When doing Chinkon, the person has to collect his own spirit at the center of the body and keep it still without releasing it; as a result of the exercise, the collected spirit would react with the gods' spirits to become one.
因みに鎮魂とは己の神魂をその身体の中封に鎮め敢て妄りに動き去らしめず、以って天神の心霊と妙応感合して一体を相成さしむる法を云う。