There are some kriyas and meditations within the kundalini yoga toolkit that deliver up monumental feelings. These feelings can overwhelm us and convey us to tears. Anger, love, unhappiness, pleasure, frustration, growth, self-pity – the record goes on. When we hit on these practices, we are able to depend ourselves fortunate. This is the place some juicy therapeutic can occur. Although maybe ‘fortunate’ is just not the proper phrase… as a result of once I dedicated to a 40 day sadhana with the Liberated Heart Meditation, and it had me gnashing my tooth with frustration and crying with irritation, I knew I needed to see it via the total 40 day whack. 40 days was a loooong time from the angle of that first week!
There have been many issues that aggravated me concerning the Liberated Heart Meditation. Keeping the eyes open and glued on the thumb ideas. Feeling the laborious ideas of the thumbnails pressed collectively. The ache within the thumbs that might inevitably come up midway via. There was simply one thing so very irritating about these thumbs… Ah, however after all – the thumbs signify the ego in kundalini yoga teachings.
So I gnashed my tooth and cried in frustration and threw mini tantrums, however all the time as a backdrop to holding my thumb ideas collectively ‘like a swan’s neck’, eyes fastened to the place the thumbs contact, the eight-stroke pranayam. It was a really painful and arduous and IRRITATING course of. And on some days, that irritability would spill out past my morning sadhana and into my day. Oh expensive. It has not been essentially the most nice six weeks.
When I began out my 40 day journey with the Liberated Heart Meditation, I had meant to increase the instances to finish up at 31 minutes. No probability. Perhaps in one other lifetime. My ranges of irritation wouldn’t permit a minute greater than 11 this time round. Just once we suppose we’re doing so effectively with our each day sadhana, we discover ourselves again at sq. one…
I hope this publish evokes you to tackle this problem somewhat than be postpone by it!
Sat nam x