Metaphysical or Magical Properties of Iron

Like crystals, metals have their unique nature and elemental energy. It is powerful and wonderful to work with metals. Iron has a very strong fire element which corresponds to Mars. The core of our Earth is also of molten iron. So, iron powerfully grounds and anchors us to the Earth.

Citrine also has a strong fire element and iron pyrite also has a strong fire element. But, the fire element of iron is completely different. The elemental energy of crystals feel like a wave of light and the elemental energy of metals feel like a rush of flowing water, more tangible. If one is sensitive to the energy, feeling the energy of metals will be a very easy task. I feel that the metals are more potent in making the energy flow, compared to crystals.

Though both Iron and Steel are said to correspond to the planet Mars, steel which is not much attracted to a magnet has a different nature. Iron is more powerful and the fire is raw and hot. Steel seems to have more earth and less fire. I prefer iron to work with, if I need fire. When I need strong connection to Earth with less fire, I prefer steel. Fire element has the ability to protect, energize and makes one very self confident and strong. Especially those who are ruled by water element, astrologically, may feel comforted by the fire element at tough times. It applies in general for sensitive individuals. It is a projective and protective elemental energy. If there is too much of emotional turmoil, fire element shall stabilize it immediately. Also, those who are affected by the phases of moon, emotionally, will find the fire element very comforting. Also, it strengthens the body and improves health. Our blood has heme, the ferrous component.. It adds fire to the whole of the being.

Iron has been used in many cultures. The horse shoe of iron is considered to be protective and people hanged it on their doors. Some make rings from the horse shoe metal and wear it. It is just the metal that matters and not the form. When it is close to the body, within the aura, it works beautifully.

I prefer to hang the metals and crystals close to my heart chakra, where I feel it very powerful. You could give a try with any small piece of iron you have at home.. A simple bolt or nut would do. If you want to confirm that the metal is iron, a magnet would help! :) The size matters. If you find the energy too powerful on you, it is good to reduce the size/weight of metal. When playing with the elemental energy, experiment and have fun and also be cautious. It can bring greater balance or throw one out of balance. If you are sensitive, you shall intuitively know and get a feel of it with a little experiment. When experimenting with any metal or crystal, if you are wearing any other metal or crystal, you may have to take it off, to know exactly how a specific metal or crystal works on you. Have fun! 

The Magic of Breathless State (a samadhi)

Breathless state is a type of samadhi in which the breath is almost in a suspended state. As the energy body opens up, the prana starts moving through the sushumna (the central psychic pathway) in a powerful way. It is at that stage, the breath becomes feeble and one can enter states of breathless state. When the prana flows through sushumna, you can feel the air flowing through both the nostrils. It is quite easy to feel.. There is no magic or something that cannot be proven.

Ways to open up psychic pathways: Some of the powerful ways to work with the psychic pathways requires one go subtle. Kriya pranayama, which is one of the techniques of Kriya yoga works directly with the psychic pathway. If you are able to feel and work with the whole of your subtler energy body (as in Vipassana), that also opens up the sushumna in a wonderful way. To feel the energy body, one has to initially work with breath. Working with the breath is a whole system in itself and can give wonderful results.

Working with the breath: Keep your mind inside the nostrils and feel the touch sensation of the air moving inside the nostrils. There is no need to move in and out with the breath. Let the awareness be still on the touch sensation. Feeling the sensation of the touch is the importance here. It is a wonderful way to meditate. You stay with the reality, not imagining something. If the mind wanders away, just get it back. You can do this at all times and not only when you sit to meditate. But, sitting for a meditation greatly helps in making a quick progress. Observing the breath at all times is very important to get established in the technique. As you keep on observing the breath, you shall feel the breath getting more and more feeble and it shall settle down. At that stage, stay feeling the gap between the breaths. Gradually the gap between the breath shall increase and take you into deeper levels of stillness. Just stay in that stillness, observing the suspended state of breath. You can do this amidst your daily core of activities. Practising it at all times is the secret to quick success.

Don't expect any magic to happen in a day or two. Have patience and practice regularly. Food is an important factor. Be aware of what you feed the body.

