Éiriú-Eolas - Breathing Program

[kannas]

This morning I completed my first full round of the EE breathing and meditation. I enjoy the Pipe Breath, so this went well throughout the progression of the three stage breathing. I felt an expansion from belly up the neck as I progressed through the stages and actually felt a lightness or relief in the belly as if it relaxed. Perhaps I’ve been tightening my belly, holding it in, without noticing before. I was mindful to not swallow but I had a bit of congestion come up… mucus, though, and stopped briefly to clear that.

With the Warrior’s Breath, I enjoyed this too and felt as if I were charging-up my being and body. I enjoy attending powwows, love the Indian Dances, and when I first listened to the segment of the Warrior’s Breath, I wanted to do a ‘stomp‘dance’. This time, however, I was reclined while doing the Warrior’s Breath fully participating and liking the HA!

During the Beatha,”Bah Hah”, it was very soothing and natural for me. When I first started, I wanted to turn my head to the right in inhalation and then to the left for exhalation. This is because I used to practice a type of recapulation breathing. I had forgotten about that until the Beatha. The first sensations I had starting Beatha was a pressure tingling between my eyes, my third eye. As I have practiced various breathing and meditations throughout the years before, this I have experienced times before. Then a type of tingling and tightening sensation started in my jaw and radiated to the ears. It was kind of like sucking on a sour jaw breaker. Saliva multiplied also. I just noted this and continued with the Beatha through the progressions. My hands felt like they were floating, weightless, and I’ve experienced this before too. I had not external thoughts or wanderings except I noted a sensation when it would come up or note my body state. The Bah Hah breathing truly clicks/fits with me as if I needed this and I have needed this for a long time. It reminds me of the similar release, relaxation, and aligning I have felt with a chiropractic treatment.

I’ve been doing the Pipe Breath for awhile now, and when I started the Pipe Breath, I had relationship issues with all the emotions come up and cried myself silly a couple of times. I am curious as how the continued full program of EE breathing will be for me during practice and afterward during daily life and into dreamland.

The Prayer of the Soul meditation was truly beautiful as I followed Laura’s voice, listening to the lovely music, and breathed. I have to say that I wanted to sing The Prayer of the Soul, and this has been coming up for me since learning it and praying. I sung The Prayer of the Soul the other day. Long ago, when I was in the Lutheran faith, the opening of the service was the Introit beginning with the Antiphon, singing a psalm. Antiphon (according to Wikipedia) means voice, and antiphony is a call and response style of singing. The Prayer of the Soul is a deeply touching, lovely prayer that truly calls to response singing.

I will continue with the full round of EE breathing at least two to three times a week, and continued daily prayer and meditation.

Thank you, Laura, for the time and effort you gave in putting EE together for our benefit, enrichment and growth. Breathing in Life.

 

[SeekinTruth]

So I had this mental idea which wasn't framed visually, that the POTS was a plant like flower that is slowly shooting tendrils and roots deep into the concrete, gently breaking parts of it to reach the real self.

Interesting thought. Maybe the roots are trying to reach the water that's beneath the surface?

Actually that's very close to the POTS and breathing effect. A gentle and progressive solution that, days after days, helps breaking away the armour of programs, lies and illusions that we carry. Once this armour has disappeared the true self can appear.

I think this is a great visualization. A gentle force of nature. If it is nurtured it will become very strong.

Really fascinating and helpful concept to illustrate the processes of POTS on our whole being. As the concrete "crust" is broken up, we need to clean up using ALL the tools in the Work, thus continuing the growth and development of each of us in a potentially accelerated manner.

 

[Manu]

So I had this mental idea which wasn't framed visually, that the POTS was a plant like flower that is slowly shooting tendrils and roots deep into the concrete, gently breaking parts of it to reach the real self.

So it may take time but it's growing inside ;)

Tigersoap, you visualization idea is very interesting, I will try it.

It's great to hear about the experiences and progress that many of the forum members are having with EE program. In my case, I've been practicing the program since it was released. I've had one emotional release where I cried a lot but none of the "unusual" experiences many members are reporting. Since starting the program I notice this increasing urge to do more reading and learn more and also to network. So in my case I think progress is slow but I know I must not anticipate any results. I will continue to do the program.

