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A Guided Practice for Body and Mind

A guided practice integrates body and mind through specific postures and awareness. Begin by concentrating on the toes, then move awareness upward, relaxing each body part. Coordinate breath with movement, observing the stomach's expansion and contraction. Perform deliberate contractions and stretches, noting the sensations in muscles and joints. These movements influence the body's energy centers and glands, creating internal harmony. The postures express one's character and serve as preventive healing. Sitting in a stable posture allows the spine and diaphragm to relax, increasing lung capacity and heart efficiency. This state filters thoughts, retaining the beneficial and releasing the negative. Self-healing arises from utilizing the innate tools provided by nature. Conclude by consciously replacing negative thoughts with those beneficial for all beings, supported by vibrational chanting.

"These postures are influencing very important parts of the body and the glands to create peace and harmony."

"Root out the negative thoughts which give trouble to us personally and to others. Develop the good thoughts which are good for us and for others."

Concentrate on the tip of the toes. Feel your foot soles and heels, and feel your palms on the kneecaps. Feel your knees and feel the kneecaps. Now, concentrate on the shoulders. Relax the tension from the shoulders. Relax your elbows. Keep your neck straight but relaxed. And now, while exhaling, bend your head forward, but your shoulders should remain straight, and your back should remain straight. Try to touch your chin to your chest. Observe your stomach, the expansion and contraction of the stomach. At the time of inhalation, the stomach is expanding, and at the time of exhalation, it is contracting. Just feel relaxed. Relaxed now. Slowly raise your head up and bend your neck backward, and look with open eyes at the ceiling. And bring your head back to the normal position and feel your toes. Contract your toes and relax slowly. Be aware. Be aware of each movement. Slowly, contract your toes, hold your toes in this position, and relax. Again, contract your toes. This kind of technique, practicing, is what is called the healing power. Body, mind, clarity, and inner awareness. Now, stretch your ankle joints and try to touch your toes or big toe to the ground, but keep your hands on your knees, touching your kneecap. Yes, and look straight ahead, only stretching your toes towards the ground. Go as far as you can, and now slowly stretch. Your calf muscles, your heel, the foot sole muscles, and find out how many muscles are either contracted or stretched. This is especially good prevention for sciatica. Those who have sciatica problems will also be helped. Yes, the toes towards the body. Again, you lost your hands from the kneecaps. Oh my god, that’s why the car is running in a different direction. And again, slowly stretch the toes towards the ground. Very good, the hands are still on the kneecap, and now sit your legs or your foot to the outside. Right, but knees are straight, hands are on the kneecaps, just go like this. Make your heels touch each other. You know, there was one English, some artist, making many jokes, and he was walking like this, chopper, yeah. So try, but hold your kneecaps, yes, and now come in the middle, and a little separate your legs, and come in the middle, touching the toes. Close your eyes and feel your muscles, feel your joints, feel the ankle joints, the knees, the hip joints, as well as all the muscles and ligaments, and come to the middle again. Very good. Now, move your hands about 15 centimeters toward your ankle joints on the spine bones. Okay? So it means your back is straight, bent forward, and looking to me what I’m doing. But don’t forget what your hands and legs are doing. So, it means legs are straight and hands are here down on your, what do you say, calf or shin bone? Shin bone, yeah. Very good. How comfortable, just looking up. These are very, very good for our lower back pain, as well as prevention against sciatica. Back straight, and now you raise your hands slowly up, interlock your thumbs, and look up. Legs straight together, knees. Look up a little bit to the ceiling. Hands sidewards, slowly come down on the ground, backside, yes, fingers are facing backside, and give the whole weight of the trunk of the body on your hands, shoulders, don’t go too much like this, and you look down, just think slightly. Yeah, it is also good that when our stomach is a little bigger, then this is good for the stomach. Finally, the stomach gets so relaxed, and it can demonstrate itself, big stomach. It’s not easy to get the stomach down, a little. The ego and stomach, it’s not easy to get down. Okay, again, come a little straight forward, hands up, interlock the fingers, or toes, sorry, and arms straight, hands sidewards, palms facing upward, and slowly bring the tips of your fingers touching the elbow, shoulders, sorry. Yes, and then we write a big zero with our elbows, so try to make it as big as you can, and the other direction. And when your elbows come in front, then raise your hands up, stretch your hands up, and interlock the thumbs. Five times, deep inhale, and... exhale, and this is the fifth time. Deep breath, inhale and exhale, and release your thumbs. And slowly bend