Energy up 2

Once 'one' has decided who or what 'one' is then 'one' has everything at one's command for an interesting journey!

The fuel for this journey is Prana.

If you don't know what Prana is then find out quick!

According to where you look for it you may find rambling, long winded explanations - yogi's do like to waffle - but essentially, like everything else, you will only know it fully once you have experienced the effects of it.

So it  would behove you to learn to do some PRAnaYama techniques.

Now these techniques, depending on who you listen to, come with warnings.

If you go gently you should be fine.

I personally think that the only dangerous thing about Pranayama is that it may catapult you into a level of consciousness that may make you feel a little bemused, to say the least.
It may also make you more aware of yourself and the discombobulations of the mind.

Freedom as you may well know is a double edged sword!

So go steady.

There are certain people out there that may be able to show you some of the techniques.
In my opinion the greatest danger of learning anything at all is choosing the right person for you..........
Experiment.

Life is (or should be) an adventure.
Take some risks!

And

Have fun!!

Ommmmzz

energy up!

The way it works for me is that my priority is to take care of my energy.

I take care of my energy by doing Pranayama!

When I have good strong energy flowing through my system I tend to be more enthusiastic and positive.

As I prefer to feel this way I do my practice.

It's simple really
But some times not easy.
It appears not to be easy sometimes because (usually) of what I've allowed to percolate in my mind - i.e stuff!

Ommzzz

meaninglessness

Sometimes in life the relevance of meaning appears on the horizon of thought.
'What does it all mean?' has some relevance to some of us....

Once we make real the idea that what we think is a choice we 'realise' that meaninglessness has no relevance.

In other words when the mind is subdued through meditation, i.e, when there are no thoughts, meaninglessness is not and issue.
There is now just the gift of life, present moment awareness.

As far as I know the 'existentialists' were not given to practicing Yoga. Most of them painted themselves into a corner of misery and self defeat.
Some of them stated that it is all meaningless but 'we' as humans have to give it meaning.

What then?

Conditioned reality needs to be seen through. From that point there may be despair and grief at the existentialist dilemma. But then through the act of conscious effort we can move, using the Yogic techniques, into another realm of consciousness.

Then what?

You won't know the answer to that until you get there.

Om

Prana Prana Prana

When all else fails you can rely on PRanaYama to work for you.

If you oxygenate your brain it will make you feel better!

When you practice PRanaYama you are oxygenating your bloodstream.
You are changing the energy of the body and making yourself feel better.

Once you have done that you have changed your chemistry.


More oxygen makes you feel better.

It isn't complicated.
All you have to do is work through the inertia and fear that you have.

Inertia and fear do not exist at the creative level.
They are both illusions set up to keep you safe from feelings of ecstacy.

If you feel ecstacy you won't have worrying to rely on anymore.
You cannot be in ecstacy and worry at the same time - can you?

Try it!

Otherwise go and do something else that makes you feel good!

'Nothing is true!' Anon.

Om

wake up!

You do not need to be a genius to realise that the world is changing fast.

If you don't want to do a Yoga practice as a way of waking up then you'd better find some thing else fast.

Why?

Because this high speed, super fast technological advancement will not wait for you.

you can move out to an island, move back to a medieval lifestyle.
you can take drugs and party and pretend you don't care.


You do not need to advertise all the good works you are doing on facebook
You do not need to do anything at all.

But you do need to realise that you have a choice!

'Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters!' Bob Dylan.

I repeat; You Do Not have to do Yoga, in fact you do not need to do anything at all!

Come on people ! Make a choice as to what you 'really' want to do and get on with it.

Get a life!

Om

Attach-ment-al

Attachment is an obstacle to self realisation.

Take a look at what it is you 'think' you still need.
Not in order to beat yourself up, but so that you can get some perspective on your levels of freedom.

Freedom requires responsibility.

Attachment is not freedom.

If you require the 'need' and 'aid' of anything outside of yourself, this is attachment.

Unless you let go of all attachment you will not be free!

If you are attached to anything you are living in fear.

All of the above are based only upon my experience so far, and it's all 'in my opinion!

Om

real or not real?

'Sorting the real from the unreal' and 'Maya; it's all and illusion'.

These two above statements seem to get passed around the Yoga world quite a bit.
In fact it's fair to say that these two sayings are the corner stones of the Yogic philosophy.

If it is 'all and illusion'? then how can there be anything real to sort from it?

This is an interesting conundrum for 'us' deeper researchers into the nature of consciousness, etc.

It makes sense to me that when we are born we have a brand new brain. This brand new brain has certain hardwired programmes already loaded up.
For example suckling, crying, when in discomfort, and pooing when the need arises are very base chakra survival programmes.
As the brain develops physically it has new hard wired programmes switching on at appropriate times. For example crawling, talking etc.

Okay so that's the hardwired programmes, but what about input from outside?
This will usually come in the form of signals of sound and vision. What we see and what we hear will help to shape our (condition of) reality.

And it is here that we can say with some certainty that this version of reality is unique to us, and is therefore an illusion. But it is only an illusion in contrast to the one real overlying reality.

The 'one real' overlying all encompassing reality that exists, is usually quite hard to define as well. We know that the scientists are currently looking for the 'Higgs particle'. The Higgs particle is said to be the missing particle and once it is found it will complete the puzzle of all of the smallest particles known. In other words it will complete the picture of the very building blocks of the so called 'real' world.

So in defining an overlying reality per se we are still in a bit of a pickle. We are in a bit of a pickle because everything we 'think' we see is not real. A chair is merely multiple billions of tiny particles forming a shape that we call 'chair'.

So what are we to do then?

It becomes clearer to understand why some of the so called super Yogi's went into a cave and disappeared from the world for many years or even forever in some cases!

In a sense there is nothing to define reality.

But of course we all know that we do live in this thing called the world. We know this because sometimes it hurts!


Of course any of the above ideas, etc, will only becomes troublesome if we become aware of them or it.

Only some of us will become aware of it. Others will be oblivious to this and carry on living until they die.

It is not a question of higher or lower consciousness, or more or less intelligence. It is, according to the Yogic philosophy, a thing called Karma!

Where you are born, the type of environment, family, existence you are born into, is either completely random, or it is based on some yet unknown cosmic law.

'Who am I ?' is the only question that needs answering.

How can you live a deeply fulfilling life if you do not know who you are?

Hari Om!

'Ignorance is not bliss!'