I’ve been deeply committed to integrating AYP into my life for some time now. I feel the energy shifts and subtle openings, but I also sense a tension between wanting more and the wisdom of pacing myself.
Here’s what I’m experiencing:
When I lean into deep meditation and spinal breathing, there’s a palpable feeling of expansion—sometimes even “ecstatic conductivity” from root to brow, which feels both profound and humbling aypsite.orgaypsite.org.
Yet I notice occasional overwhelm—subtle fatigue, emotional heaviness, or a drift toward dullness—which I’m beginning to understand as signs of overreaching The Dao Bumsaypsite.org.
My question is: How do you all strike a balance—moving forward bravely without pushing too fast? How do you recognize the difference between a real breakthrough and a momentary spike that needs to settle?
Some reflections I’m finding helpful:
Self-pacing feels essential. Building the unique “timeline” of your practice, one that’s stable and sustainable, not rushed aypsite.org.
Being present with today’s experience instead of chasing future milestones. That echoes Yogani’s idea that letting go of “getting” opens a deeper surrender to the path itself aypsite.org.
Holding the paradox of progress with relaxation—continuing practice and deepening presence over time aypsite.org+1.
I’d really love to hear from others:
How do you feel out the sweet spot between momentum and balance?
Have you had experiences where what looked like a setback turned out to be productive rest?
Any practical guidelines you’ve developed—like modifying meditation length, adding gentle grounding, or integrating silence into daily action?
Thank you for any insights and wisdom you’re willing to share—truly grateful for this supportive space.
Signs of energetic overload include things that are uncomfortable, or painful. If you are experiencing these things as a result of your spiritual practices then the advice is to self-pace downwards and increase grounding practices and to keep self-pacing downwards (many small steps if necessary) until a stable place of practice is found. With the things that you mention, fatigue, emotional heaviness, dullness etc. these can simply be symptoms of purification happening in the subtle nervous system, and may not be considered as energetic overload. It would depend on the person and the extent and severity to which they are happening.
How do you recognize the difference between a real breakthrough and a momentary spike that needs to settle?
There isn’t any necessity to recognise the difference between these things. They are both treated with equanimity and don’t require any change in practice. The only issue that requires a change in practice is the issue of energetic overload.
There is a self-pacing and grounding flowchart which can be downloaded for free from here
The TaoBums forum discussion that you linked to was started by someone who did not practice AYP. He also did not recognise that symptoms such as dullness and drowsiness are normal symptoms of progress in meditation. They happen for many people as the mind begins to become calm, but not enough purification has happened yet. Unfortunately he used the term “AYP” in the discussion in that topic on TaoBums, and that has caused confusion with search engines who are thinking that he was an AYP practitioner. In fact he modified the AYP practices, and wrote about his modifications quite extensively in this forum, and so in fact was doing his own spiritual experiment. As AI becomes better, it may be able to work out that he did not actually practice AYP, and so will not bring up discussions like that in search results.