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Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 26th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique!” will tell you about emptying the mind via breathing energy and breathing insight with every single breath for kundalini awakening.
Breathing becomes the perception of energy with every single exhalation as chakras are opened, removing all obstacles in its way.
The way from the coccyx (at the pelvis) to the crown (at the top of the head) gets fully cleared.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Show Notes
Welcome back to the 26th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In this episode, titled “Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique!” I explore an intimate connection between breathwork and Kundalini awakening.
Discover how each exhalation can serve as a gateway to clearing the chakras, facilitating the flow of life energy from the coccyx to the crown, and unlocking deep insights.
I first explain the mechanics of breathing, emphasizing the importance of diaphragmatic breathing in activating Kundalini energy.
I also share personal anecdotes, illustrating how the mind can be emptied and the body rejuvenated through conscious breath control.
Learn how the release of vital energy can lead to an exhilarating sense of joy and passion that remains fresh and spontaneous.
The episode also examines the interplay of the chakras and breathing styles, detailing how the ancient concept of Prana relates to our modern understanding of respiratory health.
Gain insights into the three types of breathing styles and their implications on our overall well-being.
As I recount a thrilling personal adventure in the Himalayas, I highlight the importance of surrendering the mind to the body during moments of challenge, revealing how this can lead to profound clarity and a sense of invincibility.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of breathwork and its transformative potential.
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - How Kundalini Activates in the Body
(00:07:46) - Breathing as Prana
(00:12:59) - How diaphragmatic breathing empties the mind
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Video
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Transcript with Timestamps
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What else do we want on earth?
It is like finding a perpetual
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goldmine (if gold is really as important as this)!
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
emptying the mind via breathing
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energy and breathing insight with every
single breath for kundalini awakening.
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Breathing becomes the perception of energy with
every single exhalation as chakras are opened,
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removing all obstacles in its
way. The way from the coccyx
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(at the pelvis) to the crown (at the
top of the head) gets fully cleared.
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How Breathing Activates Kundalini
Kundalini rises from the gut to the
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brain as it works through the nervous system. It
does so through the spinal cord provided the
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chakras are open. And this is not a one-time
event. It rises every single time the breath
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gets almost fully exhaled in an absolutely
quiet manner. There is no force that needs
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to be exerted at all while exhaling. This way,
it keeps the flow of kundalini, aka insightful
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intelligence, intact incessantly through
the passage of time, every time. Therefore,
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another way to think of kundalini is life energy
that is personalized as insightful intelligence.
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The first time kundalini rises through a person’s
spine via the vagus nerve or Sushumna, it may (or
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may not) manifest as tantrums. These tantrums
can take the form of one of several different
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reactions depending on the person’s psychological
and neurological disposition. Some feel this first
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rise as an electrifying shock from the left-over
impediments along its way. Some others feel it as
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a sense of extreme joy never experienced before.
There is a full spectrum of reactions as varied
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as there are persons who feel and express
those reactions. Once the initial honeymoon
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(or nightmare) is over, it settles down as a
conscious creative potential in the coccyx again.
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One cannot take it for granted that this process
will occur automatically over and over again,
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thereby falling back in their mechanical ways
of life from before. Getting this life energy
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of insightful intelligence transferred to
the brain with every single breath still lies
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firmly within the conscious domain of awareness.
Therefore, one needs to keep one’s chakras open
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as one’s first nature. Once this is successfully
achieved, one needs to become conscious of every
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single breath, no matter what one is doing.
You might now wonder, “Won’t focusing on every
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single breath divide our attention whenever we
need to focus on something else of importance?”
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Not at all! The focus is not
on the breath but, instead,
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on the joy of one’s involvement into the action.
This will ensure that our attention is focused
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on that very moment. In fact, it stops us
from drifting into the domain of the mind
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whose emotional emphasis is on past memories and
future imaginations. This type of focus keeps
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us centrally fixated in the process of thinking
rather than getting swayed by thoughts which is
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what unconsciously disturbs our attention.
For this to happen seamlessly,
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we don’t even need to count our breaths.
That will only make it as mechanical as any
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other meaningless rituals people employ to
increase concentration like counting beads.
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Concentration and attention aka focus
are two different things altogether!
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Here is something really beautiful. Once the
insight of energy has gotten awakened as a
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potential, every single extended exhalation
of breath performs a miracle. It fills the
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head and the pelvic region simultaneously with an
extreme sense of joy and passion. This joy always
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remains as fresh, passionate and spontaneous
as it was when we felt it the very first time.
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Imagine having a passionate joy of cosmic orgasm
at the crown chakra and a sexual orgasm at the
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pelvis simultaneously with every single exhalation
of breath forever! It quite likely occurs due
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to an optimum release of serotonin, dopamine,
oxytocin and endorphins in the nervous system.