Thanks

 

[Nienna]

It's great to hear about the experiences and progress that many of the forum members are having with EE program. In my case, I've been practicing the program since it was released. I've had one emotional release where I cried a lot but none of the "unusual" experiences many members are reporting. Since starting the program I notice this increasing urge to do more reading and learn more and also to network. So in my case I think progress is slow but I know I must not anticipate any results. I will continue to do the program.

Thanks

As you know, Manu, we all are different in the way the Eiriu Eolas program works. And a lot of it is working in us at levels we don't realize. So I would think that the part of your post that I highlighted is very significant as far as how the EE program is working for you. This is a very positive effect, or so I think, that is your higher self opening your mind to seek more knowledge and objective truth. Remember, as we empty ourselves of physical, emotional and mental toxins, we need to be replacing these things with objective truth, healthy foods and the Prayer of the Soul.

So, all in all, it would seem that you are doing great! I think that things are moving under the surface that you are not aware of yet. ;)

 

[Possibility of Being]

Hi all,

Kind of jumping in the thread while catching up, but just would like to let you know about one more possibly practical use of our breathing skills. For those of you who suffer from motion sickness, you might try and do some pipe breathing then. See: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/200312-Seasick-Try-Controlling-Your-Breathing.

...Scientists knew the most sickening motions closely match the rate of natural breathing; they also knew that people naturally tend to breathe in time with a motion. In fact, Navy seamen in World War II discovered that they could use certain breathing tricks to combat motion sickness. But no one had ever tested whether breathing out of time with a motion could prevent nausea.

Researchers from Imperial College London enlisted 26 volunteers to sit in a tilting, rocking flight simulator and coordinate their breathing in various ways with the motion. The tests lasted up to 30 minutes, or until subjects felt moderately sick. The natural tendency was for volunteers to inhale on every backward tilt, in rhythm with the rocking. But if the subjects exhaled on every backward tilt, they didn't get sick as quickly. They felt even better if they breathed slightly faster or slower than the cyclic heaving of the chair; using that technique, the time until onset of nausea was 50% longer than during normal breathing.

So why do these tactics work? Abdominal sensors are known to send motion signals to the brain more slowly than those in the inner ear because they're farther away from the brain and because abdominal organs have more mass, which means they resist movement a tiny bit longer. The time lag between the two types of sensors creates a mismatch that builds up in the brain and makes us gradually sicker, the researchers say. But if the diaphragm opposes gravity-induced stomach motions with controlled breaths, there is less sensory conflict and less nausea. "This technique is very good for mild everyday challenges," says medical research scientist Michael Gresty, a member of the study team. "It's completely safe, and it's not a drug." The results appear in the December issue of Autonomic Neuroscience.

"It's a carefully designed study that shows there's some modest effect of controlled respiration on motion sickness," says neuroscientist Carey Balaban of the otolaryngology department at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. But, he says, more controlled experiments are needed to confirm the proposed mechanism.

 

[Ben]

Checking in before tonight's session. My focus and concentration during the EE has improved somewhat, hopefully in part due to the improvements in my diet which I have made (although there is still much more to be done). Recent sessions have brought what feels like a sadness and frustration that is just below the surface, it sometimes feels like I am really finding it difficult to let something out (which is characteristic of me emotionally speaking) and that I am not helping the process by immediately analysing every little thing that I experience, and this of course is linked to anticipation. Still my resolve is still there, even though I have not had that breakthrough yet and may not for a LONG time.

 

[Iron]

Recent sessions have brought what feels like a sadness and frustration that is just below the surface, it sometimes feels like I am really finding it difficult to let something out (which is characteristic of me emotionally speaking) and that I am not helping the process by immediately analysing every little thing that I experience, and this of course is linked to anticipation. Still my resolve is still there, even though I have not had that breakthrough yet and may not for a LONG time.