forward and touch your shin bone, or go a little further and look down. Relax, relax, and slowly, slowly bring your hands near the ankle joints and heels, then near the foot. If you can, easily, otherwise don’t go, and hold the toes. If you can’t hold the toes, let your hand be on the shin bones. Feel comfortable. From your hip joint, from your waist, try to bend forward. Try to touch your stomach to the thighs. That’s easy. And look to me. Don’t look too much to the stomach; it’s dangerous. Don’t admire your stomach. These postures, what we are doing, are influencing very important parts of the body and the glands to create peace and harmony. Now, as far as you can, Paścimottānāsana, head down, look more. You cannot remain relaxed where you are. Toes together from both legs. Your knees straight, and slowly raise your hands up above the head and interlock the thumbs, yes, and look to your thumbs, very good, and put your palms on the ground behind your buttocks, yes. Relax. Fingers facing back side. Legs together. Relax. Look up. Relax. And remember how many postures we did. From the beginning, what I began till now. Hands a little farther back. Give balance on your heels. And you can try to touch your toes if you can. And just raise the trunk of the body up. Just. Easily. Yes. And you can let it hang with your head down. It’s called setu, a bridge. Who knows, in some emergency you need the bridge. When the stomach is big, then the belly will have a speed breaker going up and down. Deep inhale and exhale. And slowly come down. Feel your buttocks on the ground, let your body come a little straight, and place your hands on your kneecaps. Relax. Now you know the full butterfly, and those who don’t know should look to your friends. So, full butterfly. The knees should touch the ground; otherwise, the butterfly is very nervous now. She’s moving constantly, but when she drinks the nectar, just for a few seconds, she doesn’t move her wings. And bend forward, and touch your forehead, your nose, or your chin to the toes. Yes, that’s very good, very far. Oh my God, you are very far from the nectar. Yes, oh, some are already enjoying the nectar, good. Yes, very good. Upper part of the body straight up. Yes. Hands on the knees. Stretch your legs and sit in Vajrāsana. The best posture is the Vajrāsana to relax the whole body completely. In this posture, first of all, our spine is very relaxed. Our back muscles are very relaxed. When the back muscles are relaxed, then automatically the shoulders are relaxed. The very last chance: the shoulders are relaxed. When the shoulders are relaxed, automatically the elbows are relaxed. When the spine is straight, the shoulders are relaxed, and the elbows are relaxed. Then our chest muscles are relaxed, and the diaphragm is relaxed. The volume for the heart, as well as for the lungs, increases to get more oxygen. There is no other posture which can get that much. When the shoulders are relaxed, the elbow is relaxed, the back muscles are... Vibhaka is on, on. Oh God, for what was I doing all this? Now, there is a starting Vibhāga, oh, missing. So, where was I? Yes. And now, so it was a technical mistake in the brain of the operator. That’s why the machine didn’t start to bring you the message as a webcast. But it can happen to a machine, the human machine or the technical machines. But it was very nice, this nearly 40 minutes, the healing for the humans. Physical, mental, intellectual, and spiritual: this is with the body. The body is very important. So, body postures are expressing the character of the person. Is that outside or inside? And these postures, which we did for the last 35 minutes, were very great to influence the energy centers in our body, being still continuing. But the other was not put on the website or in the webcast, but don’t worry, though. Don’t worry, we have many casts, so one webcast is also a new cast, so in this... This posture, where we are as in Vajrāsana, allows you to feel the whole trunk of the body completely relaxed. We have more volume to get more air, more oxygen in the body. The lungs are very happy, and the heart has its position exactly where it wants to be. There are no pressures, there are no tensions, except mental tensions that can also affect the heart. So now the volume where the heart is, it’s very relaxed and comfortable. So the heart has more space and is pumping, so it supplies more blood to the body. In one minute, five liters of blood are pumped by our heart. So, in one minute, you have time only until one minute. If somewhere is poisoned, and this and that, if you can try somehow to take the blood out or some kind of treatment, otherwise, when it’s gone through the heart, then the heart gets paralyzed by the poison. So this posture which we are sitting in, it’s called Vajrāsana, and Vajra means strong, you can say the iron man, strong. This Vajrāsana, the spine is so straight and relaxed, the diaphragm is relaxed, with more capacity for getting oxygen. Now, this posture is very good to get rid of gases, or it will prevent gases from developing in the stomach. So, after eating, if we can sit for 5 to 10 minutes, it’s very, very good. Now, we are sitting already more than 10 minutes, and if someone has knee problems, of course, you can change your posture for a while; otherwise, remain as it is. So, when the whole trunk is relaxed, the muscles are relaxed, then