Energy Distribution / Rapid Breathing
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before May 09, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Breathe Infusion Proficiency
After practicing breathe infusion for some time, At least for about two years on a daily basis, at least once per day, preferably twice per day, one develops a sense for how much of the air the physical system can absorb and how much the subtle body can take in.
When one first begins the practice, for at least the first 6 months, one is just playing around and one does not really understand what is going on.
This is because the lung cells have not changed their attitude. They feel that it is up to them to absorb air on the basis of what the cells in the body request. These requests of the cells are monitored and supervised by the nerves which are in turn supervised by the brain.
What is the need for taking in so much air? Like in one session of practice, this yogi is taking in the quantity of air which an ordinary human being would take in during an entire month of normal breathing. Why do this? Nature has already set up a fine system of breath intake and expulsion. What is the need to adjust it?
The body, specifically the brain, knows when the body needs more air. Proof of this comes up when the body has to run. Then it will increase the heart beat rate and the lung intake rate. So the body knows when it needs more air. Thus why does yogi spend so much time and endeavor strenuously to take in more air? What is the reason for that? Why hyperventilate, especial since some medical professionals say that it causes dizziness and other problems?
Initially when one does breathe infusion, the lungs simply refuse to take in the extra air. What is really happening is that the lungs just allow the air to enter and leave the lung, and they refuse to absorb any of it.
But if one continues the practice, then this attitude of the cells changes and they take in the air which you breathe in during the rapid breathing. The lungs absorb this air.
There are two phases of this. The first is the change which occurs when after about 6 months of practice the lungs decide that they will absorb the air. But then absorbing air and packing it into the blood cells, corpuscles, is not everything. How much can be absorbed at any given time? What do you do when you just take in all this extra air and it is absorbed by corpuscles? So then the other factor comes into play, the next phase, which is distribution of the absorbed air.
How is it distributed? If you bring several boxes of goods into a building, where will you stack them, in which rooms will you put them.
Thus when the students yogi does the rapid breathing in a certain posture, if he or she is paying attention within the psyche, the build-up of stored air will be felt and he will know when to stop the rapid breathing, apply locks and then help the system to diffuse and distribute that stored energy.
The trick initially is to force the energy downwards. See my diagram below. That is how it begins. Stuff in air, and when you feel that it is no longer being stuffed in because the lungs feel that they cannot store anymore, then stop the rapid breathing, apply the locks, focus within the subtle body, then push the energy down mentally just as you are squeezing the body with the locks. This will show you how the energy may be distributed.
Instead of gasping for air just because your system is starved of air when you stop and apply the locks, you will forget all about that if the system has taken in air and stored it but has not distribute it. Then your attention will be on the distribution of it and not on the lack of it. As soon as you sense that the air was diffused out into other parts of the body or that it was distributed, you will start the rapid breathing again.
This is done repeatedly until you are satisfied that all parts of the body have received a full supply of air.
Initially the students find that they cannot hold the breath out or in for long after rapid breathing, and this is because the lungs were taking in the air but were not storing it. But if one keeps up the practice, one will find that the priority after stopping the rapid breathing and applying the locks is the absorption of the stored air.
In other words if the system has stored so much excess air then it will not be concerned with getting more air but with distributing the stored air. It will not be anxious to breathe out again immediately but will be focused on air distribution.
As one advances more and more in this practice, one will also discover areas of the physical and subtle bodies which are fresh-air starved. These are blocked areas. But why be concerned with that if you can just sit and meditate and reach the absolute or whatever you want; to call that state?
So this is why I am trying to tell people that they have a subtle body and it should be cared for. Just as you have a physical body which you care for and which becomes problematic if it is wounded or if it has a disease, so there is a subtle body which should be cared for by doing yoga practice.
