Re-ordering the Components of the Mind

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before Mar 23, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

When doing asana postures and when doing such postures in combination with breath infusement, a yogi should practice the relocation of the attention energy, the analytical orb and the core-self.

These three components are usually in the head of the subtle body, but they can be moved from their default positions. A yogi, must by all means learn how to relocate these and practice that extensively, since if these are not relocated, their power or lack of power will continue unabated to the regret of a yogi.

For one thing the lack of power is something which plagues the core-self. The authority over the core-self is something which usually resides in the analytical orb. The sense of attention has a bad habit of doing whatever the analytical orb commands even at the expense of the core self.

All of this can be re-ordered by the yogi if he or she simply practices to relocate these components. Asana postures help considerably in this even though the asanas are only physical postures.

If someone takes a large needle and suddenly plunges it into my arm, my attention will go to that place in the material body immediately. However it will not remain there, the attention will immediately relocate back into the subtle head. This jump to the puncture spot and then relocation into the subtle head, will happen so rapidly and reflexively, that I may not notice that it took place.

In yoga, this inability to trace the movements of the attention must come to an end and one can achieve that by a daily meditation practice in which one uses special techniques.

When doing the asanas with or without breath infusion, always pay attention to the part of the body which is being stretched, tensioned, relaxed, or seems energized. When you do so the attention and the analytic orb will make attempts to relocate to those parts of the body. In some cases, the attention and/or the analytical orb may refuse to relocate. In other words, these subtle organs will put up a resistance and will remain in their default locations. In fact the analytical orb may not simply refuse to relocate, but it might insist that the attention be involved in something which the orb imagines.

In that case, say that I am doing the bow pose, that would mean that my stomach area is arched. My back is under-arched. And still the imagination orb is thinking of something else and has engaged my attention in that thinking, such that my attention has no idea that my back is arched.

I am doing the posture, people are looking on and thinking that I am doing the posture properly and still within the psyche, very little of my attention energy is involved in the pose.

So this is an example of what not to do when doing postures.

The analytic orb and the attention should be engaged in the posture and should be relocated into the stretch and into the relaxation of the stretch as the case may be.