ADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDITATION

The Way of the ARHAT, how to meditate in one breath!
Micro-Meditation

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CONTENT

What is Neuroplasticity?	Importance of Breathing through the Nose
How we can meditate everywhere, anytime!	Ujjayi Breath
Why is Micro-Meditation Tantric?	The importance of Calcium ions
The use of meditation for healing is not new	Changing DNA expression
Toroid Field Activation through Cardiac Coherence	Physiological changes that occur during Advanced Integrative Meditation
The Unified Space-Memory Network	Benefits of Advanced Integrative Meditation
The Path to The Void	Structured Water
From Patanjali Yoga Sutra	The Heart is not a Pump
What is Dhyana?	Daily Meditation Practice
Who is God according to Yoga?	Grounding (earthing)
Why is the 3 Rhythm Breath important in meditation?	Micro-Meditation—Between Water & Fire Level 1-2-3
Vacuum Breathing	Kundalini Syndrome Personalized Guided Treatment

We currently live in an epidemic of trauma and toxic stress. Adults today are chronically fatigued, chronically fearful, chronically anxious, and modern medicine has no "magic pill" to neither prevent stress nor cure it. The solution relies on the neuroplasticity of the brain where our potential is not set at birth—we can actually strengthen, mold and improve our brain in ways once believed impossible.

We understand that,
"The harmonic dance between the Earth and the Human is the point"

What is Neuroplasticity?

Advanced Science of Integrative Meditation understands that our brains are constantly being shaped by experience. Most of us have very different behaviors and thoughts today than we did 20 years ago. This shift is neuroplasticity in action; changes in brain structure and organization as we experience, learn, and adapt. With every repetition of an action, thought or emotion, we reinforce a neural pathway―and with each new thought, we begin to create a new way of being. These small changes, frequently enough repeated, lead to changes in how our brains work.

Neuroplasticity is the 'muscle building' part of the brain; the things we do often we become stronger at, and what we don’t use fades away. That is the physical basis of why making a thought, an action or an emotion over and over again increases its power. Over time, it becomes automatic; a part of us. We literally become what we think, feel and do. Neuroplasticity is at work throughout life. Connections within the brain are constantly becoming stronger or weaker, depending on what is being used. Younger people change easily; their brains are very plastic. As we age change doesn't come as easily; the brain loses some of its plasticity and we become more fixed in how we think, learn, and perceive.

Since the brain is pivotal to all we think, feel and do, by harnessing neuroplasticity we can improve everything we do, think and feel. Neurofeedback works with these fundamental principles of neuroplasticity to help you take control of your life.

Advanced Integrative Meditation is a practical step-by-step technique that allows us to shorten meditation to one breath through the cultivation of Structural Alignment, expanded Consciousness and Awareness. Kundalini Shakti is the innate intelligence of embodied Awareness. In energy (spiritual) work, the true task of the mind is to get out of the way so that the innate intelligence (awareness, kundalini) can work through the Five (5) Elements, the Five (5) Acts and the Four (4) Bodies unimpeded. Not using intention nor the mind, but rather through the observer, we unlock the latent-energy to create reality, arriving instantly at the point of creation―the "latent energy in the vacuum" (Planck Particle) which is not subject to time (memory) and space―in perfect harmony with absolute potentiality. A management tool for Kundalini (Chi, Qi, Ki, Prana) energy conforming potential Life Force Quantum Vital-Energy in the human being.

When this upadeśa (wisdom-teaching) is put to practice, it serves as a direct path to muktì (liberation). The purpose is not only to educate, but to give students the tools of understanding and alignment that, if fully applied, will lead us to a full immersion into embodied awareness.

The motto of Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom is that truth empowers creative activity.
The text for this video is Steiner's original introduction to The Philosophy of Freedom.

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) explains that anthroposophy can also be called "spiritual science." Steiner's groundbreaking philosophical work on the nature of freedom and thinking. It is an effort to develop not only natural scientific, but also a spiritual scientific research on the basis of the idealistic tradition, in the spirit of the historical strivings, that have led to the development of modern science.

The Philosophy of "Freedom" (muktì) demonstrates the reality of free will―the ability to think and act independently―gives us a fundamental possibility for developing consciousness. It leads us to the possibility of experiencing living-thinking―a way of thinking―by which all human activity can be renewed.

"The way Out, is In!"

How we can Meditate Everywhere, Anytime!

Advanced Integrative Meditation is a state of being fully conscious of ourselves and in alignment to the Earth and the Heavens in this present moment in time, in a "limitless state of Innate Awareness". Therefore, we can practice it at all times. We arrive at the flowering of our own awakening or Innate Awareness where the "conditioned mind" dissolves with its associated Ego into a "limitless state." In this temporary dissolution of the mind, the sense of "separation" can be temporarily dissolved in which one may see clearly "what is", instead of seeing all through the filter of the conditioned mind. In this temporary state we get a taste of reality "as it is" rather than "as we think of it." The neuroplasticity of the brain is constantly adapting and constantly evolving.

The Tantrik view explained by Kşemarāja says,

"Awareness, free and independent, is the cause of the performance of everything. Awareness is unlimited by place, time and form, and has an unlimited power of action as its essence. In life we constantly perform The Five (5) Acts: creation, preservation, reabsorption, concealment and revelation."

You are nothing other than a contracted or condensed form of the "one universal Awareness." God, or Divine Consciousness, is constantly performing the Five (5) Acts, not on some grandiose cosmic stage, but through you:

• Creation (creator, emission, manifestation, flowing forth)
• Preservation (stasis, maintenance, sustainer, sustenance)
• Reabsorption (dissolution, retraction, reabsorption, completion of event)
• Concealment (occlusion, forgetting), and
• Revelation (grace, remembering, the awareness that "I" am the observer)

Reference: The Recognition Sūtras, by Cristopher Wallis

The Founder of Modern Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku, the most important Zen Master in the last 500 years, prescribed visualization and breathing practice. He taught us that:

• Meditation in the midst of activity is 1,000 times superior to meditation in stillness.
• Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
• "What is the sound of a single hand?", or "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
• I ask, "What part of a cup makes it useful?"

"Bringing our mind to Innate Awareness at all times (the present moment) is meditation." It is not only when we have our eyes closed and sitting in cross-legged position, but it's about being in mindful awareness at all times. At the end of every exhalation we access our innate origin as we come ever closer to the Void. At that moment, we grasp the infinite power of creation, the power of life is in our hands as we make a conscientious decision to inhale. Meditation is every moment of Innate Awareness at every step.

Montserrat Gascón says,

"For this you don't need to have faith, nor be initiated, nor be someone with special gifts. It is available to everyone, it is in us. You just have to have a little patience, since we have forgotten that we can do it, and simply return to feel, without thinking, and this seems to be the most difficult thing. Our education, from birth, has trained us to use the ways of thinking and not the ways of feeling, and both are hardly compatible. For some of us, the most difficult thing is to put the mind at rest, in order to bring all our attention to our feelings. "Thinking what I feel" or "feeling what happens" are two very different things.

Physiologically, the cell "knows" exactly how to react at every moment, the metabolic changes that it must carry out, the chemical reactions, and the way to communicate, to carry out the mission of living. Each cell has a small brain that allows it to do exactly what it should do. It is pure life intelligence that is found in every cell. This wisdom, this knowledge comes with the human being from birth."

Meditation is a state of alignment in which one's relationship with all other living energy becomes part of your consciousness. One becomes aware that life is a relationship of the energy of billions of beings within (mitochondria, microbiome & microbiota) and around us, working in synergy and in perfect symbiosis. In this state we also become perfection in the synergy and perfect symbiosis of existence.

If your actions find outward expression, involving body, mind, and the physical dimensions of energy, that is karma. But if you turn inward and perform an action beyond all dimensions of physicality, that is kriya. Karma is the process of binding you. Kriya is the process of liberating you.

The most significant aspect of yoga is to perform action beyond the physical dimensions of energy. Among the four (4) dimensions of physicality, you are most conscious of bodily actions, less of the mental, much less of the emotional, and negligibly of the energetic. The moment you learn to perform action with the non-physical aspect of your life energy, you suddenly move to a new level of freedom (muktì) within and outside of yourself.

"The wisdom you seek lies Within!"

How do you access the non-physical aspect of your life energy?

The yogic practices, which involve postures, breath, attitudes of the mind, and energy activation, are all essentially oriented toward aligning the first four layers of the body: the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the energetic (spiritual) body. It is only in aligning that you find access to dimensions beyond the physical ― to the fundamental life energy itself.

Sadhguru says, "I have seen any number of people who start doing a simple kriya, and suddenly become so creative that they are able to achieve things that they never imagined possible in their lives. This is simply because they loosened their karmic foundations a little. They shook up their life energies for a change, instead of being entangled with their physical processes of body, mind, emotions and energy. This is something every human being can learn to do." ~ Inner Engineering, A Yogi's guide to Joy, Sadhguru.

Furthermore, we have above the element of Fire from the Sun in the heavens and below the element of Water from the earth. Above the infinite large universe of the cosmic scales and the relationships between gravity, time and space which predicts a continuum to a single point of singularity or a black whole. Below we have quantum theory that covers the smallest miniscule infinite universe that predicts finite and linear boundaries. In between we have "space", the component that unifies everything and everyone.

Eastern medicine grew out of the empirical observation of nature, beginning at least 4,700 years ago. Asian philosophy, from the Vedas of India to the Yellow Emperor of China, views reality as an interdependent whole. This "pre-scientific" understanding parallels to the broader view of modern quantum physics and general system theory. Rather than limiting reality to that which is material, the Eastern philosophers recognized the interdependence of mind and body, the nonlinear nature of time (memory) and space, and the interweaving patterns of relationship between humanity and nature. Thus formulating a general system theory, in which the patterns of change that exist in nature are the same patterns that govern human biology, wherein function is viewed from a holographic perspective, and each part reflects the whole. For the whole to function harmoniously, every part must remain in balance and in communication.

Traditional Chinese Medicine relies on the proper gathering, refinement, and utilization of the body's Jing, >Chi, Shen, which in turn allows the internal organs to function in natural harmony. Only through the understanding of the natural powers of the Heavens (universe) and Earth (environment) can Man (humanity) exist in harmony. The body's alchemical process of internal energy transmutation can be cultivated through meditation.

