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88 high blood pressure hard to e7plain by genetics, diet, and lifestyle

88 sleep apnea

88 difficulty (or, at least, mild a&ersion with forward-bending asanas (which you perhapsha&e always chalked up to tight hamstrings

88 general kundalini o&erload symptoms (!*T symptoms of "wayward" kundalini, with&ery asymmetrical energy mo&ements...for that, see my posting in this discussion:

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The first and best solution to front channel block and kundalini o&erload is the time-tested yogic solution: walking. 5ots of walking, e&en miles per day. This gently groundsthe energy down the front of the body and through the feet. Try this. It works well inlight cases, and is really really good for you, and makes a fine counterbalance tomeditation. Try to fi7 your attention, as you walk, onto the point of your heel thebetween the balls of your big and little toes. ;ress that point firmly into the ground as

you walk. %nother important element: engagement. Interacting with people is grounding.

If walking and interacting doesn#t relie&e the problem sufficiently for symptoms to be

resol&ed (or you ha&e medical issues pre&enting walking, there are some strongermeasures to try, e.g. Tai chi and standing asanas. %nything groundingA 6ut do try the

following e7ercise (which I stole from Tai 4hi:

--------Btand with feet separated, knees comfortably bent into a slight crouch, pressing yourfeet firmly and e&enly into the floor (ad&anced mo&e: press down with the point in thelateral center of your foot, between the balls of your big and little toes, down right at the

point where the arch starts to form. eep your back more or less straight but tilt it

forward, as if you were ready to pounce. Co for a low, stable, center of gra&ity, like itwould be hard for someone to knock you o&er. 6ut rela7.

6end elbows DE degrees and e7tend forearms directly in front of you, parallel to eachother and with palms facing, at na&el le&el. eep shoulders rela7ed. 2isuali+e a ballbetween your hands. 4oncentrate on that ball, and fill it with energy.--------

The &isuali+ation is a fairly speedy solution, insofar as it works for you (the worse theblock, the less fully helpful it#ll be. Tai chi and standing asanas, of course, take longer tolearn and implement. My ad&ice would be not to in&est T** much hope on the

intermediate solutions. If something seems to be helping a lot, great. 6ut if not, keepreading.

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It#s important to bear in mind that %0; does not ad&ocate placing attention on a specificchakra during meditation. 6ut if you find that you can#t resist focusing on ajna (betweenbrows, then you may need to inter&ene (energy follows attention, and focusing on ajna,particularly during meditation, brings &astly more energy into the head, worsening

symptoms. Bo, for a while, gently direct attention to the na&el or the heart (i.e. "inhabit"the na&el or heart. Make it a gentle change (no forcingA, and be ready to let go of this

entirely once the habit of focusing at ajna is broken. In the end, meditation works best ifattention isn#t directed at all. It#s better not to fool around with meditati&e attention

(unless there#s a serious health problem, per these instructions.

6-,#E.

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0ogani has recently posted a lesson entitled "The Bolar 4entering $nhancement".

http://www.aypsite.org/?@F.htmlIt is a must-try for anyone with grounding issues. 0ogani recommends directing attentionto the solar ple7us, and that#s a much smarter option than either na&el or heart (both ofwhich can be o&erloaded.

I#&e posted a modification to 0ogani#s enhancement which I#&e been using. It seems tobring many of the benefits with much less o&ert placement of attention. I call it "Bolar5ite". http://www.aypsite.org/forum/topic....*;I4@GH

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This is a two part solution.

H: =ilate your throat to open the energy flow

ront channel block is usually concentrated in the throat. %nd esterners , it is said, tendto ha&e blockage at the throat. Bo e&en if you don#t percei&e a block in the throat (Ine&er did, it#s &ery likely that that#s where the problem is.

4onsider how you dilate your ear canals on an airplane to e)uali+e pressure. Take time to

e7amine that action )uite closely. %nd apply that e7act sort of dilation to the front portionof the base of your throat, near the collar bone (concentrating on the back of the throatwill increase energy flow up and into the head, which is the opposite of what we#reaiming for, though a good action to engage in pranayama for those without front channelblock symptoms. Make the dilation feel warm and yawn-ish. If possible, in&est the actionwith lo&ing bhakti. %nd learn to hold the dilation for longer and longer (but please see the

note on self pacing, below, before you start lengthening your hold timeA.

0ou should feel (if not immediately, then soon a flow of energy wa&es down the front ofthe chest and abdomen, down to the perineum. If it doesn#t make it to the perineum,

mo&e the dilation down to just beneath where&er you percei&e the flow to stop.

