The Karmatic Diet Series: The Dark Kingdom 108 Monsters Within 

Some entities drop off reasonably easily in sitting with them. Others are more challenging and take higher states of meditation. Clearing out the 108 is something to conduct one particular entity at a time, rather than attempting to clear all the entities at once. If forcing it out, in this case go in with conviction and strength in willpower, be willing to challenge and renounce the entity from the vessel, or fully embrace it.

Continuing from the ‘sitting with the devil’ meditation from the previous chapter:

Technique 1: Clearing

Be with the experience and emotion. In sitting with a particular emotional entity, recognize that it is a choice to face it head-on, moving forward confidently in your choice. Bring full attention to the experience, and however the conversation goes, we are going to go back out the door of the room we came in.

 

We are going to leave all the doors to the room open. Visualize and feel the doors in that room open. Blockages in that area should start to clear. Express to the emotional entity that it is free to go. That it did not belong trapped in that room, and it needs to vacate the vessel entirely.

Visualize a tunnel from the room you have been working with. If you can visualize the two ends of that tunnel on the body, let it clear out from there, or visualize that tunnel to your mouth, then take a deep inhale, opening the corridor tunnel, then exhale the entity out of the room through the tunnel and out of the mouth (or the two ends of the tunnels). Be patient, this may take a few minutes or more.

If it is stubborn and does not want to leave, work on its narcissism and stroke its pride in doing a great job, that you can see how powerful it is, that you look forward to crossing paths again, but until then, time to go, that you are doing a clearing and it is being cleared, and thank it for its service. Use the deep breathing and visualize it leaving with the breath. The breath is a potent tool; therefore, harness its strength.

 

Feel and envision the breath grabbing hold and encapsulating the entity and visualize it clearing out the room and tunnels. With each exhale, more of the entity is evacuated until it dislodges and is fully expelled from the vessel.

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If it is still attaching, remember if you are going to come this far, grasp your internal power, remain in resolve, and do not back down.
Take power back, see the entity in your mind’s eye and expel it with your breath as well as with your words as you verbally cast and breathe it out. For instance, you could say something like:
“I renounce and rebuke you! You no longer have a hold over my vessel; I see you for what you are. This is ‘my vessel’. You (entity) no longer have strength here. I see you and feel your vibration, so I know your name now. I cast you out!”
Repeat over and over, using whatever words or name bring you strength (in the name of...). Then using deep, long lower abdominal breaths. Slightly constrict the throat to make it more powerful and engaged. This allows you to be able to hear the depth of the breath and make a resonance that encapsulates the entity in the breath.

Keep doing long deep breathwork with visualization of it fully exiting you. Like a shadow removed from a body!
When the entity does come out that way, it would not be unusual to have some coughing. Learning breathing exercises assists in these exorcism efforts. Bringing more awareness to the energetic power of the breath. To remove these energetic emotional entities can sometimes be a struggle, and the breath one of the tools.

Technique 2: Self-Illumination

In filling yourself with light and letting your light shine, for situations where you need an energetic tool for defense, this is good to have in the tool kit. Become familiar and comfortable with filling yourself with light before diving into using it to remove energetic blockages. If you become fearful and have not practiced this, it can be challenging to remember, but if this is a tool you have learnedand been practicing, it becomes potent and  easy to draw from.

Imagine a light of any color such as violet, white, silver, gold, green or whatever your personal preference. Envision light emanating from the center of your being, projecting from the Sacral or Heart center. Envision that area glowing brighter and brighter, seeing that light grow and intensify.

 

Feel and see that light filling up the torso and into the head, arms, and legs to the feet and hands, making your body become a container overflowing with light. So much light it starts pouring out of all the pores on the body, rays of light beaming from your body in all directions as your whole being glows. Grow that light!

Witness that light shining brightly through, all around and beyond yourself. Now illuminated, see how wide and far you can grow that light. Can you grow it to encompass as far as your physical eyes can see? Farther?

Technique 3: Starving the Entities over Time

Learning to align mind, body, and spirit with thoughts, words, and deeds is a process and journey. It does not just happen overnight. It takes repetition in affirmative action over time to get it to stick as a habit. As you develop more awareness, the energetic body strengthens. The stronger the energetic body, the easier it is to remove these entities in getting to a point where they can come and go from your vessel without attachment.

Starving them is to live a Karmatic diet, not seeking the consumption of attachment, allowing emotional or sensational experiences to be as they are without a desire to change them. A state of acceptance; it is, what it is! Allowing freedom of passage.

It is not the goal here to never experience sensations or emotions. We are not trying to keep them hostage in mind and body. We need to rise above them.