Meditation is one of the proven alternative therapies. Meditation is a safe and simple way to balance the physical, emotional, mental and energy (spiritual) bodies. It is simple; and it has been of great benefit to humanity. To achieve simplicity takes determination, precision and practice.

Coherent Alignment is the road to Evolution"Coherent Alignment is the road to Evolution!"

It is not about spending time (memory) with "more and more" meditation, it is about developing a technique that brings us to the moment when the elements are lined up to enter into the "meditative state" instantly. This allows the use of meditation as another tool for daily life. No need to go to Tibet and meditate in a cave long years, or spend hours meditating.

The process is not complete until these seeds come to life as living, vibrating wisdom within us, the moment when they simply blossom into living experience.

More and more doctors are prescribing meditation as a way to maintain self-regulatory mechanisms (allostasis) of blood viscosity, lower stress and blood pressure, improve exercise performance in people with angina, assist people with asthma to breathe easier, relieve insomnia and generally relax the everyday stresses of life.

Why is Micro-Meditation Tantric?

An interpretative etymology is a way of breaking down the word into component parts that allows an unpacking of the inner meaning of the word. The most commonly found etymology of "Tantra" breaks down the word into the verbal roots "tan" = "propagate, elaborate on, expand on" and "tra" = "save, protect". In other words, Tantra spreads (tan) wisdom that saves (tra). It can be interpreted as "a practice to give us a means of strengthening and protecting ourselves from worldly harm, as well as bestowing the ultimate spiritual liberation (muktì)". It can be said, that "Tantra stretches our awareness and expands our capacity for joy".

Micro-Meditation is a tool that archives just that. Used in one breath allows us to constantly regain awareness of our innermost center in the moment of "now" within our existence in the universe.

Awareness is characterized as the absolute center of your being, the point from which all perception is done. You cannot see the point from which all seeing is done―you can only be it. Awareness is the ever-present and sole identity of you (1), your experience (3), and the object of your experience (2), which are really three aspects of a single process (3+1). Awareness brings about the fusion into complete nonduality. Awareness independently brings about the completion/fulfillment of all beings and things by causing you to experience their perfect unity. Innate Awareness, the flowering of our own awakening.

3+1: In order to understand how an object (event) of awareness manifests, we must understand the relation (3) between the perceiver (1) and the perceived (2) and the nature of the existence of the apparently external object. We pay careful attention to the connection (3), the relation (3), between knower (1) and known (2). The sum of the 3 elements of perception create a 4^th resulting element, unique and different than the sum of its parts.

To arrive at Innate Awareness the "conditioned mind" must dissolve. In this temporary dissolution of the mind, the sense of separation can be temporarily dissolved in which one may see clearly what "is", instead of seen through the filter of the conditioned mind. In this temporary state we get a taste of reality as "it is" rather than as "we think of it". Innate Awareness has the quality of existing prior to any perceptual act, it is what supports the very essence of the experience.

"In that moment we are conscious that we have consciousness!"

Reference: Tantra Illuminated, The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition. Christopher D. Wallis

Consciousness or Awareness, is not the Planck field itself, but the dynamic flow of the Planck information in a feedback loop. You are absorbing a flow of information through yourself first (1)—through your quantum vibrating with all you protons, neutrons, and electrons—then you feed them to the Planck field (2); then the Planck field feeds back the experience (3), which you interpret again and again in a continued feed-forward feed-back loop of a singularity or a point. This is what we call evolution, what we call consciousness.

The use of Meditation for healing is not new

Meditative techniques are the product of diverse cultures and peoples around the world. It has been rooted in the traditions of the world's ancient cultures. In fact, practically all cultures practice meditation or prayer in one form or another. The value of Meditation to alleviate suffering and promote healing has been known and practiced for thousands of years.

All these practices have one thing in common―"they all focus on quieting the busy mind." This does not mean to "empty your mind", or to "keep your mind blanked", or to "be in a state of thoughtlessness." These terms have been badly misunderstood. The intention is to remove mental stimulation allowing us to go within and arrive at our Heart Singularity, the moment of infinite potentiality and density, the center of our existence―the Vacuum with a density of 10⁹³gm/cm³ (our point of origin)―and become a witness to whatever arises in the body, emotions, mind and spirit. At that point we are connected with the essence of all things; we are the linkage of all that unites creating a new reality.

Meditation can be broadly defined as "any activity that keeps the attention pleasantly anchored in the present moment within emptiness" (the Vacuum). In ancient Chinese philosophy emptiness is understood as "Refinement of Emptiness into Dao", or in Buddhism "Breaking Attachment", or in Quantum Physics "the estate of consciousness of Quantum Potential"—the presence of quantum structure in emergence, the instance before creation manifests. This state of infinite communication between Matter(0.00001%) and the Vacuum(99.99999%) at the speed of light.

Nassim Haramein explains,

"From the model of the double-torus we started to have an understanding of why consciousness emerges. Consciousness demands feedback. In order for you to be self-aware you must know that you exist; therefore, it demands feedback. This structure of the double-torus allows for the feedback between what is coming from the outside informing the vacuum, to come back out. As it comes back out; the vacuum informs us of the information present in the vacuum. It is an exchange between your internal understanding and experience of the universe, and the relationship of all the understandings put together in the vacuum affecting yours. So, you are not creating your reality, you are co-creating your reality with everybody else."

Nassim Haramein has the hypothesis that,

"Our biology, through our Microtubules, may be the perfect division of the extremely large and the extremely small universe, the center of the Scaling Log, where this biological entity that makes up the biological world, as if biology, as if our structure is the boundary condition that divides the extremely large to the extremely small.

The biological resolution (us) is the link between the Large and the Small, in the Scale Unification for Organized Matter. We are the data transfer boundary from the extremely large into the extremely small. We gather information and transfer it to the internal self, through our infinite boundary potential, into the infinite of the universe within ourselves. This consciousness changes the way we perceive ourselves, the way of being in the universe, what and how we are completely changes, because we start to see the importance of our observation, of our interpretation of the field and what we are feeding the universe. Instead of seeing ourselves as an insignificant little dot that means nothing to the universe, we start to see ourselves us the center of creation. And thus we are all equal and we are all one.

"We are the Event Horizon!"

Maybe it is the space that creates reality and not reality that defines the space. Maybe the atom is just a function of the space itself. If our brain and nervous system works like an antenna oscillating in the structure of space-time, then the radio set that tunes the antenna is your 'state of emotion.' We know that our state of emotion regularizes the oscillating system, the Heart, Spinal Fluids, Spinal Column, Autonomic Nervous System and the Endocrine System.

The cell skeleton structure is made of microtubules that function as a wormhole network of the biological entity. This is the antenna vibrating in the structure of space and the water molecule is the key element producing the link, the hydrogen link to the vacuum energy, to the "Planck field" and the information moves through into our bio-oscillating crystal, our antenna. We can tune the dial of the antenna to home in into a set of information. The brain structure is like a waveguide for the water and fluids tuned by the 'state of emotion' by bringing the senses inward, cutting off the disturbance from the outside, tuning into the field of information, into the rhythm of the body, bringing it into alignment with your structure.

In an attuned state one can influence others to adjust their antenna through the Autonomic Nervous System resonance link in certain states. With this information one can become a valuable engineer of the vacuum and with the ability to modify oneself, and others, thus becoming an agent of change for the planet.

Toroid Field Activation through Cardiac Coherence

Nassim Haramein explains,

"The heart has access before the brain to the information field not limited by time and space. The heart is connected to a field of information and intelligence that is different and complementary to that of the brain. Furthermore, the field produced by cardiac pulsations informs neurons and the nervous system. Thus, the heart rate synchronizes the rhythm of the brain. If the heart has a coherent rhythm, the brain is synchronized with that rhythm, and this produces an optimal mental and physical state.

The electromagnetic field of the heart has a toroidal structure and is 50 times stronger than that of the brain. It radiates up to a distance of 4.5 meters from the body. The specificity of this toroidal field is that once activated, it repairs itself. That is, if it suffers any disturbance, it places itself back into coherence. Thus, the fact of restoring cardiac coherence allows us to connect with the cosmic field that sustains the living in all its forms.

Naturally, when we inhale the heart speeds up and when we exhale the heart slows down. Cardiac coherence materializes when we voluntarily install a regular breathing rhythm, which likewise regulates the heart.

It is rare that the heart finds this coherence if we do not induce it ourselves through conscious breathing or the practice of meditation. Normally we are often in chaos than in coherence. To reestablish cardiac coherence we will have to do a rhythmic breath at 10 seconds: 5 seconds inhale and 5 seconds exhale. That is 6 cycles per minute. At that moment we re-establish a biotic rhythm, which is in favor of life, instead of a stress rhythm in which the breath is blocked, high, partial and chaotic.

This breathing, by activating the toroidal field through cardiac coherence, provides us with health and reconnects us with the coherence field of everything alive. This cardiac coherent state help us free ourselves from alienating thought, worry, anguish; therefore, accessing new resources, opening our consciousness to communicate with the cosmic field.

Practice keeps our radio tuned to the frequency of the universe―the coherence field that sustains the living in all its forms. Matter is the universe's information manifested, and it is inside matter where we are connected to the universe."

The Unified Space-Memory Network: from Cosmogenesis to Consciousness
Nassim Haramein, William David Brown, Amira Val Baker

The recent developments of advanced models of unified physics have brought a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of space, time, energy and matter. It is becoming apparent that information and geometry are primary to explaining these fundamental agents. In previous work, we demonstrated that the subatomic nucleon structure of the proton and recently the electron can be derived directly from a spacetime holographic structure of Planck-scale (Max Planck 1858-1947) quantum vacuum oscillators fluctuating as spacetime pixels, demonstrating that spacetime at the very fine level of the Planck-scale is discrete with information quanta.

We have found that when considering the granular spacetime information-energy structure from which we demonstrate matter and mass arises, the phenomena of self-organizing systems that leads to self-awareness and consciousness is integral to — and a natural emergent property of the feedback-dynamics of spacetime information itself.

