Painful Posture / User Friendly
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Jul 22, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Breath infusion this morning was efficient. I worked on passing the energy through a channel in the subtle body. This is a down curve channel as in the diagram below. This gives direct access to the lower part of the trunk of the subtle body. I also did some intense practice reaching hard to get places like the toes, the feet, the fingers and forearms. The value of difficult asanas during breath infusion is that one can mentally reach hard to reach area and pull the stale apana energy out of those areas, replacing that with fresh pranic force.
Pain from hard stretches is the friend of the hatha yogi since pain shows where there are blocked nadis and areas which were hidden away by the disobedient kundalini. Once these areas are exposed by the pains during stretches, the yogi gets a free ride in attacking these areas and pulling out subtle toxins which build up there and cause those nadi passages to be blocked.
While usually people run away from pain, the hatha yogi welcomes it and uses it as a discovery tool. One can target the thighs, the knees, the ankles, the toes and other mentally hard to reach areas very easily when doing asana postures, which involve these parts of the body. I am able to get into the knees, the thigh bones, even the bones of the feet and extract stale subtle energy (apana) from these places and put in fresh pranic force in displacement.
This does wonders for the meditation afterwards, as then no part of the psyche is lagging behind at a low level. The whole subtle body is up into a higher dimension in that way, instead of just the head part or the spine and head part.
I worked also on some stub kundalinis in various parts of the spine. These are areas which during the session, one suddenly discovers a buildup of the infused force to a gold hot or white hot consistency. It feels like a little cylinder about 2 or 3 inches long about one quarter of an inch wide, glowing and glowing and glowing as one pumps in the breath.
