Yoga is an ancient vedic science of consciousness aimed at training the human body, mind and spirit for a state of perfect spiritual insight and emotional tranquility. The yogic discipline is composed of various exercises practiced and refined for millennia by Indian maharishis and yogis including breath control, meditation, stretching, seated postures, standing postures, and isometric locks. The benefits of regular yoga practice are wide and varied: it relieves stress, general body aches, pains, anxiety and depression, increases stamina, lung capacity, core strength, mindfulness, mental clarity and focus, improves posture, poise and patience, promotes longevity and cellular regeneration, boosts energy levels, elevates moods, releases happiness endorphins, improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination, aids in deeper sleep and elicits the relaxation response.
My mother has been a student of Yoga for as long as I can remember and following her example 12 years ago I began studying and practicing several disciplines including Ashtanga, Hatha, Kundalini and Pranayama. Since then daily Yogic training has become a way of life for me. Every morning I practice pranic breathing meditation then loosen my body with a series of stretches. Most people build up years of "body karma" from constant physical stress, bad posture, and sedentariness. Introducing regular Yoga practice helps improve posture, builds muscle, reduces fat, stretches your ligaments/tendons and relieves years of built up physical stress and body karma. If you're interested in learning Yoga please visit BangkokWingChun.com and contact me at ericdubay@hotmail.com
As explained in my recent article, The Most Important Thing in Your Life, there is literally nothing whatsoever more crucial to your health, vitality, longevity and well-being than your breath. You may survive several months without food, a couple of weeks without water, but you won't survive more than a few minutes without air. More specifically, it is the oxygen in the air that your body so desperately and consistently needs. Just a few minutes without re-oxygenating the bloodstream through regular respiration results in immediate and certain death.
Did you know 90% of our energy comes from oxygen and only 10% from food and water!? Less than 200 years ago the Earth's atmosphere was comprised of 40% oxygen. Nowadays due to pollution, de-forestation and other environmental issues we're breathing in only about 19-21% oxygen. Not only this, but research has shown that each decade of regular aging humans lose approximately 5% of their lung capacity and elasticity which directly translates to less oxygen. Considering how vitally important breathing and oxygen are to our lives and well-being wouldn't it be a good idea to learn and commit to a daily practice of proper and effective deep breathing?
Proper oxygenation through Pranayama / Qigong breathing heightens concentration alertness and memory, calms the mind and stabilizes the nervous system, improves digestion, absorption and elimination, strengthens the heart, lungs, and abs, aids in recovery, immunity, longevity and weight control, cures headaches, hangovers, and asthma, moves the lymphatic system, relieves general body aches, pains, stress, depression and anxiety, increases stamina, lung capacity, and mindfulness, internally exercises and massages your organs, improves sleep, posture, poise and patience, boosts energy levels, releases happiness endorphins and elicits the relaxation response in every cell of the body.
For the past several years I have been diligently
learning, practicing, and teaching Pranayama / Qigong and I can say from daily
personal experience that this kind of internal exercise is by far the most
important, over-looked and under-appreciated, energizing, invigorating,
strengthening, purifying, balancing, meditative, relaxing, revitalizing activity possible. Below are several videos I've made to help people get started with a regular deep breathing routine. Please try these techniques for yourselves, share them with everyone you can, and subscribe to my YouTube channel for more future tutorials.