In this work, we describe how the integral function of the information feedback dynamics of spacetime, which engender mass-energy, is the missing element in understanding the evolution and development of self-organizing physical systems in general, and the emergence of the biological organism in particular. We evaluate non-classical quantum mechanical phenomena of physical and biological systems in light of the Maldacena-Susskind holographic correspondence theorem from which an equivalence of wormhole spacetime geometry and quantum entanglement is derived. We suggest that the Planck-scale micro-wormhole entanglement structure of multiple spacetime coordinates engender the macromolecular assemblies of living cells, and that this wormhole-entanglement may function in the memory and learning capacity of the biological entity. Furthermore, the recursive information encoding feedback processes of the quantum spacetime micro-wormhole network, which we refer to as space memory, enables memory and learning in physical systems across all scales, resulting in universal evolutionary tendencies towards higher levels of ordering and complexity — foundational to evolution, sentience, and awareness [ Please read the complete Publication ]

Nassim Haramein says: Vacuum Engineering is purposely creating a larger tap into the structure of space where you have a larger influence on the structure of space, if when you become aware that you are connected to this space. Each proton in your atoms forming your cells is connected to all other protons in the universe (holographic), and all the information of the universe is present in each proton. So if you actually want to know about the universe, where do you go? Inside yourself. This way you keep developing a deeper consciousness of the deeper layers of your existence, the root of you.

"The way Out, is In!"

THE PATH TO THE VOID

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, said:

"Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended manifesting itself. In this way the concept empty-space loses its meaning."

John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008)

An American theoretical physicist, largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. He said:

"No point is more central than this, that empty space is not empty.
It is the seat of the most violent physics."

David Bhom (1917-1992)

Described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind, said:

"Space is not empty. It is full… the universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy."

FROM PATANJALI YOGA SUTRA

Many different types of meditations are there. In any one of these meditations, you can become one. There are many ways of meditation. Choose one—whichever suits you, whichever you like. All the ways are good, but take one way and go deep into it. Then you will be building up that one thing in you, Yathābhimata dhyānadhwā. There are various ways and different methods of meditation.What is the sign of progress in this?

He says: "Paramanuparamahattvantosya vashiakaraha"

paramanu = the minutest atom; parama = the greatest; mahattvaha = infinity; antaha = end; asya = in the yogi; vashikaraha = purview, control.

"Then the minutest atom, to the greatest and the infinite comes under your control."

Then, the smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest comes within this purview of operation. Nature loves you and starts supporting you. [That is potentiality; the whole universe is in you and within your reach.]

Patanjali said, "All forms of yoga lead to meditation, which is the higher yoga."

As the seventh limb of Patanjali's Eight Limbs of Yoga, dhyana builds upon the practices of asana (physical posture), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (control of the senses, moving the focus inward) and dharana (concentration). When practiced together with dharana and the eighth limb of samadhi (absorption), the three together form samyama, resulting in a full detachment of the mind from worldly bindings and a deeper understanding of the object of meditation. At the final stage, or jhana, of dhyana, the yogi does not see it as a meditation practice anymore as they are so fully immersed in the meditative act that they no longer separate the self from it, because the essential nature of all conscious beings is Awareness.

Asana = Body alignment, Pranayama = Breath alignment, Dhyan = Energy (spiritual) alignment

Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar (Guruji, 14/12/1918-20/08/2014):

"I used the five senses of perception to act so clearly so that the mind is automatically drawn towards the senses of perception. I worked on the senses of perception using the organs of action for evolution, and evolution came from alignment. Yoga is only meant to bring the dual mind to a single mind. I transformed Yoga to bring the self to travel in the body to a perceptual practice of Yoga, so that the mind and self are one with the body."

What is Dhyana? Commentaries by Advanced Integrative Meditation

According to Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, Dhyana is the 7th limb of yoga, building upon asana (physical posture), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (control of the senses, moving the focus to the inside), and dharana (concentration).

Dhyana involves concentration and meditation on a point of focus with the intention of knowing the truth about it. This deeper concentration of the mind is the instrument of self-knowledge where one can separate illusion from reality, and eventually, reach the ultimate goal of yoga: samadhi (bliss, or union with the source).

Advanced Integrative Meditation: Source is the vacuum, and the union is real because this most prevalent component (vacuum = 99.99999%) of the known universe is already us, and it is also within all matter.

The purpose of meditation is to interrupt the fluctuations of the normal mental activity such as sensory knowledge, memory, and imagination. Out of these, memory is the hardest one to quiet, as it incessantly feeds us glimpses from our interpretation of the past along with an endless stream of thoughts and feelings.

Advanced Integrative Meditation: Past and future do not exist, only in the present moment we experience "knowledge, memory, and imagination", therefore they are not real; they are fabricated by our ego in its pursuit of "identity."

Dhyana is a Sanskrit word that may mean "meditation." It is derived from the root words, dhi = meaning "receptacle"; and yana = meaning "moving" or "going." An alternate root word, dhyai, means "to think of."

In Hindu traditions dhyana is a refined meditative practice that requires deep mental concentration. This kind of meditation is taken up only after engaging in preparatory exercises. When practiced together with dharana (concentration) and the 8th limb samadhi (absorption), the three together form samyama (holding together, tying up, binding, integration) resulting in a full detachment of the mind from worldly bindings and a deeper understanding of the object of meditation. At the final stage of dhyana, the yogi does not see it as a meditation practice anymore, as they are so fully immersed in the meditative act that they can no longer separate the self from it.

Advanced Integrative Meditation: The refined part of the meditation becomes clear with the practice when we are in the state of "consciousness of the vacuum" that contains all potentiality of creation. We are the creators of reality. There is a clear dichotomy between mental concentration and full detachment of the mind, which is it? Practicing Integrative Meditation we discover that "in the vacuum there is no mind", we've used it as a stepping stone and have gone beyond the mind. In the "now" we, indeed, no longer separate the "self" from "it", and just dissolve in the vacuum.

Like any other limb in yoga, meditation is a systematic process in itself, which takes practice to learn. You will need to train your physical, emotional and mental bodies to come back to the "self" instantly at your command, even if for just a few seconds at a time.

Dhyana (meditation) is a simple and easily practicable tool to know your inner world, not necessarily in a spiritual sense, but in a very practical sense. For this, you do not have to find a specific place and time to practice dhyana. We cultivate self-awareness through meditation. One learns to cultivate discernment and respond with intelligence and thoughtful consideration. With practice, one learns to enter into a meditative state wherever we are and whenever we become self-aware of the breath.

Who is God According to Yoga? ~ Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

What is the concept of God in yoga? What role does God play in human bondage and liberation? Yoga is a practical philosophy. It teaches us to take responsibility for our actions and offers an entirely different understanding of God than do the religionists. Because the goal of yoga is to attain perfect freedom from the binding forces of our personalities as well as from the forces of nature, it places God in that realm of perfect consciousness which is not governed by anything other than itself. Yoga defines God as a special Purusha, a supreme soul, which was not, is not, and will never be affected by afflictions, vehicles of afflictions, karma, and the fruits of karma. All other souls at some time in the past, present, or future somehow fall under the sway of karma and the attendant afflictions of ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, and fear of death. According to yoga, this supreme soul is the only spiritual preceptor of all teachers who were ever born, for God is beyond origin and end. In addition to perfect freedom, unrestricted power of will, creativity, and eternity, in God also lies the "unsurpassed seed of omniscience."

Yoga defines God as a special Purusha, a supreme soul, which was not, is not, and will never be affected
by afflictions, vehicles of afflictions, karma, and the fruits of karma.

This particular notion of God, described in the Yoga Sutra, highlights three intrinsic characteristics:

1. Perfect freedom from and transcendence of all karmas and afflictions;
2. The role of primordial spiritual master, the eternal guide of all living beings; and
3. Omniscience, perfect knowledge of everything.

These three characteristics clearly indicate where the interest of the yogis lies. Yogis strive to attain freedom from the bondage of karma and afflictions, such as ignorance, ego, attachment, and the host of miseries—anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, desire—that originate from these afflictions. The yogis realize that once we are caught in this apparently unending cycle of confusion, attachment, desire, and so on, our vision becomes clouded and it is hard to disentangle ourselves. Only one who was never entangled in the first place can help us free ourselves. Similarly, only one who is already free can help guide us in attaining freedom from the long chain of karma and the fruits of karma. According to yogis, the Supreme Purusha is very special; God is not bound like ordinary souls. Ordinary souls are those that experience a sense of incompleteness, lack of freedom, and lack of perfect knowledge, and thus have an inherent urge to be absorbed in God.

When does yoga teach us to be totally dependent on God? If so, how can we be responsible for our actions? Yoga does not teach us to lean on God or to use God as an escape. Rather, it teaches us to make the best use of all the resources we have received as a gift from above to unfold our human potential to its fullest. It diligently introduces the idea of the teacher within because, according to the yogis, God alone is the true primordial master. We cannot expect this primordial master within to take care of our mundane needs, but in the form of inner inspiration, inner guidance, motivation, enthusiasm, courage, and determination, God—the inner teacher—helps us think, speak, and act in a manner which enables us to attain freedom from our karmic bonds.

In no way does yoga make us dependent on God. On the contrary, a yogi would say that God helps us gain freedom from the deluding forces of the world. Once a person knows the liberating force of the omniscient God, who dwells eternally within each of us, this realization naturally manifests in the form of love and faith. This, in turn, makes it possible to surrender ourselves to God. This natural unfoldment of surrender is not an act of helplessness but one of clear understanding between us and the omniscient Divine Being, who constantly guides us along the path. We do not need to make an effort to surrender ourselves to God; rather, the spontaneous wave of gratitude toward that inner guide creates a mental climate of self-surrender. We then need to continue working with ourselves while remaining aware of the fact that anything we do is due to the guidance of the true teacher—God. In this way, we are able to take full responsibility for our present actions without feeding our egos by telling ourselves, "I'm wise and capable of doing what I'm supposed to do without being dependent on anyone else." We also take full responsibility for our previous karmic deeds, doing our best to undergo karmic purification. Upon realizing that even with intense effort we can hardly even scratch the surface of our previous karmas, without any conflict or hesitation we automatically surrender ourselves to God and attain freedom.

I don't have any sense of receiving inner inspiration or guidance from within, although this is where the process of surrender you describe seems to start. That's correct—it begins with inner inspiration. We receive inner inspiration in its truest sense only after we have gained access to the inner realm, where the Divine Being dwells in Her full glory. Energy (spiritual) practice is the way to gain access to that realm. This requires effort. Passively waiting for the Divine Grace to illuminate our inner core is futile. Grace is already there. We have to work to remove the factors that are blocking it. Through yogic exercises, pranayama, meditation, contemplation, prayer, and selfless service we attenuate the veil that blocks the flow of inner inspiration and guidance. The thinner the veil, the easier it is to perceive this inner inspiration. With that recognition, the process of surrender naturally unfolds.

