Practice Report - Stopping Breath Infusion and Meditation Time
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Date: Posted 5 years before Apr 02, 2018
Alfredo 5 years ago
तीव्रसंवेगानामआसन्नः ॥२१॥ = tīvrasaṃvegānāmāsannaḥ
For those who practice forcefully, in a very intense way, the skill of yoga will be achieved very soon.
Jai Shri Krishna
Om Yogi Madhvacharya Namah
The AM practice's highlight was the fact that I wanted to go for about 45 minutes, but Kundalini was going into the head so forcefully after the kneeling asanas around the 30-minute mark, that I decided right then and there to stop and start the meditation.
Perhaps because of that I was expecting something big to happen during the meditation but nothing did. This expectancy was a mistake. I stuck to Naad and often just struggled to stay at the back of the head.
The PM practice was quite strong. For some reason, Naad is always stronger during the PM practice and easier to get attached to.
One thing I would like to stress to anyone reading this. Please do not give up on the meditation too early. There is always this voice that tells us to shorten it. It is the same that wants to shorten the breath infusion and even not do it. "Do it tomorrow", it says, "what's the hurry?". It is the voice of Tamas. I say meditation should be at least 30 minutes each time, even if one has to get back to Naad once and again. This is the greatest Tapas.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Alfredo wrote:
The AM practice's highlight was the fact that I wanted to go for about 45 minutes, but Kundalini was going into the head so forcefully after the kneeling asanas around the 30-minute mark, that I decided right then and there to stop and start the meditation.
Perhaps because of that I was expecting something big to happen during the meditation but nothing did. This expectancy was a mistake. I stuck to Naad and often just struggled to stay at the back of the head.
MiBeloved's Response:
When kundalini moves into the head, it will quickly subside and go down through the spine to the muladhara base chakra.
This means that if this happens and then you meditate, there will be only some slight residual effect left and if that is so then the meditation will occur on a lower level of consciousness.
One should forge ahead with breath infusion until the sushumna is bored out by kundalini and is left open without any heavy energy being anywhere in it.
There is also a task of pulling out polluted energy which lodges in numerous places and which should be cleansed of negative energy which is replaced by fresh subtle energy through the rapid breathing (kapala bhati/bhastrika).
Ultimately sushumna will remain open but that will happen after years of practice, not immediately. Now, it will close down just after kundalini rises, because the light of kundalini follows kundalini back down the spine and as it does this heavy astral energy will resume the sushumna passage.
Alfredo 5 years ago
Thank you very much!
