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bewell
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 Posted - Jan 16 2011 : 07:09:06 AM
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Do you know the sound of the silence when a crying baby finds mother's breast? Ahh, that is the sound of "Whole Body Mudra" -- my neurobiology has come home at last to cosmic mama.
Yogani writes: "When the eyes move devotionally, all the mudras will subtly move by automatic reflex. Ahhh... That is why we nudge all of these mudras along in practices until ecstatic conductivity comes up, building the habits, setting up for further evolution in the nervous system. Then, with ecstatic conductivity, there is only one mudra -- the whole body mudra, made up of all the parts. Sambhavi is the leader of it. That's why we see pictures of the sages with their eyes raised. They are in whole body ecstatic bliss just from that, with divine energy radiating out in all directions."
http://www.aypsite.org/212.html
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Ananda
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Posted - Jan 16 2011 : 10:44:14 AM
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Best overloading symptoms stimulator ever , when used excessively of course.
Cheers bro(f) |
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bewell
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Posted - Jan 16 2011 : 2:56:43 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Ananda
Best overloading symptoms stimulator ever, when used excessively of course.
Ananda
Regarding "overload," Yogani wrote: "The good news is that overloading is purification -- creative energy producing friction in our not yet fully purified nervous system."
http://books.google.com/books?id=Df...site&f=false
Yogani's words make sense of me. I do not think I have ever complained of "overload," and I doubt I ever will. The "whole body mudra" experience is an occasion to refine my use of the AYP practices.
Ok, time for my afternoon sit.
Best regards,
Be |
Edited by - bewell on Jan 16 2011 3:07:20 PM |
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bewell
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Posted - Jan 16 2011 : 6:20:51 PM
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I wish I had titled this thread, "in gratitude for 'whole body mudra.'"
My "praise" is better directed toward the sources -- grace, and AYP practices.
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bewell
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Posted - Jan 16 2011 : 8:06:09 PM
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"Whole body mudra" is an "automatic reflex," not a structured practice. I made no attempt to force it to happen. Structured practices pave the way in the neurobiology, but as I understand it, and experience it, once "whole body mudra" becomes part of daily living, there is no need to interfere with it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Df...2%20&f=false
I've experienced "whole body mudra" more or less consciously for several years, and I have always been very grateful for the gift, but in the past few weeks it seems to have become stable in a noticeable way. The language of "stillness in action" is making sense in an experiential neurobiological way for the first time. There is a remarkable reduction of anxiety in daily life.
I think some of this ease is facilitated by age --I am 49 -- and years of yoga practice -- about 15. |
Edited by - bewell on Jan 16 2011 8:23:48 PM |
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Ananda
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Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 02:45:17 AM
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Thanks for the reminder |
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bewell
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Posted - Jan 17 2011 : 5:20:24 PM
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In Secrets of Wilder, "whole body mudra" is called "i am's embrace:"
"'I didn't know what to call it when the spirit comes up and everything is lifting and squeezing quietly all by itself inside. And my eyes go up and I feel all hugged by God. i am's embrace. Oh yeah...'" (Secrets p. 210)
I felt some of it intuitively when I read first read Secrets about five years ago, but at this time I see how i am's embrace works when "everything works together for good" -- the ease practices, the non-anxious quality of attention between practices, and the intuitive flow of daily interactions. |
Edited by - bewell on Jan 17 2011 5:26:29 PM |
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In praise of "whole body mudra"
