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i thought that faith and a huge yearning/believing must be present to awaken? That that's what separates people who just do techniques all their life vs people who do techniques with love and faith. That that is what keeps you going through the dark, frustrating times.

@herghly the KP's? not there yet, ive been doing this 3 days in a row only. From only the prep excersices ive been getting intense tingles in the third eye area/head buzzing/weird emotions afterwards, and it kinda scares me. I don't want to rush through this. Ive heard somewhere that in actual kriya ashrams the students have to do Om Japa for 6 months before learning KP, because the processes can be that intense. I'll probably try the KP in a few weeks though, once i adjust to this.

thanks. I read a passage in Enio Nimmis Kriya that Japa was the one thing that transformed the practice and it melts away any disturbing thoughts. I've had lots of disturbing thoughts during yoga and its honestly getting really annoying and its messing up with my focus, especially for Om Japa.

@kieranperez i tried searching for everything about 30 years in a cave and nothing comes up :((( he's probably saving it for the booklist

Lesson 12, Japa Mantra Has anyone found benefit to this?

I set up myself for a goal of 60 minute self inquiry sits daily for 3 months to see progress. So far its very hard. As the title states, practically all of it is monkey mind. I keep telling myself to focus on awareness itself and to not give thoughts/sounds/sensations any thought other than the natural rise and pass of them. But they dominant my mind and so easily i start getting caught up in their stories. Not once did i feel the full calmness of awareness during the 60 minute sit. I do concentration practices twice a day, and im still at the 2 minute mark max because my mind always jumps to other thoughts and faces even in those 2 minutes. I always hear people on here warning about not being that one person that spent a few decades meditating without getting any real progress. And im scared ill be like that. What do we even focus on again? In theory awareness, but i cant find it. IM looking, and then all these other sense get in the way. I did a rupert spira meditation for self inquiry and it was nice but i dont want to repeat the same guided meditation over and over again, my mind gets used it and it wont work anymore.

thanks @inFlow and @Shakazulu i just did the prepatory ones (lesson 1-7 routine) second day in a row, and my third eye started buzzing/vibrating, and i saw purple-y colors swooshing around. Happened when i did Om Japa and kinda scared me. The thing that sucks is when something "esoteric" happens my mind gets really exciting and im thinking HOLY Shiit and i lose concentraiton. I need to practice ignoring all phenomenon and just focus on what im doing. I did forget to intertwine my hands and put them on my lap when that happened, not sure if its related to that

@llumi thanks! Hatha yoga.

Anyone who has flat feet out there, ive had flat feet my whole life and i started yoga (especially barefoot yoga) few months now and i literally have arches in my feet. DO ITTT

the book says to face East, i presume because its usually done during sunrise hours and you face the sun rising in East. If i do this in the afternoon, during sunset, should i face West toward the sun or still face East? Also, question for people doing this awhile, have you noticed if your personality has changed? I read an article on Medium about a guy's insights from meditating for 4,300 hours. He did Kriya yoga for a decade and he said that Kriya changed his personality, and that sounds scary lol. (i presume for the better???)

thanks everyone. After thinking, it'll will probably be better to do 3 month Kriya challenge to get a nice concentrating ability, then ill do self-inquiry. yes, thats it. I have done those, but i get so distracted in the mind stories that i almost start falling asleep true, i think i tried to fly when i dont know how to walk yet. Probably not even crawl This is such a beautiful way to put it into perspective, ill give it a try thanks

@Nahm hmm kinda. I know theory-wise i need to focus on awareness, or the "observer" but im getting caught up in the thought stories. Ive experienced awareness but at such a small glimpse like a second that im not sure if its even awareness or just a passing sensation @purerogue yeah thats what i plan to do next

thanks, i'll keep this in mind in my next session, be aware of thoughts not to dispel them away. My head actually physically started to hurt so much during the session by how hard i was trying to be aware lol this puts a different perspective to it, thanks. @ajasatya cant do it now, i have studying to do i thought this was the point of inquiry? to focus on your amness? what do you mean by focus on amness then continue inquiry thank you, as i read more answers, im starting to understand that the point isnt to get my thoughts to stop, however many there may be and however fast they may come up, but to just be aware of them. @cetus56 thank you so much @David Hammond thanks, this is similar to what rupert spira was doing during the guided self inquiry sitting hahaha thats a mind-twister but it makes sense. During the self-inquiry video on this channel, Leo made it seem as if just being aware and putting focus on awareness itself is two different things. At least thats the way i understood it. And i think thats what made me confused. @Leo Gura thoughts? @TheAvatarState yes i watched it and made detailed notes the way i understood is that it takes yeeeaaars to get to the first step, which is differientating between true self and false self, and then a while to integrate them back. @Enlightenment @Esoteric i havent even properly begun this yet. I dont think giving up something so quickly because of resistance will get me anywhere, i just did it twice in my life I need to give this a proper run to see if it works with practice and time. Maybe it does, maybe it doesnt, i'll see @nistake i have the kriya book and did a test run that year (it was awesome) but i had to stop because im lazy haha. My plan is to pick up this later this year, i don't want to stuff myself with too many things at once, because thats a good way to suck at everything haha and im busy with other life things. I plan to layer things one at a time @Joseph Maynor yes.

