Constipated Yogis
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jun 15, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
All students should be wary about any medications which have constipation listed as a possible side effect. Many persons in the developed countries take pain killers, sleep aids, stimulants and other kundalini-adjusting medications, prescription or non-prescription, as a matter of course. This is normal in the developed world and is part of the culture.
However this is counterproductive to both kundalini yoga and meditation. Many persons who are meditating and who are using these medications do not understand the effects on their perception or lack of psychic perception because these meditations produce ignorance of psychic phenomena which is all well and good if you want to go away from distinction and clarity in the psychic and spiritual levels of existence.
Students should get as far away as possible from these medications; otherwise they will develop more and more psychic insensitivity and will draw the wrong conclusions about reality in their meditation.
Constipation itself tells one that the base chakra is shut down, is not working properly. Taking medications to get rid of constipation does nothing to improve the conditions of the chakra, even though superficially on the material side, those medications might result in evacuation. The agnisara practice is the sure way to get rid of constipation and also helping to get the base chakra to be active in real terms without it being under the influence of the chemicals in medications.
Always stop to ask yourself if you will have a stockpile of these medications after you leave the physical body for good? Will your doctor be able to write a prescription on the astral side? Will there be a pharmacy there which can provide an astral dose of the medicine?
Your problems will not be over just by losing the physical body. Do not be naive to think that your subtle body will change its habits merely because it loses a physical form.
What about how your new embryo will form in the mother’s uterus. Will it form with a constipation tendency from birth, as we are finding more and more infants are today? Will your subtle body carry over the tendency to your next human form?
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Most definitely the yogic stomach movements stand out in addressing constipation as they re-energize the peristalsis movements of a sluggish and overburdened digestive system. But can other natural remedies such as herbals, and certain types of nutrients constitute a middle path?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Whatever you do just figure in what is happening in the subtle body. Some of what the physical body does has no impact on the subtle but that which does, should be taken into account.
Whatever method you use, be sure that it has no negative consequences in the long range.
Long range means in terms of affecting the subtle body in a negative way which you will carry to the afterlife and to the next life.
Recently within the last 10 years, I have seen infants who are constipated as babies. Why is this? Previously the condition in infancy was runny stools. In fact people used to be alarmed and they would mistake that for diarrhea. But now it is the opposite. Is it possible that these are conditions of ill-health which are being carried over from the previous life?
Suppose I pass from a body which was addicted to say morphine, because in elderly years that became a necessary prescription, will my subtle body carry that addiction over into the next life, so that in that life I will become an addict early on?
If I lean on herbal treatments instead of actually dealing with the cause of the constipation, will those herbs be available to me in the afterlife, if my subtle body mimics what my last physical body died with? And will I carry over those unwanted tendencies into the next life?
David 5 years ago
What about worms? Parasitic worms? How should one get rid of them? Medicine or a specific yoga/kriya technique?
How does this affect the subtle body?
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Best to get medical diagnosis to identify the worm and then the specific medical treatment to deal with it.
If you can’t afford that and do not know which worm it is, talk to a pharmacist. That person might help you. If you cannot do that or if the person does not give you information, check through the products which are available without prescriptions. Read the labels and see if you can identify the critter by the symptoms you are having. Check on the internet. The main thing is to identify the species.
With herbs you can also get rid of worms but if you are not living in an undeveloped country, it doesn’t make sense to guess your way through it with worms.
I grew up in an undeveloped country and as children, we used to get worms. There were standard herbal medicines which worked for centuries to get rid of these worms, and elderly people knew how to prepare these for treatment, but even there once modern medicine has isolated the species of worms and formulated a definite cure, our parents use to take us to get those medicines.
It does not make sense to hang on to herbal treatment if the modern system can identify the variety of worm and apply an exact treatment to irradiate the creatures.
But again one should also try to figure how those entities entered the body in the first place, so that if you do get rid of them, you can avoid contact with their means of entry into the body again.
On higher note, even if one does this, one should keep in mind that these creatures are entities, spiritual entities in lower life forms. They are evolving up to the human form over many millions of years. They too are trying to exploit this creation, to live here, to have fun here, to be entitled to rights here. In a sense one has little right to exterminate them because they are also part of the whole creation. Still you have to be practical and get them out of your system.
There are some species of worms and wormlike bacteria which cannot be exterminated from the body. Even well documented bacteria like the one involved in syphilis, eludes our medical profession and hides out effectively in the body, avoiding detection and elimination. These creatures are masters in the struggle for existence.
