Moon Effects on Yoga Practice
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Feb 13, 2018
MiBeloved 5 years ago
This morning breath infusion began with a completely blocked left nostril. Noticing that I decided that I would check the calendar to see where we were in the moon phase. We are about 4 four days running from the dark moon, which means the sunlight reflected to the earth from the moon is almost at its lowest amount.
Assuming that a mostly sun-charged atmosphere keeps the right nostril open and a moon-charged one keeps the left open, a blocked left nostril means that there is a greater proportion of sun energy available.
There are many advisories about how to create a perfect balance in the psyche between the left and right nostrils which corresponded to the ida left nadi channel and pingala right nadi channels. This is for the purpose of having a perfectly balanced energy flow in the central sushumna channel.
The breath infusion which I use is bhastrika, and compared to other types of pranayama, this rapid breath infusion process does not have the particulars of the other systems.
After about 20 minutes of practice, the left nostril was about 50% open. Then by the end of the session which lasted for about 65 minutes, the left nostril was fully open.
Before this however, I checked on the more important factor which is not the physical nostril but the subtle energy balance in the system, to see what was happening in the subtle body in regards to the compacted energy which was infused into the subtle body by the bhastrika intensive rapid breathing.
After just the first three minutes, the left side of the subtle body was taking in a full dose of the infused energy and it has no blockage. But when I checked the physical nostril was still blocked. After about 7 minutes, the left side and the right sides were issuing bursts of compacted bliss force, which were like tiny micro-pixels of light with micro-explosions producing a camphor like mint energy.
I also noticed that when the air would come into the subtle lungs, it would be divested to both the left and right sides equally and was not restricted to the right side. When I noticed this it was about 7 minutes into the practice. To be sure about this, I deliberately put a finger before the left nostrils to see if it was open. It was only about 10% open. This meant that the subtle body was operating in a totally different way to the physical body.
This verifies that doing these practices with a focus on the subtle body is different to do this with focus on the material form.
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Here is a page with the moon phase for this month:
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
The Farmer's Almanac is my treasure trove when it comes to this is sort of information as the moon phases:
