A long nerve or connection?
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jun 15, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
All glories Yogiraja!
Is there some kind of long nerve that connects from the achilles tendon or there about, all the way up to the small of the back? If so what does that imply?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Please see this acupuncture chart:
Sensing that nadi channel, or seeing it objectively or subjectively indicates that your practice is paying off.
There are supposed to be 72,000 of such channels according to yogi lore. As one practices one will discover some of these.
The important thing is that during a session when you become aware of one, you route the kundalini energy and the breath infused energy through it just like if you are cleaning a plumbing system and you route an auger through it all the way to its end.
The clarification of these channels is what makes for a yoga siddha body.
See the second diagram on the page below.
The original of this was done by Swami Shivananda who began Divine Life Society.
In China Taoist gurus also made charts.
The diagrams in my books are based on what I saw. Most of it was seen by a vision called pranavision. Some were seen by third eye vision. Some by buddhi organ vision. Some by subjective samadhi vision.
The best vision from where we are located now is subjective samadhi vision but this is the most difficult to develop. To make matters worse, hardly anyone has any confidence in that vision, because nature has got everyone prejudiced to objective physical vision. That means that if you share your experience with skeptical people they will destroy your confidence with challenges for physical proof.
Link: THE HUMAN CHAKRA SYSTEM
Original illustration from The Chakra-Handbook by Shalila Sharamon and Bodo j. Baginski
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Oh yes Yoga Guru,
But really how does one infuse energy into the nerve/nadis upon becoming aware of it?
Is this similar to a cancer patient directing mental focus into cancerous zone in order to destroy negative cells?
How to keep directing that energy as one is moving into asanas accompanied by the breath of fire?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
You do this by mentally directing the infused energy into those nadis.
At first this will be just imagination but if you keep doing it, you will find that over time you can do this factually.
Mainly strive to keep the mind, the attention, within the psyche when you are doing the infusion. If you have to, then use a blindfold to keep the mind from wandering outside, especially through the eye.
This wandering outside habit of the mind can cause your progress to slow down for years.
Once you sense or see a nadi, that vision of it, that perception of it, is itself the means of focusing on it and sending infused energy into it.
Since this is mostly subjective experience you have to have confidence in the process. If you are a person who is into scientific proof then this practice will never take off for you because your attitude will govern your progress which means that there will be no progress.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
The added advantage of keeping visional attention within is noted.
For the rest, when one is still on the gross side of this affair; while practicing focusing on where the awareness goes, is also tantamount to following the trail of pain?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Srila Yogeshwarananda used to speak about First Steps to Higher Yoga. In fact he wrote a book on that topic. So yes the trail of pain while doing the asana is great because it shows the student where there is a blockage in the subtle body. It reveals where he has to focus to remove stagnant energies.
It is your psyche so why not care for it and do so in terms of the long range which is the subtle body. That body will not vanish when the physical one dies. It will remain. So why not care for it because you will be stuck with it anyway.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Thank you for that confirmation. And, it is rather easy to follow; the mind I found naturally goes where the pain is.