;ractice this first in )uiet solitude, perhaps after meditation. Then practice it at oddmoments around the house. Then at work, while shopping, while dri&ing. Cet to the pointwhere you can easily do this action at any time. It should come to feel like you#re easilystretching outward a tight rubber band that otherwise constricts your throat. %gain, don#tforget to self-pace.

Two notes:

a. if you do feel a downward energy wa&e after dilating the throat, know that there#s stillmore work to be done. $&en a tiny opening in a bad block feels like total flow. More flowis almost certainly possible. This is true of many yoga openings. $&en a bit of openingfeels huge. This is the reason for self-pacing (and do self-pace these instructionsA: ifslight openings feel big, ob&iously, too much opening happening too fast can beo&erwhelming. Moral of the story: don#t stop, but don#t race, eitherA :

b. you may e7perience diarrhea and flu-like symptoms after a major release of blockage

in the front channel. hile I#m usually &ery careful to suggest medical attention e&en toissues that seem clearly spiritual, in this one case I need to &ery emphatically insist that

you not medicate. It#s cleansing/healing....you are flushing a lot of long-held junk (theworse the block, the more se&ere the flushing, and the result will be worth some

temporary discomfortA 5et the healing process play out. Medication will dri&e the blockdeeper in. (I speak from e7perience: within a day after a powerful opening - due to a )igong e7ercise - of a se&ere life-long front channel block, I e7perienced &ery high fe&er,

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bad diarrhea, and throbbing kidney pain. My doctor was mystified - kidneys checked out

fine in blood tests - and prescribed 4ipro antibiotic. The result was that I was forced tolater put in a heroic amount of non-stop work to complete the work on my front channelblock.

The throat dilation alone may be sufficient fi7. 6ut if you find you must keep consciously

dilating to create a flow, and it ne&er flows spontaneously, then you can mo&e on to thene7t step. =o so, too, if you find that the flow doesn#t naturally continue all the way downchest and abdomen (i.e. there may be more blockage below. %nd, of course, more help

is definitely needed if the throat dilation has little or no effect in the first placeA

': 4hinese herbs

0es, I know. It#s shockingly easy and dismayingly materialistic. 6ut trust me. =o it. Co toa 4hinese herbalist and you#ll be gi&en tea to open the front channel. %nd that#s that.Badly, yogis don#t e&er seem to think of this.

0ou needn#t talk to the herbalist about yoga, front channels, or kundalini. In fact, it#smuch better if you don#t, as it will only confuse her/him. Btick to listing symptoms(headache, etc. The herbalist (if s/he is a real 4hinese herbalist will diagnose you &ia

your pulse, and your pulse will re&eal the issue, though not in terms a yogi would use. Icould go into detail about e7actly what the problem is, how it arises, and how it#s

addressed, from a 4hinese &ersus Indian perspecti&e, but it#s not rele&ant. The upshot isthis: your front channel block is manifesting as an imbalance, and the herbalist will easilydiagnose the imbalance, and herbs will correct it per protocols de&eloped o&er millennia.It#s a no-brainer for a good 4hinese herbalist. This is a bread-and-butter case for them(though they#ll probably consider you an e7treme case.

The 4hinese herbs that will be gi&en to you are, in yogic terms, sat&ic. 1nlike western

pills, they will not interfere with your spiritual practice. %nd, unlike some other "cures" forkundalini o&erload, they don#t add M*3$ energy to an o&er-energi+ed system. 0ou will, inremarkably short order, find the block starting to crumble and the energy flowing more

freely. I#d strongly suggest continuing work on the throat dilation to help the process.

0ou don#t need a particularly "good" herbalist (because, again, it#s bread-and-butter forthem. 6ut make sure they#re 4hinese. That#s &ery important. This particular sort ofimbalance is well known in 4hinese medicine, but I can#t &ouch for other systems. Boeither look for a practitioner who#s 4hinese (any 4hinatown anywhere has one or else anon-4hinese who is deeply and e7clusi&ely trained in 4hinese medicine (i.e. you reallydon#t need some independent healer#s "woo woo" kundalini theories tested out on youA.

