Hi Shanti,
Thank you for the response. I love reading your posts 
. This morning I woke up with symptoms of a cold - so maybe my raw throat was just a precursor? Can amaroli precipitate a cold, could this be purification? When I first started my sitting practices, I immediately came down with a cold; this is very unusual for I hardly fall sick. My practice is the Shambhavi mahamudra (Isha), a combination of pranayama/meditation/shambhavi/kumbhaka/bastrika. I do this twice a day. Thank you again.
Kami
Thanks Kami.
Oh yesā¦ throat irritation that may or may not be followed by a cold is definitely purification, esp. if you have added a new practice. I am one of those people who rarely falls sick, but about a year and half back I had a sore throat followed by a cold almost once a month (for a while), my kids actually asked me what was going onā¦ they had hardly ever seen me sick like that. During that time though, I experienced most of my spiritual openings, so I do attribute it to purification. I think it has to do with throat blocks purifying.
Have you tried AYP deep meditation and spinal breathing pranayama?
Shanti, thanks again for the prompt response. This really clears up my thought process! I do incorporate AYP methods into my practice. The funny thing is, I didnāt even know about this wonderful website, the phenomenal resources and like-minded people on this site until I got introduced to my current practice. My curiosity about these powerful practices led me here - you know what they say; when the student is ready, the teacher appears!
Shanti, thanks for the input
And I thought it comes from physical laziness due to studying =) Itās as you say, every 3-4 weeks my body is down for 1 week since 1-2 years. Starting with jogging and running again increased my overall health, but todayā> again a sore throat, burning chest, stingy nose/eyes, fever etc.
Update 2 weeks later (~6,5 months in total):
I canāt sense the effects of amaroli anymore, except the strong physical relaxation in the face-muscle area. In times where I did not know about amaroli and after some months of continiuous practice, I could not stop smiling and loughing the whole day. It was energetically not possible. This is completely different now, equaminity that comes through meditation in some way goes over to the physical through amaroli. Donāt think that this description matches it perfectly, itās hard to describe. The awareness stays more within the physical realm.
Without amaroli in the last attempts ( this is the 5th or so including a full range of practices) etherical vision started very fast and was in many times overblending the physical realm continuously. Within some more months, astral vision blended in too. It was very hard to stay focused on normal pysical activity, like watching the prof, listening to his words while at the same time foggy energy streamed through the space, the aura of the prof constantly visible, light particles floating around crying for attention ( hey, forget the rest,watch us dancing ). This time, all this stays invisible, everything is grounded physical and distraction is low.
Amaroli update (3 weeks later):
The effects of amaroli are stabilized completely. There are no surprises anymore. Itās part of daily living you can say. The amount is about a mouth full.
The sickness that started 3 weeks ago lasted about 2-3 days, but the fever about 2 weeks. Then after a pause of about 1 week, it started again yesterday. My body is on fire different times per day. The fever-free-days in between I feel renewed and healthy. Also heavier meal sessions which always caused sickness afterwards do increasingly less harm.
Perhaps it is time to increase the amount again.
Are you clear of other substances? Is your amaroli practice affected by other potential substances? Drugs, alcohol? I ask non-critically, but from interest in your experience.
@mrpearce
no problem, you can be as direct, as you wish. Drugs in general havenāt passed this body for a long time, except alcohol 2 times within these ~7 months. The days after always were not very pleasant claritiywise.
But yes, I eat different kinds of food in different times. The last weeks I dropped meat to a big extend. Sometimes here and there. I could find stabilizing and iron+protein giving substitutes in nuts and dark bread.
I donāt think the fever is related to amaroli, more to general cleansing through pranayama and meditation. Amaroli doesnāt seem to add new depths to its effect range so far.
Hi @all,
because this thread was linked lately, I wanted to update it. Some years have passed since, amaroli has become a daily habit for several years now. Only sometimes it is paused for 1-2 weeks, reasons for that are travelling or too much strange food the night before etc. Sometimes without any obvious reason a pause of some days or weeks happens. But more than 300 days per years amaroli is happening.
The health problems that happened back then were not iron or protein disorder based, but spiritual practices side effects based. This body has some capacity to grow in consiousness, bliss and ecstasy, when it goes overboard, the resourcs of the body-mind here not enough to keep it healthy and strong and to make that bliss and ecstasy possible at the same time. That is all 
Best balance could be found with more pranyama, asana, sports and easily digestable food, less mantra and awareness based practices.
Coming to the amaroli effects, cannot comment too much on them. The only thing that can be said is, I canāt distinguish its effects at all, drinking or not drinking makes no difference. It is just happening, perhaps 10-20 years later it becomes more clear what amaroli did.
Yogani reported more health and strength, especially drinking it several times during recovery phases should fasten them. It does not match my experience though. Also health was terrible regarding flues last year, because of too much university stress, even full powered yoga, amaroli, sports and perfect food intake can only be helpful to some degree. Perhaps over the long run it will play a greater role in this.
If it is no problem to drink it, one can atleast continue it and see what comes out of it. Similiar things have been said about the transformation of the semen in men and its effect range, which over so many years have showed itself as true here. The same may be with amaroli, so it will be continued here accordingly. Another update may follow somewhere in āthe futureā
Peace
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