Breathing Earth Water Air & Fire

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What most people understand as breathing is respiration.   Respiration is the flow of inspiration and expiration punctuated by transition pauses.

Breathing is also circulation as flow through arteries and flow through veins punctuated with pauses between heartbeats.

It is self-evident that breathing unfolds as waves; what is not usually seen is that just as you breathe the gaseous-air element air, you also breathe the solid-earth element as food, you breathe the liquid-water element as liquid water and you breathe the plasma-fire element as things like heat, light and Vitamin D that we get from our sun.

In all cases you breathe these fundamental elements in the same manner that you breathe air. In all cases you take the fundamental element in from somewhere outside your body, you body’s inherent intelligence extracts the life-giving energies (see resonance) and it expels the wastes.

In other words you literally breathe earth, water, air and fire!

Resonance

In a situation where you have a violin and a piano in the same room and you play Middle C on the piano then the C-string of the violin will vibrate. The principle that this demonstrates is called resonance.

The word ‘resonance’ means to sound again, to reverberate or re-vibrate.

What is popularly known as the ‘Law of Attraction’ is more accurately understood as a derivative of this principle. It is not so much that ‘like attracts like’ as the Law of Attraction is commonly defined, rather it is the understanding that all thingsand objects are energy in form as specific  wave motions and movements that are harmoniously interacting, resonating.

The principle of resonance is based on wave interaction.

The Attributes of a Wave:

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event within a specific time.

Wavelength is the distance over which a wave’s shape repeats.

Period is the amount of time required to complete one full cycle.

Amplitude means greatness or size.

Wave interaction as resonance can be demonstrated as follows:

While driving turn on a car radio and tune it in and out. The ‘channels’ or frequencies where the radio provides a clear signal are the locations where coherent sound is heard. Then drive some distance to discover a place where the signal breaks down even though you have not changed the channel (note that if you were to continue traveling and exploring you would eventually discover another distant location where the signal would be picked up again by the car radio).

This example illustrates that for resonance to take place certain factors are required. First the wave has to be broadcast or transmitted in some form. And a receiver that is in the right location and attuned to the correct frequency is also required. When these things are in place the principle of resonance manifests as if by magic and an understanding and application of this principle is a means for you to use your brainwave activity in extraordinary ways.

Binary-Fourfold Waves: Brainwaves

As described on the waves page of this blog the binary nature of things is a wave that is what it is through its motion and its motion is fourfold. Its fourfoldedness is akin to the four part beats that are common in music, quatrains of sacred literature, the seasons of the year and the wave action of high and low tides etc.

The harmonious interaction of its binary, complementary extremes unfolding as flow and ebb that folds back on itself forms an eightfold pattern . This structure of this eightfold pattern is an infinity symbol that is akin to the familiar octave in music and is spoke of in Buddhism as ‘The Noble Eightfold Way’, in yoga as ‘Astanga or Eight-Limbed Yoga’ and in all wisdom traditions that speak of ‘sevens’ as the spaces or intervals withing the ’8′ parts of an octave (like the notes of music that make up an ovctave as they link, the days of a week, and the 7 chakra or energy centres of a human body).

The same binary- fourfold pattern is clear in human brainwave activity as there are modern scientists have determined that there are four fundamental brainwave patterns associated with human brain activity (these are: beta, alpha, theta and delta; there are others like gamma yet these are considered to be high beta).

The binary nature of human brainwave activity is relationship as the intrinsic activity that is associated with extrinsic events that can be unfolding currently or it may be the actrivity of dreaming or imagination associated with some previous event.

Continued: See the post on Breathing Waves

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Maya – Illusion Reality or Truth

What is Maya?

Most often the Sanskrit word ‘maya’ is translated as ‘illusion’.

This is correct in a certain way because part of the Sanskrit root meaning of maya is ‘illusion’ yet the problem with limiting the translation to ‘illusion’ is that when folks apply the definition they most often do it from within the realm of maya. This leads to all sorts of negative conclusions that are also ‘maya’.

In the past I’ve shared the distinction between what may be called ‘reality’ and ‘Truth’. An example is fear; the sensations arising as fear are true yet the mental based reasons for fear may be completely false. A situation that illustrates this is the fact most people’s greatest fear is public speaking yet public speaking itself is not the source of the sensations that arise, rather it is the person’s mental response to the situation.

In the same way it is clear that negative conclusions like ‘it is all illusion’ are false when these are mental responses that are generated by your thinking mind as an interpretation of what ‘illusion’ means – that is maya.

The Sanskrit the root meaning of maya comes from a common source that means both ‘illusion’ and ‘measure’. In this light when you accidentially hit your shin against the sharp corner of a coffee table there is not the false conclusion that ‘it is all illusion’ rather ‘hitting your shin off a sharp corner is ‘lived’ as the truth of what arises in that situation (any mental representation of this event is maya).

Maya is the ability to acquire and use knowledge as the action of your thinking mind. When you see things through what you already know then your knowledge is a ‘veil’ or filter that alters what you see.

In this light maya is your thinking mind that is functionally very useful for naming things and making distinctions. This means that although maya as your mental representation is illusion it is also a very effective and real means of measuring things and working with them symbolically. An example is language as language is an obviously tremendously useful and effective means of speaking about things that are not necessarily true at present yet you can use language to make a plan that is aligned with truth.

Maya and Truth are like the weather – alive.

Yoga Nidra and the Law of Attraction Action

Yoga Nidra includes what is popularly known as the Law of Attraction. The distinction is that Yoga Nidra has been effectively using this principle by another name for thousands of years to help you set and achieve your goals.

In Yoga Nidra practice the Law of Attraction is your resolution and your intention.

You set your resolution with your conscious mind before you start a the actual relaxation process. It is quite simple as you simply resolve to allow your conscious mind to relax and yet remain aware. In short you are saying that you will be relaxed yet alert.

The best way to understand your intention and therefore the application of the Law of Attraction is to understand functioning as per the relationship between what is called your conscious mind and your subconscious mind. The relationship is like that of a captain of a ship and its crew where your conscious mind is the captain and your subconscious mind is your body as your ship and its activities is your crew.

In the analogy of captain and crew the role of your conscious mind is to set your intention like a captain giving directions to your crew and ship. Then the most important step for your conscious mind (the captain) is to relax and let the crew and ship do as directed.

The inability for the conscious mind as captain is why most people are not able to use the Law of Attraction and the principle behind it effectively. The solution for this huge problem is the relaxation practice of Yoga Nidra.

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