Morning Practice - 6/13/2012
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Mar 08, 2016
Alfredo 3 years ago
Woke up at 3:50 AM (Brahma muhurta). No morning practice yesterday as I was driving and out of town, but went to bed last night at 7 PM and got a good rest.
Breath infusion: Inversed order to place Kapalabhati before the meditation. Did 5 minutes Kapalabhati, 15 minutes Nadi Shodhana (quality improved greatly), followed by 10 minutes Kapalabhati. The objective is to substitute Kapalabhati by Bhastrika in 2-3 weeks, and finally and mainly infuse with Bhastrika before meditation, gradually adding time and asanas.
Meditation: Used principle of going right after Pranayam into meditation and ‘see what happens”. Uneventful. Practiced Jyoti Mudra at the end, a many-pointed blue star surrounded by a thick black halo.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
A good night rest?
That is where the next day's meditation begins.
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Breath Infusion result should be noted for sure. Somewhere in the psyche there has got to be an effect.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Thanks Michael!
I have 2 questions for you, that I think will help me at this stage:
Question 1: With the practice of Kapalabhati that I have described, should there be any specific movement of prana that I should do. For example, when you describe your practice there are several movements you bring into the subtle body, trunk, muladhara, etc. at this point...what should be the prana movement(s) recommended in my practice now?
Question 2: I have watched 2 of your pranayam videos several times, and have copied, imitated, certain movements, especially from the one you are in front of a brick wall with the Tilak marks. Is this OK? These movements I have copied are mostly those standing as I have difficulty with certain asanas due to 2 busted and operated knees.
Thanks in advance.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
The main effort for you now should be to push down prana into the navel and beyond.
I don’t know what Swami Hariharananda advised but at this stage, that should be your objective when doing the infusion with either kapala bhati or bhastrika. I have looked at your subtle body and there is a problem where below the navel there is leakage of energy. This is due to years of lack of a tight practice.
So even though this is a push down instruction, it is also a pull up instruction physically. As you push down the prana which you can sense mentally, pull up under the belly tightly. This pulling up will cause prana to accumulate in a bunch or in bunches and will force it not to escape under the navel where there is leakage.
Due to age of the body, this leakage will continue but during practice you can stop it momentarily by applying a tight upward under belly pull.
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Doing the standing postures in the video is good. Keep this up for some time and then your intuition will guide you to do it in other postures some of which will be standard yoga asanas and others will be new postures which you have never seen anywhere before.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael Wrote:
[I have looked at your subtle body and there is a problem where below the navel there is leakage of energy. This is due to years of lack of a tight practice.]
Alfredo’s Reply:
I know this to be true intuitively, so this corroborates to me your Yogic power. Thank you, alas, you were kind, for I will add years of dissipation!
Michael Wrote:
[Due to age of the body, this leakage will continue but during practice you can stop it momentarily by applying a tight upward under belly pull]
Alfredo’s Reply:
Any hope in this life to plug it with proper practice, not that this will affect me, for I will continue the yoga practice regardless, but just out of curiosity.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Not a good idea to put a yogi on the spot by asking questions which he will have to speak of in the negative if he is to tell the truth.
Anyway, this present body is incapable of achieving a complete pull up of that part of the body. By this I mean the physical system. However on the subtle side you could begin the process of stopping the leakage if you have a daily practice.
If you can study the agnisara on the internet. See the YouTube videos. Ramdeva Swami also illustrated this recently and that is on YouTube.
The thing to watch is the diet and also the time of eating. The other flaw was that you were focused on meditation meaning samyama (Patanjali's vocabulary) and you did not seriously take up asanas and pranayama because of feeling that the essence of the whole thing is samyama anyway.
Ancestral energy has played a part too in influencing you to abandon extreme yoga (Hatha Yoga / Nath Yogis' style), which you performed in your previous life.
Material nature is in charge of this situation and that is how it operates where it erases one's progress from a past life and produces a discouragement energy towards those actions which would cause one to repossess one's progress in the new life. But who can blame Nature. It has to do what it has to do.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael!!!!
You mean Yogi. Looking at people's subtle body without permission, ha, ha. I hope you have insurance.
Thank you very much!
MiBeloved 3 years ago
It is a case of see and don't see, perceive and then deny it in court.
Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami once said that the material world is not the place for a gentleman.
To save his army from being decimated, Yudhishthira who was good behavior personified, once had to tell a lie.
When Pilate asked Jesus about his identity as the king of the Jews, Jesus did not speak up and assert it but he avoided a direct answer by saying, "Sure, whatever you say."
