Morning Practice - 6/15/2012
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Date: Posted 3 years before Mar 11, 2016
Alfredo 3 years ago
Woke up at 4 AM (Brahma muhurta).
Breath Infusion: It was OK; mostly Kapalabhati on both ends with some Nadi Shodhana sandwiched in between. Still experimenting a little, but today I am leaving behind the Nadi Shodhana for good. When you compare the results of it to either Kapalabhati or Bhastrika, it is obviously a waste of time, you have to do too much of it. Thus, from tomorrow on I will concentrate only on Kapalabhati as a preparatory way to Bhastrika. Now I do the Kapalabhati in different postures, some copied from MB's video, others clearly insinuating themselves to me, they insinuate themselves around the will of the practice, intuitively telling me how to direct the prana; namely, to accumulate the Prana in navel and below so it arks to the Muladhara and wakes up Kundalini, to route it up the Sushumna to Sahasrara. Have I done this so far? No, but I will, and that's way I am going Kapalabhati all the way starting tomorrow.
Meditation: Observed keenly the cave of the psyche, calmness as yesterday. Did Jyoti Mudra at the end that yielded a many-points blue star surrounded by thick black halo.
Body preparation: As instructed, I studied and am doing the Agnisara, and also losing weight to improve upon the Pranayama practice.
ओम् अरमत्मने णमह्
|| Aum Paramatmane Namah ||
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Possible oversight, missing p sound
ओम् अरमत्मने णमह् = Om aramatmane ṇamah
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About Kapala bhati (or Bhastrika) in reference to nadi shodhana,
nadi shodhana certainly worked for ancient yogis and also for modern ones whose subtle bodies were completely cleared of dense energy.
For others it may be put on the back burner at least until all preparatory stages are complete.
Keep up with the practice with focus right now to get the system to retain the prana. The system will want to resume its old way of air intake and air expulsion. This means it will refuse to take in all the air which enters the lungs. More and more practice will change this attitude of the lung cells.
Once that happens then the next step is to instruct the system to compress and hold the air, like when you are pumping a tire, if the check valve is not working properly, the tire will never be blown up.
So the system has to retain the fresh air and expell the stale air.
One way to observe if this is happening is to see what happens when after rapid breathing in a posture, you stop the breathing and hold the breath in or out (preferably in). Then wait with the locks and keep the internal focus and see if the system is distributing the air that was just compressed. You will feel if it is or is not and the acid test is that the system should not desire air nor be telling the lungs to take a breath to get air. If in fact it held in the pumped in air, then it has more air than it needs, the breath should be held in with no problem and no demand for air, right away as in normal breathing.
Once this is mastered, then over time, what will happen is that as soon as you begin doing the breath infusion, you will notice that it first heads for the navel, then it lingers there, then if there is more and if you are not allowing the lungs to release back out the fresh air, then it will build up at the navel and go down and around and cause kundalini's arousal.
Keep posting and then I can give advice as you proceed.
One thing is, do not hold the breath in or out when the body is calling for more air. That is not this practice, but it is a practice.
Instead of doing this, have the idea of infusing fresh air and filling up the system with so much of it, that you can hold the breath in or out during the time when you stop one posture, focus and then begin another posture. You should hold the breath and that time period will increase as you progress. If somehow you forget to release the hold on the breath, then as soon as you realize that the system is calling for air because it either used up the pumped in breath or it distributed it and wants more for further distribution, then you should make a complete exhale and then an inhale or an inhale and then an exhale and then proceed.
This is work for me to write these instructions up but if you take the time to report, then I will take the time to provide the backup information.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Michael Wrote: [Possible oversight, missing p sound]
Alfredo’s Reply:
ओम् परमत्मने णमह् = Om paramatmane ṇamah
Definitely, thanks, Translator 2003 did not translate P, as capital, in conjunction with whole mantra, and I had to input individual word, now corrected.
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Michael Wrote:
[This is work for me to write these instructions up but if you take the time to report, then I will take the time to provide the backup information.]
Alfredo’s Reply:
This is very much appreciated, and I pray I never abuse this, but I try to keep it to the essential, so as not to burden you, as I know you have many important things to do.
Alfredo 3 years ago
ॐ परमत्मने नमह्
Final correction.
Om paramatmane namaḥ
MiBeloved 3 years ago
One last thing is the visarga (concluding h sound).
Instead of using the actual h-letter in Sanskrit, how about using the dot on a dot or full colon for that, like:
Otherwise the dot under the h when it is transliterated would be incorrect.
Alfredo 3 years ago
Thanks, correct, but for I tried, the Translator 2003, would not take the ḥ and give me neither the visarga nor the anusvara, then I used the Alt key and the same, so I finally added it with the regular keyboard.
ॐ परमत्मने नम:
MiBeloved 3 years ago
The page below has the two fonts Sanskrit 2003 and URW Palladio. The Palladio has the diacritical marks. If you are using a program like Word and if you get these fonts into your font folder, you can use the insert symbols box and insert any of the Sanskrit letters or transliterated English marks.
http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/Sanskrit/itranslator2003.htm
Alfredo 3 years ago
ॐ परमत्मने नमः
Thanks, I did, I found also that using H in 2003 also brings the visarga and even the transliteration namaḥ
MiBeloved 3 years ago
glad to be of assistance.
