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“But What Does Yoga Actually Do?”

AvatarHigh Priestess Lydia Coventina6 min to read

Yoga means yoke, to unite – specifically, the body, mind, and soul. Yoga works these 3 areas, bringing harmony, increased awareness, and increased self-control. It also allows for the fullest expression of one’s highest self, and the individual personality, in the best and healthiest possible manner.

Something to note: most people, when they hear the word “control”, they think of it in the negative. It has both a negative and a positive connotation, so free yourself from thinking of it in only the negative. In this sense, controlling oneself does not mean repressing, suppressing, or stifling oneself. It simply means that you are in control of how you act and when and where; you have the freedom to choose how you act and react in direct relation to the pure identity of your highest self, instead of automatically giving in to emotional or mental reactions, or psychological programmings.

The enemy, as always, tries it’s hardest to control (in the negative connotation) yoga and yoga practitioners. They advise people to do yoga without eating first in the morning, and being vegetarian, if not vegan. Starvation is one of the common tactics used in brainwashing and mind-programming, as it allows the person to become too receptive to programmings and thought-forms. Try to eat when you need to eat, and as much as your body needs.

Yoga heals the body, mind, and soul. We are not just spiritual beings, nor are we just material bodies. We are both, plus consciousness. Yoga is not like regular athletics that work only the body; nor is it like passive meditation that works only the soul; nor is it an intellectual pursuit that only works the mind. It unites and harmonizes all, strengthening all, empowering all aspects of our being. Yes, including the mind, as explained in my post on Increasing Awareness, which is to be done with as many yoga asanas as you are able to easily and conveniently do, gradually building up and expanding your consciousness throughout your body, and beyond.

To further explain what yoga does: The body has 144,000 nadis, which are energy channels and pathways throughout the entire body. They all connect to the Solar Plexus chakra. The main nadis of Sushumna, Ida, and Pingala in the spine are empowered through the practice of kundalini yoga, but the rest of the nadis need to be stretched, strengthened, and cleared. Only a proper and thorough yoga practice can do this. This is one of the reasons why people can’t advance after the death of the physical body, and why we must be incarnated again and again – the physical body is absolutely essential for spiritual advancement.

Simple stretching is a basic introduction to the physical practice of yoga. As you advance, you will utilize your mind and consciousness in each asana, using your breath to allow for opening and healing of the nadis and the circulation of your spiritual energy, otherwise known as your Qi, or bioelectricity. Don’t think this is overly complicated, it is actually quite easy and basic as you do it, much of this happens naturally. It is just what happens when you do yoga.

Yoga, as well as pranayama and meditation, increases our bioelectricity levels. When our levels are consistently higher, we are stronger in every way, and we can use our energy to improve our lives. People on a low spiritual level are subject to many curses and negative planetary influences and transits. Being on a higher level raises us to where much of this no longer affects us. We radiate a spiritual light, as opposed to the average degenerate who sucks the life force and spiritual energy from others. Many people feel like they are struggling to stay afloat, struggling like a person fighting against the tides. A consistent yoga practice will raise you up and allow you to shine brightly and have strength – strength of physical body, strength of mind, strength of emotions, and strength of spirit. This all-encompassing strength gives unlimited potential for everything good and positive in our lives; in our advancement towards Godhood; and in our benevolent influence upon the common people on our planet. And it of course makes us stronger warriors in our fight against our enemies.

Getting back to how yoga helps the mental side of our being. The benefits of a yoga practice on the mind cannot be acclaimed enough. Putting your physical body into a position, feeling the stillness of the mind as you concentrate your thoughts and mental effort into holding the pose, focusing on your breath while maintaining balance and posture… can you feel it? It calms, strengthens, refreshes, and nourishes the mind. Anyone suffering from anxiety, mental illness, or mental hyperactivity will benefit immensely. People who are weak-minded or anything of the sort will feel stronger in every way.

If you do not do yoga, as I know a lot of members here simply aren’t into it, then this can hamper your advancement. Energy/qi will stagnate in various areas of your body, and can manifest in abnormal and harmful ways. We are all individuals however, based on our past lives, inherited physical genetics, and so on. Some people don’t need much yoga at all to advance, while some other people may need a lot of yoga daily. If all you currently need is 10 minutes a day, then consider that at some point in the future, you might need to do more. And it might be that you only need to delve deeply into a yoga practice for a period of time, to work through whatever spiritual, physical, emotional, or mental obstacles you have, to reach a higher level, and then perhaps you can lessen your practice afterwards. This is all individual.