This is a form of fasting of defiling ways and building a foundation of a proper Karmatic diet; being that of the right mind, word and action; in other words, virtuous behavior, rather than living in the reactionary state of the opposite spectrum of the 108 defilements. Working virtues such as humility, truth, gratitude, contentment, charity, compassion, love, empathy, kindness, etc. is the way to starve the entities of ego.

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A Karmatic diet is a practice to incorporate into mind-bodyblending practices, creating the alignment of the mind, body and spirit with proper thoughts, words and deeds as it is a diet from the earthly defilements in healthy virtuous living, fed by intuition and moral compass. If you are wondering where the technique is, this book is a guide to starve the entities in learning a Karmatic diet of non-attachment and non-identification.

Let this become your key – next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don’t say, ‘I am angry.’ Say, ‘Anger is there and I am watching it.’ And see the difference! The difference is vast. Suddenly you are out of the grip of anger. If you can say, ‘I am just a watcher, I am not anger,’ you are out of the grip. When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, ‘I am the watcher, I am not sadness,’ and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them. [64]
~ Osho

Technique 4: Location

There are practices dedicated to identifying and locating an energetic blockage or dark spot through body scanning. One such type of meditation incorporating body scanning is Vipassana, a meditation passed down by Gautama Buddha.

 

Body scanning meditations assist in learning to tap into the subtleties within the body to find where an energetic emotional entity is. When experiencing a high emotional state, pay attention to the subtleties in the body, be attentive to the feeling of where that emotional entity is located in the body or even feel it move from one location to another. Once found, one method is to use your mind’s eye and envision the blockage in the body.

 

Now mentally see the blockage shrinking and condensing into a ball, and make it so.

 

Now move that ball with your mind, see it traveling the path of your choice and see it expelled from the body. Use the channels of the energetic pathways or allow them to expel from the energetic point where they are attached (or out the mouth or nose with the breath). Go over this process repeatedly until you feel the energetic hold broken, and you feel that it is gone.

Using verbal dialogue to assist eviction in this technique can be helpful. Incorporation of the breath through breathing techniques can reinforce this technique, as well as adding in the light technique if desired, to assist in the shrinking or clearing out of any possible remnants of the entity from its attachment to the body’s energetic system.

Remember that each point to which they attach connects to another energy point. It is a tube, like a straw. So, when you are clearing, make sure to clear out both ends and through the tube as one energy node is positive, and the corresponding node negative. The entities connect to both nodes to completely connect the circuit to steer the vessel properly and draw energy. This is how the 108 lock onto the 108 energetic points of the physical body to puppeteer us.

Body scanning with a mindfulness practice allows you to start tuning in and witnessing vibrations across the body and see where there are non-observable areas or dark spots. Then focus on the dark spots, where the vibrations are not felt or witnessed, to bring awareness to those dark areas until they become observable.

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This is important because vibrational frequencies are the means to turn and tune in or out the proverbial dimensional channels, becoming aware of the vibrational states. This means learning to bring awareness to the whole being engulfed with the vibrational experience, and then learning to tune the frequency, leading you into new awarenesses.

Technique 5: Breath

Although breathing is a vital function, most people are unaware of its effectiveness and it is underutilized in health, longevity, and consciousness. Breathing practices would be prescribed by doctors and health practitioners if health and preventative maintenance were the true objective. Proper breathing is an awareness of the breath and posture to deliberately develop or keep correct breathing habits.

Conscious breathing techniques are a way to calm the body and mind as well as view from a witnessing state (mindfulness), such as to witness vibrations across and within the body, growing awareness to them and exploring them to connect to the larger whole. The
term conscious breathing is a double entendre in that you are working to become conscious of your breathing in the beginning practices and later finding it is a true connection to consciousness.

A connection to breath and lifespan has been shown through scientific research; animals that breathe slower with longer breaths have longer lifespans. This is clearly visible in rats with an average of eighty-five breaths per minute with the average lifespan of 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years.

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Comparing that to the tortoise or turtle which has an average breath rate of three to four breaths per minute with the average lifespan of around 400 years.

The average human takes between 16,000 and 23,000 breaths per day at a breath rate or respiratory rate of twelve to twenty breaths per minute with the average current lifespan of around eighty years.

How we breathe plays a major role in our health and how we live and engage with life and its stressors, consciously or unconsciously. The rate and mode of our breath affects the entire system of the body from our immune system, the endocrine system, the nervous system and much more. The proper regimented breathing practice will alkalize the body to prevent or repair sickness or dis-ease.

Our respiratory system is set on autopilot, an automatic involuntary action, though it can be taken off autopilot and consciously controlled. Learning proper breathing as well as conscious breathing techniques and practices such as pranayama can be one of your most valuable tools on this venture, as it is a key in dissolving the senses and connecting to consciousness.

