[quote=AmirMourad;50733]core, 
If you are becoming hungry sometime during the day after eating the meal, there are a number of things that can be done to help dissolve the sensations of hunger. One is to use shitali or shikari pranayam as it removes heat from the stomach and changes the chemistry which brings about hunger. Another is concentration upon visshudhi chakra, once the energies of this center are awakened, it tends to bring about a certain level of immunity to hunger.[/quote]
Very helpful Amir.
I have reduced my dietary intake the past week and derived discernibley noticeable benenfit. I am going to do my best to try to observe the new diet, i.e one meal a day unless it ends up detriminetal to health, and will keep your suggesstions in mind. I have been concluding that the diet bit is a serious continuous yoga practice in itself and you hear so much in the literature about giving importance to diet.My problem is i ate too much so these suggesstions and your intentions are really helpful.
I’ll keep you update on how i’m progressing.
I have got to the stage where i am confident enough in my own sadhana and the predictability of the results so far that the kundalini is just waiting patiently to rise. I have been refining some of my technique and methods. And so i really appreciate the help from someone further along the path and with more knowledge and experience.
Your help and suggesstions are very much appreiciated.
The path here looks a bit more predicatble and clearer.I’m patient but i can kind of see this thing going off kundalin-wise and have started to make better inward progress since opening up the third-eye better and getting more balance in there. I can actually feel it within the brain-hemispheres and will continue what i am currently doing.Balanced crown & third-eye activity are significant cues.This apporach is more leisurely yet seems more targeted…we’ll see.I was’nt sure how to tackle it before withe only most effective recourses or so ithought i had being in partuclar nadi shodhana or mantra japa yoga and a host of of little tricks and methods to try and make inroads…and much experimentation in-between. . The dominant pingala was always an issue here. So i find i’m making more predicatble headway here and don’t feel i have to effort so much.
Reading the subtle domain - one thing.
Having the tools- yet another.
Your adivce and suggesstions, guidance etc is very much appreciated.I’m getting there and getting better.
Also eating too much was a serious impediment to fitting into a sadhana schedule and so i have observed the efficacy of practice when a diet or restrictions on it are observed.The practices do indeed work better if the system is empty of digestive proessing… also the mind is sharper more alert etc. I think did it for the dopamine fix and something to do…as many do. aS long as i don’t get too thin but it think it will and should really help here.If you’re working on manpiura it’s amust
In one of the texts the the gerundha or Siva Samhita perhaps i have heard it sugggested
to keep stomach:-
1/2 full of food
1/4 of water
1/4 empty
mere suggesstion,
like you are almost slightly hungry-ish is a good thing.
also i might alter it too slightly…make it healthier.
and in Hatha Yoga pradipika neither to eat too much i.e too excess or either too little. The dominant idea behind yogic diet is balance so tht we do not starve or then have a binge to excess.Hence why it s aid that forced diets don’t work because the desires may still reside and indeed remain supressed in the mind.
Indeed that is where the supperior efficacy of a multi-thronged approach to yoga comes in. Diet being a part of one of the limbs.
Sometimes i have my doubts about the “grace” bit in yoga… i keep on thinking to myself …no it’s a science.You do this and get that. Or you don’t do anything.Perhaps the grace bit is the doing nothing bit.
The kingdom of God comes to those that do nothing…lol
Thanks very much.