Grace is already there. We have to work to remove the factors that are blocking it.

You said that yogis conceptualize God the way they do because of their concern with attaining freedom from the bondage of karma and the afflictions of ignorance, ego, etc. that lead to misery. Does this concept of God have anything to do with truth or the reality of an actual God? Because of the touchy nature of the subject, yogis and yoga texts generally avoid discussing God. Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, the main text of yoga, brings up this topic within the context of working with the mind and its modifications. Yogis are fully aware that Truth is God and that God is infinite and indescribable. Therefore, any description of God is bound to be incomplete. Moreover, each of the followers of the many religions and sects on the face of the Earth have their preferred notions of God. Any description that conflicts with those notions will offend and anger.

According to the experience of the yogis, if our hearts are purified and our minds are one-pointed we'll gain an intuitive understanding of God, which is infinitely clearer and more encompassing than our intellectual understanding. This is the reason they place such emphasis on the techniques that lead to purification and one-pointedness. That is also why when Patanjali discusses God, he does so within the narrow frame of how God can help us attain freedom from those elements which disturb our minds and pollute our hearts. Out of the countless powers and characteristics that are intrinsic to God Patanjali mentions only omniscience, eternal freedom from all karmas, and the fact that God is the primordial energy (spiritual) teacher. According to yogis, God exists as the Absolute Truth and it is due to this existence that everything else can exist. But the totality of God consciousness cannot be captured in words.

Reference: Tantra Illuminated by Christopher D. Wallis, 2nd edition 2013 The Recognition Sūtras, by Cristopher Wallis, La clave está en el ion de calcio, Rafael Lopez Guerrero, Resonance Science Foundation. Nassim Haramein, Dr. Thomas Cowan, M.D., has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

The mind is calm and focused, it is neither reacting to memories from the past nor being preoccupied with plans for the future―two major sources of chronic stress known to impact health.

For more details on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali please read these two articles:

The Real Truth About the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The 8 Limbs of Yoga Explained

WHY IS THE 3 RHYTHM BREATH IMPORTANT IN MEDITATION?

Advanced Integrative Meditation teaches you to use a specific rhythm of breath allowing the flow of energy to fallow a rising pattern. This natural flow is the path of water, from earth to heaven, from solid to liquid, and from liquid to vapor. Traditional Oriental Medicine says that Chi is "Mist that rises from the earth to form the clouds."

Today we understand the anatomical, physical, and nervous systems and the relationship to the 3 principal diaphragms involved within our breath.

The 3 Diaphragms Model by Dr. Matthew Taylor

A story about how the Body, Emotions, Mind, and Spirit are connected.

We start at the bottom of the pelvis is the Sacrum and on either side are the Hip-Bones. Out of there come the Thigh-Bones. From there the Shins, the Ankles and off the ankles all the way to the Big-Toe. This is the lower half of the body.

Above the sacrum, there are 5 vertebrae in your Low-Back, 12 vertebrae with ribs in your Mid-Back, 2 beautiful Collarbones, 7 vertebrae in your Neck and a 10lb Head.

The trick is to take all 206 bones, throw them in a bag of jelly and then see if we can have that structure be both stable and flexible.

We are going to look at this as a model of the relationship between 3 diaphragms which have a significant impact on the stability and mobility of the human body.

1. Respiratory diaphragm
2. Pelvic-Floor diaphragm
3. Thoracic-Outlet diaphragm

The 1^st diaphragm is the one we are most familiar with and that is the Respiratory diaphragm (1) or Solar-Plexus which goes across the entire bottom of the rib-cage, separating the heart and lungs from the internal organs.

When the 1^st diaphragm contracts it pulls down in order to create increase spacing in the rib-cage which fills then with air, giving pneumatic stability, but it also increases the Intra-Abdominal Pressure (IAP) which gives uplift on the spine and in the discs below.

If there was only this downward pressure your organs would fall on the floor, so we need the 2^nd diaphragm called Pelvic-Floor diaphragm (2).

The Pelvic-Floor does not get much press, but it is a critical structure and the relationship is being more, and more, defined between, how it and the other 2 diaphragms must operate. So when we get that positive pressure down there, it exerts a slight pressure in the pelvic-floor and the rhythm and movement of these two diaphragms, have these nice even dynamics and rhythm between the two which keeps both mobile and flexible. In the pelvic-floor, females have two(2) more muscles than males, the Compressor Urethrae and the Sphincter Urethrovaginalis, and males have the Bulbourethral glands or Cowper's glands.

Of course in life there are times when we have to get more breath and, when that occurs, we have a backup system which is at the Thoracic-outlet diaphragm (3) which includes the Glottis and the Voice-box. The Thoracic-outlet is a critical backup system where the muscles of the neck and the chest lift up on the rib-cage in order to increase space. Such as when you run up the stairs and put your hands on your knees to catch your breath; but the problem is that, when it pulls-up it also pulls-down, so it also creates compression on the cervical-spine.

This relationship is very critical because of the high numbered times we utilize this movement. Only the heart beats more and the eyes blink more often, but otherwise, we need to breathe 12 to 15 times/minute (900 times/hour, over 21,600 times/day), so it is a big workload.

How does this all fit together

If a person is breathing from the Respiratory diaphragm (1) it comes up and has an effect on the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). By the same token, if they are breathing from the Chest, or from the Thoracic-stress-breath, or Thoracic-outlet diaphragm (3), it also has an effect on the ANS. So we see that with the chests-breath we are going to get what is known as the Sympathetic or the fight-or-flight breath pattern; and if it is from the Respiratory diaphragm (1), we will get the relaxation or the parasympathetic pattern.

Each of these have an important effect on human health and movement. If we go through them and list them, we see that as far as pain goes, when you are in the sympathetic you are going to experience increased pain, when you are in relaxation you will have decreased pain. When you are in sustained sympathetic your mood is going to go down and you are going to deplete your mood elevator, when you are in the relaxation face, you will elevate those.

Your immune system is compromised in a sustained sympathetic, with not enough energy to maintain it; whereas in relaxation it gets energized and revitalized.

Your balance goes down under stress, up when relaxed. Your muscle-tone decreases in relaxation and increase in fight-or-flight. Your Gastrointestinal Tract (GI) function increases in the rest/digest phase, decreases under stress. Your respiratory rate goes up under stress, comes down under relaxation. Your heart-rate the same thing, elevates under stress, decreases in relaxation. Your quality-of-sleep goes down under stress, goes up in rest and relaxed mode, and cognition is negatively affected under sustained stress and increases in relaxation.

What is interesting to look at here is, when these patterns get altered for someone with back-pain, they quit breathing with their Respiratory diaphragm (1), and shift to the upper chest or Thoracic-outlet diaphragm (3), which then comes up and fuels the sympathetic transition. Anybody that has treated someone with chronic back pain recognizes all of these kind of morbid conditions that come along with chronic pain.

Now, when we get someone to restore their diaphragmatic (1) breath, then we can begin to affect all of these factors in a positive way. The way to get to that point is to get them to understand, how not only is the mind driving the body, but we now understand that if the body is tight, they have sustained tightness throughout the upper chest, psoas is tight, they grip their hips and create sustain tension in the lower-back. Any of those are going to block the breath-rhythm and set up the cycle of perpetual looping between these factors.

If we just talk about trying to relax, or breathe, that is not sufficient if the person has structural limitations. Any effective therapeutic approach has to look at the dynamics between both Structure, Physiology and Function, but also understand that in this relationship it is not a mind over body type of thing anymore.

We understand it better as a "mutual-peer relationship" between the mind and the body. The relationship between the Prefrontal Cortex (our executive mind, Yin in nature) and the Limbic System (cognitive & emotional brain, Yang in nature). Limbic system containing the amygdala, the hippocampus and those structures in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, all of which have to do with our Emotional System¹ So we have the rational and the emotional aspects and we know that every decision has a combination of both. So there is a constant dialogue, and in this dialogue, depending on "who wins the day" comes down and drives the ANS, which then can fuel a whole host of challenges, but it also fuels the dynamics of the relationship, whether the person breathes through their Thoracic-outlet diaphragm (3), or Respiratory diaphragm (1), or not.

If they are not breathing from their Respiratory diaphragm (1), not only do they lose the intra-abdominal pressure and increase the inter-disc cervical pressure, but they also lose the downward pressure of the Pelvic-Floor diaphragm (2), and part of the pelvic-floor through the Obturator Internus that attaches to the femur. So if that pelvic-floor begins to tighten or lose its flexibility, it limits the power and stability in the kinetic chain that are maintaining a nice neutral trough the knee and foot down to the big-toe. They actually lose stability and begin this pronation relative to the internal rotation that can lead to knee issues, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, shin splints, and plantar fasciitis all the way to the bunion.

In yoga they often talk about grounding the big-toe and when you ground the big-toe you are going to get the opposite effect up the kinetic chain, open the pelvic floor, and allow the diaphragm to work. Which offloads the stress-load in the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) increasing the parasympathetic response easing the dynamics between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system.

We know now from recent literature of pain-science, that with the practice of becoming aware in the moment, or mindfulness, that we can actually increase, or thicken, the connections of prefrontal cortex and the limbic system to get more stability, and that stability then leads to the individual having the ability to gain control over this process and not allow themselves to drop into a vicious cycle, but rather, we teach them how to strengthen, restore flexibility and the right-relationship, or dynamic-process (is not a static process), through their posture, through their thoughts about their job, and their relationship with their family. All those start to begin to fuel in and step into the system of body, emotions, mind and spirit.

If they have meaningful work and feel unsupported; is going to drive these dynamic set-up the loops that will eventually either generate the physical or physiological outcome. Patients are so relieved to see that, "oh this is why I have to take my antacid, this is why I feel anxious, this is why I can't sleep and take my sleep meds, and I don't seem to be as clear as I used to be, I keep getting these rashes, and colds, and now they want me on a mood elevator, and I sure have a lot of pain all the time."

Often times, this is the first time anyone has explained how this system can relate to them. From here, it is exciting to be able to take them to a whole new level of awareness and control of their health, time to time through the day, through the "3 Diaphragms Model."

