thank you maverick angel!
Hi all,
Recently when I have nothing to do I tend to sit and follow my spine the way we do in AYP spinal breathing pranayama but with normal breathing. I go up and down the spine. It feels very good and peaceful. Sometimes I like to find a way into sushumna and go into it so i pay attention to a point of sushumna and concentrate on it. It makes the breathing slower and feels like very deep meditation. What are the consequences of this practice? Is this something that should be avoided or it is perfectly fine?
Are there other ways of watching the breath other than watching the sensation of it? I mean watching the breath itself.
Hi angeleeyes, to me those practices sound harmless in themselves, in fact very like SBP and DM. I guess I would expect them to awaken kundalini more quickly, because of the focus on the sushumna, but I gather you’ve already had that happen? So the remaining issue is that you’re already doing SBP and DM, and now this on top of that–the “doubling up” that Yogani warns against, with its risk of overload that could manifest suddenly later on. You’d be the only one who could tell if that’s safe for you or not. But you seem uncertain (since you’re asking us), so I recommend caution.
“Concentration” infers intense attention. Energy follows attention, so if you are focusing strongly on a particular chakra, that could be troublesome over time. SBP is designed to prime the shushumna, as you trace it with breath, to stabilize energy flow before meditation and promote a balance with silence that is generated in DM. Resting attention gently, and shortly, on a particular sensation would most likely cause no harm, but I would not engage in this too much out of caution.