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What else do we want on earth? It is
like finding a perpetual goldmine (if
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gold is really as important as this)!
What actually happens is that we train
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ourselves to adopt ‘lightness’ as a personality
style. And we do this while equipping ourselves
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with its traits, namely, interest, insight
and adventure. Not even the acutest stress
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can pull us off-track any more. It is like
utilizing the ‘smart vagus’ of Stephen Porges’
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Polyvagal Theory. That is what strengthens
us in the face of an otherwise sympathetic
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nervous system response of ‘fight or flight’.
In fact, we have done something even bigger
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than this. We have emptied our mind along the
way. And in doing so, we have become invincible.
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And we keep renewing the entire procedure
with every single breath! We no more fear even
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the most imminent of threats - death. We have
discovered the most artistic way to live life,
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live it here and live it now. And we have learnt
how to do it, here and now and, best of all,
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using clear, physical and measurable techniques.
Consciously extending exhalations a little
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longer than inhalations after opening all the
seven chakras does it all. And it does it well
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too. It is simple. It is no rocket science.
As this combination of keeping chakras open
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while extending exhalations a little longer
than inhalations becomes our first nature,
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the miracle happens. We no more need to keep an
account of both these processes separately in a
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list of ‘things to do’. We just perceive its
effect as a sense of non-stop passionate joy.
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If ever a break is perceived in that joy, we
immediately need to set it right then and there.
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Breathing As Prana
Breathing is not just a simple exchange of
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gases within the lungs. It is way more than that.
That is why in the ancient chakra scriptures,
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it has been named as ‘Prana’ meaning the basic
core of life energy. It is conceived as having the
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following five types of winds in the human system:
Prana - located at head, lungs and heart with an
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inward and downward movement, empties the mind
Apana - located at lower abdomen with an
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outward and downward movement, activates
healthy digestive and reproductive systems
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Udana - located at thoracic diaphragm and
throat with an upward movement activates
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healthy respiratory and communication systems
Samana - located at navel with a spirally churning
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movement over there activates healthy metabolism
Vyana - located along circulatory system with
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outward movement activates healthy
circulatory and nervous systems
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There is also a mention of ‘Nadis’ meaning
channels in the body like nerves, arteries,
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veins, capillaries, bronchioles, and lymph
canals. The main three among them are:
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Ida - controls mental processes
Pingala - controls vital processes
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Sushumna - connects the root
chakra to the crown chakra
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Breathing is a biological process of moving air
out from and into the lungs thus replacing carbon
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dioxide with oxygen. The exchange takes
place in the alveoli through diffusion
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as the gases are transported to and from the
cells by the circulatory system. This makes
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cellular respiration possible where cells extract
energy from digested food through its oxidation.
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Carbon dioxide is generated as a waste product
which then needs to be expelled out of the body
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through external respiration called breathing.
Breathing also controls speaking, laughing,
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creating facial expressions and reflexes
like yawning, coughing and sneezing. The
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respiratory tract has the following different
parts in it to perform all these activities:
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Upper airways – nasal cavities
comprising nostrils, pharynx and larynx
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Lower airways – comprising trachea, mainstem
bronchus, lobar bronchus, segmental bronchus,
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bronchiole and alveolar duct named alveolus
Three Different Breathing Styles
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There are three different breathing styles
that people adopt as a lifelong habit.
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Diaphragmatic breathing (Deep breathing) is done
by contracting thoracic diaphragm for inhaling
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air inside the lungs. It is a muscle located
between the thoracic and the abdominal cavities.
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It comprises slow and deep inhalation through the
nose followed by slow and complete exhalation.
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Diaphragmatic breathing improves the blood flow
while reducing pulse rate and blood pressure. It
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also relaxes the vagal nerve and optimizes the
sympathetic mode of the nervous system which
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is the source of a ‘fight or flight’ response.
It is also one of the best cures for belly fat
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in particular and weight loss in general.
Shallow breathing, also called thoracic
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breathing or chest breathing uses intercostal
muscles drawing much less air into the lungs.
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Clavicular breathing raises the shoulders and
the collarbones (clavicles) while simultaneously
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contracting the abdomen for inhalation. Its
process is a very tiring one and cannot be
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held for long durations of maximum air intake.
One must opt for diaphragmatic breathing alone,
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because it takes the maximum air in. It’s
also because diaphragmatic breathing alone
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can awaken Kundalini pushing it
up after all the chakras go open.
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During exhalation, the lungs are left
with the functional residual capacity
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of air which occupies a volume of 2.5-3
liters. An extended exhalation can reduce
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it further to 1 liter, not more than that.
