Hi All:
This was posted today as an AYP Plus lesson addition.
The guru is in you.
https://www.aypsite.com/plus/24.html#24.6
Yogani, thank you for sharing your experience. Hope the cancer stays gone and you stay for years. I appreciate your reminder to prioritize DM to cultivate inner silence.
Hi Yogani
It’s good to see you posting on the forum again.
This recent lesson might be one of the most important in AYP. We have had too many practitioners rushing to add energy practices and falling out of meditation altogether because of overload. I feel we could be more conservative in our advice in the forums. Beginners often do not recognise overload. Maybe we could do more to help them understand how important it is to safeguard their meditation practice. And also encourage everyone to stick to the meditation technique that suits them. There is a perception that the alternatives to the I AM meditation are second best. This perception puts pressure on some practitioners to hang on to a meditation technique that is too strong for them. The best meditation technique for each of us is the one that is sustainable. If that happens to be breath meditation or passive awareness, then that is the practice we do and love, and we should not feel that we are underprivileged because we’re unable to meditate with I AM. I also feel that passive awareness meditation can receive more attention in AYP. For oversensitive practitioners, it is the natural progression from breath meditation.
Maybe more on this later. I won’t make this post very long. We should let you focus on rest and recovery now.
Best wishes for your health. [OM]
Hi Yogani,
Your message is very important. It highlights what the world needs today: a simple and practical method that everyone can do.
When in 2008 I discovered AYP, I found it was a simple and practical presentation for the 21st century of yogic techniques shrouded in obsolete beliefs and superstitions that were very difficult to navigate one’s way. At that time AYP was a revelation to me.
Indeed I wanted to do everything from the beginning and I had to learn self-pacing and to moderate my practice. Being retired with time on my hands, this was not really a problem. But I understand that for those engaged in everyday life, it is quite different.
So I think it’s a good thing to focus on a simple method accessible to all. Anyway, the other practices will always be there for the enthusiasts like me.
I have translated your message for the forum in French:
https://forum-meditation-ayp.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&p=490&sid=944987866225e74772953073f07d8a92#p490
My very best wishes for your health and thanks for your enlightning text.
Didier
Yes, the variations in technique, breath meditation and passive awareness in particular, are perfectly valid in AYP for those with sensitivity to mantra meditation, and these are covered here: https://www.aypsite.com/367.html (with substantial additions in AYP Plus)
Sensitivity issues are the exception rather than the rule, off on the right side of the standard distribution bell curve of sensitivities to Deep Meditation, with most practitioners falling in the center with good results. Sensitivity is most often related to overdoing non-Deep Meditation energy practices either before or after arriving at AYP. There are also the rare instances of those who are born with an inherent sensitivity to Deep Meditation. We do our best to address all of these situations. But again, they are mostly exceptions to the normal positive response to daily Deep Meditation, and should not be off-putting for the average person considering beginning Deep Meditation for the first time.
And yes, we should be more conservative in pointing the general public to the resources in AYP, with much more attention on helping folks establish a simple daily meditation routine that will have a positive influence in their life, and especially prepare them to live in the perpetual happiness of abiding inner silence (eternal witness), moving beyond the unnecessary experience of suffering when the inevitable life challenges come. That is what meditation is for. It is not primarily for all the other adventures that can lead practitioners who overdo into trouble.
The guru is in you.
Thank you for all your love and support, Buffle37 - Didier.
The guru is in you.
Praying for your speedy recovery Yogani!
A few serious overloads in the past two years made me realize that indeed meditation is the key. I am grateful to @Jimandhiskarma and several other people here for advice’s regarding grounding. I had to struggle quite a bit to have a balanced routine of deep meditation, Spinal breathing , Samyama let alone the other techniques. I tried to add spinal bhastrika last year but realized its causing too much purification that i can handle.
Our fellow brothers and sisters here who have just started , i would recommend the same to what Yogani has mentioned. Strive for Inner Silence and not energy overloads.
[OM]
Blessings to you, dear Yogani
I had never meditated before AYP nor had any spiritually energetic experiences, so I am proof positive DM is highly effective in promoting Witness and ecstatic conductivity. I have outlined in earlier posts how my practices have reduced my suffering, as a parent of an autistic child and in dealing with sobriety struggles within my family. It is amazing to experience chaotic exterior realities juxtaposed with an interior calmness, one of many paradoxes yoga practices foster. Before AYP, I was also very nervous when taking off or landing in a plane, and the fruits of practice dissipated that fear. Every sitting leaves me with the distinct feeling I am being upgraded by samadhi.
Thank you for all you have done for us practitioners by making AYP an open source. May the future winds continue to blow in your favor!
Hello Yogani
The witness seems very much dissolved into awarness of absence
And it is a great joy to read your words about encouraging new people to stick to basic practice of dm and give them more conservative advices
It is a topic that I mentioned before in private with many people in the forums since I started re posting in the forums in 2020 after few years of absence
Initially ayp was more conservative and down to earth … when I stopped posting around 2016 and came around again in 2020 I saw lots of discrepancies
I believe the retreats topics should be simplified too…less fireworks promises and practices and more silence
Hi Yogani,
Good to hear that you are recovering. Thanks for the update and good to hear that you have not been suffering during your illness. It is a tribute to the power of yoga!
And I would agree with you that most people in the world would benefit from focussing on meditation. It would certainly make a huge difference in the world if many more took up the practice of meditation on a daily basis. It would be the saving grace that the world needs right now.
And yes, certainly the more advanced practices are still only for the few. For those who are ready. That has always been the case with yoga. It is for sincere seekers. I am sure that one day the more advanced practices will be for the many as well, but we are still some way off that. The few who are ready are preparing the way for the rest.
One step at a time!
Christi
Yogani, I have felt your absence from the forums in recent months. Hearing of your struggles with melanoma and anemia affected me deeply. We project onto our teachers a desire for them to manifest special powers making them invulnerable to illness. I am happy to hear of your recovery and how meaningful inner silence has been during this heath threat. Although I have had my challenges at times with the full array of AYP practices (which this community you’ve created has helped me work through), I am grateful you have made these teachings available to the world in the way you have done. It is true the teachings come with a burden of responsibility that falls on the practitioner rather than the teacher. You have done an outstanding job spelling out in detail the risks, and your recommendation for self pacing, grounding, and building Rome slowly. I hope you continue on this path to full health as we all benefit from your wisdom. Interpaul
Yogani ,
Thank you for all that you have shared and for sharing your current experience now. It has helped many world-wide. Wishing you the very best in all things … am keeping you in my prayers.
Much love to you always,
Steve
Hello Yogani,
Thank you very much for your kindness, selflessness and contributions to evolving humanity. We wish you a full and speedy recovery.
Love and Blessings to you.
hello Yogani,
happy to read that recovery is on track.
Om
[OM]
Sey
Thank you so much for sharing this Yogani. It is a powerful reminder that none of us are exempt from illness (and death) but you describe a path by which we can live out all of life’s ups an downs but stay serene in the experience of ourselves as the awareness that witnesses all that arises. What you have written has been a much needed reminder to me to ‘keep it simple’, stick with the most important practice of all (DM) and not to get diverted by the scenery. With gratitude for all you have given and my wishes for your complete recovery.