A wonderful writing from a breatharian, that may inspire you: http://www.ethereallights.com/breathless.html

When one is in a breathless state, more of cosmic energy enters the being and the transformation/shift happens.

Sun gazing for superiour health and spiritual evolution

Sun is the most powerful source of prana (cosmic energy) available to us to get our body and mind transformed in a very short time.

We are in the process of shifting from the 3rd/4th dimensional vibration to the 5th dimensional vibration. Our entire solar system is inside the photonic belt and is helping the Earth increase her vibration. So, it is very easy for us, the residents of the Earth, to increase the vibration of our physical vehicle.

Sun is already vibrating at a very high frequency. When this high frequency energy is properly taken inside the body and digested, it can bring great transformation in a very short time.

It can activate the pituitary and pineal and energize whole of our energy body which will naturally take care of the physical health and spiritual progress. Once the psychic pathways are properly open, nectar (soma) starts secreting inside the head and drips down which tastes sweet. This transforms the body and may pave way to immortality. Remember that you are already immortal as a spirit. Only the body that you have inhabited is mortal.

Sun gazing has to be practised in the safe hours, that is within 1 hour after the sun rise and during the last 1 hour of the sunset.

The procedure:

Sit or stand in a comfortable way, with spine erect. With open eyes, directly look at the sun for a short duration (say 30 seconds) and the close your eyes. Feel the energy inside the head. It will move inside and energize your entire body. Then, again open your eyes and look at the sun for a short duration and then close your eyes allowing the body to digest it.. Gradually increase the duration.

I shall give a few links at the end of the post for detailed instructions from some advanced yogis that are practising sun gazing. Follow your intuition and gradually increase the gazing duration.

There may be some discomfort in the eyes. But, with regular practice, such symptoms may get away within a week or two.

If you are too sensitive to the energy of the sun and are not able to see the sun directly, it is better to watch the bright clouds. Later on, your eyes may get adjusted to look at the sun or you may just continue to gaze the clouds. You can even watch the bright clouds during the middle of the day. Advanced sun yogis watch even the sun during middle of the day. But, dont try such things to be on the safer side... not atleast in the initial stages of your practice.

If you have been into meditation and have the ability to feel the energy body, you can easily feel how the energy moves and energizes whole of your energy body. In the first few days, you may feel the energy raw and very powerful in the solar plexus region. Gradually, you shall start getting recharged like a battery. There may be strong currents of energy moving along your spine and these are all positive signs that your body is properly getting adjusted and utilizing the sun light.

Make sure you are not wearing any contact lens or glasses while doing sun gazing. And finally, practice at your own risk. Each one's physical body is unique. Only you could find if it suits you or not. 

Some useful links:

http://solarhealing.com/process/
http://www.sunyoga.info/sunmeditation.htm

If you have physical pain...

As we shift with the ascension energies, our bodies are becoming more and more sensitive.. So, it

Pyrite

is our responsibility to understand the elements and use them in our favour. Each food/crystal/metal has a elemental energy - earth/water/fire/air.

With the help of a crystal or a metal, we can easily get into a better balance or can even get out of balance. So, it is very vital to be aware of the crystals that we keep close or wear.

If the fire element goes out of balance and dominates your system, it may create physical pain and also may make you less receptive. Gold, pyrite, citrine are few of the metals/crystals that have a strong fire element. Use them cautiously.
Citrine and pyrite are very good for psychic protection and purification of your energy body. If you are sensitive to the energy, you shall know when it is too much.. If you wear crystals regularly, balance the elements according to the need of your body/bodies.

Moonstone/silver/amethyst have a dominant water element. So, if you are thrown out of balance by a powerful fire element, water element may bring back the balance.

Copper makes the energy flow through the body and it would also help regain the balance. Combine the crystals, only if you are aware of its energy and know for sure what it does. 

Copper - A Magical Metal!!

Crystals and metals have got their unique metaphysical value. Whether you are aware of it or not,

the metals and crystals that are within your energy body will impact your mind and body.

