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I practice sat kriya fairly regularly. This video helped my shoulder position. The method I learned involved moving attention to the navel and then the the third eye. It also had root lock for every "sat", and recommended lotus or half lotus. I think I like this version better, because it seems a lot calmer to me. I haven't experienced anything extreme like you describe. I usually feel a sense of calm energy after sat kriya, and it's one of the best things I've gotten from kundalini practice.

I agree- thinking that people are sucking your energy all the time is unhealthy. It's important to feel responsible for yourself and how you feel in any situation. The major factors are stress and diet.

yea so i guess ill start again tomorrow ... I had a nocturnal emission at around 21 days last time I went that long, and I felt different for sure. I didn't feel like I was buzzing like I had been before.

I still adhere to the belief that you have to eat the whole cookie before you can look.

The term "meat market" is just gross. I know what you mean though, and alcohol makes me have a lot of desire as well. I will typically pleasure myself after a night of drinking. Probably because the liver is taxed. For myself, there is a huge trade-off in terms of being functional in society in a positive way, and cultivating. When building jing, and cultivating things do get pretty intense, and my interactions with people become more extreme. Some people start to become more aggressive, and coincidence more common. I want to be able to get through this stage, but it generally begins to inconvenience me to the point where I eat some meat and release jing just to bring myself back down and have life run smoothly. I feel like if I eventually just stick it out and let the energy build longer, even when it gets uncomfortable and things start getting weird, that I will have interesting experiences. Growth is terrifying, because it usually includes something happening to disrupt any equilibrium you have achieved. Full jing seems to speed things along in the personal growth realm. I think I would rather have it go slowly, so that I can interact with and have a greater positive impact on others, rather than not be able to relate anymore to anything except energy, and subsequently fall back down. My foundation is still under construction.

"I feel so much hornier now, and I want to have sex every day" hahahaha yeah no shit. I think this website is gear toward people with different goals as myself. I am not going to sign up and get the support emails, but starting tomorrow I will do another 3 weeks. While I don't believe it's good for young men to retain for long periods of time if I do retain I focus much more on yoga and qigong out of necessity. Which then makes me have less desire to drink and get stoned. So it's good for my health overall, until my prostate starts to hurt, then it's usually time for a bit of self lovin.

So I'm in.

21 days is doable for me. Any more than that and I start to feel unhealthy....in my pants.

dmattwads, do you notice this effect of people draining your energy being in college? I feel totally drained after being around so many zombie-cow-people all day. I want to cultivate sexual desire in a healthy and natural way. I am constantly experimenting with ways to tune my natural state. My goal lately has been to increase my testosterone and raw sexual energy and masculinity, flirt with as many girls as I can, and enjoy the buzz I get from it. It must be spring. That said, a few things that help me when I am trying to be as unsexual as possible- avoiding spicey foods is huge for me, and stretching the inner legs seems to really help.

I was going to just drink kombucha until afternoon today, but I ate a zinc pill and had to eat some bread quickly to avoid throwing up. Still nauseated...

breakfast - cow lunch - chicken dinner - pig I froze quinoa today and it worked great. For real though, breakfast - egg on salad topped with olive oil and hemp seeds snack on nuts and fruit all day dinner - sauteed greens with herbs and spices, and brown rice or quinoa.

Do you eat meat on a specific day of the week, or time it with any specific activities? I eat fish a couple times a week, and terrestrial meat once a week. I eat eggs almost every day. The challenge for me is that meat helps me feel energized and mentally grounded, but also makes me require sexual release more frequently. So this is the balance I am trying to find with diet, energy, "energy", and meditation.

I sometimes shapeshift into a party animal.

A cave-man walks into a cave and says "hey guys, there's a whole world out there and your reality is an illusion!" The other cave man who is stuck in the cave says "Tell that to my wife. I've been telling her mother that our cave is an illusion for years, but she shows up every Christmas! " I drink, therefore I am... sleeping on the couch with the dog tonight. What's the deal with form? If it's pure than it's impossible to think of it at all, let alone SEE it, and if it's not pure then it aint worth seeing to begin with! Let me tell you, get a few glasses of beer in me and even your sister starts to look like she is composed of infinite parts!