Yoga also re-trains the body and mind. A lot of people have defections in their body, and mental and emotional blockages. A proper yoga practice, combined with eating healthy food (which includes eating meat), and spiritual cleaning of the soul and chakras, will heal the body and mind. Yoga will help your muscles, nerves, organs, lungs, bones, spine, digestive system, hormones, brain... literally everything.

Certain asanas can feel unpleasant, not enjoyable for us. But as we advance in yoga and master the asanas, walls come down in the mind. Breakthroughs of all types often happen after we achieve the mastery of an asana we previously had trouble performing. Even just doing a modification of a difficult asana, held long enough, can accomplish this.

In closing, don’t ever look to yoga as being something weird, difficult, or strange. There are endless free resources online and in library books to teach yoga. Many videos too. Try some, see what feels good for you, and let your practice grow on it’s own!

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Catalincata94said:

Sorry for the late reply...
I started programing the energy from my meditations to get rid of obstacles that hinder my weight loss so i'm focusing on that for now. There is a thing that may hinder my weight loss it's an anti-psyhotic medication, i'm working on getting rid of that medication. But what exactly do you mean by programing the body? do you mean programing the subcounscious mind? i never heard of programing the body xD like can we program the cells of the body?
Well, i missed the boat this time with saturday and moon phase and sign.
I'm also doing a mudra to increase pitta humor and decreasing kapha humor and now i don't feel so hungry and eat less, i think i'm going to lose weight if this keeps up ;)

The kundalini yoga is a yang exercise that should stimulate fire in the body as well. Your working sounds good, and it may possibly be working all the way through the psych meds first with that programming, so stick with it for the long term.
Sun and Mars energies also increase pitta in the body.

Yes, the mudras are good for shifting the whole body, whereas acupoints seem very specific. I have used a Vata-reducing mudra with great success, where it seemed like the acupoints weren't doing as much.

Eating less is a good sign, which likely means any stomach heat is reduced. If you are primarily yang-deficient, this can eventually lead to yin deficiency or vice versa. So it sounds like correcting your yang deficiency with the kapha-decreasing mudra restored your pitta back into balance.

Remember, the mudras aren't permanent like a 40-day working is, so you may have to rebalance yourself with them every so often, maybe every few days, based on your own experiences. Careful not to overdo them and increase your pitta too far. More is not necessarily better, you want a balance, or at least only a slight pitta exaggeration.

Fixing your natal fire placements, such as a weak Sun, will also restore pitta energy to the body. Your working may do something similar such as pulling obstacles to your Sun's power off of you.

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Programming the body is the same as programming the soul. Your being is one and the same, of course, but you can focus your energies specifically where you want them. For example, you can focus the water element into your soul, or you can put it specifically into the body, like if you are trying to clear inflammation.

The process is the same, but you are just being more specific. That is all.

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Manofsatansaid:

Is it okay /sensible to affirm strengthening the sun in my natal chart and in the same Affirmation say that the sun is removing negative effects of saturn.
I ask this because I have seen this here for Jupiter square where it was affirmed to strengthen good luck and fortune then removal of negative influence was added.

Yes, you can do that, just keep in mind that you are now splitting the energies. It depends on how you are intending this to go. If you just want to do anything for the Sun to be empowered, then it will likely just end up mitigated Saturn anyway (as this seems to be a major hindrance).

Keep in mind that the negatives of Saturn extend to any aspects of your chart, beyond just the Sun itself. Sun energy itself is useful for removing negatives and cleaning because it is like a transformative fire. So empowering your natal Sun and removing the negatives of Saturn are two separate objectives.

Now, if you are planning to do additional working to remove Saturn influences, then splitting the energy between as mentioned above would be fine, like in a case where you still want to boost your Sun. It really depends on what you are looking for here.

As far as a Jupiter Square, generally, Jupiter rules expansion and would not be the best energy for removing negativity directly. If this is done, it may take more energy to gain the same result in the face of large obstacles, compared to using freeing mantras. The same goes for other planets.

The Sun is different because it encompasses all the wavelengths of energy and can burn away dross. Perhaps Mars can also, with its relation to Thurisaz, but I am not sure entirely. Jupiter is much less likely to do this efficiently.