Copper is known for its magical and healing abilities. As the frequency is on an increase, your body may require help getting adjusted to the higher frequencies. If you are having problem grounding your energies, instead of using a grounding stone, you could consider using copper, which is really awesome!

If you feel your head heavy or too much energy concentrated in one part of the body, it may be because of a poor flow of energy. When the energy flows properly through your body, you feel healthy and blissful. Our responsibility is just to keep the energy/spirit flow through the body properly. The rest, happens on its own, the shift of consciousness!

If you are already working with a metal or a crystal, try giving a trial to copper alone. Once you get the feel of copper, you shall know how other crystals gets along with it. I prefer to wear copper alone and I love it.

Keeping water overnight in a copper jar and having it in the morning is also a good idea! If you are using a copper jar, make sure it is free of that green discolouration. If you immerse it in tamarind water and leave it for a while, it will shine like a new one!

To read more of the metaphysical properties of copper, visit http://www.metaguides.net/pbos198.jpg (Pocket Book of Stones by Robert Simmons)

Have a good time with copper!! It is a bliss, to be with copper!!

Mental Conditioning and Psychic Pathways

Functioning with a lot of mental conditioning is more like a programmed computer. One experiences inner peace and the spontaneous functioning, when one rests in the emptiness or lives in the NOW.

If you are battling with the thoughts of past and future, know that you are not living in the present. If you want to experience deep inner peace and just flow with life, working with your psychic pathway becomes necessary.

If you observe your breath, you shall find that the air flows through either the left or the right nostril. It keeps on shifting between both the nostrils. For a very brief period, it may flow through both the nostrils around the shifting phase. There are three major psychic pathways (Nadis) which are part of your subtler body. When the prana (energy) flows through the ida (left channel), the breath flows through the left nostril. When it flows through pingala (right channel), the breath flows through the right nostril. When the breath flows through both the nostrils, then the prana is moving through the central channel or sushumna. Sushumna is called the highway to heaven.

The goal of each and every yogi and yogini is to make the breath flow through the central channel. It is the true state of meditation. You cannot meditate. You have to fall into the state of meditation. As long as you try, it is not meditation. When meditation happens, you experience it. Staying in a meditative state, is being an observer and flow with life! To flow with life, you have to make the prana move through sushumna!

How to achieve that state? Working with your subtler body is the only way to go!! No shortcuts!!

Observing the breath will make the mind subtle.. When the mind becomes subtle, you can experience your own subtler body and be able to work with your psychic pathways.

  

Crystals for Harmonious Life!!

Our life would be harmonious, when we stay at a higher vibration, grounding the spirit properly in the body! If you know how to increase the vibration and ground yourself in the body, everything happens on its own!! The energy that flows through you, takes care of the shift!!

Crystals fall under two categories. They are either projective or receptive! Projective stones promote self-confidence, makes you outgoing and helps in healing others. Stones like citrine and pyrite are projective.

Receptive stones help you make your inner journey and heal yourself! They expand you!! Makes you more receptive to the frequencies that help you and increases your sensitivity, promoting psychic powers! Stones like Amethyst and Moonstone are powerful receptive stones.

A strong projective stone may help you burst open your psychic channels for the flow to happen! They purify you with the fire element! A receptive stone draws the energy inside, for your progress! Both are equally important! If your flow is good, you can consider to use more of receptive stones! When you need a strong psychic protection and purify your mind, you may reach to your fire element stones!

Though Amethyst is a receptive stone, it also gives a wonderful pyschic protection, by keeping your vibration high! When you vibrate at a higher frequency, being grounded is very important, to stay protected and stable!

When you are at a higher vibration, the mundane worldly problems don't bother you! You live in a different world altogether! You still participate in the world, not being drowned by it! Participating in this world, fully engaging yourself in the activity you love, is always fun, when you are at a higher vibration! When you step-up your vibration, the universe takes care of you! YOU ARE LOVED!!

YOU are flowing through your body!!

