
Library Esoterica
Sacred notes from the margins of sound, spirit, and self.
Meditation for Healing Addictions
This meditation helps to regulate the pineal and pituitary glands. It is excellent for everyone, but particularly effective for rehabilitation efforts in drug dependence, mental illness, and phobic conditions.
The Ego and Soul Self
We are each born with predispositions in our mental, physical, emotional, and energetic makeup that fragment our consciousness. Fragmentation is also caused by social and emotional imprints that create attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs.
Breath Technique for the Nervous System
Yogic philosophy teaches that breathing through specific nostrils activates different energy channels and parts of the brain. Read on to learn about how the simple technique of Left, Right, or Alternate Nostril breathing can be used to energize, calm yourself, or create a deep sense of well-being and harmony.
Hari Om Tat Sat
Hari Om Tat Sat is a mantra that links you to the eternal truth of the universe. It clears away confusion and unites your mind, body, and spirit. Chanting it brings calm and strength to handle life’s challenges. Use it to gain clarity and feel more connected each day. Try it for a deeper sense of peace and purpose.
Tuning In for Kundalini Yoga
Chanting the Adi Mantra and connecting to the Golden Chain is a meditation. It is a state of consciousness. It is the link between you as a finite personality and you as a flow of the Infinite Consciousness that guides the kundalini energy.
Invoking a Meditative State
Kundalini Yoga is a systematic method of glandular control through which the pituitary's relationship with consciousness is stimulated to invoke a meditative state in us. "Just experience this meditation. It affects the pituitary and glandular system and its impulsation of clockwise and anti-clockwise spin."
Ang Sang Wahe Guru
Ang Sang Wahe Guru is a mantra that connects you to the Infinite within. It helps bring together the scattered parts of your mind, body, and spirit. Chanting it can calm your psyche and build strength during tough times. Try it to find more peace and focus in your daily life.
Kundalini Yoga: Key Mantras
The "Yoga of the Mind", a mantra is a syllable, word or phrase in one of the sacred languages (like Sanskrit & Ghurmeki) and sometimes in English, which elevates or modifies consciousness through its meaning, the sound itself, rhythm, tone, and even the reflexology of the tongue on the palate.
Mind and Meditation
To understand how Kundalini Yoga and Meditation creates shifts in our consciousness, we must first understand how our mind works. The human mind has three basic channels: (1) the dualistic channel, (2) the neutral channel, and (3) the subconscious channel.
11 Feminine Moon Centers
Ancient kundalini yogic teachings say that a woman has 11 moon centers on specific parts of the body. As a woman moves through the month, energy concentrates in one moon center and shifts after 2.5 days, their emotions resembling the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides.
Meditation for Dealing with Your Own Mind
According to yoga, the breath is the key to controlling your mind and, therefore, your life. In this kriya, you breathe exclusively through the left nostril, which calms the nervous system, supports the heart, and begins to move you from a mindset of reactivity to positivity.
Functional Design of the Mind
Our mind was given to us to be our servant, but we must awaken and use its faculties and train it to serve us. We must train our mind to pay attention, to focus, to operate in neutral and to be aware and sensitive beyond time and space.
The Technology of Transformation
Kundalini Yoga, the yoga of awareness, is an ancient technology designed to cultivate the expansion of consciousness through the awakening and raising of Kundalini energy up the spine.
What is Prayer?
We each cultivate and learn to be comfortable with our own personal mode of connecting and communicating with the Divine. One should not interfere with the way others pray. Whatever works for you, that's it for you.
Breath of Fire Pranayama
Breath of Fire is one of the foundational breath techniques used in the practice of Kundalini Yoga. It accompanies many postures, and has numerous beneficial effects. It is important to master this breath so that it is done accurately and becomes automatic.
Worldviews and the Evolution of Consciousness
Awakening our neutral mind is part of the evolution of consciousness needed to adapt to the shift from the Piscean to the Aquarian Age. The shift in ages not only installs a new energetic context within which we live, it offers us another way of relating to ourselves and each other.
Summary of the Chakras
The first three chakras or energy centers comprise the lower triangle. Developing the higher centers without the base is like pouring water into a cup without a bottom. We need the strength and balance in the lower chakras to materialize our desires and sustain the consciousness that we attain in meditation.
The Art of Long Deep Breathing
Most people do not breath slowly and deeply. If your breath is irregular and shallow you can't help but feel tense and emotional. On average people use only one-tenth of their lung capacity. Long deep breathing will increase your…
A Journey Through the 8 Chakras with Kundalini Yoga
Chakras are energy centers that exist within the human body. These energy centers are mapped to different emotional and psychological issues and can be used to help identify imbalances and to establish internal harmony.