Breath Infusion Efficiency
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jul 05, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
This past weekend, I had to check on a student’s breath infusion practice.
This person was doing the practice for about 2 or 3 years now. In any case, his practice is good except that he is not able to push down the infused breath. I suggested that he should work on that now.
The lungs are not going to just do what is required in breath infusion. Normally, the lungs are under the control of the life force mechanism which means that they operate for bare survival. In such a system there is no use for infused breath because the system takes care of itself by taking in whatever breath it deems to be necessary.
For yoga this has to change. The student might be doing bhastrika pranayama practice or kapala bhati practice which sounds very regular and efficient and still the lungs might not be processing all the air.
Merely taking air into the lungs in no way guarantees that the system is really absorbing and then compressing that air into the blood stream. Don’t be in illusion thinking that because you have breathe in some air, the lungs have taken that in and compressed all of it into the system. And don’t believe a word of it if you mind assures you that with the exhale the lungs are removing all of the carbon dioxide. Why should it cooperate with your ideals for yoga?
So each student must check inside during practice, to be sure that the system not only takes air into the lung bags but also absorbs that air and compresses it and sends it downward so that it cannot just go out of the lungs on the next inhale. The student should check to see if more and more carbon dioxide is being pulled out of the system and is vented out of the body on the exhales.
The compressed inhaled breath should be pushed down mentally so that it goes below the navel and then is pushed further into the groin area, and then is pushed further into the sacral region at the base chakra and is then forced upward with kundalini through the spine. While this takes place whatever bad air is trapped in front of the compressed air should be pushed out of the body and not allowed to escape into other parts of the body or psyche.
Flush out all the old air in the cells. Remove as much carbon dioxide as you can.
Cause the lungs to change their way of operation. Kundalini has designed this system for survival but this system has no standing in spiritual life. Still it won’t change by mere wishing and being a good guy. You have to make it change under pressure of a consistent practice.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
In need for clarification:
By "The student should check to see if more and more carbon dioxide is being pulled out of the system and is vented out of the body on the exhales."
Do you mean: "The compressed inhaled breath should be pushed down mentally so that it goes below the navel and then is pushed further into the groin area, and then is pushed further into the sacral region at the base chakra and is then forced upward with kundalini through the spine."
So effective Breath of fire is checked by performing it efficiently?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
That has to be done and in addition to that one has to search around in the psyche and find places where the carbon dioxide is being hoarded by certain cells in the body or where it is hidden by such cells.
Some cells do not want to release that carbon dioxide because of their becoming addicted to it and the benefits it affords those parts of the body or those organs in the body.
For instance for a very strong and robust body, one has to have carbon dioxide. For a firm erection also I have to use that energy. So the organs involved in certain activities which require that will hoard that energy and keep that energy from being removed from the body.
By increased psychic perception, one will be able tolerate where this is happening and then one can pull out or draw out that energy from those places in the psyche.
