Heng, we go down energetically, opening blockages in our foundational energy center. The Heng general is depicted with his mouth closed, representing this downward clearing of energy.

Ha works with the upper dantian (center of the head) and helps re-connect this energy center with the raw power contained in the lower dantien, through the middle dantien (heart center). When we practice Ha, we move energy upward, clearing blockages in our upper energy centers. The Ha general has his mouth open, expressing this upward, releasing energy.

The Practice of Getting Wild

Here's the challenge: Give yourself permission to be a little wild How loud can you get? How free can you feel?

Start with Heng: Practice using the full acoustic capacity of your abdomen—sound is a powerful way of unlocking stuck energy. Let the vibration resonate deep in your core, gathering and grounding your power.

Move to Ha: Feel the energy rise and flow out through your head. This isn't about straining your voice or forcing sound from your throat—you're leveraging your full energetic capacity to move power through your entire being.

Remember: You're embodying your inner generals, those powerful forces capable of dismantling whatever limits you.

Initially, you might feel some strain in your throat area. This isn't cause for concern—it's actually the opening of that energy center. With practice, you develop the capacity to flow this energy freely without strain.

The Invitation to Wildness

Returning to your wild nature means remembering that you have a full toolbox of authentic responses available. You can be sweet and soft when the moment calls for it, but you're also not afraid to take decisive action, even to say strong words or make strong actions if truly needed, when the situation requires it. This isn't about aggression; it's about having access to your full range of natural responses.

In our pure consciousness state, we can trust ourselves to know what's needed in each moment. We don't have to constantly check our responses against external standards of acceptability. We can act from our true self, our wild nature, our most authentic essence.

Accessing our wild nature is "healing at the root." It's not about seeing something we don't like and cutting it out, it's about transforming the fundamental habits and patterns that created the limitation in the first place.

The Courage to Be Authentic

Returning to your wild nature requires courage. It means you might ruffle some feathers. You might face criticism from those who prefer the predictable, tamed version of you. But consider this: how much of your life force have you spent trying to fit into boxes that were never meant to contain your full essence?

What conforming to other people's standards looks like

Your wild nature isn't something to be feared; it's something to be celebrated and reclaimed. It's the part of you that existed before you learned to apologize for taking up space, before you learned to shrink to make others comfortable, before you forgot that your authentic expression is a gift to the world.

The practice of Heng Ha gives us a concrete way to reconnect with this power. Through sound, through vibration, through the full embodiment of our energetic capacity, we remember what it feels like to be unrestrained, authentic, and powerfully alive.

Your wild nature is waiting. Your true self is calling. The only question is: are you ready to answer?

Ready to explore what lies beyond the boundaries of social acceptability? Your wild nature isn't something to fear—it's your greatest untapped resource for healing, creativity, and authentic living.

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