Cleansing - The inward breath
CleansingPlease feel free discuss any techniques you use for cleansing:
I use a technique for cleansing the lower chakras that I learnt in Sahaja Yoga.
We can arrange what is called a footsoak. One simply gets a warm bowl of water and puts an amount of salt in it. The lower 3 chakras are in particular cleared of some negative vibrations that accumulate.
One sits and meditates whilst the water and salt, acting as the earth element draws the negative energy downwards and out of the system. The good, pure and nourishing energy that is given off by that Kundalini ascends upwards, like the sap of a tree so we have the 2 flows going. Our subtle energy flows, there are currents, and in fact our energy can crash. The water element is a good way for us to familiarise with how our energies circulate. This technique done daily is a great new *doing* to get into and it can also contribute to getting the circulation going, and the circulation of healthy chi energy through the body.
My 2 favourite teas are Peppermint and Licorise.
Peppermint goes straight to my stomach centre and balances it, soothing the agitation that can stir up in the upper liver. The licorice feeds the throat chakra with something that strengthens it, the gums and mouth become cleaner. Licorice roots are also good, actually chewing on the roots and allowing the juice to feed the mouth area.
We often ignore our sensitivity. One thing placed on men as they grow to teens is an odd development to ignore their sensitivity, as if to be sensitie to anything is being *uncool*. This is quite a dangerous myth that young men wear. The *I don't care* attitude is fashionable to the extent that it enhances the stupidity of males to an almost unproportional level.
The healing energy is the medicine of my left hand and the creative energy is the medicine of my right hand. I was aware of this long before coming across Sahaja Yoga and long before reading books, in fact I would go as far to say that it is a timeless bent of nature. I am very sensitive to the currents of negative energy that flow through the creation. On 1 hand I am very detached, yet when I allow these currents in or open the door so to speak, I become quite aware of its affect.
I went to a birthday gathering in a pub the other day. In my time I have in the passed been a heavy drinker. At this gathering I drank, and knew a select few or 1 was on drugs. When I got home I was full of this energy type. I am very familiar with its ways, yet it does not matyer, somehow I had allowed much of these energy to move through me. It took me many days to clear this out and return the same energy flow.
Bad dreams are layers of negative energy that is trapped in our system. The trapped currents take forms in our minds and we winess the shapings as and when they come.
To meditate, footsoak, and *do* other activities that clear out our energy flow helps us to move closer to our pure energy.
It is a little like becoming witnesses to *what comes into the water*.
An over-stimulated liver is also a common symptom, especially for those of us that are hard-sold to the myth of Western Culture. The drive > drive > drive ideals that hold up much of the myth are a by-product of people creating the world with an over-stimulated liver.
Ha ha ha, I just find that funny.
It is easy to spot someone in the croud as having an over-stimulated liver. They will ither be looking at their watch and racing off to a destination, or be agry and very hot seeming. The liver is part of *what activates us to do* and its over-stimulation causes our whole right side to be a little over important about the elements that make up the right side of awareness.
Alcohol and drugs damage the liver, and fatty foods saturate it to a state where Western life has become normal to be over-stimulated. This is too much yang thrown through us.
There is another technique I use from Sahaja Yoga where an icepack is placed over the area of the liver. The affects I feel straight away are a complete deceleration of thoughts and a way for the overt level of heat to be encouraged to leave the body.
Cooking our food, rather than always taking the lazy option of take-aways and oven meals also contributes to the liver and stomach being less bogged down with heat and saturated. Don't get me wrong, I had a shack of barbacue ribs with chips last night in a Restaurant, but it comes down to our
routines and our allowance and nature of how we groom our intake.
Harmonious settings are also a large part to cleansing. Being able to access nature, desolve into the dark once the sun has curved over, allowing alignment to the directions and where energy flows from, tuning our close environments to our own natures, animals and nature spots.
I have just started an Interior Design course and am enjoying its development so far.