Maybe because I have the same problem im seeing this, but isn't that same pattern of thinking expressed in this affirmation "that you have not had a breakthrough and maybe not for a LONG time" .
How can you know that it will take a long time or not? How can you know that it hasnt happened already at some level , but you are... I don't know getting up to speed in your changes?

 

[Gertrudes]

It's been fascinating to read everyone's experiences changing and growing in this thread. Some are having really interesting experiences. I have to say that the thread on Black Magic and Shamanism: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=4093. read in conjunction with this thread was, for me, very enlightening.

Ben has just mentioned anticipation and I am experiencing just that, though with a different colour.
Lately I have been thinking on how to Do and Be in the program. I have noticed anticipation on my part, either by expecting the same I've experienced myself, or by expecting similar experiences to what I have read here from others.
I have been trying to BE in the meditation. I know I have managed to do do so better in the past(or maybe it was just illusion), but I find myself trying to Be in the meditation the same way as in before. Well, if one day is not equal to the other, one meditation can't be equal to the other either...
I suppose I have difficulties in being. Just being. It seems that I often try to reproduce something rather then experiencing it, as in, I have experienced or seen something that worked, and now I'm trying to re-do it.

During the program tonight I reached a deeper level of relaxation, I felt myself more easily giving into the meditation. There was a moment where I could feel the choice not to let go and keep trying/pushing for something rather then just being there. I chose to let go and try to observe. I need a lot of practice, but I could also feel how much replication and parroting of myself and others I bring into my life...The road ahead looks veeeery long, but it is a road and I choose to take it.

So I had this mental idea which wasn't framed visually, that the POTS was a plant like flower that is slowly shooting tendrils and roots deep into the concrete, gently breaking parts of it to reach the real self.

So it may take time but it's growing inside ;)

It is a beautiful image and I can relate to it. Plese correct me if I am off here, as I see it, it seems to work well to grow something new rather then trying to approach directly what it is we see in need of correction inside.

 

[MilkoJanovich]

I think it’s a good idea to write about some of my own experience with practicing EE and POTS even though I started practicing both of them just about three weeks ago. Earlier, I was doing only the pipe breathing with meditation while listening to the audio with a counting because I wanted to learn doing it properly first. I would like to practice EE as often as I can but there are days that I find some stupid excuses (which is as I think related to my “laziness program”) so I managed to do EE only about eight times.

I have also some physical difficulties while doing those breathing exercises. Because of my scoliosis I feel pain in my back while sitting for even not a very long time and it’s definitely not helping. My another problem is a huge hunger that I feel nearly all the time. Even if I eat a bigger portion of food it doesn’t make me feel full, the hunger even worsens after eating. I think it is because of the candidiasis. I went on Candida diet nine months ago and just after resigning from gluten, sugar and all the rest of evil food all that have started.

However, the more often I practice EE the easier it becomes.

Even before I started those breathing exercises I had similar experiences as many of you. I mean especially this feeling of presence of something that tries to take control over you during the night. It happened number of times to me, two days ago I experienced it two times during one night but luckily I resisted it and came back to normal awareness. In the beginning it was very frightening to me but I think I’m slowly getting used to it.

But this night happened something really extraordinary . I woke up in the middle of the night and I began to think about my dream and after some time I started hearing a horrible noise. I felt also some vibrations, it was like an earthquake but nothing was falling down from the shelves and noise (which sounded like: BZZZZZZZZZ) was getting more and more loud and there were also some bangs/whops. It was so strange that I became really scared so I started praying. I don’t now if it was the prayer that helped but it finally stopped. The noise was really horrible, it was like coming out of everywhere and causing strong vibrations, everyting was vibrating. It lasted for a couple of seconds. I hope I explained it well enough. Did anyone of you experienced something similar? It happened a couple of hours ago.

Just after that I recalled a fragment from the Wave. I think it could be something similar to what was a subject of one of the sessions but I’m not sure.