so basically being still in my mind? i guess this one takes the most practice, i keep listening to what the thoughts say instead of just letting them flow thank you yea, my guilty pleasure is thinking how amazing and peaceful it'll be. With all the talk of oohh its so beautiful your infinity blah blah you kinda expect its gonna be big if its infinity lol.

@FoxFoxFox i want to feel good about that, but i can't. so this dis-identification just happens over time automatically? @Shin i never thought about it like that

thank you sooo much everyone, this truly means a lot @bejapuskas @FoxFoxFox @okulele

hello, i am asking for some prayers for a beautiful 2 year old girl thats battling Leukemia. Currently this is one of the top stories in Croatia because treatment in Croatia didnt work, and now her parents are trying out their last hope, to fly her to Philadelphia's children hospital and hope treatment there works. They set up a campaign because they need 2 million dollars to cover expenses of healthcare in america and already raised 8.2 million kunas in a few days which is a little over a million dollars. I am asking for prayers from the Prayer Swat Team to help this little girl survive this <3 Thank you so so so much. this is the story but its written in Croatian:https://www.24sata.hr/news/moja-curica-umire-a-za-njeno-lijecenje-traze-18-milijuna-kn-621659 this is a indiegogo they made recently on english https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/for-mila-s-treatment?fbclid=IwAR0TJC8q4jnRJrMobX8kp5GPccffY96ysV9xoPC2B0zIbnK7H8KFipBdKWY#/

AND WHITE PANTS! lol, so whens your psychic business opening?

why not simple rudrashka :D? @Shakazulu this guy makes them by himself the traditional way: http://www.innereyeyoga.co.uk/japa_mala_view.html theres also sandalwood and tulsi on there

thank you for your detailed reply. I know what you mean by the video vs in person, which happened to me after years of doing yoga from youtube videos wrong. It wasnt until i went to a legit class that i fixed how i did positions and felt more calm and my body didnt hurt. Thanks again

flat feet leads to problem with knees, achilles tendinitis, shin splits, plantar fasciitis, etc. People who live one with nature all have arches in their feet. If you look at any documentary with tribes look at therre feet and youll see. thanks :D, i think the ones that contributed the most are all the standing postures. Eagle pose, tree pose, dancer pose, half moon. because in balance poses like those you need to put your weight on the outside of your foot and so you build strength there. If you try to do a balance pose while having flat foot youll fall. And what made a world of a difference to me is doing it PROPERLY. i was doing yoga on and off before this for like 4 years but only off of youtube channels. But i always had flat feet during those years. It then changed when i went to actual classes of traditional yoga. On youtube channels its hard to concentrate on getting right posture, no one is there to correct you and most of the time your focused on what theyre doing on the video rather than what you are doing. @kieranperez what other exercises are good regarding building the arch? @plutofor scoliosis its important to strengthen your back muscles. Once they are strong they will naturally pull the curved spine into place. Not 100% completely, but significantly.

read the book "The body keeps the score", written by a professional whose daily job is to heal traumas. its a "i need to read as much pages as possible because i cant put it down its so good" type of book. Also check out Dr. Nicole Lapera on instagram "the.holistic.psychologist" very good stuff.

I put the timer for 45 minutes but lasted 33 min. It became unbearable. My thoughts and weird sensations flooded the mind like...a flood --_-- its so uncomfortable and i dont even know if i did it right. Like im trying to put awareness on awareness itself/observe observation itself, but i end up instinctively going inside my mind/brain, and feel that my head hurts. Your not supposed to focus on any feeling since thats false self, but how is it possible when its constantly knocking in your head saying "hellouu im here!!" ON the positive, if this can be positive, i got a weird feeling where i almost lifted out of my head, and i got a weird feeling where my hand wasnt me. almost like an out of body experience. But that doesnt mean anything, just a weird phenomenon. So what im trying to say is, how do i know that im doing this right? how do i know im not sneakily focusing on some feeling of "expansion" which is just the false self. its hard especially when i hear a small noise, like a bird chirp, to not subconsciously affirm that i heard that noise, which means i just distracted myself by focusing on a sound and not awareness. Also any good books on self inquiry? WHen i type self inquiry into google, all the titles that come up are some random books that have very few reviews

thank you @MsNobody i love the Divine Feminine vibes im getting from yours

it do be like that sometimes