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Catalincata94said:

Sorry for the late reply...
I started programing the energy from my meditations to get rid of obstacles that hinder my weight loss so i'm focusing on that for now. There is a thing that may hinder my weight loss it's an anti-psyhotic medication, i'm working on getting rid of that medication. But what exactly do you mean by programing the body? do you mean programing the subcounscious mind? i never heard of programing the body xD like can we program the cells of the body?
Well, i missed the boat this time with saturday and moon phase and sign.
I'm also doing a mudra to increase pitta humor and decreasing kapha humor and now i don't feel so hungry and eat less, i think i'm going to lose weight if this keeps up ;)

The kundalini yoga is a yang exercise that should stimulate fire in the body as well. Your working sounds good, and it may possibly be working all the way through the psych meds first with that programming, so stick with it for the long term.
Sun and Mars energies also increase pitta in the body.

How do i know if i have a weak sun in my natal chart? What makes it weak? the degree in which it is? like if it is closer to 0° then is it stronger?

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Catalincata94said:

How do i know if i have a weak sun in my natal chart? What makes it weak? the degree in which it is? like if it is closer to 0° then is it stronger?

Yes, the degrees make a difference, but it is mainly the sign of the planet, and whether it is good for that planet or not. Sun energy works best under the Leo or Aries signs or "modes of operation", and worst under Aquarius and Libra.

Then, look at any aspects to the Sun. Jupiter, Mars, and Pluto will strengthen it in various ways, whereas Saturn and Neptune will block or "dissolve" it, respectively.

So if you have a major and hard Neptune aspect to your Sun, this would weaken the Sun and require a working to remove the negative influence. Also, if Saturn itself is in Leo or Aries, this will have a similar effect by blocking those energies within your soul.

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Catalincata94said:

How do i know if i have a weak sun in my natal chart? What makes it weak? the degree in which it is? like if it is closer to 0° then is it stronger?

Yes, the degrees make a difference, but it is mainly the sign of the planet, and whether it is good for that planet or not. Sun energy works best under the Leo or Aries signs or "modes of operation", and worst under Aquarius and Libra.

Well, there is none of anything weak in my birth chart, no aspect with sun-neptune or hard aspect with saturn, just a pozitive aspect no hard or major aspect. Same with the signs. But there is a thing that i saw on a astrology program, it's that i have more earth and water than air and fire...

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Thanks a lot for this post. I often struggle with hatha yoga and I'm more into kundalini yoga and Qi Gong. I'll try to be doing hatha yoga more frequently. I have a lot of bioelectricity from my kundalini and honestly I wouldn't want it to get stuck. Even right now I feel like I'm burning up. I really needed this.

Hail Satan!

it's probably a good idea to be a little careful with kundalini practices. Especially if you already feel like you are burning up. Qigong is generally safer.

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Catalincata94said:

Well, there is none of anything weak in my birth chart, no aspect with sun-neptune or hard aspect with saturn, just a pozitive aspect no hard or major aspect. Same with the signs. But there is a thing that i saw on a astrology program, it's that i have more earth and water than air and fire...

The signs matter. If you have a Leo Moon and Cancer Sun, then these aren't great placements for either. Yet, a program may say "equal water and fire".

That is good that you do not have the worst signs for either Mars or Sun, but they may not be ideal either if they fall under other signs. That does not mean that having a certain placement has no benefits, just that you need to strengthen it with the appropriate energy.

Halfway into this Sun Square, I can already feel a huge boost to both my vitality, confidence, and energy. There is not really a substitute for a spiritual working, and that is coming from someone who would do acupoints all day.

Not that acupressure does not help, nor food, supplements, or other things, but having a strong Sun does so much more. I have noticed that fire-dominant people can do a lot bad for their health, then suddenly bounce back like nothing ever happened.

For example, a friend of mine with a Leo Sun who smokes weed daily, stays up all night, eats only decently, plays video games nonstop...Yet has retained developed musculature and no kidney deficencies.

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Catalincata94said:

Well, there is none of anything weak in my birth chart, no aspect with sun-neptune or hard aspect with saturn, just a pozitive aspect no hard or major aspect. Same with the signs. But there is a thing that i saw on a astrology program, it's that i have more earth and water than air and fire...

The signs matter. If you have a Leo Moon and Cancer Sun, then these aren't great placements for either. Yet, a program may say "equal water and fire".