1 What is necessary for optimal brain function with regard to impulse and impulse control is balance. Harmony is necessary between the limbic system and frontal cortex, dopamine and serotonin, and Yin and Yang.

Reference:
The 3 Diaphragms Model, yogaclub, Published on Jun 22, 2013
The 3 Diaphragms for Pain Relief, DrMatthewJTaylor, Published on Apr 26, 2015
Limbic System, From: Acute Care Handbook for Physical Therapists (Fourth Edition), 2014
www.thion-medical.com/en/46-pronation-of-the-foot

VACUUM BREATHING

Planck oscillator which are the exact solution to gravity geometrically in a tetrahedron relationship. They are spinning, it is not a static geometry, modifying the geometry as it spins. It compresses and expands as it spins, flexing as it transforms, what it may be understood static geometry, what Buckminster Fuller called "jitterbug." You can observe that it goes from singularity to unsingularity. This is how information goes across the boundary of the event horizon. The rotation and twist, like a pumping motion, moves the information across the event horizon.

Breathing mechanism functions in a similar way. The ventricular of the heart functions very much in this form also, the mussels twist and collapse on one side, and twist and expand on the other rhythmically, and the other way around.

This Planck structure is found in organizations at higher and higher levels, so we find the same dynamics in our body.

Reference:
Nassim Haramein How The Universe is Talking To Us in EVERYTHING We Do
In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length that is the distance light travels in one unit of Planck time. It is equal to 1.616255(18)×10−35 m. It is a base unit in the system of Planck units, developed by physicist Max Planck. The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant. It is effectively the smallest possible distance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

IMPORTANCE OF BREATHING THROUGH THE NOSE

Positive outcomes when breathing through the nose:

• Activates the Vagal Nerve benefiting Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis activity
• Cleanup of neurons
• Creates Nitric Oxide in the nasal cavity, one of the most versatile players in the immune system.
• Decreases aging
• Detoxification of the brain
• Dreams seem to be more frequent and more vivid
• Experience synaptic pruning
• Helps restore Telomeres. The premature shortening of telomeres is associated with aging
• Humidifies the nose and rebuilds biome in the nose
• Improves memory, cognitive function, depression, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's
• Improves modulation of lung function
• Improves oxygen uptake
• Improves pulmonary function
• Improves sleep quality
• Increases arterial oxygen tension
• Increases blood circulation in the Body, Organs and the Hearth
• Increases blood circulation
• Increases blood flow in the brain
• Increases the size of the Hippocampus
• Increases lung transcutaneous oxygen pressure
• Increases muscle building
• Increase nitric oxide concentrations
• Increases oxygen and nutrient delivery to muscle
• Increases oxygen in the skin and arteries
• Increases production of white blood cells
• Keeps the circulatory system healthy
• Keeps the sinuses sterile
• Kills bacteria and inhibits the replication of viruses
• Kill parasites that cause diseases: bacteria, fungi, and viruses
• Lowers Blood pressure
• More REM sleep, controlling the sleep-wake cycle, Circadian rhythms
• Nose will feel better in the morning
• Opens up lead vessels
• Positive impact upon the development of the airway and facial development
• Prefrontal cortex gets a better oxygen load and deoxyhemoglobin does not decrease as much
• Produces learning and memory consolidation
• Protect the nerves from damage
• Provide ciliary beat frequency as a continuous airway protection
• Reduces pulmonary hypertension and/or adult respiratory distress syndrome
• Reduces pulmonary vascular resistance
• Reduces toxicity in the body
• Regulates hormone release
• Stimulates the Sinonasal Microbiome
• Stimulates ciliary motility (clearance of fluid & foreign materials from upper and lower respiratory tracts)

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is central to allostasis, stress responses, energy metabolism, and neuropsychiatric function. The history of this complex system involves discovery of the relevant glands (adrenal, pituitary, hypothalamus), hormones (cortisol, corticotropin, corticotropin-releasing hormone), and the receptors for these hormones. The adrenal and pituitary were identified by classical anatomists, but most of this history has taken place rather recently, and has involved complex chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, and clinical investigation. The integration of the HPA axis with modern neurology and psychiatry has cemented the role of endocrinology in contemporary studies of behavior.

Activation of the vagal nerve can help down regulate HPA axis activity. So engaging in behaviors that activate and strengthen the vagal nerve may be beneficial for HPA axis dysfunction.

Applying Ujjayi restricts air flow and adds vibration to the breath, which activate the vagal nerve which regulates HPA axis activity, which activates and strengthen the vagal nerve which is beneficial to the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) central to allostasis, stress responses, energy metabolism, and neuropsychiatric function.

Nitric Oxide (NO), initially described as a physiological mediator of endothelial cell relaxation plays an important role in hypotension. It is an intercellular messenger and has been recognized as one of the most versatile players in the immune system. Cells of the innate immune system―macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer (NK) cells use pattern recognition receptors to recognize molecular patterns associated with pathogens. Activated macrophages then inhibit pathogen replication by releasing a variety of effector molecules, including Nitric Oxide. In addition to macrophages, a large number of other immune system cells produce and respond to Nitric Oxide. Thus, Nitric Oxide is important as a toxic defense molecule against infectious organisms. It also regulates the functional activity, growth and death of many immune and inflammatory cell types including macrophages, T lymphocytes, antigen-presenting cells, mast cells, neutrophils and Natural Killer (NK) cell. However, the role of Nitric Oxide in non-specific and specific immunity in vivo and in immunologically mediated diseases and inflammation is poorly understood. ~ Link

During the past two decades, Nitric Oxide (NO) has been recognized as one of the most versatile players in the immune system. It is involved in the pathogenesis and control of infectious diseases, tumors, autoimmune processes and chronic degenerative diseases. Because of its variety of reaction partners (DNA, proteins, low–molecular weight thiols, prosthetic groups, reactive oxygen intermediates), its widespread production (by three different Nitric Oxide synthases (NOS) and the fact that its activity is strongly influenced by its concentration, Nitric Oxide continues to surprise and perplex immunologists. Today, there is no simple, uniform picture of the function of Nitric Oxide in the immune system. Protective and toxic effects of Nitric Oxide are frequently seen in parallel. Its striking inter and intracellular signaling capacity makes it extremely difficult to predict the effect of NOS inhibitors and Nitric Oxide donors, which still hampers therapeutic applications. ~ Link

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are studying whether inhaling a gas called Nitric Oxide can help treat patients with COVID-19, or even prevent people from getting the disease.

Although nitric oxide is widely used to treat patients with respiratory failure, MGH is the only hospital in the United States, and one of the few in the world, studying it for the treatment of COVID-19, according to the CDC. (MGH is conducting one of the studies in cooperation with teams in Alabama and Louisiana.) ~ Link

Functional Nitric Oxide Nutrition to Combat Cardiovascular Disease by Nathan S Bryan
Research over the past decade has revealed that inorganic nitrate and nitrite found naturally in green leafy vegetables and other vegetables such as beets can provide the human body with a source of bioactive nitric oxide. Nitric Oxide is one of the most important molecules produced within the cardiovascular system that

• Maintains normal blood pressure
• Prevents inflammation
• Prevents immune dysfunction
• Prevents oxidative stress

hallmarks of cardiovascular disease. This pathway is dependent upon the amount of inorganic nitrate and nitrite in the foods we eat, the presence of oral nitrate-reducing bacteria, and sufficient stomach acid production. The concept of food being medicine and medicine being food has lost its place in the practice and implementation of modern medicine over the past century. Certain dietary patterns and specific foods are known to confer very significant protective effects for many human diseases, including cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of men and women in the developed world. However, identification of single or multiple bioactive molecules that are responsible for these effects has escaped scientists and nutritionists for many years. This review will highlight the biochemical, physiological, and epidemiological basis for functional nitric oxide nutrition that can be safely and effectively utilized in patients. ~ Link

Producing a gaseous messenger molecule inside the body, on demand by David L. Chandler
Nitric oxide is an important signaling molecule in the body, with a role in building nervous system connections that contribute to learning and memory. It also functions as a messenger in the cardiovascular and immune systems. ..."They found that the enzymes that catalyze nitric oxide generation in nature contain iron-sulfur centers. Drawing inspiration from these enzymes, they devised a catalyst that consisted of nanoparticles of iron sulfide, which activates the nitric oxide-producing reaction in the presence of an electric field and nitrite. By further doping these nanoparticles with platinum, the team was able to enhance their electrocatalytic efficiency." ~ Link

Negative outcomes when breathing through the mouth

• Poor sleep
• Alzheimer's and other brain disorders
• Dementia
• Adrenals activate
• Airway narrows
• Bad breath
• Brain shrinks in deep sleep
• Cavities
• Changes the hemodynamics of blood flow in your body and brain
• Coated tongue
• Crave carbohydrates
• Decreases Deoxyhemoglobin
• Decreases humidity in the lungs
• Decreases Nitric Oxide production
• Dry mouth which can lead to more:
  • Gain fat in our airway
  • Gain weight
  • Geographic tongue
  • Gum disease
  • Uric Acid and Gout
• Dehydrated nose
• Histaminic response will plug your nose
• Increases Insulin Resistance
• Increases Stress
• Loss of nose mucosa along with its filtering capacity
• Reduces Nitric Oxide
• Sleep Apnea
• Snoring
• Spectrum of sleep disordered
• Stomach acids get pulled out of the stomach and into the mouth, affecting teeth
• Sympathetic Nervous system becomes predominant
• Yellow tongue

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UJJAYI BREATH

Ujjayi helps calm the mind and regulates the temperature of the body. Advanced Integrative Meditation incorporates Ujjayi following these steps:

Using the 3 Rhythm Breath while slightly contracting the throat, inhale slowly and exhale slowly breathing only through the nose. This breathing technique is also used throughout Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga practices.

This method stimulates the synthesis of nasal Nitric Oxide (NO) and Lung Surfactants—thin film of lipids and proteins. They inhibit the docking and adhesion of viruses to cellular receptors, to reduce viral replication, duration, spread and severity of infections. It is found to inhibit lung fibrosis, increase the synthesis of serotonin to reduce coughing and mouth breathing, and reduce the cytokine storm produced by LI-6 caused by viruses such as COVID-19 and flu.

One of the key steps during inflammation is leukocyte infiltration, which is controlled chiefly by chemokines for neutrophils and monocytes. The production of these chemokines is regulated positively or negatively by iNOS-derived Nitric Oxide (NO). Although the mechanisms underlying such dual effects of Nitric Oxide remain unknown, the level of Nitric Oxide and duration of Nitric Oxide exposure appear to be determining factors.

