A Repeat of a Greek Cypriot Mystical School's Energetic Exercise Found Near the Front of This Blog

The following energetic exercise has three important aspects. The first is physical sensing. That is being aware of an area of your body. The second is kinetic sensing. That is moving your awareness over and through an area of your body. The third aspect is using visualization within an area of your body and an area surrounding your body.

One of my friends recommends that if you have a hard time feeling a part of your body that you touch and even rub that part and then feel it with your awareness. Feel the bottom of your feet. Feel the sides and the top of your feet. Feel the muscles and tendons and bones. Just feel as much and as deeply as you can without too much effort. The more you do it the more you will feel. One of my teachers said the key is "effortless effort." another teacher said that it is like doing like you are not doing but still do. Another said use relaxed intensity. Take your pick.

We start with physical sensing.

Let your mind calm and your body relax from head to toe and from outside too deep within. When you find your mind wandering during the practice gently let go of the thought or emotion and return to the practice. When you find any unnecessary tension in the body gently relax and return to the practice. This holds true for any chi kung practice you are doing.

1) Bring your awareness to your feet. Feel your feet.

2) Feel your lower legs. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles and tendons and bones.

3) Feel your upper legs to the hips. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles and tendons and bones.

4) Feel your lower abdomen. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel your sex organ and kidneys. Feel your buttocks. Fell the connective tissue,  muscles and tendons and bones. Fell the bladder and the intestines.

5) Feel your chest area and shoulders. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles, tendons and bones. Feel the major organs, stomach, spleen, liver, heart, and lungs.

6) Feel your upper arms. Fell the skin, front back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles and tendons and bones.

7) Feel your lower arms. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles and tendons and bones.

8) Feel your neck/throat. Feel the skin, front back and sides. Feel your connective tissue, muscles and vertebrate. Feel the inside of your throat.

9) Feel your head. Feel the skin, front, back and sides. Feel the connective tissue, muscles and bones. Feel your mouth and tongue. Feel the eyes and ears. Feel the brain cavity and your brain.

10) Feel the space around your whole body, notice and feel where the skin meets the surface it is touching be it air or floor or your clothes or shoes or anything else. Just feel as much as you can.

Part 2 Kinetic sensing or moving awareness.

1) Let your awareness move or flow through the tips of your toes through your feet to your ankles.

2) Feel your awareness move from your feet through your lower legs to your knees.

3) From your knees let your awareness flow up through your upper legs to your hips.

4) From your hips flow through your lower abdomen and sex organs and buttocks to the diaphragm and the floor of your rib cage.

5) From your diaphragm and floor of your rib cage move through your upper chest to your shoulders.

6) From your shoulders move your awareness down the upper arms to your elbows.

7) From your elbows move down the lower arms to your wrists.

8) From your wrists move your awareness through your hands to the tips of your fingers.

9) From your upper torso move your awareness through your neck.

10) From your throat move your awareness through your head to the top of your skull.

11) Feel the space where the skin or hair on the top of your head meets the air.

12) Finally using your imagination and your awareness move from the space above your head through your whole body including the area around your body to a place just below the bottom of your feet.

Part 3: Visualization sensing. 1) See and feel your feet and legs filled with bright vibrating white light.

2) See and feel a bright blue white ball of light vibrating in and filling up your abdomen.

3) See and feel a bright pink white ball of energy vibrating in your heart area filling up your chest.

4) See and feel your arms and hands filled with vibrating bright white light.

5) See and fell your neck/throat filled with a vibrating orange white ball of light.

6) See and feel your head filled with a bright vibrating golden white ball of light.

7 See and feel your whole body surrounded by a beautiful gold and white egg shaped bright light.

8) Rest in the golden egg as long or as short as you like. When you are ready, see and feel the golden light moving from the outside of your body through your whole body into your lower abdomen. Feel the lower abdomen expand as you inhale and contract as you exhale for three breaths. Than relax. You have completed the practice. You can do this exercise in bed, sitting down or even walking. You can do it as short or as long as you desire.

Feel The Healing Vibrations of Yoganada That Comes Through His Written Words.

"Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired."

Technique for Relaxation by Paramhansa Yogananda: 

First, close your eyes and expel the breath; switch off the attention and energy from the sense. Feel and mentally watch the heart and circulation. Calm the heart by the command of will, as you stop a watch by gently touching its spring. With calmness you can arrest the activities of the entire physical machinery. Then switch on the Life Current in the spine and brain, disconnecting your Life Current from the five sense telephones. Convert your brain into a divine radio, receiving the Cosmic Sound of AUM.

"Heavenly Father, Thy cosmic life and I are one. Thou art the ocean, I am the wave; we are one."

"Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror."

"Verily, the mind is unsteady, tumultuous, powerful, obstinate! O Krishna, I consider the mind as difficult to master as the wind!" 
—The Bhagavad Gita VI:34

"Arjuna compares the mind to the wind. Here the deeper meaning of "wind" is breath; for the changeableness and waywardness of the human mind is ineluctably bound up with man's breathing patterns. The glory of India's ancient sages is that they discovered the liberating truth: to control the breath is to control the mind."

— From "God Talks to Arjuna" by Paramhansa Yogananda

"Every new effort after a failure must be well planned and charged with increasing intensity of attention. If a bad habit bothers you, do two things. Negatively, try to avoid it in everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating on it in the zeal to avoid it. Then positively try to divert your mind to some good habit, and keep it furiously engaged in culturing it, until it becomes a part of yourself." by Paramhansa Yogananda


Prayer from the book "Whispers from Eternity" 

 "I, a lion-cub of the Divine Mother, found myself thrown into life among the sheep of human frailties: of fear, failure, and disease. Living long among them, I learned to bleat with weakness, forgetting my lion-nature and its roars, which could frighten away all petty, pestering sorrows.

O Lion of Realization, Thou didst drag me away from those bleating sheep to the mirror-smooth waters of meditation. There didst Thou cry, "Gaze!" But I held my eyes tightly shut, bleating with fear. Thy roar of wisdom then reverberated through my body. Thou madest me, by hard shaking and spiritual urging, open my eyes. And there, lo! in the crystal pool of my inner peace, I saw my features to be even as Thine own!

Now I know myself as the Lion of cosmic power. I will bleat no more with fear, weakness, and suffering, for I roar, now, with vibrant, almighty power! I bound about through the forest of all experiences, seizing little creatures of vexing worries, timid fears, and wild hyenas of disbelief, devouring them ruthlessly.

O Lion of Immortality, roar through me Thine all-conquering power of wisdom!"

Prayer from the book "Whispers from Eternity" of Paramhansa Yogananda.