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Given the contributions it can make to the path of the yogi, agnisara practice is of a particular importance. However, this practice already requires a certain level of achievement on the path irrespective of which is it a good and impactful addition to one’s routines when doing a thorough hatha yoga practice session. Its successful practice has even other benefits in addition to those already mentioned in the post, as that implies a level of purification leading to other aspects of advanced practice.
It is not likely that any ordinary human can contract, and galvanize their entire digestive system, including stomach intestines and other organs simply based on will or imagination; such can however be achieved through muscular efforts. Eventually such bodily movements will even promote cleansing of the digestive system, by increasing the rate of elimination.
In addition if sustained, that will also prevent further stagnation of lingering wasted elements incubating negative energy in the entrails. Accumulation of undesirable elements in time implies a further loosening of control over the excretory system throughout, as well as development of incapacitation in the form of illness in the organs of the physical system.
We accept that there is a super-integration of the physical and subtle bodies. Physical galvanizing of the belly from forced churning, turning and twisting of the digestive system results in impacting the subtle body at the particular location in question from the post. Therefore there will take place elimination, cleansing and over time purification of the subtle system.
In order for a certain level of success to take place, the yogi would have come to a level of understanding of the conditions that favor the practice of agnisara. It is important that the stomach not be condensed with much solid foods, or overfilled even with fluids for that matter. Because as one is engaged in these actions, it is necessary to be able to connect internally with the movements and that is contravened on a full stomach. Therefore agnisara is typically recommended in the morning hours prior to filling up.
The deeper the connection with the movements, the better the internationalization taking place, with further intuition as to how much and which movements, as well the complementary emptying and filling breath-full gulps of prana energy to apply. And, of course ideally there would be the attainment of application of attention energy to the corresponding section of the subtle body.
Successful application of agnisara practice has great implications. When one is able to churn and cleanse the two digestive systems this also means that the breath energy is going at least past the upper sections of (both) lungs; so the benefits run deeper in that descending order and effects can be quickly felt in the hatha yoga session, and even in the physical elimination process.
The results of these eliminations, cleansing and purification, surely lead to alleviating the digestive system, decreasing some encroached bad tendencies overtime. From this platform and expertise in the different components of this practice begins to take place reformation of the nutritional systems. It is a specific and precise methodology based on practice and observation, that can yield the intended results of ascending to a non-physical element based system of nutrition, sustenance, maintenance or survival.