In other words, one may extend their exhalation
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such that the leftover air in the lungs is
anywhere between this range of 1 to 2.5-3 liters.
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How Diaphragmatic Breathing Empties The Mind
How can breathing empty the mind?
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Emptying the mind means getting rid of all
its beliefs, habits, fears and desires. If
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we try to do this through conscious mental effort
using our will power, we fail miserably. This is
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because we are trying to kill the mind by the mind
itself. Why would the mind ever commit suicide?
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It is happy being in control not only of our
psychology but also our biology. It does so by
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turning our perceptions and urges mechanical.
It is only possible to empty the mind using
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itself when it is posed with an impending
emergency that it has no solution for. It
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stops working in such an impending scenario.
Consequently, it gets forced to surrender its
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reign over any action that could get rid of the
said scenario. Ultimately, in such a situation,
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the brain takes charge and performs the
appropriate action to come out of that scenario.
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The Story of My Mind Emptying Itself And Handing
Over The Charge to My Brain in An Emergency
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I remember a story from my life when my spirit of
adventure posed a similar challenge to my mind.
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And my mind just resigned. But my spirit
still went ahead with my brain alone and
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faced the challenge. My mind was absolutely
emptied in the process and, thus, held back.
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It was in the year 1992 that I visited
a beautiful, high altitude valley in
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the Himalayas named Manali. I had already
booked a cottage for a month-long stay over
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there. We were three in our family; my wife, my
six-year-old daughter and I. We were enjoying
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our stay, doing something new each day.
After around ten days, we thought of going
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on an unconventional trek in the valley - a
trek along the untrodden side of the River
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Beas that flowed through the valley. There
was no road on that side of the river. Any
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roads that existed would be on the
other side of the river from our trek.
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Regardless, we started our trek
and kept moving along the river,
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upstream. After around half an hour of our trek,
the river got us stuck. It was taking a sharp turn
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there after hitting a high rock on our side of
the trek. So, there was no way to go further.
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We were a little disappointed. I looked around the
hill to the side of the river. I was looking for a
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bridle path, hoping to climb up a little and then
come down to move further along the river. That
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way, we could have circumvented the sharp turn and
climbed down to the river ahead of the sharp turn.
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As I was investigating the visible bridle
paths, I spotted a man standing at the hilltop
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looking curiously toward us. I shouted,
aiming my voice in his direction, “Hey!”
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“Hey!” the man shouted back from the hilltop.
I explained to him in my sign language
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what we were up to.
Seemingly a local,
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he immediately understood what we wanted. He
threw a fleeting look along the bridle paths
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up the hill. Then he looked down around the
river bend, and then waved at us to climb up.
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As we started climbing up, I spotted him coming
down toward us as well. That surprised me a bit.
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But as we climbed up a little further, I realized
why he had made his way down. As we reached a
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nearly horizontal patch lined up with a nearly
vertical rock, we found him standing up there.
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What a helping spirit combined with
a curious involvement! He smiled,
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sitting atop the approximately 7 feet high
rock tilted at around 105o from the patch.
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“I had seen this rock from above and I knew you
would need my help to climb it,” he said, smiling.
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“Thanks a lot!” I felt grateful. As I looked
down once from where we were standing, I found
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us to be exactly over the river-bend which meant
that, by then, we had climbed a few hundred feet.
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The man lied down on his stomach on the
horizontal patch atop the rock. From there,
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he hung his arms down along the slope of the rock.
First, my wife held his hands and I pushed her
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from behind as he pulled her up to the top.
As the patch above the top was comparatively
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narrow, he made her sit a little away on a gentle
slope. Then he came back to the rock-top and lied
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down on his stomach hanging his arms down, again.
This time, I lifted my daughter and pushed her up
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from behind as he pulled her up easily. He made
her sit along with my wife and came back to the
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rock-top again. As he lied down on his stomach
a third time hanging his arms down to pull me up
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now, he realized it wouldn’t work.
“Oh!” he exclaimed, disappointed.
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By then I, too, had realized that we
had not accounted for this scenario.
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With my wife and my daughter, I was
there below to push them up. But now,
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I was alone with no one to do the same for me.
The man and I looked into each other’s eyes
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and then down at the river below
flowing with roaring ferocity.
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“We forgot this,” I said.
“Now?” he asked me.
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“It’s risky,” I said with a sigh.
“Disappointing,” he sighed back
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dropping his head on the top of the rock.
“Hey! Is it really impossible?” I looked
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at the height and the slope of the rock.
“Not exactly, but yes, almost!” he opined.
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“Why don’t we do it! I can push myself up with
all my might,” my adventure bug bit me further.
