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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
So, we calm our thoughts, emotions, and get immersed into the meditative state. Our
breathing is habitual and quiet. We open the hand charkans located in the middle of our
palms. We breathe in, letting the Qi energy (the air energy) into the hand chakrans, and
raise it along the arms to the shoulders level. Upon exhalation, we lead the Qi (air)
energy from shoulders down, along the lateral meridians (located approximately on
each side of the body) and unite the two flows in Hara charkan (located approximately
three finger thicknesses below the navel), filling our lower abdomen with this energy like
a bowl with water. Then, after it is filled up (at that, some people will have just a mental
imagination at first stages, some will have a slight sensation of heaviness in the lower
abdomen), we move the accumulated energy from the lower abdomen up, along the
spine into the head, particularly into the hypothalamic zone of the betweenbrain (“the
ancient structures” of cerebrum, located almost in the head centre). This very place (the
head centre) will be a peculiar middle centre where the meditator will be constantly
“returning” in this meditation.
Anastasia: Here, I would like to mention two interesting points which you told us about.
Firstly, it is no coincidence that Hara chakran filling is frequently associated with a bowl
filling with water. In translation from Japanese, the word “Hara” means “abdomen”,
while the earlier Sanskrit word “harā» in Old Indian treatises, as you said, represented
one of the names of Shakti goddess, the supreme creative female principle power. Water
and a bowl in the context of the genuine knowledge about man had an allegorical sense
indicating the powers and processes acting in spiritual practices. Secondly, as for this
meditation in particular, once you drew our attention to the fact that a meditator focuses
on his or her breathing only in the beginning, as on a habitual everyday process, before
he or she filled up the lower abdomen. However, later he or she should simply switch
attention to the energy movement along the spine and to tracing of the further meditation
process, whereas breathing should already proceed naturally and automatically. In due
time, these clarifications helped me a lot in understanding the first steps of this
meditation mastering.
Rigden: Correct. During the meditation, one’s breathing must be tranquil and natural,
whereas the entire attention must be focused on the processes taking place here and
now... So, in the beginning, just like in any other meditation, all feelings must be in
balance, in a state of peace. At that, all four human Aspects will correspondingly be in a
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