Many people get to the higher realms of consciousness in a good meditation but fail to integrate them into their lives. Many others use their yoga to work out or get relaxed but fail to make any changes in their consciousness.
Ken Wilbur discusses the difference between a state and a station of consciousness. A state is an experience that you have very little control over. For instance, you have a profound, nondual experience in meditation but your ability to get back there or understand it is hit or miss. A station of consciousness is a place you can return to. You have mapped it out and you can continue to explore it. You have made it a part of your experience. This is how you stabilize and integrate it. This is conscious evolution.
Like meditation, your yoga practice is also a path to conscious evolution. It is important to develop stations of awareness so that you can grow your experience into realms not collapsed in the ego.
The path of yoga understands that the physical and energy bodies must be able to sustain these higher realms, these high energy pools. If not, you can get sick or become unbalanced. It's like asking your system to upgrade from 110 volts to 220 volts. You must know how to create a coherent container, ground it and increase the charge through the contact with the earth and the yogic breath.
If you take my class, you know how to map out the energy centers in the pelvis, heart and head. You know how to find yourself in 3 dimensional space. Many of you are exploring the techniques of witnessing and spinning. This is really just the next step. There are other energy centers above and beyond the 7th. Think in octaves and just keep going. You build a scaffold, like a radio tower, from the lower centers. Cross reference each one, connecting a lower one with a higher one. You will need to remember to root and build the power through the ujayji breath.
Once you make it up to level 8, about 4 inches above the head, you can construct a platform. Map it out, inhabit its center and spin it. Each level, or chakra, is a different dimension of consciousness.
As we come to winter's end, the pineal gland/crown chakra comes to life again. This is the season of divine inspiration that will become the vision that fuels the restlessness of manifestation. Don't miss this opportunity to hone your higher centers.
In these high energy pools, you can untangle yourself from the energetic webs of your personal stories. The webs do not disappear, you simply do not attach to them anymore. You see the whole pattern. You get it and it no longer gets you.
You can jump into the high energy pool and swim with the best. You don't have to be a shark to make it in this pool because you understand that being a predator is really the same thing as being a victim. Both are trapped in the same web, just playing opposite poles.
In the high energy pool, you balance effort and grace. You understand the web of interconnection. You want to help one another float because that helps you float. Eventually, you all ride the current home together, like the Bodhisaatva sea turtles in Finding Nemo.
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