The Yogi Complete Breath or 3-Part Circular Breathing is one of the best Pranayamas to include into your daily routine as it trains the lungs to completely expand, completely contract, and utilizes the entire respiratory system properly and effectively. It improves concentration, alertness and sleep, digestion, absorption and elimination, reduces anxiety, stress, and anger, builds stamina, expands lung capacity, and fully oxygenates the bloodstream. Begin by exhaling every bit of air from your body then inhale through your nose completely filling up your lungs in 3 steps. 1) Fill up your lower lungs by inhaling slowly and deeply pushing your tummy outwards like you just finished a big meal. Imagine a string attached to your belly button slowly pulling out as you fill up the lower lungs. 2) Once the lower lungs are filled, the mid-lungs will begin to fill up which will expand your chest outwards while pulling the tummy back in. Imagine a 2nd string pulling on your sternum, expanding the rib cage, while the 1st string on your belly button has been released. 3) Once the mid-lungs are filled, the upper-lungs will quickly fill up like the top tapered part of a water bottle. Just lift your shoulders a little to get the last bit of air that you can, hold for a second (or several seconds if you can) then exhale through the mouth squeezing the abdominals to push out every last bit of carbon. Do this for at least 10 minutes a day every day and you will notice many substantial positive powerful effects!
Reverse Circular Breathing or "The Chi Cultivator" is especially good for strengthening core abdominal muscles and cultivating life force energy (prana/chi/ki/qi) in your lower dantian. First exhale all the air from your lungs and really squeeze your abdominal muscles forcing out every last bit. Begin slowly inhaling through your nose bringing the air as deep into the lower lungs as possible filling them from bottom, middle, to top. Now instead of letting your belly bubble up full of air as in traditional low-breathing, actually pull your belly inwards towards your spine as you inhale. There is a vacuum vortex point behind your belly button called the dantian in Chinese medicine, and that is the point that will be sucking in, the destination point for the air being inhaled, and the main storage point for life force energy in the body. Once the inhalation is complete relax your abdominals letting your belly bubble out full of air then exhale slowly out your mouth. As you relax, practice and lengthen the breath there will come a sound from your throat like a cat purring or Darth Vader's mask. This is the sound of pranic/qigong ocean breathing which I've exaggerated a bit in the video to make it more audible.
Ujjayi Pranayama or Ocean Breathing is a very important deep breathing technique to master because it is so often used in conjunction with other breaths like the Yogi Complete Breath or Reverse Circular Breathing. Ujjayi Ocean Breathing warms and slows down the air being inhaled allowing for safe, full lung expansion and optimum oxygenation. The heat created helps release toxins and builds internal fire, enhances the digestive and nervous systems, elicits the relaxation response, and eliminates phlegm in the throat. The "ocean" sound comes from the glottis rapidly flapping against the vocal cords and acts as a regulator so you can drastically slow down and deepen your inhalations.
The Nadi Purification Breath or Alternate Nostril Breathing is one of the best ways to clear your sinuses if you have allergies, cold, stuffy/runny nose, snoring, asthma or other breathing problems. Inhale slowly and deeply into the
abdomen through the left nostril while plugging the right. Then plug
the left nostril and fairly forcefully exhale the entire breath out your
right nostril. Squeeze your core muscles to expel every last bit of
air, keep the left nostril plugged, inhale through the right then exhale
through the left, and continue alternating back and forth like this. Alternate Nostril Breathing reduces
stress, boosts energy, clears the sinuses, cleanses the lungs, increases
oxygenation of blood, improves sleep, calms the mind/emotions, and has
been scientifically proven to improve brain function. When used in conjunction with a Neti Pot cleansing it's like a complete enema for your head/sinuses!
The Yogi Cleansing Breath is the perfect detoxification breath for cigarette smokers and anyone with chronic respiratory issues or halitosis. I personally smoked cigarettes from approximately age 18-26 and beginning daily pranayama practice is what helped easily and effortlessly ween me off cigarettes forever. All addiction experts will agree that you need a new positive hobby/activity to replace your old destructive habit, and with smoking addiction (an unhealthy respiratory activity) what could be more relevant and advantageous than a new healthy respiratory activity like deep breathing!? Within weeks of starting my daily practice I became sensitive enough to feel the negative effects of smoking even just 1 cigarette per day. I slowly ramped up my pranayama and cut down my smoking, consciously improving my health, expanding and detoxifying my lungs, until the act of smoking became so counter-productive that I truly haven't wanted to smoke another one. To perform the Yogi Cleansing Breath first sit, stand or lay with your spine straight and inhale slowly and deeply through the nose until your lungs are filled. Make an "O" shape with your mouth and force the exhale out in 3 or 4 quick bursts pushing every last bit by clenching your abdominals.