01-07-95
Q: (L) We have a few interesting questions tonight. I think the first thing on everybody's mind is the strange events during the night and early morning hours, reported by T and J compared with events that JW told me about by phone this morning. T's dad noted it, and also something woke A__ up with a start and she experienced some strange effects. I was awakened with a strange feeling that something very LOUD had just been heard, though it was more like an echo in my head than actually hearing it with my ears. We are a little bit curious about this event, this occurrence, and we would like to have some information on it. What exactly was it?
A: Thunder.
Q: (L) It seemed to be an extraordinarily massive strike, and it seemed to have been heard at a great distance in several directions. Where, in fact, did this lightning bolt strike?
A: Cell was uniformly structured throughout region.
Q: (T) So we all heard that particular blast because of that?
A: No. Each zone received similar EM profile, thus one particularly heavily charged event in each zone.
Q: (L) What is an EM profile?
A: Electromagnetic.
Q: (L) Was there any particular significance to this type of blast since it is not something any of us has experienced in our immediate memory. Is there any implication to this blast in terms of 4th density activity?
A: You have, and yes, as always.
Q: (L) Since this was such a boomer, what exactly was going on on 4th density that produced a boomer like this?
A: Overlapping densities, lasting approximately 1.3 seconds, as you measure time i.e.: for 1.3 seconds, you lived completely in 4th density.
Q: (T) So this was a significant event for us to have noticed?
A: The noticing was more significant than the event.
Q: (T) What about if you didn't notice? I didn't actually hear it, J did. So it was important that we were aware that something had happened...
A: You did at another level of consciousness.
Q: (L) Did this event have anything to do with A__'s experience this morning of being awakened by a rustling in her room and thinking that she heard a squeaky voice calling her name?
A: Yes. 4th density "resident."
Q: (L) And what kind of 4th density resident was this?
A: Om Type.
Q: (L) What is a type Om?
A: You would rather not know!
Q: (L) No, I would rather know. If something is going to be visiting my daughter in her bedroom, I definitely want to know who or what it is.
A: Who says this will be regular event?
Q: (T) This was just a one time event?
A: Yes.
Q: (V) Was the reason A__ was so aware of this is because she is psychically open when she is asleep?
A: Yes.
Q: (V) Is there anything she needs to do to control her psychic openness in order not to be harmed?
A: Why control something beneficial? [...]
Q: (L) Going back to the event of this morning, when JW related his experience of it to me, he said that when he opened his eyes that the light looked yellow... (V) I noticed the discoloration too... (J) Was that related to the event?
A: Yes.
Q: (J) What caused the light to change color?
A: Leftover 4th density effects.
Q: (L) Is this something that is going to be happening more and more as we move to 4th density?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Is this electromagnetic charging of the atmosphere, I am assuming that is what it is, and that it is occurring as part of the shifting of densities...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) If it is an electromagnetic charging of the atmosphere, is this charging coming about because of this oncoming wave and effects that we are beginning to feel more and more of, are they part of the wave, its presence or approach?
A: It is a buildup, similar to the early effects preceeding the arrival of a seawave.
Q: (T) Are the extremely high winds they have been experiencing in North Carolina and California and the earthquakes in Japan all related to this?
A: Yes.
Q: (T) Yes. 140 mile an hour winds up in the Carolina's and out in California they were hitting 160 miles an hour winds. (L) Well, they told us we were going to have really weird weather. (T) There was another earthquake in Japan today. This has been ongoing for the last couple of weeks. Japan is supposed to go. (V) Sylvia Brown was on a talk show. She had said that there was going to be a big earthquake in Alaska... a huge one... what can you tell us about this?
A: One of many events of the buildup lasting years, as you measure time.


I have much more to write about but it takes me very long to write in English (it took me two hours to write this short post ) so this is all for now.

 

[Alana]

Hi Milko, and thank you for sharing your experience with us :) As far as your English go, i think you express yourself very well, and if you keep at it, if you try writing in English and participate here on the forum more often, trust me, you'd get much faster writing these posts with time ;)

I have also some physical difficulties while doing those breathing exercises. Because of my scoliosis I feel pain in my back while sitting for even not a very long time and it’s definitely not helping.

I have a problem with one of my neck muscles that makes it difficult to relax while sitting, so you could do the pipe breathing and Baha breathing while laying down. I asked a similar question early on, and Laura confirmed that doing the breathing sitting down is ok.