Your experience of your life and this planet is based on your expression/flow through your physical body. YES!! You are experiencing this world through physical body and you are not this body! There are psychic pathways through which the spirit runs into the matter! If your psychic pathways/nadi's are more open, you allow yourself to flow more through this body! More the flow, happier your life and easy going you are, in a blissful state!

When the flow is continuous, as you allow more and more light to pass through, your physical body undergoes transformation and you would anchor heaven on earth!

As the spirit is flowing through the body, they are both deeply related and continuously evolve!

You are your frequency!

Every thought and feeling has got its own frequency of energy. Feeling of anger, sorrow and hatred are all part of a lower frequency of energy. Feeling of love and happiness hold a higher frequency of energy. Like a radio that can get tuned to a different frequency of waves, we as a human can get tuned into different frequencies. Can you experience love and hatred together? Impossible... Right? But, you can experience both! What it means is, you have the ability to experience different frequencies of energy!

We can control the radio to make it receive a specific station by tuning it into a specific frequency. In the same way, we have the option to get tuned into a higher or a lower frequency. When you are tuned into a higher frequency, you feel optimistic and motivated with full of love.

With meditation and the use of crystals you have the option to get tuned into a higher frequency of energy. The frequency of our planet is on an increase. So, it is getting easier to experience higher frequencies.

Every food substance has a specific frequency. In general, a vegetarian diet has a higher frequency of energy compared to non-veg. You may have to adjust your food listening to your intuition and knowing how the body feels.

Staying tuned to a higher frequency and grounding it properly makes you stay with the flow of life, in a joyful manner.

Grounding higher frequencies for physical transformation

Grounding the higher frequencies of energy through the physical body is the secret to transform the physical body. As the physical body gets tuned to a higher frequency of energy, the diseases get healed and the mind becomes more beautiful, radiating divine joy.

Our solar system has already entered a photon band which is of a very high frequency. So, this is time for everyone to get tuned to a higher frequency of energy with ease. There will be a rapid spiritual evolution and everyone will start radiating more love and joy, transcending the limitations of the human mind.

If you would like to increase the frequency of your mind-body complex, using stones like amethyst and tanzanite would help a lot. Using amethyst in combination with moldavite will increase your frequency in a wonderful manner. If you are not able to feel the subtle energy, working consciously on your energy body is required. Kriya pranayama opens up the channel along the spine, making you sensitive to the subtle energy. Vipassana is also a wonderful practice to make you sensitive to energy. Sexual fluids get converted into subtle form of energy and moves along the spine. So, it is necessary to master some ways of cultivation and utilization of the sexual fluids, not wasting it. It is the most refined physical substance in our body, which can immediately get converted into subtle energy that would feed our subtler bodies. To have more information, you may download and read the free copy of my booklet Celibacy and Spiritual Life.

If you are already very sensitive to energy, you can use the crystals and get tuned to higher frequencies of energy very easily. Getting tuned to the higher frequency of energy and grounding it properly is the only way to transform the body, making it capable of holding more light. In that process, our consciousness expands and we realize our true multidimensional nature.

Sometimes, you may feel comfortable only with a higher frequency stone. At times, you may feel like using both a high frequency stone and a grounding stone. When your vibration increases to a new high, you may want to wear only a grounding stone. Smoky quartz is a wonderful stone to bring down the energy from sahasrara and ground it properly, keeping you connected to the higher frequencies. If that grounding is not enough for you, you should add another stone like black tourmaline or hematite. If you stay in a very high frequency, not grounding the energy properly, you shall have problem being present in the physical world and it would have a negative impact on your health. You can also walk bare foot on earth to ground the energies easily. Swimming is also a good way to get grounded.

Staying in tune with the higher frequencies and being grounded in the physical body is the target. Follow your intuition and select stones accordingly.

We are all in a wonderful stage of transformation. Enjoy the time on planet earth!

A must read, if you are not able to ground your energy!

A proper grounding is necessary to lead a healthy life on this physical plane and

evolve spiritually. A higher frequency of energy enters through the crown chakra from above the head. That energy has to pass through your energy meridian and get grounded in the mother earth. If this does not happen, then, your grounding mechanism is not working properly.