our intense time gets that proper space, what we call the mechanical tolerance space, a space for the mechanical tolerance, as we call it. And it begins to have good digestion. It’s relaxed, so this posture is very, very good. Well, now we raise our hands up above the head, interlock the thumbs, and stretch our hands up. The more our back is straight. You should feel the circulation in your palms. Now, release your thumbs, palms facing forward, and slowly bend forward to touch your elbows on the ground, palms on the ground, and if you can, also touch your forehead to the ground. If you can’t, then separate your knees a little bit apart, so that your forehead will touch the ground comfortably. Relax. Try to relax and feel the stretching of the back muscles parallel to the spine. And here is a very sacred power. It means it is stretching and releasing from every cakra. The energy from every cakra is released. More blood is supplying towards the brain and face, as we know what jñānendriya is, and this jñānendriya is located towards the head. Radha and face, of course. If you feel discomfort, you may slowly sit up. Remain relaxed sitting. You also can stretch your knees if it is not comfortable. If you feel more tension on your knees or in your thighs or your back, you can sit up and lie down on the back and relax, and feel comfortable. The energy is flowing through the whole. The whole body, either you are in this satsaṅgāsana posture or in daṇḍāsana, this posture truncalizes the brain waves and is filtering the thoughts; the good thoughts remain and negative thoughts are filtered out. Those who are snoring at night, before sleeping, if you can practice this for 10 to 15 minutes, then you will feel that your snoring is very little. And especially the memory is developing. This is very, very good for getting memory, good memories. This is what we call the healing power for humans. Self-healing. We have everything in our body, whatever we need. Mother Nature, God, gave us all kinds of tools, energies, and what we need. Relax, relax. Once, slowly come up. With the help of your hands, come up. And hands down on the knees. Now, we go to the other dimension, so release your legs from the Vajrāsana, lie down on your back, head to my side. Now, three times slowly, deep inhale and exhale. Try to release all the tensions from the body and from your mind. I will give you one test. Now, I would like to suggest one technique to you. This is very, very personal to you. It’s only for you. Now, think or find out how many thoughts are dwelling in your awareness, in your concentration, in your intellect, which are not good for you and not for others. This is only for you. So do you have the power, do you have the abilities, that you will take such thoughts out of your astral world, from your thoughts, your mind, your intellect, your consciousness, and your feelings? This is one of the best techniques for getting the healing, self-healing power, so-called healing for humans, for humanity. We know ourselves that these thoughts are neither good for ourselves nor for others, including the vegetation, the environment, etc. Take this bunch of your thoughts in your mind or in your intellect, and slowly get up. Sit up, please. Move your body and slowly sit up. Turn to me and sit in meditation posture. Sit in a meditation posture which is easier for you. Close your eyes, index finger and thumb together, hands resting on the knees or on the thighs. Just relax, relax without force, with mutual understanding for your benefit, your good benefit. And healing others, we send our thoughts, try to remove or forget, forgive. Make your saṅkalpa that such thoughts I will never use, and pray to God that I shall forget this, and instead of these thoughts I will replace them with good thoughts which are good for myself and for my family. Kali, neighbor country, and whole world. So, root out the negative thoughts which give trouble to us personally and to others. Develop the good thoughts which are good for us and for others. And see in your inner vision yourself very happy with someone, or sitting somewhere, or walking alone. But the immense happiness, that happiness is the love of God. Let us pray or use this mantra to purify and take away our negative thoughts and bless us with good energy and good thoughts. And that means we’ll sing: "Oṃ Tryambakaṃ Yajāmahe Sugandhiṃ Puṣṭivardhanam, Urvārukamiva Bandhanān Mṛtyormukṣīya Mā’mṛtāt." Like, I will sing and then you will sing. It will, you will feel that your inner space is expanding and expanding. The thoughts, your mind is expanding, and you can take positive thoughts inside. That will be your own chanting, a beautiful vibration, and the negative goes out automatically, like when it is dark and we light a candle. The light appears immediately, and the darkness disappears. Oṁ Sambhakam Yaja Maheśvagandhi Puṣṭivardhanam Pūrva Kamevavandana Pityo Mokṣir Mamṛta Śānti Śānti... Now, all together. Siddhi Vardhanam Kāmindanāthīyo Oh, feel your being here. Feel your body, feel your breath. Just relax and feel your being. Rub your palms and place your hands on your face. Open your eyes. Bend forward, place your hands on the ground, your head also, and feel the circulation towards your head and face. Feel the stretching of your back muscles. So, stretch your neck muscles and slowly come up.

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