Practice Report; Surya - 09/19/2012 t0 19/21/2012
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Date: Posted 5 years before Sep 21, 2017
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Wed 09/19/2012
(Previous) PM practice brief session followed with a short meditation.
Practice:
Session permitted for my yoga zone. Session flowed with relative ease and stamina.
And, the back is back in session.
Kundalini was responding while in warm up. Its energy also arose in poses where it was not solicited.
When normally solicited the energy presented a red and yellowish background that seemed like the pattern of tiny geometrical figures such as octagons of a honey comb.
For the second time kundalini responded in a pose that consists of sitting on the knees and arching backward reaching for the heel (or feet) with the hands. The energy was intense and lasted relatively long. The first time was during a session with Yogiraj many months ago.
Meditation consisted of 10 minutes with most of the time focused on naad. This is an improvement for me. And by gosh it's hard for me.
I am grateful for Alfredo to have asked the question he did and for the answer from Michael. It was timely for me and encouraged me to apply myself.
Naad is listened to during nighttime.
Goals/Objectives are observed.
Book Reading was not managed.
Dreams consisted for the most part of my everyday living set up.
The one below is a bit different
Dreams consisted of everyday life situations...
:-) ...we (me and my brothers?) were after some bird's nest. I cautioned to check inside first. Upon checking inside the nest which could be reached by bending the branch, we discovered that there were two big white eggs, but the bird with its kids was also inside. They did not take flight or seem agitated by our intrusion. The others wanted to go for them. I said no leave them, you wouldn't want it to be you.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Book Reading should be done on a daily basis without fail. This means books like Bhagavad Gita or Yoga Sutras, even if it is 5 minutes.
Failure to do this is an insult to the spiritual lineages, an insult to Krishna, an insult to Patanjali.
It is a wonder that student yogis want to make progress while behaving like this.
Don't blame anyone but yourself for sabotaging your spiritual progress and keeping yourself isolated from the words of Krishna and Patanjali.
Obviously you feel that you can do much better taking care of your social associations in this way of neglect of spiritual texts. Okay, we will see!
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
I will try harder Swami. I appreciate the heaviness of your instruction.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Thur. - 09/20/2012
(Previous) PM practice brief kundalini yoga session followed with a short meditation and then a quick read of "Sleep Paralysis".
Practice:
Kundalini Yoga Session permitted for my yoga zone. I must take care not to aggravate a back that is easily on the fence and then put out. Core/belly burning was done.
Kundalini arose at the start warm up. Its energy arose in poses where it was not solicited, in instances of compression without the classic effective locks applied. Its color was brighter in the beginning of the session but towards the end it was darker.
Kundalini again responded in a pose that consists of sitting on the knees and arching backward reaching for the heel (or feet).
Meditation consisted of 15 minutes with at least most of the time focused on naad.
Naad is listened to when lying down at sleep time.
Goals/Objectives are observed.
Book Reading consisted of the "Yoga Sutras". It might just start to rain on my parade...
Dreams as recalled consisted of social situations.
One in particular went as follow:
:-) I was in a Mexican restaurant (I wasn't in any company). The waiter presented the menu which included a magic formula with eggs: he explained about an egg with a pointy side and another egg that was normal. I tried to convert my dollars into pesos which I said would be 3.84 pesos/$.
That conversion rate is way off.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
unlimitedsun wrote:
Kundalini arouse once first, and forcefully, in a floor asana for the first time in my practice, then a second time with the usual kneeling asana with the straight back and fists to the floor.
MiBeloved's Response:
Kundalini can rise in any position but as you practice more and more you will find that it is rising in newer positions or in poses which it did not rise in before. This is because of the nadis in various areas being penetrated by the infused energy in more and more regions of the subtle body.
You may also find that your body assumes new postures which are inspired by particular arousals of kundalini where it travels into nadis it did not travel in before since you got this present material body.
In some instances there might be inspirations to wiggle the body in a certain way or to wiggle just one part of the body, so that kundalini can pass through a nadi which it penetrated but which it fails to penetrate all the way through.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Fri. - 09/21/2012
(Previous) PM practice decent kundalini yoga session followed with a short meditation and then a reading of "Sleep Paralysis".
Practice:
Kundalini Yoga Session was half of yesterday's one hour. Core/belly burning was felt.
Energy as visualized/observed were of irregular patterns
Meditation was half of yesterday's 15 minutes and with more disturbances.
Naad is listened to when lying down at sleep time.
Its perception did change on one occasion before sleep.
Goals/Objectives are observed.
Book Reading consisted of the "Yoga Sutras".
Learning to forget. And, then forget so as to remember eternity.
Dreams as recalled consisted of social situations. One such dream follows:
:-)...I was with my grand aunt Bingui. She passed away perhaps 10 years or so ago. The set up was a place where people live in the open, on a beach with no housing structure (but Mali where these bodies are from is not a coastal country). When she was alive she had been the adoptive parent of an orphaned nephew of hers who passed away a couple of months ago.
Her nephew Papa Dia was there with her. He was a middle school age boy and she was also a young mother's age now and was not relating me with the tender grandmotherly affection she did on this side.
The nephew was in a platonic relationship with another little girl who was of a rich family, and things didn't work out. My grand aunt was upset over the whole situation. I tried to help out by talking to her, because it seemed that he had or was going to meet a girl of his own standing after all. But first I was going to eat with the boy, my uncle previously. The meals were vegetarian; I didn't notice that anyone was preparing food. It was a vegetarian meal of rice, beans and leaves with a very flavorful taste.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
The practice of forgetting is more like the Buddhist concept of no clinging, where psychologically the student does not cling to any impressions which might form in the environment of the mento-emotional energy.
Patanjali instructed for the shutdown of the gyrations in that energy. One of these is memory.
Memory operates a guerrilla warfare in the mind of the yogi and sometimes it takes the role of a suicide bomber, where it comes into purview and then blows up in the inside of the yogi releasing ideas which he is forced to deal with as he is pried loose from his meditation objective and kept occupied with the trauma even during the other times of his waking and dreaming hours.
Memory has positive and negative aspects and the self becomes addicted to these. The negative one gives trauma which used to be called afflictions and which in Patanjali language are kleshas.
Memory also has negative aspects which are interpreted by the weak mind of the student as pleasures. These are spear-headed by sexual climax experience, which causes the yogi to become spiritually stunted and hypnotized.
If the student can train the self to stop clinging to both negative and positive experiences, then memory will no longer have the student under control.