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“I don’t bother about myself. But you have a
family along. If you aren’t able to make it the
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very first time, we both will be down there in
the river. We will be flown away by its gushing
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waters…not to be found even as dead bodies,
ever! A drowning man catches at a straw. So,
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you’ll end up pulling me down as well!”
he explained what all it could entail.
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“Oh, then send them back and we will go down
the way we came up from,” I felt concerned
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about a stranger’s life not to be jeopardized.
“But I won’t feel good!” he exclaimed as he
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looked into my eyes intently.
I kept looking back into his.
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“Okay, let’s do it. Just take care to sync
your push with my pull exactly at the same
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moment,” he finally gave his verdict.
“Think twice before you say yes,” I said.
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“You too!” came his reply.
“Ready?” I asked.
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“Ready?” he asked.
We both started
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counting aloud, “ One, two, three!”
As we counted three, I found myself lying
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along him up on the patch at the top of the rock.
Two sighs of relief from the two of us and we
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smiled calmly looking at each other’s faces!
I did it. In fact, my body did it. I didn’t
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know how I had done it. It was exactly like
what that middle-aged mechanic in my story in
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Episode 19 had done. He, too, didn’t have
any clue to how he had done what he had.
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My wife and daughter were oblivious
to what we both had come up through.
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My mind was just empty and it remained
so for a long while after.
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But habits die hard. The entire
pattern comes back to the same
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square one once the emergency gets over.
Hence, though imminent emergencies can empty
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our mind in a flash of a second, they aren’t a
permanent modus operandi. But yes, they can give
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us an instant glimpse of what an empty mind feels
and works like. They can certainly demonstrate
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the superiority of any action done on our part
without any doubt about it. That was what had
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happened in the above-mentioned story as well as
in the mechanic’s story mentioned in Episode 19.
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How to Empty The Mind Permanently
But then, how can the mind be permanently emptied?
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Remember the firsthand account of a first
timer in skydiving quoted before in Episode 20?
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I repeat it here for your convenience:
I was OUT… everything mentally ended… over…
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started… me… perhaps more dead than alive… perhaps
more alive than I will ever be… breathing just as
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I had been taught… wind… wind and breath… until
wind and breath became indiscernible, became as
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one… and yes, almost weightless… it was true! …
weightless and so surreal… there was the earth,
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neither coming at me, nor me at it, … no
up… no down… no me, in the ego sense of me,
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just some thoughtless consciousness… and
yes, it was awesome simply to be… or not.
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The sky was in my lungs and it never once
occurred to me would the parachute open.
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It is a perfect example of a mind having gone
empty. And what a tremendous experience this was!
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But unfortunately, this, too, stays only for a
maximum duration of 6-7 minutes. That is while
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the skydiver is falling free before the parachute
opens. We could extend this time with the help of
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a virtual reality simulator without even having
a real skydiving session. But how long for?
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We could even consider improving the quality
of virtual free-fall simulator as compared
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to a real skydiving session. That could
even entail removing the decelerating
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effect of air with a better control on
experiencing acceleration due to gravity.
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We could hypothesize that such a perfect
simulation for a certain minimum time
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might empty the mind permanently as well.
In fact, I am already working on a project
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that proposes to testify this hypothesis
under strict laboratory conditions.
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But we cannot wait for this hypothesis to
get proved correct. We do have a surer method
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though a little slower than the proposed
hypothesis, at least for the time being.
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And that is what I have already mentioned
in this episode. We can easily keep emptying
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our mind continuously with every single extended
exhalation when all our chakras are open. From a
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vitalistic angle, it amounts to sending periodical
surges of kundalini from an open root chakra to
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an open crown chakra. From a materialistic angle,
it amounts to sending periodical surges of neural
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communication from the gut to the brain.
Whatever it might be, but it does fill the
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crown of the head with inexplicable joy through
every single extended exhalation. Along with joy,
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it also embellishes the brain with
newer energy and newer insights.
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And every surge of this inexplicable joy keeps
the mind emptied for its duration, in fact a
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little longer. Before it starts waning, the next
surge appears with the next extended exhalation,
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reinforcing the mind’s emptiness again.
In case we ever miss the sequence, the sky
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is not going to fall loose on earth. We can pick
the thread of breath up from wherever it right
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now is and restart the sequence once again.
That is what Skeletal Leap rewards us with!
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Thanks for listening to this
episode of Skeletal Leap:
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I will tell you about skeletal meditation
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emptying the mind and then keeping
it empty for kundalini awakening.
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By Laadi OjasEmpty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 26th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique!” will tell you about emptying the mind via breathing energy and breathing insight with every single breath for kundalini awakening.