What about that both my parents have vata dosha body type but not me how is that possible? I think psychiatric drugs make people fat even if they have good planetary placements, on internet people know about this and some years back i asked a psychiatrist if i can get some meds that dosen't make people fat she said there is none.

As i know the planetary squares can only be done if the respective person has all the chakras completly open? Is that correct? I would like to do the sun square but i'm not sure if i can do it now or as soon as i can... in the beginning i did the opening the soul meditations except for the 6th chakra because i was confused, then last year i strated doing the new opening the soul meditations i got till the solar chakra, i did the solar chakra opening but my mind was overstimulated and i had to stop them but i think my mind is still overstimulated, many times my mind goes in all "places" even with 15 min void meditation x2 a day. So can i do the square if i didn't do all the new chakra opening meditations? or should i wait till i'm more stable and continue with the opening meditations and finish them then i can go ahead and do the square?

Now i want to say that well i didn't got anymore fatter that last year, so i think i just worried, i checked the list where i noted my weight and date and it's stable, it's always between 86-87 kg mostly 86 kg. But yeah i still need to lose weight to be in a healthy weight range. And i also don't do much "movement" or work at home i'm mostly concentrated on meditation but i do a little walk outside everyday and 2x exercises but that's just around 10 min of exercises a day in total and another 10 min for the T5R if that's considered exercises...

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Not that acupressure does not help, nor food, supplements, or other things, but having a strong Sun does so much more. I have noticed that fire-dominant people can do a lot bad for their health, then suddenly bounce back like nothing ever happened.

I can confirm this from personal experience.

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Apologies if I'm being slow on private messages. I will get back to you at some point.

Heil Zeus!
Heil Apollo!
Satanama!

#92
Catalincata94said:

What about that both my parents have vata dosha body type but not me how is that possible? I think psychiatric drugs make people fat even if they have good planetary placements, on internet people know about this and some years back i asked a psychiatrist if i can get some meds that dosen't make people fat she said there is none.

As i know the planetary squares can only be done if the respective person has all the chakras completly open? Is that correct? I would like to do the sun square but i'm not sure if i can do it now or as soon as i can... in the beginning i did the opening the soul meditations except for the 6th chakra because i was confused, then last year i strated doing the new opening the soul meditations i got till the solar chakra, i did the solar chakra opening but my mind was overstimulated and i had to stop them but i think my mind is still overstimulated, many times my mind goes in all "places" even with 15 min void meditation x2 a day. So can i do the square if i didn't do all the new chakra opening meditations? or should i wait till i'm more stable and continue with the opening meditations and finish them then i can go ahead and do the square?

Now i want to say that well i didn't got anymore fatter that last year, so i think i just worried, i checked the list where i noted my weight and date and it's stable, it's always between 86-87 kg mostly 86 kg. But yeah i still need to lose weight to be in a healthy weight range. And i also don't do much "movement" or work at home i'm mostly concentrated on meditation but i do a little walk outside everyday and 2x exercises but that's just around 10 min of exercises a day in total and another 10 min for the T5R if that's considered exercises...

If you are empowering your chakras on a daily basis, they should be open, despite whether you finished your chakra openings or not. Do you feel them, or feel power moving through them?

If your mind is overstimulated, then working on your base chakra will help a lot. Although the solar felt like it overstimulated you, it still helps balance the upper chakras by providing willpower and vitality to you.

If a square would help your vitality, then it would be worth doing. This would only help your mind be more stable, especially since you are using it in a healthy manner, not one that would hurt your mind. It would also help your weight and energy levels.

You can use Isa, Berkano, or Nauthiz to help calm your mind. This will help a lot, in addition to the void meditation. Also, don't think that the void isn't helping, it is just that you have underlying conditions which can make it harder to calm the mind. This is the same for anyone with yang placements on their mercury or other areas of the soul.

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It may be a little confusing what you should focus on, although each of these things is a worthy goal: mind control, lower chakra/planet work/vitality work, or working on removing your need for the drugs.

If you are still feeling tired (which would make it harder to do other advancement work), then you may need to focus on your yang energy and vitality first. You could do this simultaneously to other workings, I think. Remember the mudra for reducing kapha in the body, which should help a lot, as well as St36 or St40 which will reduce dampness and phlegm.

The Tibetan 5 Rites do count as exercise, but you may need more. If you already walk around for 10 minutes, then perhaps you could jog as well. I forgot what you said about the other yoga. Was the hatha yoga too hard for you to do? What about kundalini yoga?