The Pranayama Breath of Fire detoxifies and purifies the entire bloodstream which in turn feeds every cell in our body. It improves digestion, helps regulate the pituitary, glandular, and nervous systems, increases vital energy and lung capacity, expels carbon dioxide and other stagnant toxins, and is an excellent abdominal workout for increasing core strength. To perform Breath of Fire, first sit, stand or lay with spine straight, and exhale all the air from your lungs. Then in forceful 1 second bursts tightly squeeze your abdominal muscles and exhale out your nose. A slight vacuum effect will automatically and involuntarily inhale a tiny bit after each exhale allowing you to continue breathing like this for several minutes with practice. Start by doing 1 second exhales for about a minute and work your way up to faster breaths and longer sessions. If you feel nauseous, dizzy or light-headed stop momentarily and take several deep breaths.
Shitali Pranayama or The Cooling Breath, like all mouth-inhalation techniques, is only to be used sparingly in situations where the body feels over-heated. By rolling your tongue and inhaling through the mouth as shown in the video you will feel the air being cooled as it passes. Breathing like this for several minutes will cure heat exhaustion and cool the body down from the inside out. It is very important to note that mouth-breathing is something to be completely avoided except in extreme circumstances where the nasal passages are blocked or you're gasping from lack of oxygen. Mouth breathing is directly responsible for the contraction of many contagious diseases like colds and catarrhal infections. Experiments have been performed on hundreds of soldiers and sailors showing that those who slept with their mouths open were much more likely to fall ill and contract contagious diseases than those who breathed properly through their nostrils. During one of the Navy experiments a smallpox epidemic broke out resulting in many deaths among the mouth-breathers, yet not a single nose-breather suffered.
"The organs of respiration have their only protective apparatus, filter, or dust-catcher, in the nostrils. When the breath is taken through the mouth, there is nothing from mouth to lungs to strain the air, or to catch the dust and other foreign matter in the air. Moreover, such incorrect breathing admits cold air to the organs, thereby injuring them. Inflammation of the respiratory organs often results from the inhalation of cold air through the mouth. The man who breathes through the mouth at night, always awakens with a parched feeling in the mouth and a dryness in the throat. He is violating one of nature's laws, and is sowing the seeds of disease. On the other hand, the nostrils and nasal passages show evidence of the careful design of nature in this respect. The nostrils are two narrow, tortuous channels, containing numerous bristly hairs which serve the purpose of a filter or sieve to strain the air of its impurities, etc., which are expelled when the breath is exhaled. Not only do the nostrils serve this important purpose, but they also perform an important function in warming the air inhaled. The long narrow winding nostrils are filled with warm mucous membrane, which coming in contact with the inhaled air warms it so that it can do no damage to the delicate organs of the throat, or to the lungs." -Yogi Ramacharaka, "The Science of Breath"
What is the #1 most important key factor to achieving and
maintaining optimum health, energy, longevity, vitality, and wellness?Is it genetics, diet, exercise, hydration,
sleep, mindset, environment?Certainly
all of these factors are very important, but in fact they are all secondary to
something most doctors and lay-people alike completely overlook.Think about this:what is the most important thing in your
life?It’s so important that you do it all
day every day and all night every night.You are even doing it unconsciously right now while reading this.It’s something so crucial to your health,
longevity and wellness that ceasing for even a few minutes results in certain
death!The one and only undeniable
answer is Breathing. To breathe is to
live and without breath there can be no life.All life, plant and animal, from birth to death, completely depends upon
the air for health, well-being and continued existence.From microscopic mitochondria to macroscopic
lungs, every living cell breathes and depends on the air’s life-giving
properties for sustenance.