My another problem is a huge hunger that I feel nearly all the time. Even if I eat a bigger portion of food it doesn’t make me feel full, the hunger even worsens after eating. I think it is because of the candidiasis.

Well, i don't know if it is because of candida, what i know though is that at some point after we started practicing the EE most of us experienced and reported increased hunger. This thread is huge by now, so you might want to check the Eíriú-Eolas - Guide/FAQ thread, which is way shorter and contains all the info people need to be aware about possible "symptoms" that might arise from practicing the EE, thanks to Bo who compiled all the info together

But this night happened something really extraordinary . I woke up in the middle of the night and I began to think about my dream and after some time I started hearing a horrible noise. I felt also some vibrations, it was like an earthquake but nothing was falling down from the shelves and noise (which sounded like: BZZZZZZZZZ) was getting more and more loud and there were also some bangs/whops. It was so strange that I became really scared so I started praying. I don’t now if it was the prayer that helped but it finally stopped. The noise was really horrible, it was like coming out of everywhere and causing strong vibrations, everyting was vibrating. It lasted for a couple of seconds. I hope I explained it well enough. Did anyone of you experienced something similar? It happened a couple of hours ago.

I personally haven't, though the closer that comes to your experience is feeling that there's an earthquake and my bed is moving when i lay down to sleep, when in fact nothing is moving. I am sure that if others had a similar experience will share once they catch up.

 

[truth seeker]

The hunger you speak of is normal and has been brought up earlier in this thread. If you do a search for hunger, it should come up. If you still can't find it, let me know and I'll search it for you.

But this night happened something really extraordinary . I woke up in the middle of the night and I began to think about my dream and after some time I started hearing a horrible noise. I felt also some vibrations, it was like an earthquake but nothing was falling down from the shelves and noise (which sounded like: BZZZZZZZZZ) was getting more and more loud and there were also some bangs/whops. It was so strange that I became really scared so I started praying. I don’t now if it was the prayer that helped but it finally stopped. The noise was really horrible, it was like coming out of everywhere and causing strong vibrations, everyting was vibrating. It lasted for a couple of seconds. I hope I explained it well enough. Did anyone of you experienced something similar? It happened a couple of hours ago.

I haven't had any earthquakes, but I've experienced the bangs you refer to. I also get an increased level of noise activity (people talking and screaming nearby, children crying, dogs barking, cars honking, etc.). My current belief is that these are thing designed to distract you/us. While it's easier said than done, try not to focus on it. If it makes you feel better then have a look around to see if you can determine what the source of it is. Hope that helps.

 

[Bo]

My another problem is a huge hunger that I feel nearly all the time. Even if I eat a bigger portion of food it doesn’t make me feel full, the hunger even worsens after eating. I think it is because of the candidiasis. I went on Candida diet nine months ago and just after resigning from gluten, sugar and all the rest of evil food all that have started.

Hi Milko

It could also be a sign of dehydration.

See below:

''Dehydration helps create feelings of hunger. You eat more when you're thirsty. Dehydration can also negatively affect your glucose. Your body will think you're hungry and so you eat.''

_http://www.articlesbase.com/weight-loss-articles/the-importance-of-water-and-weight-loss-562308.html

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How to Identify Signs of Dehydration

''4. HUNGER. Feeling hungry? You probably need some water. Hunger is one way our body let's us know it needs more water. So before you grab that sandwich grab a glass or bottle of water.''
_http://www.ehow.com/how_4721703_identify-signs-dehydration.html


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Dehydration Mmmm…Water

''Thirst can often masquerade as hunger if you aren’t giving your body adequate fluids throughout the day. This increased sensation of feeling hungry will only lead to over eating and all of the health problems that come along with it.''
_http://www.healthytoday.info/?tag=dehydration