%lso, I#d a&oid acupuncture, which more directly and forcefully adjusts energy flow (with

unpredictable or e&en negati&e results in your case. % good 4hinese doctor will know totreat these symptoms with herbs rather than acupuncture. 6ut again, it#s important torefrain from del&ing into details on kundalini, etc, with the practitioner. 9ust tersely stateyour symptoms and let him take your pulse. %&oid "holistic" healers who want lots ofbackground from you. The 4hinese herbal guys are no-nonsense, and, again, can easilyglean the problem &ia pulse diagnosis.

ere#s what I#m not sure of: the 4hinese herbs worked )uickly and effecti&ely for me.as this only because I#d done so much intermediary work on the blockJ I#m not sure.

6ut that#s why I#&e structured this posting as I ha&e. ;lease do try walking - lots of itA -first. %nd try the ball &isuali+ation. %nd consider standing asanas or tai chi. !ot that the

herbs are such a se&ere/radical step, but I think those preliminary mo&es may "set thestage" for the herbs to work more effecti&ely. 6ut if your symptoms are truly horrid, youmay want to mo&e toward herbs (and throat dilation sooner rather than later. This is just

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a roadmap...as always, pace yourself to fit circumstance.

!ote: I#&e been unsatisfied with %yur&edic herbs used for this application, and others(including 0ogani report the same. I#d strongly suggest sticking to 4hinese.

;I5%T$B*ne indication of the enormity of my front body block was that my belly startedgrowing...e&en though my diet was modest and healthy and I was e7ercising a lot. %nd I

at some point noticed I#d lost my muscular control in the area. hen younger, I couldretract my stomach (per nauli and &arious bandhas. I lost thatA

I first noticed this at a pilates class, where the teacher told me to retract the na&el backto the spine, and I couldn#t acti&ate it, energetically, much less contract the muscles.%fter following the ad&ice gi&en in this post, I reco&ered that sensiti&ity, and ha&ebecome a loyal ;ilates student (both mat and reformer in an attempt to tone the areaand enhance my energetic connection. Cood ;ilates teachers keep your attention on theenergetic pathways, and don#t just ha&e you "crunch" the abs muscles. !ote that when

;ilates teachers ha&e you say "4***B" upon e7halation, you can substitute an ujiyabreath, and an e7perience of downward pranayama through to root. %ll of ;ilates can beseen as a way to train you to maintain this downward connection in spite of acti&ity and

resistance. I highly recommend ;ilates for people who#&e made some progress on frontbody block, and who want to speed up the process.

4I !$I TB%!C4hi !ei Tsang is a Taoist abdominal massage that is specifically intended to help dissol&eblocks in the area. It#s e7pensi&e (around KHEE per session, but e7tremely helpful. Ifyou#re an e7perienced yogi, you#ll )uickly understand the principles and be able to applythem to self-massage. I had two chi nei tsang massages after years of working on the

abo&e steps, and it 3$%550 hastened my progress toward torrent-like openness in the

front. ere#s an incomplete list of practitioners:http://www.chineitsang.com/practiti...s/inde7.htmlI recommend arin Bor&ik in !04, who#s not on that list. This is her operation:

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TI!$3I!C !*T$$nergy shoots up the spine like a phallic snake, thrusting through the gaping channel ofspine toward ajna. If you try to mo&e energy down the front channel in similar fashion,you#ll find it frustratingly ineffecti&e. hile energy up the spine manifests as a phallicthrust, energy down the front manifests as a more passi&e &aginal suck. In the back, a

thrust from root pushes to pierce and penetrate ajna. In the front, a sucking from rootcajoles, entices, and pulls energy down the front. hile the imagery will feel less se7ual

o&er time (though not before it starts feeling a lot M*3$ se7ual, as the thrusting andsucking are e7perienced simultaneously...an, um, interesting sensation, the se7ualperspecti&e is con&enient for harnessing bhakti to work through blocks and completecircuits. In any case, the thing to remember is, you can#t really push energy down thefront, as you can up the back. 0ou can only pull from below (from root/mula. *h, andwhen doing front channel tinkering, lightly hold the tip of your tongue against the roof ofyour mouth. 9ust in back of your teeth is good, but do rela7 your jaw. ull kechari mudra,I#&e been told by a &ery reliable source, will stimulate at least as much back channel

acti&ity as front. Bo for purposes of tinkering with front channel block, don#t go all theway to kechari e&en if you can.

ere#s a tinkering step to try. It may or may not work for you ("work" being defined as

an e7perience of greater connection downward to root from abo&e. It#s notrecommended that you "work on" this as a practiceL it#s a mo&e to try, and to e7plore if itpro&es helpful. It was the last thing I tried, after the many, many options mentioned