Don't forget that exercise helps keep you grounded, which will help any psychic disorders and expedite any healing.
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And yeah, the drugs will make you fat, since I bet they have a strong yin influence on the body. As far as your parents, this is still possible, especially if your astrology differs from theirs. I am completely different from my own parents, physically, although I share some other placements with them.

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Catalincata94said:

What about that both my parents have vata dosha body type but not me how is that possible? I think psychiatric drugs make people fat even if they have good planetary placements, on internet people know about this and some years back i asked a psychiatrist if i can get some meds that dosen't make people fat she said there is none.

As i know the planetary squares can only be done if the respective person has all the chakras completly open? Is that correct? I would like to do the sun square but i'm not sure if i can do it now or as soon as i can... in the beginning i did the opening the soul meditations except for the 6th chakra because i was confused, then last year i strated doing the new opening the soul meditations i got till the solar chakra, i did the solar chakra opening but my mind was overstimulated and i had to stop them but i think my mind is still overstimulated, many times my mind goes in all "places" even with 15 min void meditation x2 a day. So can i do the square if i didn't do all the new chakra opening meditations? or should i wait till i'm more stable and continue with the opening meditations and finish them then i can go ahead and do the square?

Now i want to say that well i didn't got anymore fatter that last year, so i think i just worried, i checked the list where i noted my weight and date and it's stable, it's always between 86-87 kg mostly 86 kg. But yeah i still need to lose weight to be in a healthy weight range. And i also don't do much "movement" or work at home i'm mostly concentrated on meditation but i do a little walk outside everyday and 2x exercises but that's just around 10 min of exercises a day in total and another 10 min for the T5R if that's considered exercises...

If you are empowering your chakras on a daily basis, they should be open, despite whether you finished your chakra openings or not. Do you feel them, or feel power moving through them?

Please how does this mudra look like?

HAIL ZEUS ♾️
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#94
Manofsatansaid:

Please how does this mudra look like?

You can see it, and read more, here: https://www.omhomeopathy.com/post/2017/05/08/mudra-for-balancing-kapha

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Manofsatansaid:

Please how does this mudra look like?

You can see it, and read more, here: https://www.omhomeopathy.com/post/2017/05/08/mudra-for-balancing-kapha

Thank you so much

HAIL ZEUS ♾️
HP ZEVIOS IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME! GREAT TEACHER WITH BIGGEST HEART FOR THIS FAMILY!
HAIL ZEUS!

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Manofsatansaid:
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Manofsatansaid:

Please how does this mudra look like?

You can see it, and read more, here: https://www.omhomeopathy.com/post/2017/05/08/mudra-for-balancing-kapha

Thank you so much

HI JG Blitz, the Jupiter square has gotten me a job on the sea, I restarted my sun Square to focus on removing negative effects of saturn from natal chart. Well in my new environment where I had to travel from one state to another, I have had enemies and challenges I am handling but I write to you to for assistance.
In a post, you talked about blessing and cursing in sanskrit, can you teach me, I need them.

HAIL ZEUS ♾️
HP ZEVIOS IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME! GREAT TEACHER WITH BIGGEST HEART FOR THIS FAMILY!
HAIL ZEUS!

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Blitzkreig [JGsaid:

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Catalincata94said:

What about that both my parents have vata dosha body type but not me how is that possible? I think psychiatric drugs make people fat even if they have good planetary placements, on internet people know about this and some years back i asked a psychiatrist if i can get some meds that dosen't make people fat she said there is none.

As i know the planetary squares can only be done if the respective person has all the chakras completly open? Is that correct? I would like to do the sun square but i'm not sure if i can do it now or as soon as i can... in the beginning i did the opening the soul meditations except for the 6th chakra because i was confused, then last year i strated doing the new opening the soul meditations i got till the solar chakra, i did the solar chakra opening but my mind was overstimulated and i had to stop them but i think my mind is still overstimulated, many times my mind goes in all "places" even with 15 min void meditation x2 a day. So can i do the square if i didn't do all the new chakra opening meditations? or should i wait till i'm more stable and continue with the opening meditations and finish them then i can go ahead and do the square?