Breathing becomes the perception of energy with every single exhalation as chakras are opened, removing all obstacles in its way.
The way from the coccyx (at the pelvis) to the crown (at the top of the head) gets fully cleared.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Show Notes
Welcome back to the 26th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
In this episode, titled “Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique!” I explore an intimate connection between breathwork and Kundalini awakening.
Discover how each exhalation can serve as a gateway to clearing the chakras, facilitating the flow of life energy from the coccyx to the crown, and unlocking deep insights.
I first explain the mechanics of breathing, emphasizing the importance of diaphragmatic breathing in activating Kundalini energy.
I also share personal anecdotes, illustrating how the mind can be emptied and the body rejuvenated through conscious breath control.
Learn how the release of vital energy can lead to an exhilarating sense of joy and passion that remains fresh and spontaneous.
The episode also examines the interplay of the chakras and breathing styles, detailing how the ancient concept of Prana relates to our modern understanding of respiratory health.
Gain insights into the three types of breathing styles and their implications on our overall well-being.
As I recount a thrilling personal adventure in the Himalayas, I highlight the importance of surrendering the mind to the body during moments of challenge, revealing how this can lead to profound clarity and a sense of invincibility.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of breathwork and its transformative potential.
Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Chapters
Chapters:
(00:00:01) - How Kundalini Activates in the Body
(00:07:46) - Breathing as Prana
(00:12:59) - How diaphragmatic breathing empties the mind
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Empty Your Mind with This Simple Diaphragmatic Breathing Technique! - Transcript with Timestamps
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What else do we want on earth?
It is like finding a perpetual
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goldmine (if gold is really as important as this)!
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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
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Today’s episode will tell you about
emptying the mind via breathing
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energy and breathing insight with every
single breath for kundalini awakening.
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Breathing becomes the perception of energy with
every single exhalation as chakras are opened,
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removing all obstacles in its
way. The way from the coccyx
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(at the pelvis) to the crown (at the
top of the head) gets fully cleared.
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How Breathing Activates Kundalini
Kundalini rises from the gut to the
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brain as it works through the nervous system. It
does so through the spinal cord provided the
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chakras are open. And this is not a one-time
event. It rises every single time the breath
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gets almost fully exhaled in an absolutely
quiet manner. There is no force that needs
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to be exerted at all while exhaling. This way,
it keeps the flow of kundalini, aka insightful
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intelligence, intact incessantly through
the passage of time, every time. Therefore,
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another way to think of kundalini is life energy
that is personalized as insightful intelligence.
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The first time kundalini rises through a person’s
spine via the vagus nerve or Sushumna, it may (or
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may not) manifest as tantrums. These tantrums
can take the form of one of several different
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reactions depending on the person’s psychological
and neurological disposition. Some feel this first
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rise as an electrifying shock from the left-over
impediments along its way. Some others feel it as
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a sense of extreme joy never experienced before.
There is a full spectrum of reactions as varied
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as there are persons who feel and express
those reactions. Once the initial honeymoon
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(or nightmare) is over, it settles down as a
conscious creative potential in the coccyx again.
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One cannot take it for granted that this process
will occur automatically over and over again,
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thereby falling back in their mechanical ways
of life from before. Getting this life energy
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of insightful intelligence transferred to
the brain with every single breath still lies
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firmly within the conscious domain of awareness.
Therefore, one needs to keep one’s chakras open
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as one’s first nature. Once this is successfully
achieved, one needs to become conscious of every
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single breath, no matter what one is doing.
You might now wonder, “Won’t focusing on every
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single breath divide our attention whenever we
need to focus on something else of importance?”
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Not at all! The focus is not
on the breath but, instead,
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on the joy of one’s involvement into the action.
This will ensure that our attention is focused
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on that very moment. In fact, it stops us
from drifting into the domain of the mind
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whose emotional emphasis is on past memories and
future imaginations. This type of focus keeps
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us centrally fixated in the process of thinking
rather than getting swayed by thoughts which is
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what unconsciously disturbs our attention.
For this to happen seamlessly,
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we don’t even need to count our breaths.
That will only make it as mechanical as any
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other meaningless rituals people employ to
increase concentration like counting beads.
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Concentration and attention aka focus
are two different things altogether!
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Here is something really beautiful. Once the
insight of energy has gotten awakened as a
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potential, every single extended exhalation
of breath performs a miracle. It fills the
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head and the pelvic region simultaneously with an
extreme sense of joy and passion. This joy always
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remains as fresh, passionate and spontaneous
as it was when we felt it the very first time.