Symptoms of poor grounding include the following

- Easily getting irritated
- Not able to handle people or situations
- Highly sensitive to other people's energies (and not feeling comfortable)
- Not even able to drive with concentration
- The whole world seems to fight you (you are not able to flow with life)
- At extreme situations, you dont feel like walking on the ground
- Poor metabolism and loss of appettite
- Easily getting exhausted

The following measures will help you properly ground the higher energies and make your life pleasant and fun.

- At a subtler level, doing kriya pranayama and practice of techniques like   Vipassana  (Goenka style) will greatly help, as they help to open up all the energy blocks and make you balanced.

- Use of grounding crystals like black tourmaline, hematite and smokey quartz shall help

Sometimes, working at a gross level helps immediately and sometimes working at a subtler level seems to help more. But, try both.

If you can diagnose where the block is, you can work more effectively. If the block is around solar plexus, there will be a lack of will power and a poor appetite. If the block is around heart chakra, you shall have problem expressing and receiving love. Most of the time, strengthening the solar plexus energizes the whole of the body and helps in clearing the blocks. For doing that, concentrate on your food. Eat healthy food. More fruits and fresh vegetables will help. Using crystals like citrine will also greatly help. Walking on bare foot on the ground will also help. Walking bare foot, having a proper food and doing exercise are all part of the gross ways to bring impact at a subtler level.

There is a practice in India to chew beetel leaf, areca nut and lime after meals. It is a wonderful practice to digest the food, bring a proper acid-base balance and improve health. You could even try that. From my personal experience, this helps a lot to improve the health. Check out the medicinal properties of beetel leaves. The list is long!

Most of the answers for your problems has to come deep inside from you. When you become aware of your problem, you gradually start getting solutions, if you are receptive. You shall be naturally getting intuitive answers, guidance from some other people, you may happen to read more about that, etc... Just keep the question in some part of your mind and you shall start finding answers everywhere..

When there is a proper grounding and the energy flows unhindered from the top of your head to your feet and then to the earth, you feel a nice flow with the life and you start enjoying life. There is always some higher guidance. If you ask, you shall be helped. There are spirit guides ready to help you. You can try sitting in a meditative pose and request your spirit guide to clear your energy blocks and bring more light and love into your being. Just observe and allow the work to happen. Using crystals like amethyst will help you become more sensitive to energy, by opening the higher chakras. Amethyst in combination with moldavite will increase your frequency and you shall feel more love and higher guidance. If you are not able to ground such a high frequency, using grounding crystals shall help.

Proper combination of crystals for healing and spiritual progress

If you are using a single gemstone and you are
comfortable with it, then it is very

simple and effective. If you are not thrown out of balance (happens in the case of high vibration crystals) and at the same time get a feel that the crystal is really working effectively, you need not bother about combinations.

But if you are required to combine crystals, then its elemental energies need to be kept in mind to make sure that the crystal works in you properly and you derive the highest benefit. Having experienced the power of crystals, one may get a desire to make it more powerful and progress faster on the path. So, the combination may help you at such times. But one should keep in mind that one good stone is more effective than a combination of a few stones that is improper.

The elements - earth, water, fire and air determine our health and spiritual progress. When these elements go out of balance, we fall sick. When we know how to use them properly, we progress faster on our path.

A same crystal may not have the same level of impact on different persons. It is because, the elemental constitution of individuals are different. It is also due to the fact that each individual will have different levels of inner purity (in the subtler body). As one meditates, the energy channels gets opened up and one could feel the energy easily. The environment also has got something to do. In warm places, the fire element dominates and in cold places, the water element dominates. It is also true that the same crystal will not have the same impact on you as you progress. It shall intensify and change. It is because you evolve and your energy body changes. So, there seems to be a lot of factors. But, just to make it simple, the general rule of combination (of the crystal) is to combine, fire with air and earth with water.

Sometimes a crystal/stone may have more than one elemental energies. At such times, it is best to try and feel how it works on you and then take a decision. Just feel it and go ahead.

