Inner Body meditation
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Eckhart Tolle calls it "inner body". In Vipassana, Goenka calls it "Free Flow" or "Bangha" (sometimes spelled Bhanga or Banga). Some say that it is actually the astral body or our energetic body beyond form. They all say that it is a good bridge to go from form to formless and to the absolute.
All these names refer to a subtle feeling of a body vibration, to a sensing of a body frequency. When your mind is sharp, you can feel it very strongly, as if all your body is shaking.
How to sense it? Tolle suggests to try to feel the body from within, Goenka advices to scan the body for regular gross sensations (like pain, tickling, itching, etc.) and suggests that with practice, the gross sensations will turn subtler and subtler until all the body is felt as one field of energy to be scanned in a free flow fashion.
I must say that I found the sensing of this energetic body very powerful both in Vipassana and while reading Tolle's "Power of Now". It connected me with something beyond the mind and triggered experiences and changes that I cannot yet describe.
I will appreciate if others can share their experiences with this "inner body" and references, if exist, to the same thing in other techniques and traditions (I heard there is some similar yogi stuff).
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Something similar in Shamanism
I once encountered something similar in one of the shaman traditions.
It is a technique for communicating with your astral body: you concentrate on your hands until you feel this energetic vibration in them and then you can talk to your astral body and ask it, for example, to take you (the mind) as a witness to the astral journeys during the coming night when you are asleep.
BTW, joining the nightly astral journey is used there for remembering the lessons the astral body is undergoing during the night.
I tried it. It really worked.
astral projection
Yes, the exact symptoms are mentioned also in the case of astral projections, not only in shamanism: the body vibrations, etc.
The difference between the inner body of eckhart tolle and the astral stuff is where you take this state of connectedness with the astral body: eckhart tolle and vipassnana use it to connect to the absolute and to develop while the astral projection stuff take it yet to another spiritual excitement that leads to no self development.
Easy way to sense the inner body
A good way to sense the inner body or astral body is to move from one part of the body to another and in each part not to just see if I feel this vibration or not but to tune into the specific frequency of the vibration at this part (like looking for a station in a radio). Usually, if you cannot sense the vibration at the body part, it is probably because the frequency at that part is subtler and so you need to search for a milder vibration.
After some time of doing this, you will notice that you sense that all the body vibrates as one single field of energy in the very same frequency.
Observe this field of energy as if it is inside the body then at some point be this field, do not just watch it.
You will notice very soon that the whole field is actually a point somewhere and that indeed you are this point. Moreover, you will feel that this point encompasses all.
While being in this state of consciousness, you will naturally feel disidentified from your body.
You must guard not to stain the process with expectations and analysis. Just do it, just be it when it dawns.
This is a great gateway. No wonder Eckhart Tolle and Goenka put so much emphasis on it. It's a pity that so few people make use of it constantly.
Mm.
Interesting. I just happen to be learning about "vibrations" in a book about the soul of the universe. Its thesis holds that the universe is more like music than matter. Very compelling, though not something I easily wrap my mind around.
binaural beats
Which book was it?
Binaural beats assist wonderfuly with the inner body awareness and astral projection as they make the mind sensitive to finer frequencies.
There was a post here lately about binaural beats with a link you can actually download them from - http://www.gurusfeet.com/forum/has-anyone-tried-binaural-beats
helps in disidentifying from the body
Sensing the inner body helps tremendously in dis-identifying from the body.
When you emerge from a half an hour session of awareness to the inner body vibration, you simply find yourself naturally aliened to the physical body. You do not need to convince yourself, make any effort, fight the old conditionings, it is completely natural.
Inner body
There is some "magic" in the awareness to the inner body. In "magic I mean some unexplained strong effect. I haven't found yet a good stuff to explain this over the years except of the Vipassana explanation which I feel is not sufficient.
Anyhow, explanations are less important - it is essential to stick to this practice as Tolle recommends - it is a powerful gateway to the beyond.
Innerbody same as Third Eye Meditation?
Is there a connection between "Third Eye Meditation" and "Inner Body Awareness?"
The secret behind the inner body
There is much more in that than just accessing the core vibrations of the body - it's actually truly accessing the body for the first time while most of the time we are aware of just a representation layer of the body, some conceptual representation from which all noise, unfamiliar forms, and other unconstructive elements were filtered.
It means that in that state we have a real access to the senses, sensing really the what is, including our inner mental world.
kundalini, nadis, chakras and inner body
I suspect this vibe has something to do with the flow of energy in our nadis through the chakras, the energy that flows from the kundalini to the crown.
Possible side effect to the technique
The Inner body technique is very powerful and efficient but being so may have of course undesirable side effects which are not less powerful.
One is the blocking of the flow of sexual and love energies.
Read in http://www.gurusfeet.com/forum/my-sexual-urge-has-almost-disappeared#com... my description of a similar case that may happen also with inner body meditation.
You can suppress this side effect by simply being aware to it and consciously reopening yourself to the flow of energies while continuing to practice this wonderful technique.
good protocols! do well!
