Practice Summary 12-18-12 Tuesday
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Date: Posted 5 years before Jan 13, 2018
devaPriya Yogini 5 years ago
I am striving to become more regular with documenting my practice. I’ve never had the benefit of reporting in before, or the benefit of Michael and everyone else on Meditation Time, so I hope I get used to the exposure.
Namaste
-Up at 6:15am. Contemplated briefly on dreams.
(I seem to be having positive dreams lately but Im not remembering specifics, but can tell when i get up, if things went well during sleep. Close to morning sometimes I’m brought into a semi-lucid state and I am aware that I am being shown ‘associations’, the visions are always shown in transendental forms, nothing material, Im being shown like as a school lesson, astral visions of things coming together. I sense these things that come together don’t become one thing they just come together, they are from two different places and it’s all like it’s an example and trying to make me see something that is hard for me to ‘get’, so it’s trying to make it easy with the visuals. It’s hard to explain, but some being is showing me things in this dream state that create associations within me, like bringing what’s there and what’s here together showing me how it makes sense. For example, a few years ago when this started, morning after morning I would become semi lucid of being shown associations in the form of what looked similar to the DNA double strand coming together and the entity would project a clear attitude of..”See?? Look at this, this is how stuff works, this is how it fits together, over there and over here.” It seemed just slightly impatient. Maybe not so coincidently around the same time I ended all unhealthy relationships and began celibacy.)
-7a Gentle stretching and breathing
-7:30a Meditation in Nature. Practiced tratak, softly gazing through the woods. The bio-luminescence of every single thing was so full and bright that it is hard for my eyes to handle but I keep staring because things become more and more apparent the longer I last. Making the slightest adjustment within the pressure of the substance that composes the eye balls, I see vertical and horizontal lines like a grid, they were shining and strong looking but somewhat tiring for the eyes. After this I spent time in prayer with eyes closed and relaxed.
-8:30a At home, 3 Sun Salutations, shoulderstand, headstand and several chakrasanas (backbends) then into plow. I have a lodged energy sensation in my upper back and neck and the Asana are keeping it tolerable and helping to move it up and out over and over. Particularly coming down from a shoulder stand letting my lower back drop down onto the floor, not gently lowering it, but letting it drop sometimes pops the breast plate and helps move the tensions out of my back and neck.
Daily handstands up against a wall.
Nauli
Pranayama; Kapalabhati, Kumbhaka, and Anuloma Viloma.
After khapalabhati and during kumbhaka I have pleasant sensations of and visions of what seem like the energy body. With eyes closed appear subtly colorful beautiful geometric visions that almost always form tunnels and change shape and color at their own will.
Listened to Naad Sound during meditation. I hear it always at the same dominant pitch, (i think i'll use my keyboard and see what note it may be in a lower octave). There are two sounds together, one higher (more dominant) one lower and warmer in substance. The sound seems even within my head. Not dominate on either side, but every now and then randomly I get a very specific pitch/tone in one side of the head or the other. Lately when that happens I examine what I’m thinking and doing at that moment, trying to make some correlation as to why I get specific tones at random times. No luck so far. I listen to the tone and it just fades off gradually and naad becomes equalized again.
10am Shivambu Kalpa and Om Namah Sivaya Gurave chanting.
Noon: Mid day lunch of puree vegetables, popcorn. Coconut and lemon waters (distilled).
Discussion on Vedanta with Yogi Kripamaya
Evening: In the evening I spent time chanting Jaya Ganesha, with Swami Vishnu-devananda (video link) while painting Ganesha murti.
More asana, pranayama and uneventful meditation.
10:30pm Sleep
Lord Ganesha with fresh paint.
MiBeloved 5 years ago
devaPriya Yogini wrote:
(I seem to be having positive dreams lately but Im not remembering specifics, but can tell when i get up, if things went well during sleep.
MiBeloved's Response:
Lack of recall of specifics of dreams happens because of too much focus on the physical side. We are endowed at birth with this impulsive very magnetic focus on the physical side. In fact no one would get a body without having that focus from the astral level to the physical.
Now it is a task to reverse this, where we shift the primary focus to the subtle side, the astral existence. It takes some practice. It won’t happen just like that. It is a matter of letting go of the physical side when you are about to take rest, so that your mind releases itself and its interest from what happens on the physical side. Failure to do this and consistent physical focus will make it near impossible to bring back very subtle impressions except as instincts and subconscious motivations.
What you are doing is going to the astral side with intentions of getting information, process or energy there to use on the physical side. Because of this you cannot recall what you experience there objectively. You may develop confidence in the subtle side so that you can shift over there and still retrain that when you return to the sleeping physical body.
Think about it in this way:
There is a gold ore on the astral side. You are going there to mine the ore, bring it back to earth and make a profit. But eventually what will happen when one day, you go to the astral side, you take the ore and then you find that you cannot return to the physical side. It is like you go out to the grocery store. Then when you come back to your home, it is gone, house, lawn, garden hose, everything missing just like that.
So this astral gold ore which you brought back from the astral side, what will happen to it when you can no longer re-enter your present body (astral address)?
Will it be, that because of your attitude while alive, you are on the astral side with little perception? You again hanker to return back with something, and so you take a body haphazardly in who-knows what country, in what time and what place?