Sometimes I combine pyrite and black tourmaline. Pyrite has predominantly fire energy (it also has earth element) and black tourmaline has strong earth component. They get along with me. You can also combine crystals of the same component. It will be powerful. Just make sure you are balanced. Many strong meditative stones have air element. But most of the grounding stones have earth element. So, sometimes you have to combine air and earth.

But the water and fire never get along. Other than the general rule of combination (fire+air; water+earth), combinations like earth and fire may be good on you or may not be, depending on your individual constitution and your environment. If you are sensitive to the work of crystals, you can easily feel whether they do any good or not. Wear the crystal/crystals, sit for a meditation and decide. Sometimes, a combination may throw you out of balance after a few days.. ha ha.. As the days pass, they seem to work more powerfully. Just follow your intuition...

There are many internet sources available to tell you the element of the crystal/stone. The book of stones is a good reference. The following link may also help you (in that page, click the name of the crystal to read more about it)

The Pocket Book of Stones

Good luck!

Crystals for Spiritual Development

Crystals have special energy that can help us on the path of spiritual progress. Each crystal has a specific frequency which can be used in our favour. For a proper meditation to happen, the energy channels in our body needs to be clear without blocks. In some of the yogic techniques like Kriya yoga, kriya pranayama is done before sitting and enjoying the meditative state. As you advance on the path of yoga, meditation happens on its own as you sit down. Whether you are an advanced practitioner or a starter on the path, crystals can help you progress faster.


I do not know how exactly the crystals work. All I know is, they work for sure. Amethyst is the first crystal I tried. When I tried it, the energy started moving up towards the ajna. I was surprised to see such an intense energy movement without any effort. That made me explore more crystals.

How to use the crystals
The best way to use any crystal is to wear it continuously or according to the need. If you do not like to wear it as an ornament, you can even keep it in your pocket. If it is close to the body, it is better.
It is better to wear a single crystal if you are a starter, until you know intuitively the best ways of combining different crystals. It takes time for the body to get adjusted to the frequency of the crystal. It may take a few days to a week for you to start sensing the efficiency of the crystal.

To attain a meditative state, you can start with Amethyst as I did or you can select the crystal that attracts you. Each crystal has a different property. As you read the properties of the crystal and see its photograph, you may be attracted to the crystal that you require. Or you can go to a shop that sells crystals, to see them and feel them to decide. Whatever crystal you start with, wear it at all times or keep it in your pocket. It will continue to work on you the whole day. If you sit calm in the meditative pose and observe its work, it will take you to a deeper meditative state.

Cleansing the crystals
It is a must to cleanse the crystal when you buy it for the first time. It may have some negative energies that it might have attracted from the previous user or during the shipping process. Holding the crystal in the running water for a few minutes with the intention of cleaning it is a simple way of doing it. You can also leave it in the moon light for a few nights to cleanse and charge the crystal. Submerging it in sea salt for a few hours is also a good way of cleansing the negative energies.

The impact of crystals
The impact of the crystals may not be same on everyone. It depends on the individual. If you are already into meditation and your energy channels are open, you shall feel the efficiency of the crystal immediately. You can just sit and observe the energy movements and it will take you to a deep state of meditation. If you are new to meditation, you continue with your regular meditation and the crystals will help you in the progress.

The importance of grounding
If the energy continuously stays in the upper chakras, you may feel spaced out and may not be able to be present in the worldly activities. At such times, it is good to get the help of grounding crystals like hematite or black tourmaline. For some, just touching the grounding crystal seems to work. Some wear it all the time. I prefer to wear it for a day or two when I feel not grounded. You have to follow your intuition.

Crystals select you
It is generally said that the crystals select you. They attract you towards them and get into your life for your highest good. As you start with, you shall know the efficiency of the crystals. Good luck!
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Update: Using amethyst and hematite (amethyst works in higher chakras and hematite brings grounding) together at the same time brings a greater balance. You can wear this combination at all times. After experimenting with different crystals/stones like rhodizite, phenacite, herkimer, tanzanite... the combination of amethyst and hematite is my favourite. If you are using crystals for any therapeutic value, you should select accordingly. The combination I suggest if for spiritual development and a balanced life.