We are born with proper abdominal breathing. If you watch an infant breathe, you will notice their belly expands forward and back rather than the chest area. They breathe from bottom up as though breathing into the belly. This is the human baby’s two-stage breathing with the ‘in’ and the ‘out’ breath. Such a simple natural breathing technique. Without the practice of purposeful breathing, we often forget to breathe properly, so as we grow older, many develop poor breathing and lifestyle habits.

Posture plays a role in how we bring in breath with its life-giving oxygen and life energy as well as engagement of life itself. We see poor posture in people who are sick, depressed, or dying or who have just hurt themselves, as the most common instinct in any of the above states is to roll the shoulders forward to different degrees of what is known as the fetal position, in effect receding from the infliction or life itself.

 

Many are in poor posture, affecting breathing and engagement to life—not from injury or sickness but rather from being reactionary, trapped in the labyrinth of the mind from mental/emotion or sensational infliction and increasingly, the electric device networks.

The fetal position causes short, restricted breathing often occurring in different emotional or sensational situations. For example, during an experience of pain, anger, fear, breath can become rapid and chaotic. From panic, stress or anxiousness, breath can go to being rapid and shallow with the breath only getting into the upper lungs, creating more stress on the body.

 

Many people unconsciously adopt this type of breathing habit within their daily lives. They live in a perpetual, painful ignorance of how it feels to truly be alive—to breathe to full capacity, enlivening every cell. They know only a fragment of a life, a rudimentary one, never expanded to the fullest.

When someone is in a forward fetal position, moreover, although this can feel somewhat comforting as humans are conditioned to feel that fetal equals comfort and reassurance, it restricts the lungs and heart, compressing them into the lower organs.

Poor posture of fetal breathing causes short breaths into the upper chest, in effect making it so the lungs can never fill all the way to properly cycle stale air from the lower lungs out of the body. Old stale air can be retained there, pushed down for as long as someone has been breathing that way. In that position, you can only intake a small percentage of the air that you should be breathing, which affects the entire supply of oxygen to the organs and the rest of the body’s systems, leading to an acidic body, toxically corrosive to the internal environment.

 

Short (fast) breathing in improper posture does not allow the body to run at high capacity. If you are giving your body minimum-grade fuel through restricted fuel lines, how could you be running at highest capacity? How could you dare to expect the best performance under such circumstances?

And then, what do we do when the body feels as though it is working sub-optimally? We go to the doctor so we can fill ourselves with toxic pills. We tell the doctor, I am not feeling right. I
think it’s my lungs. And so on, ad infinitum.

And still we sit hunched, never beginning to address the issue for ourselves, never learning to breathe the God-given air all the way into our lungs, never learning how to send oxygen circulating the way it should.

Now, we shorten our lives even further by ingesting poisons on
top of the issues we already had.
So…be still and…breathe.
That’s all
The deeper the breath, the greater the quantity of oxygen delivered to the blood and vital organs, fueling the body while reducing the acidity level and making the body more alkaline, offering a healthy internal environment. The lungs need to be kept replenished with circular air movement, allowing you to use full lung capacity instead of suppressing it.

Try right now—pull back your shoulders, straighten your spine, and see what a difference even that non-fetal position brings about.

The breath also gives rise to three mindful corrections to implement into daily life: breathing, posture, and intent. Since good posture is vital for proper breath, these each become their own reflected protagonists and observers in self-witnessing, often affected by engagement with the mind instead of in mindful observance of the present moment. This brings the intent of being in and with the present moment. Three corrections are a tool in self-witnessing to stay present and deliberately engaged or immersed.

The well-postured individual stands or sits tall at attention, shoulders pulled back, chin pulled slightly back toward the spine, with the tailbone tucked slightly to the heels to engage the core of the body, removing any kinks that are constricting air flow, blood flow or the flow of life energy supplied to the organs and the system in whole.

 

For instance, let us say you are dehydrated and in need of water, but you can only get water through a straw. No problem, right? Now what if that straw had a 180-degree kink in it? It would make it exceedingly difficult to drink from and rehydrate fully. The same with a hose pipe. You are watering your garden but the hose doubles back on itself. Same concept.

Let us go through a test to see if you breathe into the proper area to bring in the highest quality fuel for yourself. Take your hands and put one on your chest and the other on your stomach. Now take a deep breath and pay attention to which hand rises.