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''Just the other day, a good friend of mine asked me in diet desperation, "All I've been doing is eating and I'm still hungry! What can I do to stay full?" She's typcially a healthy eater, so my first question was to find out how much water she'd drank that day. The reason being is because dehydration has a funny way of masking itself as hunger. Of course, when she told me she'd had none, it was no surprise why her tummy was grumbling away! ''
_http://www.fulllifeservices.com/diet-blog-stay-full-and-lose-weight/bid/15549/Hungry-Or-Just-Dehydrated-Tips-to-Quench-Your-Thirst-and-Your-Hunger
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Also in the guide faq you can read this:

28. QUESTION:What puzzles me is that some of us are eating more, what is going on???
ANSWER:Well there is this,
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n22_v150/ai_18947098/

How the brain knows when eating must stop - vagus nerve responds differently to each nutrient to decode what and how much has been eaten - Brief Article

At some point during a meal, the brain instructs the hand to put down the fork: The diner has had enough. The brain sends this message before all the food has left the stomach and entered the bloodstream. In probing what signals satiety, psychologists have identified a novel method by which the brain evaluates the contents of the gut.

The vagus nerve, which carries two-way communication between the gut and the brain, transmits distinctly different patterns of electric signals in response to carbohydrates and to protein in the gut, finds Gary J. Schwartz of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore. These signals largely reflect gut wall contractions-mechanical motions that mix and grind up food, he reported at last week's Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C.

There's another component of the vagus nerve's reaction to protein. Schwartz suspects that hormonelike peptides produced by the gut in response to food are responsible for amplifying the signals triggered by the motions of the stomach and small intestine.

Most scientists had assumed that nerves sample gut contents through receptors that, like taste buds on the tongue, directly discriminate specific classes of chemicals being eaten, Schwartz notes. His data from anesthetized rats now indicate that this gut-level "tasting" may rely instead on indirect cues from nonspecific features of the digestive system, such as gut wall motility. Because other stimuli can also elicit both these motions and peptide production, the brain apparently decodes what's eaten-and how much-from the distinctive pattern of the vagus nerve's response to each nutrient, together with other information the brain receives from the gut.

Most nutrient absorption occurs in the stomach and duodenum-the upper segment of the small intestine. As Schwartz and his team infused glucose, a sugar, or peptone, a protein, directly into the duodenum, they recorded both gut wall movements and the corresponding signals to the brain.

In terms of the intensity and timing of contractions, and the corresponding intensity and duration of the vagus nerve's electric firing, "2 calories of the protein produced about a 30 to 40 percent larger [and longer] response than did 2 calories of glucose," Schwartz found.

He suspects that part of the effect may be mediated by the mast cells of the immune system. Present throughout the gut, these cells "are almost the perfect, ubiquitous transducer," he explains. "They can change a mechanical, thermal, or chemical stimulus into a neural signal." Moreover, he notes, vagus nerve fibers winding throughout the fingerlike villi lining the duodenum "are in a perfect position to taste what's happening to those mast cells."

"These are wonderfully coherent, novel, and interesting results," says Gerard P. Smith of Cornell Medical Center in White Plains, N.Y. While "we knew the gut talks to the brain over these [vagus nerve] fibers, what no one before has shown us is how the fibers respond to nutrients by changing their neural firing."

Adds Jaak Panksepp of Bowling Green (Ohio) State University, this information may prove "very important in learning what terminates a meal." However, he notes that over a day or so, the body adjusts its calorie consumption based on past meals and current needs. Therefore, Schwartz's new findings, he says, may have small consequences for how animals adjust their 24-hour caloric intake.

 

[Tigersoap]

It is a beautiful image and I can relate to it. Plese correct me if I am off here, as I see it, it seems to work well to grow something new rather then trying to approach directly what it is we see in need of correction inside.

I may be wrong in the way I see it, I think that the false personality which is composed of programs, buffer and so on is actually the shell around your real-self and it needs to be discarded for the real you to come to the surface, who is always there, but ignored and weak, which the POTS and the EE, and I say this without being absolutely certain that is the way it is all it is supposed to do, are nourishing and healing the real you and at the same time clearing up the junk accumulated this life and the past ones.
So the old self as to "die" to be reborn, the machine has to be cleaned up first, because the real-self was always there in the first place, there is no correction or trying to fix things from the outside but a return to the real you osit.