Prana and Mind - Way to Liberation

The flow of prana in the nadi's is directly related to the state of mind. There are three major nadis - ida, pingala and sushumna. Generally the breath shifts between ida and pingala. For a brief duration, it flows through sushumna during the shifting phase. The mind becomes free only when the breath flows through the sushumna. Until then it remains captivated by duality, the good and bad, positive and negative, pleasure and pain... When the breath flows through sushumna, the mind becomes more of an observer. It is the state of meditation. The goal of a yogi is to keep the breath in the sushumna channel.

When the prana flows through ida, you can feel the breath flowing through your left nostril. When the prana flows through pingala, you can feel the breath flowing through the right nostril. When the prana starts moving in sushumna, the breath starts flowing in both the nostrils.

A hatha yogi uses different physical poses to control the flow of breath. Mahamudra is one of the mudras that helps in making the breath flow through sushumna. That is why that mudra is given a very high importance. Long back it was the secret known only to the himalayan yogis. Advanced yogis control the flow of their prana, just with their mind. Keeping the mind in the bridge between the nostrils will help the breath flow through the sushumna.

One cannot be always putting some effort to keep the breath flow through the sushumna. It has to naturally flow through sushumna most of the time without any effort. That stage is achieved when the major energy blocks (granthis) along the sushumna are opened up. That is achieved through yogic practices. Kriya yoga moves the prana in the sushumna to clear the blocks. It is considered one of the quickest methods to achieve great results. Working directly with the subtler body (being aware of the energy body) is my favourite way for clearing the blocks. I consider it a very efficient technique.

When the energy blocks are opened up, the prana starts flowing through the sushumna giving a state of freedom and bliss. It may not free one completely from the worldly suffering immediately. There may be still disease, old age and death. But, a free mind makes you a pure observer. An observing mind does not add further karma as you would lose the sense of doing and you would know things happen through you. Things happen to reduce the karmic burden. It would pave way for liberation.

The Importance of Physical Body

A human being is not just what is visible to the physical eyes. The physical body is just the gross aspect of the human. Every living human being has a physical body, an astral body and a causal body.

The physical body immediately starts disintegrating when the astral body along with the causal body gets separated from the physical body. This process is generally referred to as death. The astral body also dissolves after some period, after taking appropriate lessons in the astral plane. It is the causal body that remains forever (till liberation) forming new astral and physical bodies according to the need.

For one to attain liberation (to completely dissolve the causal body), the physical body is necessary. Shri Adi Shankara in the Viveka Chudamani described three things that are very rare in this world: to have a human birth, to have the desire for liberation and to have the blessings of the realized master.

So, what is the need of the physical body? For the spiritual evolution to happen, the energy has to be anchored into the system (the Physical-Astral-Causal complex). Proper amount of energy when moved in proper channels, brings spiritual development. What I mention as energy channels is referred to as nadi in the eastern terminology. There are three major energy channels: ida, pingala and sushumna. Sushumna is the major nadi/channel that the yogis are concerned with. When the energy is moved in this channel from muladhara (bottom chakra) to sahasrara (crown chakra) and above, spiritual evolution happens faster.

Our system also receives cosmic energy. This movement is from top to bottom. We have more control over the energy that we can move from muladhara to sahasrara. That is why some yogic traditions like  kriya yoga, mostly concentrate on kriyas (kriya pranayama) which moves the energy in the sushumna channel.

The gross form of energy in our system is the sexual energy. It can easily and readily be converted to the subtler form and moved up along the sushumna. This is the most important process that happens in the human system. It naturally happens whether one is aware of it or not. But, when one becomes aware of the energy and moves it, the entire process of spiritual evolution becomes quite quick. This fueling of spiritual evolution, in this manner, is possible only with the physical body, through which we can convert the gross energy and feed the subtler systems.

In yogic techniques like Kriya pranayama, the energy is moved consciously and in systems like vipassana, the blocks are cleared and the energy is allowed to move on its own. The one who knows this secret makes the best use of his life.