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MiBeloved wrote:

There is a specific exercise which helps with this and that is the push down the fingers exercise...

Neo_Yogi's Reply:

I have tried this exercise this morning and I don't seem to be able to execute kapala bhati as 'easily' as in the sitting posture. I'll keep on trying and see if I can make it more comfortable.

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MiBeloved wrote:

Your background from past lives is different to most people and this is why you are having these experiences. You must have had many past lives doing yoga and in one of those past lives you went to a very advanced stage. Your subtle body has the information regarding this and so it is manifesting some of the yogic skills or siddhis in this life on the basis of what it attained before.

Neo_Yogi's Reply:

If that is the case, I just hope to be able to take advantage of this situation and advance a little further in this life following the instructions of the advanced masters...

Namaste!

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Neo_Yogi's query:

If I understand you correctly, I should just focus on the forceful exhalation part without worrying about which muscles are contracting, right? I just exhale forcefully, my lungs inhale automatically and that's all for the moment...?

MiBeloved's Response:

This is correct. That should be your attitude for about two years. After that because that has become a reflex you can then try to focus on the exact way that the Swamis recommend.

Stated differently, after one has spent some time at the kindergarten level reciting the alphabet, then one can move on to the class where words and sentences are taught. If one does the converse which is to go to a reading class before one has done the alphabet over and over, then one will not learn anything.

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Neo_Yogi wrote:

I have tried this exercise this morning and I don't seem to be able to execute kapala bhati as 'easily' as in the sitting posture. I'll keep on trying and see if I can make it more comfortable.

MiBeloved's Response:

You can push the fingers down while sitting but you would require to press the fingers on a surface on either side of your body as you sit.

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Neo_Yogi wrote:

If that is the case, I just hope to be able to take advantage of this situation and advance a little further in this life following the instructions of the advanced masters...

MiBeloved's Response:

Confidence in Krishna, in Patanjali etc. is required. It cannot be a matter of if. Because Krishna said it, the if has no relevance. That much faith is required in Gita or in the Yoga Sutras.