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Left versus right Scientific study of the hemispheres of the brain by Sperry, Myers, Gazzaniga, Bogen and later researchers, has shown us that the left side of the brain is usually concerned with speech, logic, analysis, time and linear function, whereas the right side is silent, dark, intuitive, feeling, spatial, holistic in function, and does not require linear, structured analysis for its knowledge, though how it does know is a mystery. The right side of the brain is the physical side of ida nadi, and the left brain, ofpingala. Thomas Hoover, a researcher comparing Zen with the latest neurological discoveries, sums up the situation when he states, ''The hemisphere that speaks does not know; the hemisphere that knows does not speak." A number of word opposites have been used to describe and help us understand the new view of brain function. Though the situation is not so simple, and each hemisphere must work in an integrated fashion, there is a definite trend to separate modes of function : Left Brain (Pingala) Right Brain (Ida) analysis understanding verbal spatial temporal "here and now" partial holistic explicit implicit argument experience intellect intuition logic emotion thinking feeling active passive And we could also add light versus dark, conscious versus subconscious, talkative versus silent, solar versus lunar, positive versus negative, mathematics versus poetry, rational versus mystical, law versus art, objective versus subjective, digital versus analog, and many other adjectives to aid our understanding. Emotions in the split brain Research by Marcel Kinsbourne, neurobiologist and neuropsychologist, director of the Department of Behavioral Neurology at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation in Waltham, Massachusetts, throws light on brain functioning which points to the fact that the brain has two main modes of emotional activity. (1) He has found that the two halves of the brain support different emotional states. Research indicates that the left hemisphere governs happiness and positive feelings and the right brain governs sadness and negative feelings. In the abnormal situation,
patients with right brain damage are often cheerful, elated and indifferent to their abnormal state. Left brain damage, on the other hand, can lead to a gloomy outlook on life and unjustified anger, guilt and despair. Most of us fluctuate from one state to another even in the normal situation, though not to the extremes found in brain damaged subjects. Still the experience of fluctuation can be distressing if we are not balanced and healthy. The fact that the left brain is associated with bright, cheerful thoughts and the right with sad and depressing thoughts, Kinsbourne theorizes, points to the conclusion that this dual action of the brain is designed to handle our likes (pingala) and dislikes (ida). The things we like are handled by the left brain, which focuses on and then approaches the object or situation. This fits in with our active mode, the concept of the externally directed pingala nadi. The things we dislike we try to avoid or withdraw from and we tend to be much more concerned with the overall picture in this situation. This is handled by the right brain and fits in with our receptive mode, introversion and ida nadi concept. The necessity of the right brain The brain has two major modes or systems which must work together and be harmonized if we are not to lose the essentials of our human existence. The nadis must be balanced for optimal functioning, for sushumna to function, and for us to maximize our human elements and potential. Unfortunately, few of us are really balanced and most of us, especially men, tend towards the purely external, materialistic and technological pingala side rather than the subtle, intuitive, feeling ida side. When imbalance between the nadis is minor we may not even notice its effect, though it must manifest in our personality, behavior, relationships and so forth, in ways that are baffling to us, and which can make our lives miserable. What happens in the normal situation can be better understood when we look at an extreme example. Howard Gardener and his colleagues studied people with severely damaged right brains (ida) and found that they become robot-like, minus their essential human understanding. (2) He has found that only when both hemispheres of the brain are working together can we appreciate the moral of a story, the measuring of a metaphor, words describing emotion, or the punch line of a joke. Without the right brain we lose our understanding and take things very literally. For example, someone might say that he has a broken heart and the right brain damaged person will ask, "How did it break?" They see the explicit, the facts, but cannot understand what has been implied. These people also tell jokes at the wrong moment, their sentences become meaningless and they confabulate - make up things. The important points in their sentences are lost and are submerged or flattened, becoming part of the background. There is just a stream of words without meaning or purpose. They also accept the bizarre and argue with what should normally be accepted. It is obvious then that the right brain, which yogis called ida or the receptive mind, is vital in the appreciation of relationships, of seeing how the parts fit together as a whole, in understanding.
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KUNDALINI TANTRA Swami Satyananda S
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6. Manipura Chakra 7. Anahata Chakr
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INTRODUCTION TO KUNDALINI TANTRA I
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A universal event The seat of kunda
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My father had great regard for the
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ody it is in the perineum, between
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Then there is the emergence of Durg
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It is very simple to understand. Wh
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A chakra is like a centrally placed
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(mental force) flow through every p
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positive pressure which starts the
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Why are these compartments inactive
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cerebrospinal fluid moves through t
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Awakening by birth By a favourable
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Why is it so great? It is due to a
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longer appealing, hunger and the se
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ordinary person, living a non-spiri
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cultivate a mental picture of him,
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If you minimize your interactions w
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Sometimes I used to feel like this.