 

If the hand on your chest raised first, you breathed incorrectly. If the hand on the stomach rises first, you have a head start, as you are using proper two-stage breathing (baby’s breath). If you are breathing into the abdomen and the breath is rising up from there, there is another test: take your hands and put them around your waist a couple inches above the hips; thumbs should be around where the kidneys are on the back, your index finger and the rest of the fingers wrapping around to the front of the body.

Breathe in. Does the belly expand just forward, or does it expand forward and back as well as maybe up, or is the lower torso expanding equally in all directions? The goal is to get the lower torso to expand equally all around, traveling up. This allows for full use of the lungs’ capacity.

If you are just starting to work on this form of breathing, I suggest sitting or lying down, as if you have been unknowingly limiting your breath when you circulate and get rid of old stale air from the lower lungs and start bringing in more oxygen, you may get dizzy, light-headed and possibly pass out. This is from all the oxygen flooding your system and your system not being used to it, so having your head near the ground makes this safer for beginners. I suggest on your back, knees bent with your feet flat on the floor as this helps with posture. If you do this sitting or standing, be in good posture.

Baby’s Breath or Belly Breathing

Begin with breathing into your nostrils, feeling your lower belly as it fills with air, as though the air you are bringing in is water dropping to the bottom of a vessel as it fills up, bringing your breath into the lower part of the lungs. This extends the stomach all directions, then feel it filling up and expanding into the upper lungs in the chest, allowing the chest cavity to expand and lift the shoulders slightly up. Finally, allow the breath to continue into the top of the head.

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Use visualization of this along the process.
Now, exhale (out breath).
Allow the exhale to start from the stomach. The breath should be flowing up and out from the abdominal region to the upper lungs and out of the nostril, while the breath brought into the head falls to the lower lungs (abdominal region) as it then follows the rest of the breath up and out via the nostrils, in effect creating a circular breath.

On the exhale, allow about eighty-five percent of the breath to just feel as if it falls right out. Bringing the air back into the lower areaof the lungs and filling up is what brings up and circulates out the fifteen percent of air remaining in the lungs from the previous out breath. The timing of this breath can start at a three-count on the ‘in’ breath and a four-count on the ‘out’ breath, becoming progressively longer or shorter with breath times while experimenting with this two-stage breath.

At first, when working this ‘in’ and ‘out’ belly breathing, just focus on the breath and the sensational experience of it throughout the body, paying attention closely to form, working to reprogram your breathing habits. Eventually, with practice, you will start breathing this way without thinking about it, making it so you can use the breath as a marker to see when there is a disturbance. Disturbances are most often accompanied by a change in breath.

You can also use this as a time to train yourself to clear your mind.

As you breathe ‘IN’, keep your mind focused on the task at hand, thinking as well as feeling the ‘IN’. As you breathe ‘OUT’, think and feel ‘OUT’. Repeat over and over. As soon as you recognize that you are distracted, tune back in to the in and out of the breath. The mind stays with the breath in this fashion. Eventually, this becomes a form of blending the mind and body to enter a state of absorption/immersion.

If you find the mind wandering, it is good you see it rather than continually losing yourself in it, a development of the watcher perspective. Now bring yourself back to the task. Distractions will enter; move past them, witness them, but keep mindful of the in and out of the breath in the moment of it.

Do not allow yourself to get frustrated when you find your mind or body wandering. It is what it is, so be grateful of your awareness that you can observe it is happening so you can bring yourself back to the task in being mindful of the breath. The faster you keep catching yourself and bringing yourself back, the faster you learn to control your mind and breath rather allowing them to control you, and harmonizing.

What we call ’I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.[65]
~ Shunryu Suzuki

You can also do this two-stage belly breathing by adding a visualization, even using colors to assist in also illuminating yourself; pick a color and visualize it coming into your nostrils on your inhale, cycling in an oval through the body, the breath circulating up into the nostrils and up to the top of the head, then down the spine. The breath and the color are one as the breath flows down the spine, spilling into the bottom of the belly. Here, it fills to a few inches below the belly button/navel and starts expanding the belly through the back, sides and up.

See the color you brought in and visualize it mixing and changing into another color from the point a few inches below the navel. Visualize that new color dropping down from the belly, down the legs into the feet, filling all the way up as that in breath, then lifting into the torso and up into the top of the head. The breath and the color being as one, see that color bringing nutrients into and throughout the body. Visualize that color going into your veins, arteries, nerves, and meridians, bringing the light to the organs and other innermost
aspects of yourself.

See it moving out, allowing the color to flood out of the pores all over your body to the top of your head. See the color/light pouring out of yourself as your breath is exiting on the exhale, allowing the belly to be what drops first rather than the chest. And repeat... This becomes a daily, all-day-everyday practice.

