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How do you exercise your three bodies?

What benefits have you received from attention to your gross, subtle and/or causal body? What simple practices can you suggest for others to experience their three bodies? What does it feel like to simultaneously exercise your three bodies?

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How do I exercise my three bodies?

Posted September 1st, 2008 by Warner Fletcher

I perform morning stretching, flexibility, leg, arm, hand and body motions along with a form of yogic deep breathing and spine flexing exercises.

This also includes a 3 stage push up routine starting from the hips to the knees to fully extended push up positions. Currently some minor Tai Chi moves are included in some of the morning exercise routines. Every once in a while some moderate kung fu kicks and punches are used.

For the subtle realm I have a dream journal that I write my recalled dreams into with an effort to see them from the archetypal aspect as touched on by C. G. Jung. and to see if they indicate any particular waking state experience from past, present and perhaps future as in being somehow predictive in nature.

For the Causal Realm; I use forms of Christian contemplative prayers, The Lord's Prayer, Lesson 365 from the ACIM materials and some of my own developed devotinal prayers that act as a threshold exercise toward my daily practices of listening, feeling and hearing the silence prior to thoughts and between thoughts. Re-reading of Ken Wilbers and Dr. David Hawkins materials are also used as a way of validating some of the elusive( to this point) "Causal Realm" experiences. In some short stages it seems that all of these descriptions fall away into a sense of Presence.

Warner Fletcher

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Three levels of Training

Posted November 29th, 2008 by Shane Miller

-- I use several methods to exercise my three bodies.

Gross:

My most favorite physical activity is technical rock climbing. I do this in the gym and outside with ropes and specialized equipment. I have found that it combines many aspects of the gross body/mind. It requires a balance and cooperation between the breath,  poise, balance, endurance, strength, fear management, focus, and motivation.

I also prctice yoga and stretching mainly for the physical benefits of the practice. It helps me recover after a hard day of climbing aswell as maintaining flexibility.

Slacklineing also compliments yoga and rock climbing. It is a form of tightrope walking that is relatively new (google/youtube it). I have found that slacklining is one of the easiest activities to enter expansive states of awareness in. It helps with balance, poise, and muscle training.

Subtle: All three activities of the above section have a large overlap into the subtle but i use other techniques to more specifically target this state.

Maintaining a dream journal an easy and important way to connect with this state.

Most nights I use subtle body exercises to relax and meditate. The exercises have produced some very powerful sensations like vibrations, buzzing, pulsing, and Out of Body Experiences (OBEs). I encountered these techniques in lucid dreaming and OBE books. They are part visualization and part visceral.

Starting at your toes imagine glowing water filling them up and moving up your shins to your thighs and eventually to your head. Take your time with the visualization. Be shure to 'feel' the awareness water as it increases to encompass your entire body. You can do many variations of this technique with 'spirit hands' or other visualizations.

Lucid dreams are the most powerful form I have used in subtle training. Being lucid in a dream basically means you are conscious of being in the dream state and may have the power to change the dream environment. I have engaged in matrix-style acrobatics as well as flying in lucid dreams. I have also changed the environment substantially. So far I have found no boundaries in what is possible in dreams. Check online for techniques to becoming lucid. My favorites are short naps, Tibetan Dream Yoga, subtle body 'activation', and maintaining a dream journal.

Causal: I have entered the causal realm consciously several times through lucid dreams. When lucid dreaming I have jumped through walls or off of buildings/cliffs; when i reach the wall or bottom my consciousness pops through the dream barrier leaving my dream skin behind. I usually find myself in a dark void at this point. It usually has no discernable boundaries unless i manifest them.

*This is just my best guess at what the states are and techniques I use in them. I hope they help!