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should be avoided and protein shoul
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wheat, add all the same ingredients
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Fear of mistakes Some people worry
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Siddhis and the ego factor When one
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A great misunderstanding Mystics th
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Chapter 10 Four Forms of Awakening
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one by one, and as a result of this
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When Shiva and Shakti descend to th
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The preliminary awakening of kundal
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Experiencing the threefold awakenin
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The process of transition There is
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one bad mind which keeps wandering
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visarga) towards the sun (manipura
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Therefore, the yogis have tried to
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Ejaculation brings down the tempera
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tantra, they switch roles. The woma
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Chakra perception The chakras, kund
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The granthis There are three granth
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Spontaneous and self-propelled evol
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the purpose of awakening the chakra
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When the mind is concentrated at th
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The pineal gland acts as a lock on
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When ajna is awakened, fickleness o
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In both the male and female bodies,
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awakening of kundaiini, but a relea
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manipura. Repeated earnest attempts
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Home of unconscious Swadhisthana is
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cycle of birth and rebirth is situa
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sublimate the form of their emotion
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The center of awakening According t
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Chapter 7 Anahata Chakra In kundali
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ound by your prarabdha karma. You k
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worst disease and medical science h
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So, in order to induce anahata awak
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Vishuddhi belongs to the fifth loka
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The potential of vishuddhi Vishuddh
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The actual isolation of such a mini
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the form, function or appearance of
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"When the red bindu (Shakti) moves
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Therefore, Patanjali classifies sam
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Illness If you suffer from any phys
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Padmasana is also utilized for cert
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Practice 3: Padmasana The lotus pos
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Chapter 3 Chakra Sadhana Course Mon
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Ajna and mooladhara chakras are clo
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Be aware of the physical body only.
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awareness of every vibration of the
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For men: Key to exact location of c
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perform jalandhara bandha, then moo
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Preparatory practices A large numbe
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Nauli kriya is the control of the r
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The abdominal lock Sit in a meditat
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They must both reach the navel at t
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The humming breath Sit in a comfort
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ajna - trataka and shambhavi mudra
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throat and not the nose. Try to mak
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Chapter 10 Practices for Bindu Visa
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Practice 3: Perception of subtle in
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depth of your being. Continue this
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Page 161 and 162: Technique Sit in any comfortable me
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Page 167 and 168: Make sure you have all the necessar
Page 169 and 170: 4: Practices for manipura chakra -
Page 171 and 172: practising the techniques given for
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Page 175 and 176: Kriya №1 Vipareeta Karani Mudra P
Page 177 and 178: Kriya №2 Chakra anusadhana Contin
Page 179 and 180: closed. Practise khechari mudra thr
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Page 183 and 184: This mudra can either be practised
Page 185 and 186: No. 8: Manduki kriya (the frog atti
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Page 193 and 194: No. 17: Utthan (raising the kundali
Page 195 and 196: No.19: Linga sanchalana (astral con
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Page 205 and 206: The third force Another force exist
Page 207 and 208: Yogis also tell us that when we pra
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Page 215 and 216: Balanced breathing Even more conclu
Page 217 and 218: Yoga also states that the chakras a
Page 219 and 220: Motoyama has also worked out that b
Page 221 and 222: 1. Motoyama, H., "Chakra, Nadi of Y
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Page 227 and 228: By practising yoga we learn to bala
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Page 233 and 234: energy and back. Motoyama feels tha
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Page 237 and 238: Recent developments in neurophysiol
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Page 247 and 248: 1. Bentov, I., Stalking the Wild Pe
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Page 253 and 254: intertwine and it is hard to separa
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e an energy block or could that poo
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Swami Vivekananda: I see ida and pi
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Swami Vivekananda: Consider hystere
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Swami Vivekananda: Exactly, tighten
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person. They build up from a small
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Meditation- entering the heart spac
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Amrit: psychic nectar which is secr
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Chakra : literally 'wheel or vortex
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Itarakhya lingam: symbol of Shiva i
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Mudra: a psychic attitude often exp
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Sahajoli: the form of vajroji mudra
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Tanmatra: the sense activities - si
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