I have found that controlling a thought gives it power and will make it stronger or force it into something unhealthy. What I have been taught is to acknowledge thoughts and let them pass. I try to treat my brain like an unruly child or a bully. It wants my attention, but when I put my attention somewhere else it has no power over me. It doesn't always work, and depends on how much energy my thoughts have. I have a difficult time with absolutes in any sense, so the idea of being able to control something doesn't ring true for me. I want to think about a blue jar, and I do, but what made me want to think about that blue jar? Was is a preexisting circumstance, or did my thought originate at the blue jar? And without my intention the blue jar starts to vibrate and then shatters which bothers me and makes me desire more control over the state of this thought. The nature of a thought is a reflection of my nature, so how would I guide myself? I might give love to the thought and the blue jar and might cooperate with my desire and remain intact. I had an experience during meditation last week that was very strange, part of my mind separated from myself, it was the most dualistic thought I have ever had. It didn't seem like it was me, but something outside of my mind. What it said was: "You need to listen to me and I will guide you. You have not listened to me in the past and you have created problems for yourself because of it. It's time to start following my direction and not letting your thoughts stop the correct actions I intend for you." Now if I could learn to tune into that when I need it, I would like to experiment with that inner voice. I sometimes think this with overly idealized meditation techniques. Our brains have developed to process large amounts of information, and our thoughts are largely survival and reproductions mechanisms. We are constantly aware of food, mates, and threats. I think to turn this off completely is unnatural. Haha yes, I sometimes play Whack-a-mole with my thoughts, and sometimes I can't have a thought if I try.

Please don't make yourself sleep while driving. mike 134, I have had pretty good results with scanning my body from head to toe and consciously relaxing. Also, meditation before bed helps.

I have no idea, but I like to believe we "guide" our thoughts.

I've always though the Amish were really great. They always had the best sweet corn where I grew up too. This is related to a thought I was having the other day. I was considering the state of early childhood education, and the absurd culture children in US are brought up into. If I were a parent I would not have television, we would eat organic food, and meat in small quantities, and never fast food. And I would have to deliberately shield my child from consumerism. That's a daunting endeavor. Is it possible ?

I watched a documentary a number of years ago that followed a group of Amish teens as they went out into the world to try life outside of the community. Some went back, some didn't, but I guess they promote this for their youth.

Sorry for that rant. I am surrounded all day by the types of people who really want to do good in the world, but have been abducted by the self congratulatory vacuum of research science.

Who cares if modern science can prove anything about Qi Gong? Modern science can only give us material knowledge. Nothing exists unless it can be subjected to MY tests. Really? This is the most obscene expression of human ego, and lacks creativity. Think about mathematics, the basis of all science, that accepts (under platonic theory) that all abstract mathematical forms exist in their own world somewhere. Yet materialism pervades- if it can't be observed than it doesn't exist. But where are all of these infinite mathematical forms that we made up? Those in the medical field have their egos blown out of proportion by the amount of school they are required to attend, their inflated salaries, and all their "rigorous clinical testing". It just kills the ability to think outside of convention. I am afraid many research scientists enter the field for egoistic and social status reasons rather than to help advance human knowledge. I think it's time we accept as a society that the scientific method is limited, and that if we ever want to escape our self imposed prison we need a more creative approach to reality.

I don't trust binaural beats on the internet. I have experienced some intense things with them, and I don't want that in someones hands who I do not trust.

I feel like butter diffuses unevenly through baked goods. I would recommend skipping the cookies altogether, since amount is a fine threshold between being incredibly pleasant and uncomfortable. So, I've found that a strong butter that you can just take a nibble of is the way to go. My favorite is warm glass of almond milk with maple syrup and a very small amount of butter.

Can you recommend a source of seeds? I am very sensitive to serotonin changes, and I've never felt a crash. I think the long term benefits have more to do with integrating new perspective into your life. Can anyone give some insight on how to clear negative energy from smoke? Also, eating is the way to go, but you have to let your body get used to it/ get a slight tolerance

I watched this the other night and I found it very thought provoking, to say the least. I felt awful for the woman who had integrated his teaching into her yoga studio- that seemed like it could be damaging to her career and business and she seemed to genuinely want to help people as much as he did. I really enjoy the sacha baron cohen films for his ability to expose amusing and often disturbing facets of culture. I think kumare gives a relevant glimpse into some specific types of people, but doesn't reflect on the yoga communities that I am involved with, or everyone who seeks guidance in their spiritual path, so I guess those people in the film did need that lesson. I would have appreciated the lesson it more if they didn't make a movie out of it though, since it seemed that it was his goal to make a successful movie more than helping people at times. The folks who became his followers were all very good hearted people, but reflected the spiritual gaps in their culture. Definitely worth watching, it really got some gears turning for me.