Now i want to say that well i didn't got anymore fatter that last year, so i think i just worried, i checked the list where i noted my weight and date and it's stable, it's always between 86-87 kg mostly 86 kg. But yeah i still need to lose weight to be in a healthy weight range. And i also don't do much "movement" or work at home i'm mostly concentrated on meditation but i do a little walk outside everyday and 2x exercises but that's just around 10 min of exercises a day in total and another 10 min for the T5R if that's considered exercises...

If you are empowering your chakras on a daily basis, they should be open, despite whether you finished your chakra openings or not. Do you feel them, or feel power moving through them?

I'm not doing chakra empowerment or the chakra empowerment meditations because it's said on he JOS site that the chakras must be completely open before doing the chakra empowerment meditations. I did some chakra empowerment by inhaling energy into my chakras for some time but i thought that if they are closed they may not get empowerd if i didn't opened them so i stopped it... so can i do the chakra empowerment meditations even if they are closed? And i'm not feeling them nor energy flowing through them just energy buzz in my body.

Well, my sun is in a good sign but the sign is intercepted which means it's weaker and the degree of the sun is not that bad...

I'm programing the energy from the morning meditations to be grounded and to have total control over the mind and perfect concentration
and i program the energy from hata yoga to remove all obstacles that hinder me to have complete mental and brain health so i think that this will also remove the meds from my life because it is known that psyhiatric medication destroys the brain over time and this is an obstacle when it comes to healing.

I'm not tired anymore on daily basis i sleep 8 hours but i rest 2-3 hour after waking up because i'm sleepy and if i don't rest then i will feel sleepy in the afthernoon. Last year i did some subcounscious programing to be always energetic now i'm always energetic but that's just if i rest enough after i wake up.

I'm not doing the kapha reducing mudra everyday anymore but I'm doing it every next day.

I'm doing hatha yoga for years now but not kundalini yoga, till now, as you said kundalini yoga is good for yang energy so i'm doing it and also because of the good benefits that it does as Lidia said in the post. The hata yoga got a little hard when i gained weight but now it's ok. I asked here that if i can do the kundalini yoga if i'm overweight and Lidia said yes, and i did it (not all of the exercises at once because i'm still lerning them gradually, i only have the last 2 that i have to memorize)

I started doing a general healing working for 40 days as HP HC said to do it once a year... i did it last year too, i did something like 2x 80 days, and now after i finish it i will decide what comes next

#98
TerKorian666said:

Should I change it in my post also?

Your post that I quoted? No it's fine. I only changed it because I had done some of the edits and got used to changing his name to how I wrote it above.

#99

I am curious... what has Brahma taught you?

likman666said:

