Practice Report: Sparkling Lotus
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 4 years before Jun 24, 2018
devaPriya Yogini 4 years ago
Om Yogi Madhvacharya Namaha
Kundalini Mata Shakti Namo Namo
Exercise has been pretty good recently, I've made progress with a couple postures I've been wanting development in.
Meditations have been consistent but a little unpredictable.
There's been some disruption in the force since school began again for my son who just started his senior year of high school.
Tonight I had a good one though.
In examining the source of some thoughts and tracing them to locations in the psyche I turned off a source release mechanism that allowed my buddhi organ such free access to the memories like tightening a spigot and shutting off the flow of the memory/thought faucet.
Once I did this, I meditated on an beautiful upturned lotus just beneath the heart chakra in the subtle chest cavity. Eventually little tiny droplets of subtle fragrance floated upward out of it and the energy body had a really really good feeling during this.
I also wanted to feel droplets move downward into the lower body as well and when I thought this, sparkling lotuses appeared at each of the lower chakras in their appropriate colors and released the fragrance droplets upward and outward as well.
So did the lotuses above the heart come about too.
After awhile, I noticed my breathing was very very light, almost imperceptible but totally satisfying and efficient, like sleep breath and I could smell a sweet light fragrance.
Jai Shri Radhe
Terri Ana 4 years ago
Beautiful and inspiring....thankyou, devaPriya!
chavez 4 years ago
Meditation to me is an attitude of mind you carry with you all the time. Instead of thinking about the future, or the past or all the other things we worry about, I surrender to the moment and stay relaxed.
When I get up very early in the morning (4am), I do my own version of yoga core exercises to get my body ready. At this time I let go of my conscious and work with my inner self not even feeling the hard isometric exercises I am doing.
I start taking deep breaths through my nose only, holding them for 15-20 seconds and then releasing which pushes me further into a transit state where pain is of no consequence. I then start on my 3-4 mile run.
Constantly changing my breathing pattern in sequences of 5 minute phases. For one minute I cover one nostril and breath in, hold for 10 seconds, repeat over again 2 more times. This causes faster buildup of nitric acid which in turn dilates my blood vessels giving me more oxygen to my red blood cells. During this nitric-breathing phase, my consciousness is completely withdrawn and my autonomic nervous system is in full gear, in which the endorphins, which are the brain's opiate receptors start to reduce the sensation of pain. I do this breathing 1minute to 5 minute ratio for 45 minutes or 4 or so miles, whichever comes first. At the end, I have achieved a total binary alpha state where even at a 9-10 minute mile pace, my heart rate is only at 85-90 beats per minute, quite interesting especially when the normal pulse rate of a person sitting down is 75-85 beats – I’m doing that running 4-5 miles!
I highly recommend this type of meditation, if you’ve never tired it, it’s time to listen to Nike – JUST DO IT.
devaPriya Yogini 4 years ago
Sounds like you have a good routine established for yourself Caesar! Good for you!!
I can't say I understand what your comment had to do with my meditation experience, but it's still nice that you shared.
Fortunately for myself (and my knees) I stopped listening to what Nike and mainstream-gym-fitness culture tried telling me I should do many years ago. What a relief!!
Meditation is not an attitude. An attitude is an attitude. Meditation is meditation.
Attitude, which is a mental feeling or identification with one's personality, we try to abandon while practicing meditation.
As Yogi/Yoginis, we meditate to isolate the core self and have all attention energy that would normally be contributed to attitude and activity, flowing into that core self.
Paying undistracted attention completely to the core self.
Not into the muscles needed to run, not the lungs needed to support the act of the run, not into the intellect needed to tell me which way to go when I come to a crossroad.
You get the point.
You may go into a state of concentration when running or exercising, but it's not the same as meditation.
As trainers it's easy to mislead people into thinking they are meditating when they are not. I've seen it done too often in the past and it is one reason I refuse to teach yoga anymore in the environment of a gym.
I know of the state of concentration athletes go into.
I was an athlete all my life. Gymnastics, track, basketball, cheerleading, aerobics, jogging, swimming, lifeguarding.
Yoga finally relieved me of the competitive nature of it all and gave me something real to work toward.
Spirituality.
I've taught yoga in gyms, been around enough certified trainers and nutritionists to know the common rhetoric and personality type. There is usually no convincing them of the reality of yoga or meditation due to the fact that somehow, someway they already know everything.
It is often our personality type that determines what kind of exercise we choose and why personally I was so unhappy being part of the Nike culture.
When it comes down to it, I've never met a trainer or mainstream nutritionist who's a Yogi. Ive noticed some of them go around saying they are doing yoga exercises. Maybe they figure that mimicking yoga stretches covers that aspect of what they see as an exercise form they had better know something about in this yoga posture saturated culture.
A culture where 99% of the people wouldn't know Yoga if it lived in their house and stared them straight in the face.
If you are not performing those exercises for the purpose of spiritual liberation, they shouldn't be called Yoga exercises, rather, simply, exercises, or stretches.
PEACE~~~~
chavez 4 years ago
I completely agree with you, trainers (i am one) have never been able to understand the yoga way. I tried to understand it but i am too much into the physical training aspect to want to change. I would have to call it an addiction, if that's the proper term. Of course you already know that my contemporaries would completely disagree with me and would say that they do yoga. I usually will throw out provocative theories or plain old "touch the nerve" bag-isms just to see the reaction. But, you seemed to explain it very well and as i said, i do agree with your rebuttal.
Terri Ana 4 years ago
devaPriya, Having the experience of having been involved in athletics as well as being a yogini, you definitely know what you are talking about!
chris_hall1951 4 years ago
Namaste to you devaPriya !
Thank's for the very inspiring practice report, keep up the good work.