“Breathing may be considered the most important of all of
the functions of the body, for, indeed, all the other functions depend upon
it.Man may exist some time without
eating; a shorter time without drinking; but without breathing his existence may
be measured by a few minutes.And not
only is Man dependent upon Breath for life, but he is largely dependent upon
correct habits of breathing for continued vitality and freedom from
disease.An intelligent control of our
breathing power will lengthen our days upon the earth by giving us increased
vitality and powers of resistance, and, on the other hand, unintelligent and
careless breathing will tend to shorten our days, by decreasing our vitality
and laying us open to disease.”-Yogi
Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath” (6)
Pranayama is the ancient vedic science of breathing
practiced and perfected over several thousand years by Indian yogis.Shaolin martial monks and Taoists evolved and
perform a similar discipline known as Qigong (Chi Kung).For the past several years I have been diligently
learning, practicing, and teaching Pranayama / Qigong and I can say from daily
personal experience that this kind of internal exercise is by far the most
important, over-looked and under-appreciated, energizing, invigorating,
strengthening, purifying, balancing, meditative, relaxing, revitalizing,
immunity-boosting and longevity-promoting activity possible.
“Breathing and related exercises are one hundred times
more effective as medical therapy than any drug.This knowledge is indispensable to man, and
every physician should study it thoroughly.”-Taoist Shen Chia-shu
Everyone instinctively knows that breathing is absolutely
unarguably the most important thing in their life, but how many treat it as
such?How much attention do you give to
your breathing?Have you ever learned or
practiced methods of proper and effective breathing?Most people walk around on half-power their
whole lives, chronically starved for oxygen, wide open to disease, shallow staccato
chest-breathing their way to early graves.
“Man has contracted improper methods and attitudes of
walking, standing and sitting, which have robbed him of his birthright of
natural and correct breathing.He has
paid a high price for civilization.The
savage, today, breathes naturally, unless he has been contaminated by the
habits of civilized man.The percentage
of civilized men who breathe correctly is quite small, and the result is shown
in contracted chests, stooping shoulders, and the terrible increase in diseases
of the respiratory organs.Eminent
authorities have stated that one generation of correct breathers would
regenerate the race, and disease would be so rare as to be looked upon as a
curiosity.Whether looked at from the
standpoint of the Oriental or Occidental, the connection between correct
breathing and health is readily seen and explained.The Occidental teachings show that the
physical health depends very materially upon correct breathing.The Oriental teachers not only admit that
their Occidental brothers are right, but say that in addition to the physical
benefit derived from correct habits of breathing, Man’s mental power,
happiness, self-control, clear-sightedness, morals, and even his spiritual
growth may be increased.”-Yogi
Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath” (7)
Regular deep breathing practice is absolutely the best
holistic exercise and the ultimate preventative medicine.It detoxifies, oxygenates, cleans and
purifies the entire bloodstream through the lungs, moves the lymphatic system, relieves
general body aches, pains, stress, anxiety, and depression, increases stamina,
lung capacity, abdominal muscle, core strength, mindfulness, mental clarity and
focus, internally exercises and massages your organs, improves posture, poise
and patience, promotes longevity and cellular regeneration, boosts energy
levels, elevates moods, releases happiness endorphins, assists in weight
control, improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination, strengthens the
heart, lungs, abdominals and immune system, aids in deeper sleep and elicits
the relaxation response in every cell of the body.
