And then we return to the simple practices. Profoundly.
One such simple practice is breathing up and down the spine.
Simple Instructions for Spinal Breathing
Lie comfortably on your back with your spine aligned, or sit nice and tall.
Close your eyes.
Notice your breath.
Imagine that you can inhale from the tip of your tailbone to the top of your head, and exhale from the top of your head to your tailbone.
Let your awareness trace the length of your spine, inhaling up, and exhaling down, sweeping the attention and the breath.
As you continue to practice, your breath will become smooth and deep. The pauses between your breaths will become imperceptible, and your breath will become quieter and quieter, until it becomes silent.
Continue breathing up and down your spine until you find yourself becoming distracted.
Over time, "imagining" the breath in the spine becomes "perceiving" energy flowing in the spine.
And What Might Be Gained from Such a Simple Practice? Why Might a Person Commit to Doing Such a Thing on a Daily Basis?
No one says it better than Swami Rama. This quote comes from the book Inspired Thoughts of Swami Rama. Better Existence lifted it from the wonderful website www.swamij.com.
The universe is a dance of energies that vibrate at many frequencies. They ebb and flow, merge and part, form ripples, tides, currents, eddies, and whirlpools. They become units of all sizes, from atoms to stars, from individual souls to cosmic beings, and again they dissolve into each other. As rays, streaks, streams, rivers, oceans of light, they flow into each other and separate again, changing frequencies--and in changing frequencies, they become suns, galaxies, spaces, airs, winds, fires, liquids, solids. They become the bodies of human beings into which the energy called consciousness comes and is embodied.
Of all the flowing energies in the universe, consciousness is the most dominant, the one from which all the others proceed and into which they all merge. The ancient texts are fond of the phrase, "from consciousness down to the solid earth," for all this is a single matrix, a tantra of energy, and within it are myriads of matrices, woven and interwoven. The human being is one such matrix of energies--ebbing, flowing, dancing at frequencies ranging from those of solid bones all the way to the subtlest waves of consciousness. Those who can understand this personality matrix will understand the whole universe.
Yup. Pretty much it is that simple.
Pretty much it is that profound.
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