Practice Report - Alfredo D - Tuesday 11/13/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Nov 24, 2017
Alfredo 5 years ago
ॐ नमः शिवाय
AM Practice
Woke up during Brahma-Muhurta (4:30 AM). Practice was good overall and lasted 95 minutes.
Svadhyaya: Continued with “Meditation Pictorial”, Chapter 14: “Thought Concentration”.
Dedication: 5-minute mantra session invocation of Lord Shiva. Practice dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Breath Infusion: 45 minutes of Bhastrika prânâyâma while doing several asanas. Concentration of breath infusion was on the thighs. Kundalini was solicited successfully twice before going into meditation.
Meditation: Consisted of 45 minutes with concentration on the Naad sound which was quite audible and was followed and tuned into. I just held onto Naad as instructed.
Spiritual State of Mind: Upon awakening, the mind was Tamasic, but it did not take long to turn it to the Sattvic state in preparation for the prânâyâma/meditation session. Using a maalaa with a Shiva mantra helps to center the mind.
Dream recall: One dream recalled distinctly. Logged in dream-log notebook.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Alfredo wrote:
Upon awakening, the mind was Tamasic,
MiBeloved's Response:
Mind must shift into tamasic state or lethargy when kundalini does body cell repair during sleep and during certain meditative states. That is the constructive use of dulling consciousness.
The requirement in kriya yoga is to study this shift. It may occur with rapidity so that it is not possible to observe it, like something happening in a flash. If you make attempts there will be times when it seems to progress either from no perception to full perception or from full perception to no perception, in slow motion.
That will give you insight into nature’s process.
What is the process?
Which psychic adjuncts are involved?
How is the core-self given access to these adjuncts?
Why is the core-self’s awareness reliant on specific conditions of these adjuncts?
Alfredo 5 years ago
PM Practice
Practice was very good and lasted 45 minutes.
Breath Infusion: Consisted of a 30-minute Bhastrika prânâyâma practice. Kundalini was successfully solicited and raised up sushumna quite forcefully twice during the practice. Practice was strenuous and strong.
Question: I notice that PM practices are usually stronger than the AM ones. The mind and attitude is towards Rajas…Is this perhaps because of the influence of Tamas in the AM? (the same happens with Naad, which is usually stronger in the PM).
Meditation: Consisted of 15-20 minutes with concentration on Naad sound. Naad sound was blaring from both ears. I could identify at least 3 tones of naad, one coming from the right side, 2 from the left side. I was led effortlessly by naad for long stretches. Towards the end of the meditation, the sound started subsiding, but if I tuned to it, became loud again. I can understand now the great potential of this meditation, for it was a joy to hear this naad.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Alfredo wrote:
I notice that PM practices are usually stronger than the AM ones. The mind and attitude is towards Rajas…Is this perhaps because of the influence of Tamas in the AM? (the same happens with Naad, which is usually stronger in the PM).
MiBeloved's Response:
Dulling mode is predominant on rising in the morning due to the fact that kundalini works best under that condition to do body repair during sleep.
During daylight hours usually, for most people the passionate energy, rajas, takes control and runs the scene, until it has burnt out all reserve energy and then it is forced to give way to the dulling tamas mode again.
Kundalini is like a mechanic and it gives the body a tune-up during the night during sleep.
To do its work the psychic mechanic must first knock the owner of the car in the head, so that the owner does not stand there and interfere with the tune-up process. But once the tune up is over, the owner wakes up, takes his keys and drives off to enjoy life in the mode of passion.