The real gems are in turning this two-stage breathing into a fourstage breathing practice by adding a hold on the end of each in- and exhalation.

Inhale, hold, exhale, hold.

Each of the four stages of inhale, hold, exhale, hold should be held progressively longer with more time and attention to the hold stages. This is about a progression in awareness, so learn proper twostage breathing then move to learning the four-stage, or practices that blend the two in compliment of each other.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God
remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the
exhalation and surrender to God. [66]
~ Krishnamacharya

Pranayama is one of the forms of breathing arts. It teaches new internal awarenesses, an advanced goal being to reach 108 breaths in a day. I go in-depth on breathing and breathing techniques in Dissolving the Material World through Dissolving the Senses of this book series.

Here is an additional simple but profoundly effective practice to help reduce tension in the body. Try this now. Take a deep inhalation, feel it filling your lungs from your abdomen and expanding up. Hold that inhalation for a few seconds, then let it out, verbalizing the word relax as you exhale. Repeat a few times. How do you feel?

Now, we are going to add a constriction of the muscles in one tight muscle group area at a time. This is going to be passive and aggressive. Passive on the inhale and exhale, aggressive on the inhalation hold, like the cosmic breath, yin and yang. Inhale, hold the inhalation and constrict the chosen set of muscles. Hold that. Exhale, releasing the constriction and verbalizing relax as you relax into the out-breath.

 

Repeat as many times as desired. You can—and should—do this with all muscle and tendon groups from head to toes.

Now how do you feel? Differently than before? More relaxed?

Did you feel the tensions and weight falling away with the exhalations? Do you have more energy? Most of us do not use anywhere near the capacity of air the lungs are meant to supply, meaning that we miss out on the energy that more oxygen would give to us, as well as the healing effects of releasing toxic waste products. Why is this? Our brains were not designed to process the amount of information that we currently receive.

Rather than taking in information slowly, processing it through the higher-ordered thinking parts of the brain, the information comes through so rapidly that it goes to the more primitive parts of the brain. The primitive part of our brain is designed for our survival. When hit with this much information, it goes into a bit of a crisis mode, putting us into the fight-flight-or-freeze response.

Since we often cannot fight or flee, we end up freezing, holding our muscles tense and breathing shallowly. Many people have become so accustomed to living this way that they no longer notice. That is why it is important to remind ourselves to take long deep conscious breaths, releasing tensions and keeping one in a mindful state.

Technique 6: Mindfulness

Mindfulness is about being present and aware of what you are doing as well as the experience of it in a witnessing state. Mindfulness isthe most basic skill in meditation practice, and is something you can develop through self-observation. For development of mindfulness, it is vital to do daily work on concentration practices until you develop the ability to not forget what you are doing during daily activities as well as during meditations.

In a mindful state, you remain aware of what you are doing. It is important to develop the ability to be aware of what you are doing at all times if you wish to tame the monkey mind and further develop your meditation practice to reach a true state of immersion. If you are forgetting what you are meditating on, getting distracted or drifting away, this shows the need to develop more concentration.

Any concentration practice should be at minimum one twenty-minute sitting a day, though two are better, while working up in time.
I suggest not using timers; they become a distraction.

A simple mindfulness practice is to focus on the area of the nostrils as you breathe in and out of the nose. This is not a focus on the breath; just allow the breath to be as it is. Stay present and mindful of the triangle of the nostrils, using the feeling of air going in and out with the breath as a means of staying present. How does it feel in that area? Cool, warm, itchy, tingly? Stay with the experience in that area since it is in a constant change.

Another mindfulness practice is to chant a mantra internally, remaining unwaveringly focused on the chant. Or unwaveringly focused on a visualization, such as visualizing a candle flame or a pendulum swinging in the mind’s eye.

An addition is to place attention on something you want to understand
and visualize it, holding it in the screen of the imagination—the mind’s eye. If there are thoughts emerging, remember you are working to suspend them from your mind, allowing everything below visualization and imagination of the focus to be suspended.

Through the body, thoughts and emotions will work to attract attention. They will dance around in front of you like an irritating fly over a picnic, saying I am here, look at me!
If or when something happens there—which it will—do not pay attention to it, just ignore it and simply continue observing where your mindful attention is focused. You may be aware of it, but the goal here is to not engage with it, putting those aspects to rest, stabilizing mind and body, disengaged from emotion or sensation. This will allow you to come into true mindful focus on whatever you are holding in the mind.

 

When becoming immersed—whatever that new thing is that you become immersed in—just observe it in the same way that I am expressing about observing everything else: with equanimity, without excitement, clinging or rejecting to remain in that conscious state.

