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Smiling is embodyingFrom: Alexander Alexis
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2007-01-12 22:51:14
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Hey there,
Now that I've read your last post I am certain about what you mean about witnessing and what is going on with you.
Yogic stuff in general is very one-sided. Few actually resolve the earth/sexual/psychological energies which are at the root of everything we're doing here with standard yogic practices because they are designed to sublimate the "lower" energies of the body rather than to integrate them in an effort to "get off the ground."
Michael has written extensively about this (see his article "In Search of Spiritual Orgasm".
Observing is effete and cold and pretends to make one spiritual when what it really does is separate you from your self. It does not work on the principle of loving acceptance and nurturing of whoever you are and pushes the "po" and "hun" in you apart.
Po is your earthly, yin self. Hun is your heavenly, yang self. Alchemical practices are designed to let the two get together in harmony so you are a wholeness. Most yogic stuff is designed to move your energy up the spine into the head/heart so you do not fall prey to the pull of your earthly nature. Unfortunately, the results are bad.
I clearly remember my yoga teacher in the early 70s saying to me, "Never meditate on anything below your heart." What a mistake that was! It's like having a three floor home and being afraid of using the bottom floor.
The inner smile and orbit circulate the water and fire energies which naturally mix and replenish each other when we sleep. (That is the predominant function of sleep.)
You are not really "separate" when you practice the inner smile. What you are is larger. You have created space in which to embrace what is happening inside you rather than to separate from it. So it gives you the feeling of having room to move while simultaneously embracing everything that's going on inside you (rather than trying to control it or get away from it).
If you are feeling overwhelmed, sometimes it is because you are not relaxed and rooted, trusting comes from this. You are getting into a level of acceptance of yourself and your energies which you have kept at bey previously. Relax. Breathe. Feel. And smile to it all. Let it all in and let it all out.
If you are not doing standing practices, I recommend that you start now.
In the spirt of "full embodiment!"
Smiles,
Alexander
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