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Imagine having a passionate joy of cosmic orgasm
at the crown chakra and a sexual orgasm at the
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pelvis simultaneously with every single exhalation
of breath forever! It quite likely occurs due
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to an optimum release of serotonin, dopamine,
oxytocin and endorphins in the nervous system.
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What else do we want on earth? It is
like finding a perpetual goldmine (if
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gold is really as important as this)!
What actually happens is that we train
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ourselves to adopt ‘lightness’ as a personality
style. And we do this while equipping ourselves
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with its traits, namely, interest, insight
and adventure. Not even the acutest stress
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can pull us off-track any more. It is like
utilizing the ‘smart vagus’ of Stephen Porges’
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Polyvagal Theory. That is what strengthens
us in the face of an otherwise sympathetic
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nervous system response of ‘fight or flight’.
In fact, we have done something even bigger
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than this. We have emptied our mind along the
way. And in doing so, we have become invincible.
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And we keep renewing the entire procedure
with every single breath! We no more fear even
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the most imminent of threats - death. We have
discovered the most artistic way to live life,
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live it here and live it now. And we have learnt
how to do it, here and now and, best of all,
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using clear, physical and measurable techniques.
Consciously extending exhalations a little
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longer than inhalations after opening all the
seven chakras does it all. And it does it well
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too. It is simple. It is no rocket science.
As this combination of keeping chakras open
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while extending exhalations a little longer
than inhalations becomes our first nature,
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the miracle happens. We no more need to keep an
account of both these processes separately in a
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list of ‘things to do’. We just perceive its
effect as a sense of non-stop passionate joy.
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If ever a break is perceived in that joy, we
immediately need to set it right then and there.
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Breathing As Prana
Breathing is not just a simple exchange of
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gases within the lungs. It is way more than that.
That is why in the ancient chakra scriptures,
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it has been named as ‘Prana’ meaning the basic
core of life energy. It is conceived as having the
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following five types of winds in the human system:
Prana - located at head, lungs and heart with an
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inward and downward movement, empties the mind
Apana - located at lower abdomen with an
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outward and downward movement, activates
healthy digestive and reproductive systems
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Udana - located at thoracic diaphragm and
throat with an upward movement activates
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healthy respiratory and communication systems
Samana - located at navel with a spirally churning
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movement over there activates healthy metabolism
Vyana - located along circulatory system with
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outward movement activates healthy
circulatory and nervous systems
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There is also a mention of ‘Nadis’ meaning
channels in the body like nerves, arteries,
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veins, capillaries, bronchioles, and lymph
canals. The main three among them are:
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Ida - controls mental processes
Pingala - controls vital processes
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Sushumna - connects the root
chakra to the crown chakra
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Breathing is a biological process of moving air
out from and into the lungs thus replacing carbon
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dioxide with oxygen. The exchange takes
place in the alveoli through diffusion
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as the gases are transported to and from the
cells by the circulatory system. This makes
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cellular respiration possible where cells extract
energy from digested food through its oxidation.
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Carbon dioxide is generated as a waste product
which then needs to be expelled out of the body
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through external respiration called breathing.
Breathing also controls speaking, laughing,
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creating facial expressions and reflexes
like yawning, coughing and sneezing. The
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respiratory tract has the following different
parts in it to perform all these activities:
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Upper airways – nasal cavities
comprising nostrils, pharynx and larynx
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Lower airways – comprising trachea, mainstem
bronchus, lobar bronchus, segmental bronchus,
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bronchiole and alveolar duct named alveolus
Three Different Breathing Styles
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There are three different breathing styles
that people adopt as a lifelong habit.
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Diaphragmatic breathing (Deep breathing) is done
by contracting thoracic diaphragm for inhaling
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air inside the lungs. It is a muscle located
between the thoracic and the abdominal cavities.
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It comprises slow and deep inhalation through the
nose followed by slow and complete exhalation.
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Diaphragmatic breathing improves the blood flow
while reducing pulse rate and blood pressure. It
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also relaxes the vagal nerve and optimizes the
sympathetic mode of the nervous system which
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is the source of a ‘fight or flight’ response.
It is also one of the best cures for belly fat
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in particular and weight loss in general.
Shallow breathing, also called thoracic
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breathing or chest breathing uses intercostal
muscles drawing much less air into the lungs.
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Clavicular breathing raises the shoulders and
the collarbones (clavicles) while simultaneously
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contracting the abdomen for inhalation. Its
process is a very tiring one and cannot be
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held for long durations of maximum air intake.
One must opt for diaphragmatic breathing alone,
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because it takes the maximum air in. It’s
also because diaphragmatic breathing alone
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can awaken Kundalini pushing it
up after all the chakras go open.
