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Date: Posted 3 years before Aug 09, 2016

maryada 3 years ago

I have been studying MiBeloved’s videos that I found online and extracting postures that I can do. Practice has been consistent for the past 3 or 4 days. Breath of fire is week and will take time to develop. I find it difficult to do breath of fire in cobra pose. I have a very hard time doing Stretch pose. Many other postures I am having no problem with.

In some postures I have the experience of energy rushing to my head. It is so strong and painful I cannot hold the breath or the locks for very long, it makes me feel like I will faint so I am afraid to hold onto the breath and Bandhas.

I will continue to develop my practice.

I had a dream that I was sending information to a different dimension. I had this ability to send this information in these streams of light that I could see. After I had a certain amount of information sent I would go to the other dimension and organize it into these cubes. At the end I remember I was trying not to wake up because I knew I would not be able to send any more information. Then I woke up.

Alfredo 3 years ago

Great practice!

I have found the cobra posture an easy one, as it does not involve the legs much. One can continue it by retracting the posture onto itself.

Breathing from the lower abdomen has helped me quite a bit, as it allows for better air pumping.

The kneeling postures, which are exemplified in one of Michael's videos (younger Michael, outside, with a wall background) as well as at the end of the video I posted, will allow for raising Kundalini unfailingly if experimented with. If you use them, never bend the head as you kneel.

You wrote: It is so strong and painful I cannot hold the breath or the locks for very long, it makes me feel like I will faint so I am afraid to hold onto the breath and Bandhas.

Alfredo's Response:

Be careful here, indeed you can faint and fall to the floor. It almost happened to me this morning and many times before, but I have learnt to control it. What I do is release the Jalandhara Bhanda or Throat Lock, so that some of the pressure escapes from the head, otherwise the blackout will be big. When Kundalini hits the head, one can pass out, and it will often produce a black out, and less often a gold out. This black out disconnects the self and one is left with open eyes, seeing everything without being able to name it or understand it.

Remember to meditate right after the breath infusion. That's the main reason for it.

MiBeloved 3 years ago

maryada wrote:

I have been studying MiBeloved’s videos that I found on line and extracting postures that I can do. Practice has been consistent for the past 3 or 4 days. Breath of fire is week and will take time to develop. I find it difficult to do breath of fire in cobra pose. I have a very hard time doing Stretch pose. Many other postures I am having no problem with.

MiBeloved’s Response:

Try to develop a system of your own. This does not have to be stereo-typed except in terms of regularity, like at least once per day, and doing postures that you can do according to the age and flexibility of your body. Do whatever postures come to mind and over time you will develop a progressive practice and will have a sense of getting the energy charged and then spread through the subtle body in preparation for meditation.

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maryada wrote:

MiBeloved’s Response:

You have an advanced student living close to your place, Surya, who is advanced enough to give you advice and check your practice. You should take advantage of his association by requesting him to check your practice.

Your subtle body does not have the locks. Everything is open right now. So in time you can get that changed so that the locks are in place. Particularly in your subtle body the tendency is for the chin to go up and keep the neck lock open. Maybe this is why your voice is so sweet like a song bird, and why your speech is so charming like somebody’s lover. Anyway this can change over time where you can get the throat chakra re-designed so that the energy passes through sushumna nadi and does not spread out any which way when entering the head.

Your sex chakra is completely open and was like that for some years now. This is natural but it won’t do for kundalini yoga.

It has to be shut down for this kundalini yoga process to really work.

There is also the anal chakra.

So these locks need to be practiced and applied in the breath infusion process especially as soon as you stop a session of breaths, they must be applied promptly.

So here are the basic locks:

Anus lock

Sex lock

Under the navel lock

Navel lock

Under the rib cage lock

Neck lock (pulling chin back into throat – not bending head forward

Mind lock (practice chapter 1 of Meditation Pictorial book)

These can be simplified as only 5 locks, as anus lock, sex lock, belly lock, neck-throat lock and mind lock.

Okay so this energy is rushing to the head because the locks are not in place. So see Surya as soon as you can to let him check your session. You should also get a video of your session and send it to me by email or post to the site if you prefer to share it. I will look at it and see what I can do to advice you from a distance.

The rush into the head is happening because you have spent your whole life socializing so your energy is spaced out. This is natural to be this way, so it is not a fault but it won’t do for kundalini yoga practice.

Everything having to do with energy rushing into the head is controlled by the single lock called the neck lock, so you have to be sure you learn that properly. The other thing is that the energy should go into the head after it is properly mixed in the lower part of the body. This means that first you must get the energy to build up just below the lungs then you must push the energy down from there to the groin area and then you must push it around to the base chakra, sacral region of the spine.