“The benefits of working with the breath are
profound.The way you breathe directly
influences the quality of your life.In
fact, the way you breathe might be the most important factor in how you
feel.Think about how people breathe
when they are sad and crying.They
inhale with short, shallow gasps and exhale with either long wails or choppy
sobs.If someone is angry, in-breaths
are usually constricted and out-breaths are long and forceful.During stress, the breath can actually become
so shallow that it is almost nonexistent.On the other hand, when someone is feeling good, the breath is calm,
deep, and even.The amazing thing about
breathing exercises is that the relationship also works in the reverse; by
changing the way you breathe, you can also change the way you feel.If you breathe deeply, down into the abdomen,
this sends a message to the body to transform negative emotions into positive
ones.Deep breathing moves chi and
clears stagnant energy.It is almost
impossible to breathe deeply and feel negative emotions at the same time.”-Mantak Chia, “Simple Chi Kung” (56-57)
Breathing is the mechanism
through which lungs purify and detoxify the bloodstream, and blood is the
substance which nourishes and sustains every cell in your body.Thus proper and effective breathing is of paramount
importance in maintaining the health and integrity of every cell in your
body.
Blood begins its journey in the
heart, bright red, oxygen-rich and full of life-giving properties, then later
returns from its journey dull blue, oxygen-starved, and devoid of life
energy.Blood is pumped from the left
auricle into the left ventricle then out of the heart through the arteries and
into the capillaries where it reaches and feeds every cell in the body.On its return journey the blood is pulled
from the capillaries through the veins and back into the right auricle of the
heart.When filled the auricle contracts
forcing blood through the right ventricle down into the lungs where it branches
out and disperses into millions of hair-like blood vessels and air cells thick
enough to hold the blood but thin enough to allow oxygen to penetrate.Upon inhalation oxygen comes into contact
with the impure blood and a chemical combustion takes place oxidizing the
bloodstream and releasing carbonic acid gas generated from the waste products
and toxins gathered up during its arterial journey through the body.Upon exhalation carbon dioxide and other
toxins are dispelled from the system and the newly re-purified blood, bright
red and oxygen-rich is pumped back out to every cell in the body.
“Unless fresh air in sufficient quantities reaches the
lungs, the foul stream of venous blood cannot be purified, and consequently not
only is the body thus robbed of nourishment, but the waste products which
should have been destroyed are returned to the circulation and poison the
system, and death ensues.Impure air
acts in the same way, only in a lessened degree.It will also be seen that if one does not
breathe in a sufficient quantity of air, the work of the blood cannot go on
properly, and the result is that the body is insufficiently nourished and
disease ensues, or a state of imperfect health is experienced … A little reflection
will show the vital importance of correct breathing.If the blood is not fully purified by the
regenerative process of the lungs, it returns to the arteries in an abnormal
state, insufficiently purified and imperfectly cleansed of the impurities which
it took up on its return journey.These
impurities if returned to the system will certainly manifest in some form of
disease, either in a form of blood disease or some disease resulting from
impaired functioning of some insufficiently nourished organ or tissue.”-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
(11)
Put simply, blood is what feeds our trillions of cells and
sustains our lives; from the tips of our heads to the bottoms of our feet,
blood constantly circulates giving life energy to every cell.After just one cycle from heart to artery to
vein and back to heart again, the blood collects various impurities which are
taken to the lung capillaries for regeneration through respiration.Proper breathing fully re-oxidizes and replenishes
the vitality of our blood so that the cycle of life may continue without slow
deterioration.In fact as pranic breathing
practice develops and lung capacity grows your ability to take in oxygen and
expel carbon more efficiently results in a cumulatively building state of daily
wellness.