For example, when engaging a mindfulness meditation focusing on something like part of the body or inner world, a mantra, memory, experience, thought, emotion, a teaching or event you seek to gain insight on or bring awareness to, if you do immerse in it, something new penetrates the focus. Then you become emotional, such as excited, grasping or rejecting, and instantly, the focus becomes disturbed, where the mind will start up with the intellect and emotions, taking you out of a conscious meditative state interrupting the experience, again limiting perception.

 

Keep in mind if in an actual immersed state, you will not be limited to moving with the physical body. Instead, move with the will of the mind, moving around where you WILL.

There are no barriers to where you can travel with localized consciousness, yet so many of us spend our lives being ‘entertained’ by movies, computer games and suchlike, greatly underestimating the power of the mind to transport us to boundless destinations in far more fruitful pursuits.

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Technique 7: Grounding

Grounding, in the most simplistic terms, is to connect to earth, a direct physical connection to the earth or bare skin to bare earth.

You as a human and earth are both living beings, each with their own electromagnetic energy fields. By connecting your body to the earth, you allow the transfer of energy between the two energetic organisms as nature intended by design.

Grounding supports the multiple energetic systems in your body alone, the entire body being one big electrical system composed of multiple secondary electrical systems all affecting the individual areas that run the human machine.

Grounding is a vital practice to allow the body’s energetic system to run correctly and at high efficiency, allowing high energy fluctuations to ground out in the same way as you would ground electrical systems to redirect electrical surges to the earth. Electrical surges that build up in the body create ailments (dis-ease), two of which are inflammation and irritation. Being disconnected from the Earth’s energy that should be moving in the natural ebb and flow
of life, causes one’s personal energy to become stagnant rampant chaotic energy.

 

Nature intended for the Earth to absorb specific energies while providing our bodies with other energies they need, connecting to the Earth and completing a circuit. An incomplete
circuit depresses the vessel.

Energy is meant to flow, not to be trapped, just like emotions.

 

Various types of energies flow through us, and the Earth assists in keeping many in proper flow. Two of these energies are viewed primitively as physical and emotional.

 

Humans and the earth each exchange positive and negative ions, the earth being negatively charged, and the human body positively charged. The earth being negatively charged, makes it so when we connect to the earth, it pulls negatively charged energy ions from our body through that energetic connection. There is an exchange in return, as we draw positively charged energy ions into our bodies.

This connection in grounding allows excess energy from surges to have an alternate route to dissipation, rather than damaging the circuitry within the machine (body), according to its design.

Energetic surges put the body in overload to repair damages throughout, causing irritations, frustrations, foggy headedness, inflammation and more. This affects the cells throughout the whole structure of the body.

Walking around all the time with shoes on concrete, tile, wood or asphalt allows a lot of negative ions to build up within the body. This keeps building until it discharges, as we need the positive ions that we exchange with the earth for negative ions. This natural process is hindered by a lack of grounding. One way the body shows a symptom of this is through having the bottoms of your feet become itchy, feeling little pricks and pins or even the feeling of electricity moving on the bottom of your feet.

The way to ground to the earth is to place your bare feet on the natural earth and just allow that energy to dump into the earth. You can add a visualization of your feet and hands growing into roots and digging into the earth, connecting to all the things the earth is connected to. Using your mind’s eye or mental imagery, see and allow yourself to feel the energy drop into the ground. Feel and see the energy you are exchanging with the earth, allowing your breath to become in sync.

Grounding happens on its own, though intention and focus assist as ‘Where attention goes, energy flows’.

Positive and negative ions are floating around in our bodies, and fluctuating ions can get trapped. Rubber, wood, concrete, asphalt, etc. interrupt proper grounding to the earth for the proper exchange.

Grounding in the Shower

We can do this with emotional energy as well as our electromagnetic energy, as we are both emotional and electromagnetic beings.
Allow emotions to come to the surface. Let your mind do as it wishes and just be a witness to it all. You are engaging in a conscious breathing technique while fully remaining with your surface emotions and feelings.

Take nice long smooth breaths. Witness the ‘stuff’ you have been holding on to, those burdens weighing you down and feel your breaths to be like the water washing down your body from the top of your head, down your face and neck.

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Connect to your breath, feeling the weight that has been on the cheeks of your face and the back of your neck start to just melt away into your shoulders as you take a long exhale.

 

Feel the weighted energy drop progressively with each exhalation to the heels and bottoms of your feet, feeling your toes and feet rooting through the floor into the earth and out into the water, then feeling the water washing away that energy down through your torso and down the legs as you continue taking long deep breaths.