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During exhalation, the lungs are left
with the functional residual capacity
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of air which occupies a volume of 2.5-3
liters. An extended exhalation can reduce
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it further to 1 liter, not more than that.
In other words, one may extend their exhalation
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such that the leftover air in the lungs is
anywhere between this range of 1 to 2.5-3 liters.
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How Diaphragmatic Breathing Empties The Mind
How can breathing empty the mind?
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Emptying the mind means getting rid of all
its beliefs, habits, fears and desires. If
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we try to do this through conscious mental effort
using our will power, we fail miserably. This is
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because we are trying to kill the mind by the mind
itself. Why would the mind ever commit suicide?
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It is happy being in control not only of our
psychology but also our biology. It does so by
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turning our perceptions and urges mechanical.
It is only possible to empty the mind using
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itself when it is posed with an impending
emergency that it has no solution for. It
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stops working in such an impending scenario.
Consequently, it gets forced to surrender its
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reign over any action that could get rid of the
said scenario. Ultimately, in such a situation,
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the brain takes charge and performs the
appropriate action to come out of that scenario.
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The Story of My Mind Emptying Itself And Handing
Over The Charge to My Brain in An Emergency
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I remember a story from my life when my spirit of
adventure posed a similar challenge to my mind.
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And my mind just resigned. But my spirit
still went ahead with my brain alone and
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faced the challenge. My mind was absolutely
emptied in the process and, thus, held back.
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It was in the year 1992 that I visited
a beautiful, high altitude valley in
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the Himalayas named Manali. I had already
booked a cottage for a month-long stay over
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there. We were three in our family; my wife, my
six-year-old daughter and I. We were enjoying
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our stay, doing something new each day.
After around ten days, we thought of going
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on an unconventional trek in the valley - a
trek along the untrodden side of the River
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Beas that flowed through the valley. There
was no road on that side of the river. Any
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roads that existed would be on the
other side of the river from our trek.
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Regardless, we started our trek
and kept moving along the river,
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upstream. After around half an hour of our trek,
the river got us stuck. It was taking a sharp turn
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there after hitting a high rock on our side of
the trek. So, there was no way to go further.
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We were a little disappointed. I looked around the
hill to the side of the river. I was looking for a
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bridle path, hoping to climb up a little and then
come down to move further along the river. That
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way, we could have circumvented the sharp turn and
climbed down to the river ahead of the sharp turn.
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As I was investigating the visible bridle
paths, I spotted a man standing at the hilltop
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looking curiously toward us. I shouted,
aiming my voice in his direction, “Hey!”
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“Hey!” the man shouted back from the hilltop.
I explained to him in my sign language
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what we were up to.
Seemingly a local,
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he immediately understood what we wanted. He
threw a fleeting look along the bridle paths
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up the hill. Then he looked down around the
river bend, and then waved at us to climb up.
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As we started climbing up, I spotted him coming
down toward us as well. That surprised me a bit.
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But as we climbed up a little further, I realized
why he had made his way down. As we reached a
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nearly horizontal patch lined up with a nearly
vertical rock, we found him standing up there.
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What a helping spirit combined with
a curious involvement! He smiled,
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sitting atop the approximately 7 feet high
rock tilted at around 105o from the patch.
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“I had seen this rock from above and I knew you
would need my help to climb it,” he said, smiling.
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“Thanks a lot!” I felt grateful. As I looked
down once from where we were standing, I found
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us to be exactly over the river-bend which meant
that, by then, we had climbed a few hundred feet.
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The man lied down on his stomach on the
horizontal patch atop the rock. From there,
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he hung his arms down along the slope of the rock.
First, my wife held his hands and I pushed her
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from behind as he pulled her up to the top.
As the patch above the top was comparatively
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narrow, he made her sit a little away on a gentle
slope. Then he came back to the rock-top and lied
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down on his stomach hanging his arms down, again.
This time, I lifted my daughter and pushed her up
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from behind as he pulled her up easily. He made
her sit along with my wife and came back to the
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rock-top again. As he lied down on his stomach
a third time hanging his arms down to pull me up
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now, he realized it wouldn’t work.
“Oh!” he exclaimed, disappointed.
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By then I, too, had realized that we
had not accounted for this scenario.
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With my wife and my daughter, I was
there below to push them up. But now,
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I was alone with no one to do the same for me.
The man and I looked into each other’s eyes
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and then down at the river below
flowing with roaring ferocity.
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“We forgot this,” I said.
“Now?” he asked me.
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“It’s risky,” I said with a sigh.
“Disappointing,” he sighed back
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dropping his head on the top of the rock.
“Hey! Is it really impossible?” I looked
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at the height and the slope of the rock.
“Not exactly, but yes, almost!” he opined.
