Practice Report - Alfredo - Thursday 1/17/2013
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Date: Posted 5 years before Feb 16, 2018
Alfredo 5 years ago
ॐ नमः शिवाय
AM
Woke up at 4:30 AM (Brahma-Muhurta). Practiced yoga all day.
Austerities:
1. Social interaction kept to a bare minimum, so as to concentrate fully on the practice of yoga. I have been blessed with low return from others lately, as I hide in samsara and try to exercise as little cheshta (effort) and vasana, trying to develop samata (internal peace), titiksha (bearing what is painful), and udasinata (indifference to dwandas or dualities).
2. Restrictive diet on track. Partial fast yesterday for 1/3 day after feeling challenged by head congestion. Tomorrow, as every Friday, is water-only from breakfast to Saturday’s breakfast.
Study: Study of same spiritual books from same author, including summary, drawings and notes, resumed.
Additional Spiritual Practice:
1. Tratak on Sun for 2.5 minutes after resting yesterday.
Breath Infusion: Practice of 30 minutes was standard for the AM, and it was partly challenged by a nostril blocked at the beginning of the practice and some runny nose. Kundalini solicited twice up sushumna applying locks.
Meditation: Meditation on Naad for 15 minutes, challenged by sneezing and congestion.
Dream recall: Two dreams recalled. The 2nd one, shorter, was very vivid and had a sexual overtone involving my wife.
PM
Very strong prânâyâma practice for 35 minutes.
Meditation was good overall, with Naad blaring from the back of the head, node to its left as usual.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Blocked nostril due to sun/moon influence variation is a separate incidence which can be ignored if one does a full bhastrika session.
Running nose, flus etc. are a health problem which is different and which will affect the ability of the lungs to process fresh air and remove stale air.
One should study the flu which usually occur in the area where one lives and if possible take vitamin C organic fruit and/or allergy medication to deal with flus.
Bhastrika means that the student will take in more air than average. That could be 100 times more air or even more or less, which means that if there are flu virus in the air, then one will take in a greater percentage. Thus one should have some protection against this in the form of vit C (organic only) and/or some allergy medication.
Alfredo 5 years ago
Thank you!
The interesting thing is that the PM practice, once I started it, was very strong, and perhaps because I used the Neti pot with sea salt and warm water to pass through both nostrils before, the nose passages were quite clear.
Wife had flu, so it was not far away.
So far, I am staying away from all medications, and doing well. Organic lemons, as per your advice, are being consumed daily (I got them from a Whole Foods store).
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Neti pot is a good practice but it shouldn't be a superstition, where one feels that it will do everything concerning colds.
When colds, flus are caused by viruses in the air then the solution cannot be an external treatment of any sorts. Once you breathe in the viruses which are in the atmosphere, then to deal with them, it is a job for your antibodies and any assistance you can give the antibodies will help. But that has to come into the system in the form of an allergy application or a Vitamin which is hostile to the virus.