The meditational experience of lord Rama can be cited here...when we were in IFT(islamic Foundation Trust)Shriraam
went into "gayatri meditation" as his sayana horoscope represented in gurusfeet represent the total inspiration as only a sagitarian can knew it...
as shriram is number one in all sports....
surround as with all kirilian photographers as we do universal meditation or do expanding meditaion u will find great changes...
the fighting islamic foundation trust became "new" and did white wash....
if u want i can list all important universal meditaion applicable to mankind...
But beware as u cross ur boundaries u have to answer for crossing it ....
breathing fire
Lord Parasurama.
i as a person transcending time can tell which is stolen one and which is real....i say as i feel it...
THE CLOCK TICKS....READ MY OTHER BLOGS...MY TIME IS VERY VERY SHORT MAKE USE OF IT...
thanks
nalabonga - thanks! i also noted this. I wonder how come Eckhart Tolle does not warns against these side effects.
Lordparasurama - I couldn't understand how what you wrote relates to the topic of inner body meditation - can you explain?
my explanation!
some remark:
i start my hot topic with bow to mother sita who lifted the bow oflord siva with atmost ease which except lord rama no none could lift....
first case:
what is inner body meditation,lord krishna says to arjuna in probably eight chapter that the inner body is made of "mind intellect and ego apart from five elements"
so a dead body when its separated from gross body is really the inner body of soul....
so when a mind recited gayatri all inner bodies viz
1)physical body
2)water or aura body
3)fire or gjana body
4)air or vijnana body
5)ether or mutable body or atom to allprevading
gets nourished and one unites with universal power that created the system.....
moral 2:
as ozone layer is formed by pranayama of brahmins the scientist may well do fund the yajnas that carry the mantra universal and or help all recite the pranayama mantra
om bhuhu
om bhuvah
om svaha
om mahah
om janaha
om tapaha
om satyam
om tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya deemahi diyoyonah prachodayat om apo jyoti raso amrutam brahmaha bhur bhuvah svah om...(nailed universal energy to ground by touching right ear.
like lord pillayar getting "fruit of knowledge or wisdom" from lord siva one doing inner mediation of gayatri may achieve lot than thought off.
so many disease are heled as we do this meditation with utmost attention as lord tiruvalluvar states "nallor oruvar olare avar porrutu yavarkum peyyum malai"
dhorai too informed bnet use this mantra and stop environmental pollution...
case 2:
the body is made up of 24 cosmic principles duly
1)earth- nose - smell
2)water - mouth - taste
3)fire - eyes - form
4)air - skin- touch
5)ether - ears - sound
the bove is inner 15 cosmic principles
next hands ,legs , speech , generative organ ,excretive organ make 20 cosmic principles...
21 mind , 22 intellect ,23 ego , 24 swabhava or prakruti
25 is purusa...the seer....
its strange dora as i read his story i felt he is unreal as if one who tapped my universal power and is really a dummy, and his life reading had my energy in it only another meditator can know it...
thus properly arranged 24 cosmic principles become a complete body with finite knowledge elemnts controlling gross elements they are represented in creation bible revelation methodology as 24 cosmic elders surrounded by lord of the universe....
as omkaradatta said somewhere "in a singular universe...."
moral:
in a proper singular universe everything merges....
let me cite more....
case 3:
lord Vamana took viswaroopa as by his inner body control he could take great physical body and as he did and his foot reached brahma loka lord brahma watered his feet in devotion..... here crossinglimits was good....
case 4: where crossing were bad...
as arjuna as sage nara and krishna as sage narayana did meditation their meditation disturbed all heaven and hence were duly disturbed which paved way for mahabharata in future .....
like indo pakistan border game evolution in inner body too has pros and cons...u will realise one day....
breathing fire,
Lord Parasurama....
Ask ur questions do u feel i am irrelevant???? if so how??
with love
dhorai.
someone change it to parsurama tag as it is only relevant!
dhorai is medium parsurama is speaker but by film "aaru" both are one...
with love
dhorai.
as the secret is out i and dhorai are one!
apart from above inner brain of knowhow like ur past life records can be got....
2)still lungs kidneys orgns glands also form important keys to inner body....
3) i am a personality who remain as inner body to dhorai
but they must merge as one in personality as depicted by film "six" or "aaru"....
they say self or soul is a minute dot as prajapita brahma kumaris state self is minute dot in between forehead and do amirtha velai dhyanam or early morning 4:00 am or 2:00 am meditation
in creation mythology they say 2:00 am to 4:00 am is second house or creation house....
u become a creator as u do meditaion on this time good time to recite gayari in all saneness or do brahma baba dhyan or harry potter's one wonders....
breathing fire
Lord Parasurama.
what r u talking about?
Inner body is totally something else. Before you write these endless mambo jambo irrelevant sentences, at least give the right attention and read the post. You are just wasting disk space and time of others
sorry to say dora u then know nothing about .....
inner body meditation....
in vipasana u go into inner layers of brain which is part of subtle body nothing but mind intellect ego...
u read it again removing ur ego and trying to win argument...
and those who have to realise will realise its not for u alone....
r u in sprits to realise inner body meditation...
i am sure u would hardly have read Bhagavad gita which talks about it fully...learn that u may oppose correctly.
breathing fire
Lord Parasurama.
They say that maditation is
They say that maditation is the only way to reach salvation.Its is the path to reach god.By maditation can we come out of the depression or is there any need to take antidepression pills,does the inner body needs any mathod to be stress free?
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