“It is therefore necessary that a proper supply of
oxygen be taken through the lungs.This
accounts for the fact that weak lungs and poor digestion are so often found
together.To grasp the full significance
of this statement, one must remember that the entire body receives nourishment
from the food assimilated, and that imperfect assimilation always means an
imperfectly nourished body.Even the
lungs themselves depend upon the same source for nourishment, and if through
imperfect breathing the assimilation becomes imperfect, and the lungs in turn
become weakened, they are rendered still less able to perform their work
properly, and so in turn the body becomes further weakened.Every particle of food and drink must be
oxygenated before it can yield us the proper nourishment, and before the waste
products of the system can be reduced to the proper condition to be
eliminated.And when assimilation is not
normal, the system receives less and less nourishment, the appetite fails,
bodily vigor decreases, and energy diminishes, and the man withers and
declines.All from the lack of proper
breathing.Lack of sufficient oxygen
means imperfect nutrition, imperfect elimination and imperfect health.”-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
(12-33)
Our
lungs are situated in the pleural chamber of the thoracic cavity separated from
each other by the heart, blood vessels and air tubes.Each lung is free and unattached in all
directions except at the root where it is connected via bronchi, arteries and
veins to the trachea and heart.When we
breathe, air comes in through the nasal cavity where it is warmed and filtered
through hairs and mucous membrane.The
air passes through the pharynx, larynx, and trachea then into the bronchial
tubes where it is subdivided and dispersed into the millions of tiny air cells
in the lungs.Air is drawn into the
lungs by the diaphragm, a long, strong, flat muscle stretched across the
chest.When the diaphragm contracts, the
size of the chest and lungs expand and air rushes in like a vacuum.When it relaxes, the chest and lungs shrink
and air is blown out like a bellows. The
diaphragm’s actions and contractions are involuntary like the heart's, but
through practice and the will yogis can transform them into a semi-voluntary
muscle.
“The internal organs also need exercise, and Nature’s
plan for the exercise is proper breathing.The diaphragm is Nature’s principal instrument for this internal
exercise.Its motion vibrates the
important organs of nutrition and elimination, and massages and kneads them at
each inhalation and exhalation, forcing blood into them, and then squeezing it
out, and imparting a general tone to the organs.Any organ or part of the body which is not
exercised gradually atrophies and refuses to function properly, and lack of the
internal exercise afforded by the diaphragmatic action leads to diseased organs.”-Yogi Ramacharaka, “The Science of Breath”
(34)
In this clip I show a deep breathing technique and how it has moved my physical heartbeat to the center of my torso under my sternum. From 0:40-1:07 the noise that sounds like a distant engine or a cat purring is actually me inhaling using a pranayama / qigong deep breathing technique. From 1:07-1:37 you can see my heartbeat at my solar plexus but nowhere else in the upper left quadrant of the chest showing how daily deep breathing practice will bring about both literal and figurative heart centeredness! :) If you are interested in learning Pranayama, Yoga, and/or Wing Chun be sure to visit my site BangkokWingChun.com and email me to schedule a session.
Thanks so much to everyone who has helped me share Spiritual Science on their emails, twitters and facebooks! Also a special thanks to the 22 of you who have already purchased a copy. I really want to share this empowering and enlightening book on a mass scale. If it were to become a best-seller I truly believe Spiritual Science would spark a flame of metaphysical consciousness that would absolutely change the world for the better. (Note: It's possible that I have a slight bias on this matter, but that does not dissuade my conclusions :) The positive comments, feedback and reviews you've all given are really encouraging and appreciated.
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My new book, Spiritual Science, almost three years in the making, is finally finished and for sale on Lulu and Amazon. Spiritual Science is 284 pages of paradigm-shattering science and
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Ever since I could hold a pencil I've had a passion for writing. At 5 years old I was already writing a journal and short stories, telling everyone that I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. Throughout my teens I was constantly writing short stories and poetry, then in college completed a double Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and English with a creative writing focus. After college I moved to Thailand, began teaching English and wrote my first two full-length books. In 2007 upon completing The Atlantean Conspiracy and Asbestos Head I
spent many months and hundreds of dollars sending samples to over 200
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Due to my passion for writing and my zeal for exposing and disseminating this important empowering information, in 2008 I created Atlantean Conspiracy.com and decided to give away The Atlantean Conspiracy and Asbestos Head for free. The Atlantean Conspiracy became an instant hit online and has to date been downloaded over 500,000 times! Asbestos Head hasn't been as successful with about 30,000 downloads, but still not shabby for a relatively unknown, self-published author. For quite a while I naively thought that with so many downloads hopefully a significant number of people would support me by buying a paperback copy. After 530,000+ free downloads can you guess how many copies have been purchased? To date I have sold exactly 260. Now I'm not saying this to complain, but rather to explain why I will not be offering my new book for free like the others... yet. Instead I've decided to set a target goal first. My modest intention is to sell 10,000 copies of Spiritual Science and if you all help me to meet this goal then I promise to make it available to all for free thenceforth. Compared to the number of downloads my other books have received, this 10,000 target seems very low, but compared to my actual sales history, it could prove to be a lofty goal.