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“Why don’t we do it! I can push myself up with
all my might,” my adventure bug bit me further.
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“I don’t bother about myself. But you have a
family along. If you aren’t able to make it the
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very first time, we both will be down there in
the river. We will be flown away by its gushing
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waters…not to be found even as dead bodies,
ever! A drowning man catches at a straw. So,
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you’ll end up pulling me down as well!”
he explained what all it could entail.
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“Oh, then send them back and we will go down
the way we came up from,” I felt concerned
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about a stranger’s life not to be jeopardized.
“But I won’t feel good!” he exclaimed as he
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looked into my eyes intently.
I kept looking back into his.
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“Okay, let’s do it. Just take care to sync
your push with my pull exactly at the same
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moment,” he finally gave his verdict.
“Think twice before you say yes,” I said.
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“You too!” came his reply.
“Ready?” I asked.
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“Ready?” he asked.
We both started
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counting aloud, “ One, two, three!”
As we counted three, I found myself lying
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along him up on the patch at the top of the rock.
Two sighs of relief from the two of us and we
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smiled calmly looking at each other’s faces!
I did it. In fact, my body did it. I didn’t
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know how I had done it. It was exactly like
what that middle-aged mechanic in my story in
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Episode 19 had done. He, too, didn’t have
any clue to how he had done what he had.
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My wife and daughter were oblivious
to what we both had come up through.
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My mind was just empty and it remained
so for a long while after.
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But habits die hard. The entire
pattern comes back to the same
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square one once the emergency gets over.
Hence, though imminent emergencies can empty
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our mind in a flash of a second, they aren’t a
permanent modus operandi. But yes, they can give
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us an instant glimpse of what an empty mind feels
and works like. They can certainly demonstrate
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the superiority of any action done on our part
without any doubt about it. That was what had
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happened in the above-mentioned story as well as
in the mechanic’s story mentioned in Episode 19.
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How to Empty The Mind Permanently
But then, how can the mind be permanently emptied?
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Remember the firsthand account of a first
timer in skydiving quoted before in Episode 20?
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I repeat it here for your convenience:
I was OUT… everything mentally ended… over…
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started… me… perhaps more dead than alive… perhaps
more alive than I will ever be… breathing just as
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I had been taught… wind… wind and breath… until
wind and breath became indiscernible, became as
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one… and yes, almost weightless… it was true! …
weightless and so surreal… there was the earth,
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neither coming at me, nor me at it, … no
up… no down… no me, in the ego sense of me,
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just some thoughtless consciousness… and
yes, it was awesome simply to be… or not.
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The sky was in my lungs and it never once
occurred to me would the parachute open.
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It is a perfect example of a mind having gone
empty. And what a tremendous experience this was!
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But unfortunately, this, too, stays only for a
maximum duration of 6-7 minutes. That is while
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the skydiver is falling free before the parachute
opens. We could extend this time with the help of
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a virtual reality simulator without even having
a real skydiving session. But how long for?
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We could even consider improving the quality
of virtual free-fall simulator as compared
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to a real skydiving session. That could
even entail removing the decelerating
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effect of air with a better control on
experiencing acceleration due to gravity.
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We could hypothesize that such a perfect
simulation for a certain minimum time
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might empty the mind permanently as well.
In fact, I am already working on a project
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that proposes to testify this hypothesis
under strict laboratory conditions.
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But we cannot wait for this hypothesis to
get proved correct. We do have a surer method
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though a little slower than the proposed
hypothesis, at least for the time being.
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And that is what I have already mentioned
in this episode. We can easily keep emptying
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our mind continuously with every single extended
exhalation when all our chakras are open. From a
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vitalistic angle, it amounts to sending periodical
surges of kundalini from an open root chakra to
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an open crown chakra. From a materialistic angle,
it amounts to sending periodical surges of neural
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communication from the gut to the brain.
Whatever it might be, but it does fill the
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crown of the head with inexplicable joy through
every single extended exhalation. Along with joy,
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it also embellishes the brain with
newer energy and newer insights.
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And every surge of this inexplicable joy keeps
the mind emptied for its duration, in fact a
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little longer. Before it starts waning, the next
surge appears with the next extended exhalation,
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reinforcing the mind’s emptiness again.
In case we ever miss the sequence, the sky
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is not going to fall loose on earth. We can pick
the thread of breath up from wherever it right
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now is and restart the sequence once again.
That is what Skeletal Leap rewards us with!
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Thanks for listening to this
episode of Skeletal Leap:
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A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
I will tell you about skeletal meditation
0:26:52.480,0:26:58.320
emptying the mind and then keeping
it empty for kundalini awakening.
0:26:58.320,0:27:02.240
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