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Feel the weight of the remaining energy drop from your body as each exhale falls from you, carrying the energy away with the water. Visualize all your burdens flowing away down the drain.
To draw extra energy in at the end of the grounding exercise, take a big breath in and hold on that inhalation as long as you can. Then exhale, holding the exhalation for as long as you can, sink into it.
Repeat this technique several times.

Tapping into emotions, you may also complete the above shower grounding by bringing in a specific emotion. Bring it in into hyper attention, allowing it to wash over you like the water flowing from the top of your head down the body. As soon as you are ready to allow the water to wash the emotion away, let the cleansing water carry it down the body, legs and feet into the earth through the drainpipe. Visualize the energy dropping out of you with each new
breath.

You can modify this type of grounding technique for any water source connected directly to the earth, such as rivers, lakes, streams, seas, oceans, ponds, puddles. Swimming or spending time submerged in any of these is an excellent form of grounding.

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Technique 8: Stillness Meditation

Stillness meditations are also referred to as stabilization meditations, as they train the mind to remain focused, keeping the body still in a withdrawal of the senses (such as to move from body aches or itches) while consciously focusing attention on a particular object, such as the breath, chant or a point on or in the body.

Training the mind to stay focused and the body to remain still is all about taming the monkey mind to a single point of focus for an extended period. It is about taking complete control of your vehicle and not letting the mind and body drive you. It is a learning of how to fully harness and control the vehicle.

 

Like breaking a wild horse, we can tame mind and body. Willpower and breath are the main key components of this process. The desired effect is to achieve an equanimous mind, unwavering and unable to be knocked off balance either by positive or negative causation.

Life is full of cause and effect; an example is if you have an itch, and then scratch it. Here, the itch was the cause and scratching the effect. However, if you have an itch and are outside of being reactionary and are actionary, making the decision to not scratch the itch will change the effect.

Learning to sit through such things as itches and muscle pains will show you the true nature of ‘this too shall pass’, the true transient nature of material existence.

Let us dive into a technique. The focal point of which we will remain mindful and use in this exercise is the area of the nostrils, the triangle of the tip of the nose to the lower outside edges of the nostrils.

Breathe normally, as this is not a breathing exercise, and bring yourself into a pose of choice. You can do this practice sitting, kneeling or standing. In any case, good posture is essential. When you find your pose, settle in and set an intention not to react to any disturbance instigating a desire to move. Remain in fortitude.

In the desired pose, bring focus to the nostrils as the breath enters and exits on each inhalation and exhalation. While inhaling and exhaling, allow the breath to be however it comes naturally. Keep focus on the nostrils themselves, not on the journey of the breath.
Focus only on the experience as it passes the triangled area around the nostrils.

Does it feel cool, warm, hot or cold on the skin of the area of the nostrils as the air passes in and out with each breath? Is the air humid or dry? Is the air of the breath going in one nostril or both?

Be assured that especially at first, the mind will want to wander. See that when the mind does wander, you bring it back and stay on track to the feeling of only the breath going in and out of the nostrils or the experience in between breaths when the breath is not present. The faster you can start catching yourself, then bring yourself back, the easier it will progressively become to do so. The opposite is also true.

Therefore, the more you let yourself wander, the more you will tend to do so.

Keep yourself steadfast within your focus of the inhalation and exhalation of breath on the nostrils. Whether they tingle or itch, just let the experience be as it is without wanting to change it. Work to bring your mind’s eye to the place around the nostrils; without opening your eyes, tilt your eyes down toward your nostrils as though you can see through that material aspect of your body to view that area.

 

Using your eyes in this way assists in keeping the mind occupied on the meditation at hand as well as working an additional aspect of blending mind-body. While working on feeling and seeing the area of the nostrils in detail, so much detail even though you have your eyes closed, you push to see where your focus lies with the mind’s eye (singular eye).

While continuing to focus on the breath passing through the nostrils, keep yourself in that place, resisting all temptation to move.

Do this until you forget all about your body and any discomfort; thus, bringing the mind and body under complete control, eventually in a relaxed and focused state.

This assists in dislodging energetic blocks, as the attachments can detach when you can move past the reactionary state into the actionary state. When you can move past an itch or the desire to move or adjust, to be able to move through any pain or agitation, you may experience just accepting whatever comes, and move through it—as it will pass.

These agitations—such as body aches or an itch—work to incite a reaction when sitting in a stillness meditation. When you move through it in nonreaction, it triggers a function allowing entities to dislodge and start moving through the body so they may exit, if you choose to let go!

In this case, when you go to sleep after this type of stillness meditation, often a memory of an emotional experience that has attached from however long ago will come into your dream. When it does, you will have the option and opportunity to either:

1. Continue to hold on to it, allowing it to reattach.
Or
2. Make peace with it and let it go in the dream, and it will release from the physical and energetic bodies. When you release in this fashion, it is a form of releasing ‘karma’.