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here, and it made the last traces of my block )uickly &anish (my kundalini rash, too. It

may be that the other steps described in this posting must first "loosen" things up for thisto be effecti&e. Its decepti&ely simple, and for doing, rather than for intellectuali+ing: onan e7halation, gently but firmly direct prana downward to your root (in mulha banda 2I%0*13 I=!$0B. Bort of like a bank shot. If that doesn#t work for you, imagine (again,while e7haling gently s)uee+ing prana from your kidneys toward your root (in mulha

banda. %gain, if you try it a couple times without effect, skip it and use the other stepsin this posting. 0ou can always come back to it later. If it does work for you, it#s a goodthing to in&oke for your first few rounds of pranayama. *nce the connection is made, let

it go and proceed with pranayama per %0; instructions.

If you don#t ha&e a front channel block, I#d like to caution that this tinkering will likely becounter-producti&e. This circuit completes in time, anyway, with nothing more thandiligent practice of %0;. 6ut those of us with badly blocked front channels can use all thehelp we can getA

888I!%5 ;%4I!C !*T$ 888hen front channel opens in those with awakened kundalini, a &acuum is created which

draws more energy up the back. If you#re newly kundalini-awakened and feeling raw andsensiti&e, pace slowly and carefully on your front channel opening, so that you don#t drawa heightened roar of energy through burnt-out pathwaysA $&eryone else needs to pace

slowly, tooA 6ear in mind that blocks don#t dissol&e smoothly, they dissol&e in chunks. Boif front channel opens a little, flow increases to fill the &acuum, and front channel closes

down again, then you#ll find yourself slightly worse off than before you started (muchworse, if you#&e really o&erdone it. Bo T%$ IT B5* (this is reason not to go to herbsright away, not to o&er-tinker, etc etc. %nd, as with all practices, be sure to lea&eyourself headroom. 1pshot: you don#t necessarily want the front channel to open upsuddenly/dramatically all at once (any more than, in retrospect, you wanted the backchannel toA. 0ou would, howe&er, presumably like it to take less than the ' years it

took me. :

I!%5 *6B$32%TI*!%s my front channel opens, and the downward flow increases, I find that I ha&e a &ery

slight a&ersion to the feel of that flow. It#s the mildest thing in the world, but it rubs me(oh-so-minimally the wrong way to ha&e energy mo&ing that way. %nd I#m pretty surethat#s what created this block in the first place. Mild fa&oring o&er a &ery long time canproduce huge effects (e.g. the 4olorado 3i&er etching the Crand 4anyon. It#s somethingto consider in all aspects of life.

If you try any of this, please report back your e7periences here.

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Bince a lot of people with energy o&erload issues may see this posting, I thought I#d addin o&erenergi+ation tips not directly related to front channel.

H. a&oid spicy food and alcohol (this is &ery important...they increase the energy/fireo&erload in the body. That may be sufficientL if not, do a web search for "pitta diet" formore dietary suggestions. 6ut spice and alcohol are the biggies

'. cut back on duration of any spiritual practices you#re doing (and don#t do anything to

culti&ate more energyA

?. eat hea&y (in richness and in )uantity

. se7ual orgasm (not to e7cess, though

. lots of engagement with the world...talking, bustling around, etc. This is not the time

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to go monk-ish...we#re trying to roll back spiritual energy, not culti&ate itA

@. a&oid inspiration, be it art, music, spiritual books, etc. %nything that might wind youup more should be a&oided. In fact, do the opposite of e&erything you#&e heard of as aidstoward spirituality. The items abo&e are e7amples. %im for the mundane for a while. 6ackto $arth, not further into the ether. Beek balanceA

Things may feel chaotic for a while, but it will all e&entually "bake in". I know, in the

meantime it seems like a do-it-yourself project gone awry, and (gulpA there aren#t anye7perts you can call to come fi7 e&erything, nor can you abandon the project #cu+ the

project is 0*1A 6ut handling things that come up calmly and methodically is part of whatyoga#s all about. 5ots of stuff comes upA It#s not like the new agey people say, all lo&eand light and natural fibers. There are challenges, and you )uickly learn to bedispassionate and resourceful. *ne of the great things about asana training is that itteaches unflappable calm problem-sol&ing amid what seems like ad&ersity and chaos.

0ou#ll e&entually find (if you ha&en#t already that there will e&entually follow the opposite

dilemma: a chaos of ecstasy that also must be calmly transcended as you walk this path.%nd that one#s actually tougherA