12-29-2017, 12:00 AM
glance left wrote:
Le_Regard wrote:
Have you ever done alternate nostril breathing? It's a yoga thing. It's exactly how it sounds. You use your ring finger and thumb (I don't know why) to close each nostril and you breathe in right, breathe out left, breathe in left, breathe out right, repeat.
Yeah, I've done that one
It's called the 9 Purification Breaths, I think.....from the Bon/Dzogchen tradition of shamanic Buddhism, if I remember correctly. At least that's the tradition I learned it from....
I don't know about 9 of them but it's probably the same idea. They do it lots of different ways, but I've always preferred the simple in/switch/out/in/switch just because it's the easiest way to not lose count is to not have to count anything. The Tibetan version I've seen was more of a ritual visualization where you exhale dark heavy energy that falls to the ground and is transmuted into golden light (by a red bull at the center of the Earth or something) which then floats up and spreads through all the countless worlds and is inhaled by all sentient beings (including you), producing radiant bliss and perfect enlightenment. Repeat. Also there was a left, a right, and then also a center breathe that's not in the yoga version.
Le_Regard wrote:
Have you ever done alternate nostril breathing? It's a yoga thing. It's exactly how it sounds. You use your ring finger and thumb (I don't know why) to close each nostril and you breathe in right, breathe out left, breathe in left, breathe out right, repeat.
Yeah, I've done that one
It's called the 9 Purification Breaths, I think.....from the Bon/Dzogchen tradition of shamanic Buddhism, if I remember correctly. At least that's the tradition I learned it from....I don't know about 9 of them but it's probably the same idea. They do it lots of different ways, but I've always preferred the simple in/switch/out/in/switch just because it's the easiest way to not lose count is to not have to count anything. The Tibetan version I've seen was more of a ritual visualization where you exhale dark heavy energy that falls to the ground and is transmuted into golden light (by a red bull at the center of the Earth or something) which then floats up and spreads through all the countless worlds and is inhaled by all sentient beings (including you), producing radiant bliss and perfect enlightenment. Repeat. Also there was a left, a right, and then also a center breathe that's not in the yoga version.