My girlfriend First on Fire and I recently got engaged and will be getting married next year when my parents come to visit Thailand. At the moment we are saving up for the wedding and to buy a small piece of land up-country where we can build our dream yurt and garden our own fruits and vegetables. At the moment (for years), however, we have been stuck in busy bleak Bangkok living in a tiny 8m x 4m studio apartment working paycheck-to-paycheck wage-slave jobs scrimping and saving for our envisioned great escape back to nature. With your help, my target of 10,000 books sold would completely pay for our wedding, facilitate our move out of the city, and allow us to finally quit our jobs! I'd like to quit teaching English and focus totally on my writing and Wing Chun training. First would like to quit her job and also focus on her writing and starting up an organic cosmetics business.
Thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far. We have set high intentions and we're working hard to manifest better lifestyles and a better world to live in. I have overcome many obstacles and threats, put countless thousands of hours into my activism and vowed never to stop. Atlantean Conspiracy receives several thousand hits every day and is one of very few websites on the forefront of the conscious awakening dedicated to exposing the global conspiracy. In fact AC was recently ranked 7 on a Ranker.com Top 50 Conspiracy Blogs survey. With your continued support I promise to keep expanding my enterprise bringing little-known information to light and helping empower people with wisdom. Thanks again and in advance for your support, and as always if I can be of service in any way email me at: ericdubay@hotmail.com
Leonard Orr is an author and longevity researcher who claims to have met "immortal" yogis in India who were currently 300, 800, and up to 2,000 years old. He says the thing they all had in common was an intimate relationship with Earth, Air, Fire, and Water in their daily lives. For instance they all bathed twice a day and drank plenty of pure water to maintain the balance of water in the body. They were all vegetarians eating simple mostly raw food diets and spent time "grounding" to balance their earth energy. They all practiced pranayama deep breathing and regular fasting for air purification. And they all performed sun or fire gazing and yogic exercise to vitalize their fire energy.
All knowledge ultimately means self knowledge, said Lee in an interview. For Lee, to be a martial artist means also to be an artist of life. In Lee's pursuit of personal perfection, he walked a life of deep philosophy that urged him to seek answers and improvement. Bruce Lee was perhaps the best martial artist because he made himself that way, because he sought answers and resolutions. What set him apart from other martial artists was his understanding of the human dynamics of change. Most traditional martial artists taught a style of fighting that was set in stone—they gave a fixed set of moves and attitudes that defined their specific form of fighting. It reflects a very old form of thought given in Western philosophy in the words of Plato who believed in another realm of eternally static perfection to which we must mold ourselves. In the traditional view, change is imperfect; perfection is sought by denying change any relationship to the deeper, metaphysical reality.
Kundalini (kuṇḍalinī कुण्डलिनी) Sanskrit, literally "coiled". In Indian yoga, a "corporeal energy" - an unconscious, instinctive or libidinal force or Shakti, envisioned either as a goddess or else as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine, hence a number of English renderings of the term such as 'serpent power'. Kundalini is considered a part of the subtle body along with chakras (energy centres) and nadis (channels). The overall concept has many points in common with Chinese acupuncture. Yoga and Tantra propose that this energy may be "awakened" by such means as austerities, breath and other physical exercises, visualization and chanting. It may then rise up a subtle channel at the spine (called Sushumna) to the head, bringing psychological illumination.
Here's what I'm currently reading. Thanks to Kris for the recommendation. This is one man's account of accidentally awakening Kundalini within himself and his journey thereafter.
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