Maybe it would be more correct to say that the POTS is the water needed for the seed to grow sprouts and tendrils and break the shell.
I don't think it's linear at all, the image made sense to me in my particular case, it might not be relevant for others.

If I am seeing this wrongly someone will surely correct it ;)
my two cents.

 

[Bluestar]

Thanks Bo for the info and the link to that web site. I remember reading somewhere years ago, that when a person wanted to not over eat, they should drink a glass of water before the meal. So after doing a search on google, I found lots of info regarding drinking more water with meals. Here is one with a lot of good stuff, some we already know, but thought I would place the link here for those interested.

http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=2655744

 

[RedFox]

Well, I've been away from SoTT and my mp3 player for a few weeks over Christmas and new years. I've also been studying hard for an exam (which I passed!). So for the last month I've been doing a round (12 sets) of pipe breathing followed by the POTS every night without the mp3 player.
Some things to note (apologies for a long post).

I have been resting my hands on my thighs during the POTS, recently I moved my hands so that they where resting flat on the bed instead.....I could be wrong but it seems that the number of images I see during the POTS went up with my hands resting flat on the bed rather than on my thighs.
Most of my experiences seem to happen in my dreams at night, or even the next day...and I am getting a lot more experiences recently.

I actually had what appeared to be a past life memory surface during a dream. The dream was fuzzy but I recalled a few significant parts. I was returning home with a friend (we where both on hoarse back) after hastily arranging something. I met my wife (I even saw part of her face Very clearly for a moment, although I'm not sure I recognised her as anyone I know in real life......she was similar to my current girlfriend) who was pregnant (about 3/4months) and holding her for a moment. She said that she had decided that enough was enough, and that she was going to stand up to whatever was happening....(we both had katanas, and I got the impression it was japan.....some sort of land grab perhaps....either way some largish destructive human run event was happening and we where in the way). I knew this meant her (and our unborn child's) death. And mine because I would stand by her. Despite my making arrangements for us to escape whatever was coming. I'm not sure if it was good to stand against whatever it was or not....but being (presumably) japan, honour (int he form of social programming) would have come into it.
It felt like someone had poured ice into my stomach/solar plexus.....it was also vibrating. I woke up with tears on my face and the same odd sensation in my stomach.

I don't think I released anything.....and I feel like I've yet to grieve for that event (it was a very fussy memory, if it was a memory).....but none the less have been feeling quite calm and grounded every since. My negative introject has been almost completely silent. I actually feel really comfortable with myself :)

I've also remembered a few things my mum told me about myself from childhood...specifically about dreams. Apparently I said (as a small child) 'why do we have to see these things?' about dreaming. I have a very large block when it comes to such imagery....anything violent (mostly...unless I'm the one fighting) or bloody or fearful or disturbing I will instinctively face away from or avoid in dreams. I also dreamt once that I had decided to remember my previous life in this incarnation (I knew how to, and had set everything in motion)....but something went wrong with the process.
I am wondering if I did perhaps remember.....but the memories where so traumatic that they where blocked before I had language....a core defence mechanism. Its just a theory, but it seems to fit at the moment.

I've also dreamt of desks in an office....I had to build my own. The design I liked the most was that of celtic knots (interlocking sine waves)...one wave blue one wave white....I was given bubble wrap to make the cast for it (bubbles around which the pattern would form)....which I had to hold in a flow of wind/energy to let the pattern set. It tore in the middle....which I fixed. Unfortunately it had distorted the pattern and a large dark bubble had formed in the part nearest me (which would have to remove).

Last night was the first time I've done anything beyond pipe breathing/POTS for about 3 months. I did the full program (3 stage, warriors breath and round breathing) last night and it felt effortless. Like a well trodden path. The POTS felt the same as well.
I dreamt last night of standing on a cliff edge...only it was more like a large well, with a beautiful shimmering light at the bottom. The walls looked sheer, and the way down was mostly clear. It appeared as icy stone....with hand holds in the form of celtic knots (overlapping sine waves) traveling down it to the light.....it appears I'm going to have to climb it?!