Stunted Yoga Practice
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 5 years before Sep 23, 2017
MiBeloved 5 years ago
At times when practicing asanas and/or pranayama, I noticed that there is a resistance energy which limits how much I can practice. This is a psychic force which limits how long one can practice and how frequently. This power is also evident during some meditation sessions, where in meditation, one gets a compulsion to stop a session even though one was in a very productive session.
What is that negative force?
Where does it come from?
Who or what is the source of it?
Why does it have the authority to stop or limit how much time is used for practice?
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
After a decade of stop and go, up and down, infrequency and irregularity, I would be a very suitable case study here, so much so that I am sure where to begin. It is important that I ponder on all these questions.
Dean 5 years ago
Could the negative influence be coming from the lower astral region that we reside in currently? Since we are surrounded by lower dense astral energy, it is bound to constantly be invading our psyche to influencing us to perform actions that are against yoga practice, even if we clean it up a momentarily during our pranayama sessions. Do siddhas suffer from the same negative influences in the astral region where they reside??
MiBeloved 5 years ago
Those influences do come from the lower dense astral energy but the take on it is that it is funneled also through individuals who are in our social association.
Regarding the siddhas, they do suffer from the influence when they come down below a certain astral plane. When they are above that they are not influenced because those energies do not penetrate those higher levels.
Marcia Beloved 5 years ago
I think the resistance energy is an exploitive energy which becomes overwhelming under certain conditions.
It takes advantage when there is:
- general lack of focus
- momentary lapse of focus
- weak concentration
- absence of clear objective
- failure to give a specified time period to practice
When the above conditions are present, then the senses are fueled and they entice one, causing one to be drawn away from, and totally terminate a practice session, or even fail to show up for practice.
One needs to do a lot of steady, long practice to establish an effective barrier against the resistance energy.
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Whatever you invest yourself in externally, comes back to divert you in meditation.
Whatever attachments are left hanging, sneak in during practice.
Whether it is a productive session or not, if one has attached more importance to some other duty or activity, one will likely drop out and attend to that.
unlimitedsun 5 years ago
Marcia Beloved wrote:
"One needs to do a lot of steady, long practice to establish an effective barrier against the resistance energy."
unlimitedsun’s Reply:
Yes, mother Marcia, I want to grasp that with all my might. And certainly for me it will be nothing short of a miracle! But it will yield! And so I keep faith in your statement.
And then you have expanded in terms of cause and effect/ activities or investments and their resultant interactions or disruptions in meditations. I am relentlessly experiencing these as hard facts, you have clearly formulated.
I feel like these negatives are like viruses. You have to have been taking care of yourself (exercise, diet...) and/or your immune booster (flu shot, Echinacea, goldenseal, and/or...) so long before calamity strikes. Because if not, whence that virus makes contact, there is just nothing to do, but fall as casualty.
And responsible preparation will still buffer the fall when the situation is inevitable or imminent.