Patients susceptible to infections, including patients with:

• Allergic rhinitis
• Asthma
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Cystic fibrosis
• Diabetics
• Hypoxemia
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lung cancer
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Sinusitis
• Sleep apnea
• Smokers

Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834873
http://www.nlm.medscape.idmu.unboundmedicine.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/12364357/Angiotensin_II_AT1_receptor_antagonists_inhibit_platelet_adhesion_and_aggregation_by_nitric_oxide_release

The Nitric Oxide communication molecule is made by the human body, stored in the blood vessels that feed your muscles. When you start to exercise or incorporate Ujjayi in Advanced Integrated Meditation you run out of oxygen, and your body releases nitric oxide. It goes downstream opens up lead vessels, increases oxygen and nutrient delivery to that muscle to increase the opportunity for muscle build. You rebuild your Nitric Oxide (NO) every couple hours and we have the opportunity released this 3 times a day.

THE IMPORTANCE OF CALCIUM IONS

In this state of "original universal alignment", our body creates calcium ions (Ca²⁺) used as a cellular language path. The calcium ion is an intracellular messenger used by numerous hormones and neurotransmitters activate multiple cellular functions, from contraction to secretion or expression of genes. Our brain acts as a sophisticated telecommunications antenna, using oscillating signals that are a million times smaller than the membrane potential of cells. Neil Studies (2001), specifically details the level of electromagnetic negotiation altered cells, expanding the electromagnetic spectrum as if it were receiving signals.

Ionized calcium (Ca²⁺), is an important regulator of a variety of cellular processes, including muscle contraction, stimulus-secretion coupling, blood agglutination cascade, enzyme activity and membrane excitability. Calcium ions (Ca²⁺) is also an intracellular messenger of hormone action.

Throughout a lifetime the heart beats up to three(3) billion times. Every contraction-relaxation cycle consumes 300mg of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP). About 1/4 of the energy consumption is for calcium transport across the membranes. Thus, to support these processes, our heart's consumption may total 20 wagons fully loaded with ATP.

This astonishing information is commensurate with the role of calcium as the key factor in coupling cardiac excitation epolarization) and contraction. The calcium ion (Ca²⁺) is the activator of chemically bound energy to mechanical energy in all types of contractile structures, from microfilaments to striated muscles. It activates phosphorylation of protein kinases and thus affects a wide range of processes: metabolism, growth, development and even apoptosis (programmed cell death).

Stimulus–secretion coupling in pancreatic β cells ~ © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc:

"Insulin secretion is triggered by a rise in the intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration that results from the activation of voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels in the β-cell plasma membrane. Multiple types of β-cell Ca²⁺ channel have been identified in both electrophysiological and molecular biological studies, but it appears that the L-type Ca²⁺ channel plays a dominant role in regulating Ca²⁺ influx. Activity of this channel is potentiated by protein kinases A and C and is inhibited by GTP-binding proteins, which may mediate the effects of potentiators and inhibitors of insulin secretion on Ca²⁺ influx, respectively. The mechanism by which elevation of intracellular Ca²⁺ leads to the release of insulin granules is not fully understood but appears to involve activation of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase. Phosphorylation by either protein kinase A or C, probably at different substrates, potentiates insulin secretion by acting at some late stage in the secretory process. There is also evidence that small GTP-binding proteins are involved in regulating exocytosis in β cells. The identification and characterization of the proteins involved in exocytosis in β cells and clarification of the mechanism(s) of action of Ca²⁺ is clearly an important goal for the future."

A meditative state also produces a remarkable reaction in the hormonal system. Instantly, the alkaline enzyme chyle is released throughout the body via the lymphatic system. Chyle alkalizes the body, strengthens every muscle, and organizes the thought processes. This will make you both relaxed and empowered.

CHANGING DNA EXPRESSION

Lead researcher Ivana Buric, from the Brain, Belief and Behavior Lab in Coventry University's Centre for Psychology, Behavior and Achievement, commented, "These activities are leaving what we call a molecular signature in our cells, which reverses the effect that stress or anxiety would have on the body by changing how our genes are expressed. Put simply, mind-body interventions cause the brain to steer our DNA processes along a path which improves our wellbeing."

Buric also noted that millions of people are already reaping the benefits of mind-body exercises like Yoga and Chi Kung, without even realizing how truly beneficial these activities are for their bodies. Buric states that while more studies still need to be done to fully ascertain the scope of what mind-body intervention can do, she believes that their research is a key building block for future research efforts.

Published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, their study analyzes more than a decades' worth of research on how mind-body intervention strategies can impact the behavior of DNA. Genetic expression was a focal point of the team's research, because the way genes are activated to produce proteins can have a system-wide impact. The biological composition of the brain, body and immune system can all be affected by the way genetic proteins are expressed.

PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR DURING ADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDITATION

In 1960, a study carried out by Benson and Wallace at Harvard Medical School, demonstrated detailed knowledge of a variety of physiological changes that occur during Meditation:

• All recorded changes associated with deep relaxation.
• The fall in metabolic rate was the most striking discovery. This was indicated by a dramatic drop in oxygen consumption within a few minutes of starting meditation. Consumption fell by up to 20% below the normal level; below that experienced even in deep sleep. Meditators took on average two breaths less and 1 liter less air per minute. The meditators' heart rate was several beats less per minute.
• During meditation, blood pressure stayed at low levels, but fell markedly in persons starting meditation with abnormally high levels.
• The meditators' skin resistance to an electrical current was measured. A fall in skin resistance is characteristic of anxiety and tension states; a rise indicates increased muscle relaxation. The finding was that though meditation is primarily a mental technique, it soon brings significantly improved muscle relaxation.
• Meditation practice promotes cortical plasticity in adults in areas important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being.
• Meditation reduces activity in the sympathetic branch of the involuntary nervous system. The parasympathetic branch of the involuntary nervous system predominates. This is the branch responsible for self-healing. Persistent decrease in our parasympathetic leads to Heart Attacks, it decreases Acetylcholine (ACh), Nitric Oxide (NO) and Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). (Journal of Electrocardiology 30:45-56) Parasympathetic activation, like in women, decreases Heart Attacks by about 21%.
• During anxiety and tension states there is a rise in the level of Lactate in the blood. Lactate is a substance produced by metabolism in the skeletal muscles. During meditation blood Lactate levels decreased at a rate four times faster than the rate of decrease in non-meditators resting lying on their backs or in the meditators themselves in pre-meditation resting.
• The likely reason for the dramatic reduction in Lactic Acid production by meditators was indicated when further studies of meditators showed an increased blood flow. They found that there was a 22% increase in forearm blood flow. Lactic Acid production in the body is mainly in skeletal muscle tissue; during meditation the faster circulation brings a faster delivery of oxygen to the muscles and less Lactic Acid is produced.

The two investigators summed up the state produced by their meditating subjects as wakeful and hypometabolic. The physiological changes were different in many ways from those found in sleeping people or those in hypnotic trance states. Meditation, they said, produces a complex of responses that marks a highly relaxed state. Moreover, the pattern of changes they observed in meditators suggested an integrated response, mediated by the central nervous system.

BENEFITS OF ADVANCED INTEGRATIVE MEDITATION

• Converts mechanical vibrations (phonons) in quantum of electromagnetic energy (photons) and vice versa (piezoelectric effect)
• Decreased anxiety, depression, irritability and moodiness
• Decreased Cardiac Irregularities
• Decreased high blood pressure
• Deep rest―measured by decreased metabolic rate, lower heart rate, and reduced work load of the heart
• Depresses Amygdala—shrinks fight-or-flight response
• During Meditation the brain waves tent to slow to Theta Waves in the 4–7 Hz range.
• Helps maintain self-regulatory mechanisms (allostasis) in the feedback control of hormone production, including the Hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis.
• Higher levels of DHEA in the elderly. Lower levels of DHEA are associated with aging. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulphated form DHEA are the most abundant steroid products of the adrenal glands
• Improved air flow into the lungs—resulting in easier breathing, helpful for asthma patients
• Improved learning ability and memory
• Increased brain wave Coherence. Harmony of brain wave activity in different parts of the brain is associated with greater creativity, improved reasoning, and higher IQ
• Increased emotional stability and healing
• Increased Joy—The 4 hormones of happiness: Endorphins, Serotonin, Dopamine and Oxytocin
• Increased Resilience and positive experiences
• Increased vitality
• Increases formation of Structured Water (EZ Water, Coherent Water) throughout the human body
• Increases Prefrontal Cortex gray matter—planning and decision making
• Increases the super-coherent phase of biological water, which in living organisms results also in plasma membranes, amniotic fluid (AF), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), interfacial and intracellular water
• Induces and retain thick viscous layers of water in all biological envelopes, from cell membrane to epithelial tissue, contain this aqueous phase in a semi-crystalline state
• Induces coherent alignment with the environmental magnetic field—the Earth's magnetic field
• Induces Telomere growth
• Lowered levels of Cortisol and Lactic Acid—two chemicals associated with Stress and Risk of Heart Attack
• Optimizes Mitochondria
• Optimizes Chronobiology and the Microbiome
• Protects the body against extreme conditions such as low temperature or dehydration
• Reduces acidity in the blood
• Reduces corrosion of the capillaries—small blood vessels
• Reduces depression, anxiety, psychological distress and negative experiences by 33%
• Reduces Heart Attacks
• Reduces propensity to Diabetes
• Reduction of Free Radicals―unstable oxygen molecules that can cause tissue damage. They are now thought to be a major factor in aging and in many diseases
• Strengthens Respiratory Proteins making energy efficient
• Younger biological age. On standard measures of aging, long-term meditation practitioners with more than 5 years experience measured 12 years younger than their chronological age. It was found that it decreases free radicals in the body, thus less oxidation, and thus less aging

Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens the Brain Science Daily–March 15, 2012: Earlier evidence out of UCLA suggested that meditating for years thickens the brain (in a good way) and strengthens the connections between brain cells. Now a further report by UCLA researchers suggests yet another benefit. Long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification ("folding" of the cortex, which may allow the brain to process information faster) than people who do not meditate. A direct correlation was found between the amount of gyrification and the number of meditation years, possibly providing further proof of the brain's neuroplasticity, or ability to adapt to environmental changes.