Once this is done, if it has enough of a charge it will cause kundalini to go somewhere. The question of where is answered by applying both the anus lock and sex lock. If these locks are applied efficiently then the kundalini will have to go up the spine but when it sets out to do that it will try to do what it wants to do, so that is why the navel lock is applied because that forces kundalini to go up the spine in a certain way through the center of the spine but when it gets to the neck it will try again to do what it wants to do and thus we have the neck lock.

Well then if it has enough of a charge then it pass through the neck into the brain and when that happens we will be waiting to deal with it by applying the mind lock.

However the neck lock is very important to act as a sort of valve to regulate kundalini.

So is kundalini crazy or not?

Well to answer that question check on your sexual involvement history. You can figure that out all by yourself, because kundalini is the same energy which runs that, so now why it is strong and painful when it rushes into your head. It is pleasure down below so now why it is pain up top. Something is amiss. So we have to figure out why it has this bad attitude when it comes on top.

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maryada wrote:

MiBeloved’s Response:

Hog wash!

Whatever subtle activity you have in a dream can be done when you are back on the physical side, because the same subtle body is interspaced into the physical one when you are on the physical side. It is not a different body. Whatever power, mystic power, it has during astral experiences, it also has when it is with the physical system.

Your mind is playing tricks on you.

maryada 3 years ago

Thank you so much for your prompt reply and assistance.

1. Will the sex lock begin to close just from practice?

2. This pushing down of the energy from below the lungs, is this done during the breathing or while holding the breath and locks?

3. Are the locks applied in that order or all at once?

4. Yes I believe my mind is playing tricks on me but I am happy I am having some dream recall, I am keeping a log.

I have been practicing pulling the energy out of my eyes into my chest at rest time. When I do this I get much better rest. But need to do much more work with my life force, it still jerks me around some nights and will have me up in the middle of the night watching some dodo on the tele, I am going to through that thing out the window.

Thank you thank you.

MiBeloved 3 years ago

1. Will the sex lock begin to close just from practice?

MiBeloved’s Response:

The sex lock will begin to close from practice but how much practice depends on the individual and the person’s willingness to be released from the sexual facilities. Mostly as humans we are very attached to the sexual facilities. This prevents a rapid closing of the chakras which are involved.

One way to look at this is to consider that before puberty, the sex organ chakra is completely shut down or it does not exist. Then at puberty it is opened slightly like when a rose bud’s green covers begin to split. Then one sees the color of the petals peeking through. However soon after this the petals burst out and the inner part of the rose may be seen. At that point there is no turning back, the flower is in full bloom.

Now if you try to get those petals to go back in, it is not going to happen. The sex organ chakra is the most difficult one to close but if it is not closed before leaving the body, then when one takes the next body, one will seek out sex pleasure even before puberty because the subtle body will be carrying an open full blown sexual organ mechanism which will assert itself for fulfillment from day one.

To begin the next life without this, one has to close off the chakra in this life.

There is only one way to do it and that is to practice it day after day as much as you can. This must be supported by sexless social involvement as well. It is not just a muscular action of contracting the related muscles in the sexual area of the body.

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2. This pushing down of the energy from below the lungs, is this done during the breathing or while holding the breath and locks?

MiBeloved’s Response:

This will begin when your lungs actually absorbs the air you are taking in during the breath infusion practice. Even though a person may be doing the breathing, the lung s might just be ignoring the air so that the air comes in but the lungs just do not absorb it. Once the lungs begin to absorb it, there will be a burning sensation by the navel, below the lungs and this burning should be pushed down mentally. That is how it first begins.

The burning may be noticed during the breathing or when one stops after a set of breaths. In either case one should mentally push that burning sensation down.

The main time when you would push this down is when you stop after a series of breaths. In other words you have compressed in some air and it is there waiting to be distributed because it is extra air which the system thinks it does not need. So as soon as you stop on an inhale (rarely is it an exhale), you should focus internally on the air which was just compressed and push that air downwards into the groin area.

It will go down and dissolve out. Then you will begin a series of breaths again and then when you stop you will push that down again, repeatedly.

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3. Are the locks applied in that order or all at once?

MiBeloved’s Response:

They are applied all at once when you become expert at doing it, when it becomes a reflex where you do not have to even think about it, where the body does it all by itself

In the beginning it is done in the order listed because then you do not have it as a reflex habit.

maryada 3 years ago

I have had the burning around the navel during the breathing

thank you.

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