Develop a regimented discipline of practice in unflinching fortitude to non-reaction, a witness without judgment, expectation, or need to analyze; this assists in immersion into an experience.

When you work stillness meditations regularly, you start changing the resting state of your brain, stilling the mind to move past reaction to thoughts, desires, emotions and sensations. This carries forward with you throughout the day, over time reprogramming and programming the mind and body, as well as blending the two from doing a practice to becoming the practice, existing in a walking meditation unaffected by outside influences.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.[67]
~ J. Krishnamurti

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Technique 9: Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an ancient modality devised to clear clogged energy points within the body to balance the flow of life-force energy, also popularly known as prana, chi, or qi.

 

We have many organs in the body, the largest of which is the epidermis, the outer layer of the
body or skin. The skin has nerves and other points accessible by applied pressure, referred to as pressure points. When pressure builds or lacks proper energetic flow, it causes disharmony or imbalance within the body, causing agitation, pain, illness, or dis-ease, whether physical, mental, spiritual or all three.

Acupuncture techniques open clogged ports of the energy channels on the physical body by inserting thin metal needles into specific corresponding points through the pores on the skin, stimulating activity in the corresponding energy pathways. Different points correlate to the body’s areas such as the nadis, marmas, main organs, nerves, muscles, connective tissue, tendons, bones, etc. When energy moves in a circular cycle and one of the energy ports becomes clogged, the cycle dwindles or ceases, creating stagnation of energy
within those ports.

Technique 10: Dissolving the Senses – Pratyahara

Pratyahara is the withdrawal of the mind and senses from disturbances generated internally or externally, including emotional attachments such as the defilements and states of ego.

This book is a form of pratyahara. There are many aspects to pratyahara, including dissolving the six primary senses.

Some such practices are rooted in cold exposure, starting as simple as ice baths or cold showers. Monks in the Himalayas take wet towels up a mountainside, drying the towels by sitting in the snow with the towels resting on their naked skin. They manage to use simple
mind power and meditation to heat their bodies, thus drying the soaked and freezing towels.
The ‘Ice Man’ Wim Hof has become popular with his cold exposure practice of teaching mindfulness, breathing techniques, withdrawal/dissolving of the sense of tactility, visualization and absorption/immersion, all leading to accessing control over the higher body functions.

As stated on the Wim Hof website:
‘The Wim Hof Method is essentially about inner power and being able to control your body’s immune system and temperature by doing certain breathing techniques, mixed with physical and cold exercises. The Wim Hof Method has been scientifically proven to influence the Autonomic Nervous System and the innate immune response.’

Native Americans and other tribes around the world also use heat exposure through sweat lodges to withdraw from the tactile sense. Fasting of solid and liquid foods for extended amounts of time is also practiced, referred to as breatharianism, which in the advanced practice consists of even the fasting of air—in Latin, inedia. These are ancient traditions.

Sense withdrawal provides the foundation for the higher practices of yoga, forming the basis for meditation. It works in conjunction with the control of breath and life energy, pranayama (control of prana) by linking prana (breath and life energy) with the mind. The tool is also used to remove anything unwholesome from a person, such as the defilements.

Pratyahara is multifaceted control or withdrawal of the senses, a form of absorption extending into hypersense, to move in or through that sense including breath withdrawal. Mastery over breath is necessary to control the senses and rise above emotions, hence why pranayama is a vital learning before engaging pratyahara practices.

The two blend with a mindfulness meditation to create a full meditation based on concentration and visualization. If you remain singularly focused on an element, at some point, something will emerge. This may happen by directing it inwards in many cases, and in other cases the outside, such as from the sense of optic vision, by bringing vision into a hypersense or accessing spectrums of light not normally seen unless viewed with the singular or third eye.

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This allows access and vision to the inner or outer worlds, also known as physical matter planes, whether inside or outside of yourself or beyond.
One example can be achieved with the optic sense by mindfully observing the empty space just in front of yourself as depicted in this illustration by René Descartes.

Here, you are engaging concentration along with visualization of the imaginative process in observation, to localizing consciousness.
Sounds confusing? Simplified, concentrate on the empty air directly in front of you as is depicted in the illustration, using the concentration to visualize what is in the empty space.

I can assure you it is not so empty though it appears that way to your current perception. Eventually, with this very simple openeyed practice you will immerse into it, in effect localizing your consciousness.

This is a complete version of a real meditation, as many of the others are individual pieces ending up combining into this form of blended mindfulness meditation. It should be applied to
every moment, not just in times of meditation.