Is meditation the push-up for the brain? PhysOrg–July 14, 2011: Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation may indeed be good for all of us since, alas, our brains shrink naturally with age.

How Meditation May Change the Brain New York Times–January 28, 2011: The researchers report that those who meditated for about 30 minutes a day for eight weeks had measurable changes in gray-matter density in parts of the brain associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress.

Brain Waves and Meditation Science Daily–March 31, 2010: Forget about crystals and candles, and about sitting and breathing in awkward ways. Meditation research explores how the brain works when we refrain from concentration, rumination and intentional thinking. Electrical brain waves suggest that mental activity during meditation is wakeful and relaxed.

Meditation increases brain gray matter PhysOrg–May 13, 2009: Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers―people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do to build a bigger brain? Meditate.

Meditation found to increase brain size PhysOrg–January 31, 2006: People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don't. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

Meditation builds up the brain New Scientist–November 15, 2005: Meditating does more than just feel good and calm you down, it makes you perform better―and alters the structure of your brain, researchers have found. People who meditate say the practice restores their energy, and some claim they need less sleep as a result. Many studies have reported that the brain works better.

STRUCTURED WATER (H₃O₂)

At birth we are 80% water, losing our water ratio to about 60% when we die.

Water has consciousness, memory and spirit. This combination is what maintains us alive. But it is not the water we drink that is important, it is the water our mitochondria produces that determines our health—the intracellular water.

Our mitochondria makes Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive life in the human body, and it also makes Structure Water (H₃O₂) (4^th face of water). We have an average of approximately 55,800 Trillion mitochondria in our bodies (30% of our body weight), and the natural process of aging is the breakdown of mitochondria—that is why we die.

We have 2 forms of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA): nuclear DNA (hardware) and mitochondrial DNA (software), which we inherited from our mother. If you come from a Anglo race living away from the Equator you most likely have uncoupled mitochondria—more about making heat. Where if you have coupled mitochondria, it doesn't need to make heat, it is all about energy bursts, to run away from a tiger.

Sir William Hardy (Scottish 1832-1919), a famous physical chemist, professed that there was a 4^th phase of water, and this water was kind of more ordered than other kinds of water, and had a "gel-like" consistency. Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925 also talked about structured water as communication path in the human body.

Dr. Gerald Pollack explains:

Structured Water (H₃O₂) has lots of negative charge creating an Exclusion Zone (EZ) with a negative charge and beyond that is all the positive charge.

When you have positive in between two negatives what happens is that you get an attractive force. And so you expect these two spheres to actually come together despite the fact that they have the same charge, and that's exactly what happens. It's been known for many years. They come together, and if you have many of them, instead of just two of them, you'll get something that looks like a colloid crystal, a stable structure.

When you think of droplets, and aerosol droplets in the air, and think about the cloud, it's the reason that these aerosol droplets come together is because of this opposite charge. So, the droplets from the air, similarly charged, come together coalesce, giving you that cloud in the sky.

The 4^th phase, or EZ phase, actually explains quite a lot. It explains, for example, the cloud. It's the positive charge that draws these negatively charged EZ shells together to give you a condensed cloud that you see up in the sky.

In terms of the water droplets, the reason that these are sustained on the surface for actually sometimes as long as tens of seconds―and you can see it if you're in a boat and it's raining, you can sometimes see this on the surface of the lake, these droplets are sustained for some time―and the reason they're sustained is that each droplet contains this shell, this EZ shell, and the shell has to be breached for the water to coalesce with the water beneath.

The EZ water is negatively charged, the region beyond is positively charged, so you have charge separation. And these separated charges are free, available, to drive reactions inside your cells. It's a kind of photosynthesis that your cells are doing. The light is being absorbed, converted into charge separation, just the same that happens in photosynthesis, and these charges are used by you. Some of this energy that's coming in is used to help drive the blood flow.

Two major sources to create Structured Water in your body are the Sun Light and Grounding with the earth. Similar to how trees relate for their life existence. The EZ water is negatively charged, the region beyond is positively charged, so you have charge separation. And these separated charges are free, available, to drive reactions inside your cells. It's a kind of photosynthesis that your cells are doing.

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Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD mentions:

The publication of De Motu Cordis by William Harvey in 1628 was the death knell for the concept of a vital force that propelled the blood in the human body. The theory that the heart was the force driving the movement of the blood in the human body was the first and crucial step toward the development of the mechanistic medical model that we use to this day. Although I don't question that Harvey had valuable insights into the working of the circulatory system in humans and animals, perhaps the physicians of antiquity were not as incorrect as we have been led to believe.

Perhaps the unique properties of water, recently rediscovered, reveal that water is the carrier of life, and that these fourth phase properties are the true "vital" forces that propel our circulation. If this is so, maybe it is time that the mechanistic view of the human being gives way to a more accurate description of how a human being actually functions. Perhaps a realistic view of circulation and what really propels the movement of our blood can provide a starting point for our long overdue reconnection with the healing forces that reside within nature.

The Barometric Limit in Botany says that "a column of water can only go up about 33 feet before the wait of the water column is too much and gravity makes it go down", therefore there are no trees higher than 33 feet.

Researchers have discovered that water can in fact be held in a vacuum for almost indefinite periods of time and even under significant tension without forming bubbles or breaking apart. They also found that water can be pulled up to as much as 45 feet—well above the barometric limit.

The tallest known tree measures 380.3 feet. How ignorant can scientist be!

In his book "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD explains

The human heart is not simply embedded in the rhythms of the cosmos. Research from the HeartMath Institute, a non-profit dedicated to bringing people's physical, mental, and emotional systems into alignment with the heart's intuitive guidance, has shown that the heart acts like a conductor in the body and other organs entrain on or pick up rhythms from it. In this way, these organs integrate into one whole, living system.

A human being takes an average of 25,920 breaths per day (average 18 breaths/minute x 60 minutes x 24 hours); it takes the sun about the same number of years to traverse the twelve signs of the zodiac—the Platonic year. The sun travels one degree of the zodiac every 72 years—the average approximate length of the human life. In these 72 years, there are about 26,000 days—the approximate number of breaths in a day or the time for the sun to make one complete cycle of the celestial world. Finally, between each cycle of inhalation and exhalation, there is a slight pause that helps prevent hyperventilation. There is a similar pause in the cycle of the year. At the solstice, the sun "rests" for a moment, and then swings back the other way (at least as observed by the human being from Earth).

These calculations originate from a geocentric view of the universe—what you can see and experience if you stand at the center of the universe, looking up to the heavens above—not from a heliocentric view of the universe, where scientists might quibble with some of the numbers. But this is the perspective that allowed traditional people who were intimately familiar with these rhythms to find their way home, or a field, by observing the stars. They knew how to plant, tend to, and harvest crops and understand the unique pattern of seasonal and celestial events that each individual is born into. And it's a perspective that Steiner emphasized over and over as the archetypal, or "perfect," rhythm. A human being—and her rhythmic system of the heart and lungs (pulse and breathing)—exists in the ratio of 4:1, the "creation" rhythm (i.e., bowing to the four directions or the composition of a perfect square).

Most importantly, this perspective gave people a sense of place in the vast universe in which they found themselves. It offered a foundation of rootedness, perspective, and uniqueness for each individual being. A view of the heavens varies in every place, whether one is looking up from present-day Nebraska or Sri Lanka. This is a worldview that truly values a person's place and suggests that everything else in the world also has a unique place and role in the cosmic order. It is a fundamentally qualitative view of the world. It is also a perspective of security and trust. Geocentric people felt or knew they could trust what they saw and experienced. They knew they were tied to a place and other beings within a cosmic order that they could largely understand, use, and rely on. It is out of this sense of familiarity, trust, and uniqueness that love and care can arise. And although it's an ideal, it's an ideal that represents harmony, toward which we should strive.

... Heliocentricism teaches us to distrust our own experience. We learn that we are hurtling through space, spinning like a top. Nothing that happens in the wider cosmos, to or from the other planets in our solar system, has any relation to us. Our place is not unique in any real sense. We study what happens to trees as a result of certain phenomena, as if all trees in a forest, or plants in a field, or cows on a dairy farm, or rats in a laboratory are identical. And what about fellow humans? If they happen to be poor, unschooled, or live on rich mineral or oil deposits, their uniqueness is not so crucial. How unique can anyone be when many of us take vows of "to death do we part" between two and four times in our lives?

By expanding our vision to place ourselves within the wider cosmos as well as focusing our vision to center our humanity within our heart, we can begin to understand more about what makes up a human being and our place within the wider world. We can begin to understand how and why things deteriorate, suffer, grow ill—and how to bring about healing.

For the record, I am not actually suggesting that we somehow convince ourselves that the sun revolves around the Earth. That perspective belongs to an earlier time. I'm suggesting that if we acknowledge the connections between human beings, the heart, and the wider cosmos that have been lost or severed and work to heal them, perhaps we can arrive at a new—even more enlightened—place of love, trust, security, and health.

Sara Lazar Ph.D., Neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Meditation not only reduces stress, here's how it changes your brain. We found differences in brain volume after eight weeks in five different regions in the brains of the two groups. In the group that learned meditation, we found thickening in four regions:

1. The primary difference, we found in the posterior cingulate, which is involved in mind wandering, and self-relevance
2. The left hippocampus, which assists in learning, cognition, memory and emotional regulation
3. The temporo parietal junction (TPJ), which is associated with perspective taking, empathy and compassion
4. An area of the brain stem called the Pons, where a lot of regulatory neurotransmitters are produced

The amygdala, the fight or flight part of the brain which is important for anxiety, fear and stress in general. That area got smaller in the group that went through the mindfulness-based stress reduction program.

The change in the amygdala was also correlated to a reduction in stress levels.

