Morning Practice - 6/16/2012
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Mar 12, 2016
Alfredo 3 years ago
Woke up at 4 AM.
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Breath Infusion: First time doing Kapalabhati only. This will continue for days or weeks until reflex is normal, then will start Bhastrika. Did approximately 30 minutes Kapalabhati. Difficulty in maintaining the concentration, as there are several things that should happen at the same time and become a reflex (neck lock, Pratyahara lock in the head, accumulation of prana below navel). Objective to push air into navel and further down into groin area. Used several postures, some standing.
This I just learned and would like to start using:
[Michael Wrote: So I use postures to cause the attention to go to certain areas. I learnt from nature that when there is a pain somewhere, the attention is drawn there under compulsion. So I use that procedure of using the asana postures and doing the infusion on those postures while keeping the attention at the place of tension in the posture or the place of pain in the posture. And this works.]
Meditation: Meditated for about 15 minutes, quality of meditation has improved greatly since morning Pranayam session started.
MiBeloved 3 years ago
Om Namaḥ Śivāya ( ॐ नमः शिवाय ) is the customary greeting between yogis!
In the Puranas, the primal male deities are Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma.
The primal female deity is Durga. She is also known as Parvati, Devi and other names.
So why does Shiva stand out in terms of yoga. It is because during the creation that is his occupation. Vishnu came and did yoga, for instance in the Nara-Narayana incarnation but Vishnu is not concerned with that during the creation. Shiva is.
Because he keeps doing yoga no matter what, he is the master of the yogis and the lighthouse which the yogis are always looking towards for refuge from the ghastly business of material existence.
Shiva is strange. In the Puranas, there is an episode where Shiva remained in meditation for millions of years and got the supernatural authorities upset because they wanted to get it on with sexual activities to get the creation on the move. Because Shiva was taking so long in his meditation session, they abandoned him and began to reproduce.
When sex is before you, then you abandon even your yoga guru. Sex is a pressing issue.
So then when finally Shiva came back to this level of consciousness, he noticed what happened. He broke off his sexual instrument and threw it away. He figured that there was no need for it, because the other divine beings had reproduced whatever was needed to be born in the world at the time.
This gives some idea about Shiva.
