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Parsifal
Poland
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 Posted - Jan 24 2024 : 12:28:21 PM
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Hi Dogboy,
I am so impressed with how far you have come in your spiritual development through AYP practices for 11 years. I have been on the spiritual path for about as long as you, and I still feel like I'm at the beginning of the journey. The difference between us is that you stick to one set of practices, while I jumped from one system to another for the last few years and also drank alcohol for the first 10 years. So you and other long-time AYP practitioners remain my inspiration to finally, after several years of instability, settle permanently into AYP practices while maintaining abstinence from alcohol. |
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Dogboy
USA
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Posted - Jan 24 2024 : 11:59:06 PM
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Hello again, Parsifal 
Thank you for your kind words. Discipline and desire indeed are key elements to bringing yourself to daily meditation. Although I had a decade of asana practice before AYP, I never meditated before stumbling across the site in search of tantra techniques. I remember reading through all the lessons, first the main ones and then the tantra, in probably two weeks, and learned that finding inner silence was the missing piece of the yoga puzzle. Perhaps not knowing multiple systems saved me from wanderlust. It does speak well of the system that Yogani designed. It was hard at the beginning to devote an hour of my daily time (as a father of two youngsters at the time), but stuck with it because some early purification episodes clearly demonstrated that my neurobiology was indeed changing.
Good luck with your sobriety. The whole of my wife's family has been touched negatively by alcoholism, and as a result it affected our family too. She is many years sober after multiple attempts, and I am so proud of her (and she, of herself) to have the discipline and desire to get to this side of it. It isn't easy but have faith in yourself and your meditation practice to find your strength and stability  |
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Parsifal
Poland
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Posted - Jan 25 2024 : 08:33:04 AM
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| Thank you Dogboy for your wise comment . I'm glad your wife has maintained her long-term sobriety. For me, it is now 16 months of sobriety, and although it was extremely difficult in the first months, now it is easy. And I have already started to feel better effects of AYP practices. So I think I'm on the right track. |
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2024 : 01:28:04 AM
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Recently in DM, inner guru had me move that attention point up, from the solar center to my tongue, the tip of it to be exact, while I am in ketchari
It has been five weeks, and I find it is good to keep the solar center in the base practice, and to move the focus to the tongue tip only when it clearly wants it. Too much attention in the head reduces stability. |
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Dogboy
USA
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Mar 15 2024 : 12:51:16 AM
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| I have been having a bit of fun with lidded eyes lately. It has become a yoga practice to challenge duality. I rarely walk or exercise with headphones or music, honoring the opportunity for active yoga. Either in asanas, or on the elliptical, walking the neighborhood or woods, the eyelids become lazy as the white noise grows, inviting silence forth. The world has become black and white, inside and outside, dark and light, and becomes the in-between on my breath, before my very eyes. All I have to do is be there and imagine non duality; if done with sambhavi mudra, the eyelids flutter and blur visual perception. |
Edited by - Dogboy on Mar 15 2024 8:05:07 PM |
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Apr 16 2024 : 03:56:15 AM
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Tracing the spine during SBP early in my AYP journey was difficult, and Christi gave advice to simply be at the third eye on the top of the inhale, at the root at the bottom of the exhale, and let the middle be for now. This helped a lot; by placing the attention at two (actively important) places instead of the length of the shushumna seemingly trained my inner attention to sync with my purifying body. After conductivity, tracing and syncing both the body and the breath became automatic; entering silence and surrender by sweeping the shushumna during SBP up and down, correcting the spine and neck, quieting the mind, dissolving into silence.