Shane-o

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Goddess Kundalini, Indweller in the Mooladhar Chakra

Posted July 1st, 2009 by sean paul

The Hindu religion talks of 3.3 million or 33 Koti demigods. These correspond to the 33 components or bead-like structures found on the Merudand (spine). These are called vertebrae. The Merudand is of the shape of a snake. Between every 2 vertebrae there is a bed of flesh which supports the vertebrae. Therefore it is elastic in nature and on its axis it can rotate in any direction. It can be divided into 5 parts 1) cervical – 7 vertebrae 2) thorax- 12 vertebrae 3) lumbar – 5 vertebrae 4) sacral – 5 vertebrae 5) carksegial – 4 vertebrae. The capacity embedded in these 33 parts is compared to divinity.
No doubt the Merudand is hollow (porous) but it is not shallow like a drum. In it one finds brain marrow. At the backside of every vertebra i.e. on the left/right side there are holes of the shape of rings from which emerge big nerves which are nothing but a bunch of smaller nerves. The lower part of the Merudand is of the shape of a cone and is called phylum terminal. here is the facility to do online payments so if any one want to have a full view just check it out !!!!
The more the vertebrae are small in certain regions the more wide they are. They are not hollow inside and are united to one another. These 4 vertebrae unite to form an egg shape or the bud of a flower. These are called carcix. This ball is called “Kand” in Kundalini Yoga and is also called Svayambhoo Linga.
From the regional viewpoint Chakras are named as follows. 1) Mooladhar 2) Svadhishthan 3) Manipur) 4)Anahat 5) Vishudhi. The Merudand ends at this point. The Ajna Chakra is between the eyebrows and the Sahasrar is at the center of the scalp.
When we use the terms Chakra activation, purification, awakening etc. it only means that the potential energy of these secret centers are being manifested.
Here one should understand deeply that in the scriptural arena bodily science (anatomy) is looked upon as a form of subtle sciences. The gross body is merely a shadow of the subtle body. Never should any gross organ be correlated to the subtle body. But it should only be looked upon as an image and a representative. None of the organs of the gross body has any of the divine powers described in the spiritual body science. From the gross body you can only get a faint glimpse of those subtle powers.

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3 body training

Posted January 21st, 2010 by Edward Harrold

I have found that using basic and advanced yogic breathing in traditional western training paradigms is the most effective way to activate the gross body and prepare the brain/mind for higher states of awareness. Raising energy levels with power breathing (fire), breath retentions, and alternate nostril techniques is important so that we dont put a strain of the heart rate. I look to activate both para sympathtic and sympathtic response's at once. This leads to  "flow states" as the frontal lobes come into sync. This isn't just for eastern practices, any form of cardio or strength programs will benefit right away. There is less distractions as we evolve and and go be tradtional subjective and objective results on the third dimension. Teaching the brain/mind that it safe to burn fat stores instead of sugar reserves is hardly ever mentioned in today's external, for your eye's only culture we live in.

All three body/mind states can be activated at once when you set the container of energy properly each time you warm up. This is the most important part, the first few minutes when I listen to my bodies energy levels at this moment. Moving from doing to being is rooted in the body first, witnessing the thought or sensation is the gateway to sublte, if the heartrate is manageable the left lobe is enveloped by the right and there we are in the perfect causal state. Bending space and time, meta physics, we all can do it.

Learn to play to the brains strength's first. Use the different qualities of each front lobe to match your energy level in the body. Then you use the digestive fires skillfully with advanced breathing technques to open the cardiovascular system second, then look for your minds witness. Use all of your mind to manipulate the forces of nature that are againest you and reshape or reframe the present moment to break on thru to the other side. Remember when you're in pain your closer to pleasure than your aware of.

Go Be Great

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application to union practice

Posted August 18th, 2011 by Nicole Sanderson

...in other words, I think he's saying that the kind of state in which there won't be a jump between sensations and ideas is the one in which you are already relating with your physical experience AS mind

...subject state of mind, object that it holds, subject state of mind, thought that it holds, body, breath, outer object, thought....all the same, all objects arising to the witness or out of the causal state.

the best application of this, I think, is probably union practice.  we all want to be able to "ride" the intense physical pleasure into spiritual realization, and this lecture sneakily describes exactly how to get ready for that type of practice.

 

fun!