The actual Yoga is turning your Awareness on itself and taking it within yourself to experience the Absolute Reality of ParaSiva. The timeless , spaceless formless Self God within. The sense of Existence is not coming from the physical body,this is the trap most people fall into ,it's coming from Brahman within you. Your soul body identifies with Brahman . This is the advice most Self Realised (Kundalini rising to the crown chakra) persons will give you,who are actually very few,it's actually not an easy feat. Identify with soul body and Brahman not with the physical body. Because the Kundalini has dropped ,you are in limited physical Awareness ,the physical body senses externalise the Awareness so they work against the actual Yoga. Which is withdraw of Awareness to experience ParaSiva within. Which is the purpose of the physical body, without it ParaSiva cannot be experienced. You are a naturally Superconsciouness being, what's standing between the physical and Superconscious All Knowing soul body is the mind, which is combination of the mental/intellectual and emotional/instinctive minds these are of the Astral Body. These minds externalise the Awareness from the soul body which identifies with God , Brahman, Siva and is your true self. So your are already accomplished. The All Seeing Eye of Horus the Udjat is not just symbolic of the pineal gland but your soul body ,your true self. The main purpose of Void meditation is to tame the intellectual and emotional minds of the Astral body so that your Awareness can withdraw from the physical body to experience the Superconscious manifested Light of the soul body and then go beyond that into the Absolute Reality called ParaSiva or the Void or Ultima Thule. Its timeless, formless , spaceless and has to be experienced and after it's experienced it can't be described. This corresponds with Kundalini rising to crown chakra. This is the actual Yoga. The mental/intellectual and emotional/ instinctive minds like to strongly identify with the physical body. It's "false ego" why because they convince you that you are separate from God and the Universe around you. They tell you that your sense of existence is in the physical body,the physical is the highest Reality and the case of atheists the only reality.
This is false and works against the actual Yoga experience. So an aspiring Yogin should be more internalised ,that is identify with Brahman than be externalised that's identifying with physical body. So the mind has been split into external (physical) and internal (Superconsciouness) the experience of ParaSiva/Ultima Thule merges the mind into one Superconsciouness permanently,the karmic seeds are burnt, you are liberated from the cycle of Karma. The physical, intellectual, emotional minds are in time consciousness this is what produces the Karmic seeds. Our desires take time to manifest. In Superconsciouness there's no time ,what one desires comes to them quickly,in an instant in some cases. It's the karmic seeds that keep us reincarnating because one needs a physical body to manifest them. So if you strongly identify with the physical body you will just leave for the physical senses and their pleasures. Limited in the intellectual and instinctive physical awareness , keeping you bound in the reincarnation cycle. The Advice is to identify with Brahman not the physical body. This internalises your Awareness and enhances the Yoga practices.
Now the internalising of your Awareness to experience Ultima Thule,is done in steps the so called 8 fold path. You have 1. Yamas / Karma yoga ,this teaches ethics and selfless service for God and the Gods ,this tames the instinctive/ emotional nature. 2 Niyamas these are mainly religious observances and introduction to the Gods. Developing a relationship with the Gods and believing that they are actual Real Beings not just allegories,mantras also fall under this , scripture readings and so on. This tames the intellectual mind which likes to embrace the physical and not the spiritual. 3. Then come Asanas ,Hatha Yoga. 4 Pranyamas ,the breathing exercises. 5 Pratyahara that is awareness withdraw going into trance, taming the senses. 6 Dharana which is concentrating on Brahman within ,this where Void meditation starts. 7. Dhyana which is one pointed meditation/
contemplation on God within. Then 8. you will have Samadhi of two kinds, first the Superconscious Light of the Soul Body ,savikalpa Samadhi. This can be had without Kundalini rising. It actually starts from the navel,the highest level being in the Third Eye. Then the second Samadhi is ParaSiva , Ultima Thule which is beyond the Superconscious Sun within,the Black Sun. This is called nirvikalpa Samadhi. It's in the Crown Chakra ,only Kundalini ParaSakti can take you into Ultima Thule. This is then moksha , liberation. The Eagle rising out of the Swastika, Ultima Thule, ParaSiva. All karmic seeds are burnt. It's beyond Ego Awareness and creation , that's why it's symbolised with the skull and bones. "Death " of the old ego. The bodies merge to experience this, the Soul, Astral and Physical bodies.
Now many people like to start at the high-end without introduction to the Gods for example. Going straight into Hatha , meditation yoga and so on. This of course will be futile. Hindus them they are brought up honoring and respecting the Gods ,them it's part of their upbringing. To most outsiders they skipp the steps and go into the high end yoga (Vedanta) that's why most get frustrated and stop or of they push it too far they can get severe Kundalini problems. A lot more can be added within the 8 steps ,what has been described is just the basic outline. The JOS meditations are of course powerful and are within the 8 steps.

#100

An authentic and refreshing read.... ... Thank you <3

Lydia [JGsaid:

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Yoga means yoke, to unite – specifically, the body, mind, and soul. Yoga works these 3 areas, bringing harmony, increased awareness, and increased self-control. It also allows for the fullest expression of one’s highest self, and the individual personality, in the best and healthiest possible manner.

Something to note: most people, when they hear the word “control”, they think of it in the negative. It has both a negative and a positive connotation, so free yourself from thinking of it in only the negative. In this sense, controlling oneself does not mean repressing, suppressing, or stifling oneself. It simply means that you are in control of how you act and when and where; you have the freedom to choose how you act and react in direct relation to the pure identity of your highest self, instead of automatically giving in to emotional or mental reactions, or psychological programmings.

The enemy, as always, tries it’s hardest to control (in the negative connotation) yoga and yoga practitioners. They advise people to do yoga without eating first in the morning, and being vegetarian, if not vegan. Starvation is one of the common tactics used in brainwashing and mind-programming, as it allows the person to become too receptive to programmings and thought-forms. Try to eat when you need to eat, and as much as your body needs.

#101

Or is Brahma in your view — white light — the force — nature/ Prakriti — rather than a personality / without attributes?

Could I ask you your view on this mantra? Sa Re Sa Sa

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VN9WqTmx9_U

#102

Does anyone feel like they have a connection to any other star system other than Orion?

And does anyone one know the importance of Sirius and why it was/is important to the Egyptians and Masons?

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