If tracing is hard for you, take Christi's advice. You may find it automatically, when you are open enough for it. |
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2024 : 01:03:22 AM
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Conductivity is a turbo charger for your practices; lesson 429:
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It is in all of us, you know - the divine impulse that longs to express itself. When we are surging with bhakti for union, it is that very divine impulse expressing itself. We have our divine desire, but we cannot know exactly where it will lead us. When we move as stillness in action, it is a partnership between our individual expression on this earth and the divine flow. From our side, it is about keeping up daily practices, having an intention, letting it go, and allowing our abilities to become a channel for the divine. It is doing without doing. In stillness we are able to get out of the way even in the midst of a lot of practical activity. Who is doing it all? It is a mystery.......The source of all yoga is the subtle human neurobiology, and that is where it is "all together." The statement "The guru is in you" is much more than a slogan. It is a recognition of all knowledge and evolutionary possibility being within each of us. We have said this many times. The eight limbs of yoga, resident within us, are connected, with each being affected by the others. Anyone who has been meditating for a while will notice practical benefits in daily conduct, and in practices and results across the board.......Ultimately, it is the nervous system that does the work of human spiritual transformation. We are just applying a little stimulation here and there, letting it go in very simple ways. With consistency of practice over time, our essential nature comes to take care of the rest. Easier said than done, of course. And we keep working at it -- balancing, pacing and grounding the results in our daily lives.
The guru is in you.
This yogi's experience is that silence can easily "step forth" with gentle attention, and from that silence, sensations arise, and there is pleasure to acknowledge and radiate/surrender on the breath. Any time of the day or night, the eyes open or closed, there is the possibility of 24/7 bliss with effort, and the knowing the body is not yet ready to be that automatically. Silence is noticed in stillness or action with the promise of becoming stillness in action. Change is now.
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Sep 25 2024 : 02:44:09 AM
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I will conclude this discussion on this seven-year conductive body by noting I am (AYAM) in a race with death to achieve liberation; if it happens before death, the fruits of that experience can be shared with those in my orbit, ripples in a still pond. At death we are liberated, so this race is win-win I guess. I am mid-sixties and retired and have the time and bhakti currently to devote to this endeavor. Thus I am outside, active, quiet, open, loving, patient, playful, curious, respectful, helpful. I have taken on some community volunteering to improve my karma  , and use the eight limbs as scaffolding.
By twice-daily DM and bringing silence, openness, and radiance to the body and the breath, yoga infuses whatever is in the moment that attention lands upon. I am working for the day when 24/7 bliss is not an intentional action. As this body matures it is apparent that natural vajroli is well established and felt, more proof that these practices are preparing me spiritually. It is apparent when silence is felt, the shushumna is expanded, and if one becomes a receiver in that state, then there is communion. The introduction of an ishta has opened my heart in unexpected ways and has made me seem inwardly lighter, in weight and presence.
Some new fun expressions: when alone I talk aloud to myself sometimes, there is something subtly arousing to vocalizing, to talking myself through something, encouraging myself, coming to a realization, or simply having fun. Another thing, upon seeing my reflection in a mirror, or when rubbing lotion on my body (or any touch for that matter) the intention is to think of myself as my lover, thinking of, and treating myself, manifesting myself as an object of desire. The mirror is a great place to contemplate inside/outside and squaring the separation; it is a place to address yourself, to inquire, to make faces, to have a good laugh, and discovering great pleasure in that loving moment.
Although I yearn for liberation, there is no expectation, no disappointment, no regrets if it does not come to pass, because this is a journey of daily expansiveness, of loving intentions, of pleasures, bliss, ecstasy, and deep deep silence. This is a journey of curiosity and the desire to know. These practices have opened the shushumna and powered my attention, and promise to make me my best self in the rest of my time here.
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TensorTympani
Sweden
100 Posts |
Posted - Oct 25 2024 : 4:38:21 PM
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Hi Dogboy,
Thanks a lot for allowing us these very private insights into your ecstatic conductivity and how it has changed over the years. It certainly helped me a lot in building the necessary initial trust to start a daily AYP routine two years ago.
I only recently started with adding asana before my sitting practice. And it certainly helps in discovering new aspects of ecstatic conductivity. My current favorite is the heart centering warm-up. Gently caressing myself that way feels at the same very good and very odd. It reminded me of your description of looking into the mirror and soaping. I'm wondering what's going, but probably nothing to worry about and just something to have fun with innocently 
I hope you reach your goal and continue keeping us posted about any cool things happening along the way |
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Dogboy
USA
2292 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2024 : 02:28:21 AM
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| Will do. |
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