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STEPS TO DEVELOP A DAILY MEDITATION PRACTICE

1. Give yourself permission to improve, understanding that meditation can provide healing and relief.
2. Seek out a meditation teacher. Meditation is like walking in an unfamiliar forest. It is best to have a guide that will provide you with tools for your trip.
3. Commit to regularity. Make your meditation shorter and shorter, you will arrive at a "One Breath Meditation."
4. Create a space that is just for you to meditate each day.
5. The best time is just after Sunrise looking to the East, or just before Sunset looking to the West.
6. Have no expectation of specific results.
7. Invest in the process that brings you back to a conscious consistency.
8. Create an image pattern with a specific mental frequency
9. Practice first, seven(7) days at the same time aware that "I am the observer and I am aware of being."
10. Practice 21 days to generate a custom and 40 days to generate a habit in your subconscious.
11. Get your meditation checked regularly by your teacher. This is very important.
12. If you absolutely have to miss a session, do not be hard on yourself―it's OK to renegotiate with yourself, recommit and pick up where you left off.
13. After a few months of practice, check-in on your memories of pain and trauma.
14. Congratulate yourself for staying with it! You're on your way to true healing.

Dr. Jack Kruse explains:

At birth we are 80% water, losing our water ratio to about 60% when we die.

Water has consciousness, memory and spirit. This combination is what maintains us alive. But it is not the water we drink that is important, it is the water our mitochondria produces that determines our health—the intracellular water.

Our mitochondria makes Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive life in the human body, and it also makes Structure Water (4^th face of water). We have an average of approximately 55,800 Trillion mitochondria in our bodies (30% of our body weight), and the natural process of aging is the breakdown of mitochondria—that is why we die.

We have 2 forms of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA): nuclear DNA (hardware) and mitochondrial DNA (software), which we inherited from our mother. If you come from a Anglo race living away from the Equator you most likely have uncoupled mitochondria—more about making heat. Where if you have coupled mitochondria, it doesn't need to make heat, it is all about energy bursts, to run away from a tiger.

When the human body is in the middle of the Sun/Earth connection it increases Redox Potential. Like the strings on a violin, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns. The symphony of life is played by the momentum and energy contained within light frequencies from the sun. Light interacts with electrons in the lattice but the momentum is conserved in photons that make the atomic lattice of the cell membrane and tensegrity system. All photons are controlled by magnetic fields generated in mitochondria. Mitochondria is where matter is created or destroyed using light as its raw material.

The Sun is the cathode, where electricity is given out or flows out of—is deemed positive. The Earth is the anode, an electrode from which a current enters; the point where an oxidation reaction occurs—regarded as negative in a galvanic (voltaic) cell.

In this alignment the Sage stays connected through the umbilical center in order to receive limitless nourishment from the womb of Mother Earth (Yin) and nourished by the primordial Chi bestowed by Father Heaven (Yang).

A plant is a polymer of sugar which is stored as starch. We convert the starch into muffins to collect the sun light in the form of glucose. Then it goes into the cells where the Hydrogen is striped reacting with Oxygen from breath, creating water. The energy released is used to generate heat to maintain our body at 37°C and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) to help the body do work.

All our energy comes from our connection to Sun Light and the Earth.

For example, Melatonin is made with morning Sun in the frequency of Red light, but it requires 3 hours of deep sleep in total darkness at night to be released and start working.

Electrons move from the Earth to the body and vice versa when the body is grounded. This effect is sufficient to maintain the body at the same negative-charge electrical potential as the Earth. We hypothesize that this flow of free electrons into the body is the mechanism by which inflammation is brought down.

Grounding powerfully reduces electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on the body.

The holy trinity is: Sun, Earth & Water.

We wakes up at first light in the morning (around 6 am) with a spike of Cortisol hormone to turn the brain on. Secretion of the hormone is controlled by the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the adrenal gland, a combination glands often referred to as the HPA axis. Helps control blood sugar levels, regulate metabolism, help reduce inflammation, and assist with memory formulation. It has a controlling effect on salt and water balance and helps control blood pressure.

Ghrelin hormone for hunger with half-life of 1 hour which activates its receptor, growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R). Wakes up Leptin hormone in an efficient signaling communication between Brain and Digestive System. If Leptin is not efficient you tend to store Fat rather than burn it.

At around 6:30 am, Blood Pressure goes up to fully supply energy to all organs. Cardiac death occurs more often at this time. As Sun light hits the Eye Retina Melatonin is shut off and get converted to Serotonin.

Note

Evening blue-artificial-light reduces Prolactin hormone reducing Growth hormone secretion during the anabolic faces of sleep, directly affecting cardiac and skeleton muscle function, reducing autophagy. Reduced Growth hormone decreases lean muscle mass and increases Fat % in all organs, creating organ dysfunction, inflammation and increasing aging. Most woman begin to have low Prolactin, low DHEA and Growth hormone levels around age 35-40. This will accelerate menopause. They also age faster at a cellular level because the circadian chemical clock are accelerated; as a consequence their Telomeres length shorten. Increasing Progesterone helps revers this situation on women and men.

GROUNDING (earthing) PREVENTS CHRONIC INFLAMMATION

Advanced Integrative Meditation helps prevent chronic inflammation by grounding. Your skin, in general, is a very good conductor, so you can connect any part of your skin to the Earth, but if you compare various parts there is one that is especially potent, and that's right in the middle of the ball of your foot; a point known to acupuncturists as Kidney 1 (K1). It's a well-known point that conductively connects to all of the acupuncture meridians and essentially connects to every nook and cranny of your body.

When you're grounded there's a transfer of free electrons from the Earth into your body. And these free electrons are probably the most potent antioxidants known to man. These antioxidants are responsible for the clinical observations from grounding experiments, such as beneficial changes in heart rate, decreased skin resistance, and decreased levels of inflammation.

Furthermore, researchers have also discovered that grounding thins your blood, making it less viscous. This discovery can have a profound impact on cardiovascular disease, which is now the number one killer in the world. Virtually every aspect of cardiovascular disease has been correlated with elevated blood viscosity. It turns out that when you ground to the earth, your zeta potential quickly rises, which means your red blood cells have more charge on their surface, which forces them apart from each other.

This action causes your blood to thin and flow easier. It also causes your blood pressure to drop. By repelling each other, your red blood cells are also less inclined to stick together and form a clot. Additionally, if your zeta potential is high, which grounding can facilitate, you not only decrease your heart disease risk but also your risk of multi-infarct dementias, where you start losing brain tissue due to micro-clotting in your brain.

If you use the photoelectric effect of the sun to enlarge the charge in cell water, and add grounding to Earth, your needs and want for water will begin to approach your aquatic ancestors and your brain will repair and re-grow faster.

Two major sources to create Structured Water (EZ) in your body are the Sun Light and Grounding with the earth. Similar to how trees relate for their life existence. The EZ water is negatively charged, the region beyond is positively charged, so you have charge separation. And these separated charges are free, available, to drive reactions inside your cells. It's a kind of photosynthesis that your cells are doing. The light is being absorbed, converted into charge separation, just the same that happens in photosynthesis, and these charges are used by you. Some of this energy that's coming in is used to help drive the blood flow.

Reference: Dr. Oschman, widely recognized as an authority in the biophysics of energy medicine.

Physics of Earthing

In the book Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever! by Clinton Ober, Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D. explains that the Earth is the most negatively charged entity in the immediate human environment.

We are grounded and our body is coupled to the Earth, no matter where we are, we are at the electric potential of the ground. That means all of us, from head to foot. Our electric potential is zero and no positive charge can charge us up. We are a part of the ground. We are shielded from whatever happens in the atmosphere. If positive charges are present in our environment and "stick to us," the Earth will provide the electrons to cancel the positive charges and maintain our electric potential at the same level as it is: zero volts. If Electromotive Forces (EMF) hit our body, their effect is cancelled by the electrons within our body supplied by the ground. Nothing can change our electric potential, except uncoupling ourselves from the Earth.

Being grounded means our body's internal organs are shielded from any electrostatic or electromagnetic interference in the atmosphere. This provides for a very quiet electrical "milieu" inside the body where no external electric or magnetic fields can disrupt the internal functions maintaining allostasis and health. This includes digestion, internal repairs, wound healing, and all metabolic activities. Keep in mind that all chemical or biochemical reactions are electrical in nature and so are susceptible to being disturbed by external electric and magnetic fields. Grounding prevents these disturbances. This is how living beings evolved on the Earth!

Grounding also provides a reference point for all electrical activities of the body. Any electrical appliance needs a ground, a reference point, to define the values of the voltages inside its electronic circuits. Even sophisticated equipment such as digital-storage oscilloscopes cannot function properly without a clear reference point. Without it, all the voltages inside the appliance are ill defined and the electronic circuits, which are designed to work based on a reference point, cannot operate correctly. They give random voltage values. This situation can damage expensive equipment.

The human body is by far the most complex piece of "equipment" on the planet. It has evolved in contact with the Earth. All its internal processes are just like electronic circuits. They are all based on bioelectrical processes that need a defined ground to operate well. The body, being so complex, has developed internal mechanisms to help it cope with a temporary disconnect from the Earth, but in the long run the lack of connection takes its toll. Eventually, the body will lose its reference point (even the one that it made for itself temporarily). This results in internal functions becoming increasingly out of sync not only with the Earth but also with each other. For example, the body loses the ability to recognize what is "self" and what is "not self," and thus starts an autoimmune attack on its own cells.

EMFs are ubiquitous, and we live immersed in the invisible traffic of these chaotic fields. Their potential for creating internal interference in the body, varies from person to person and in different locations, depending on the intensity and frequencies of the fields.

EMFs occupy such a vast spectrum of frequencies (from 0 to 10²¹ One Sextillion Hz) that they need to be grouped in different frequency bands in order to determine their health effects on humans. One such grouping of frequencies has been created by the European Commission's independent Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR). This committee divided the spectrum into four frequency bands:

1. Radio frequency (RF) (100 kHz < f s 300 GHz)
2. Intermediate frequency (IF) (300 Hz < f s 100 kHz)
3. Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) (0 < f s 300 Hz)
4. Static (0 Hz)

Frequencies higher than 300 GHz were not considered by the commission because their mechanisms for affecting human beings are well known and entirely different from lower frequency bands. These higher frequency bands include (in order of increasing frequencies): infrared light (IR), visible light, ultraviolet (UV) light, x-rays, and gamma (gamma) rays. I will limit the discussion here to the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF), band, the most studied band and with the most commonly encountered frequencies.

In 2007, SCENIHR reported finding no clear evidence of an effect in bands other than the ELF band for lack of good epidemiological studies. The committee's report concluded that ELF magnetic fields are possibly carcinogenic, chiefly based on childhood leukemia data. There is, however, no generally accepted mechanism to explain how ELF magnetic field exposure may cause leukemia. For breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, recent research has indicated that an association is unlikely, while for neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors, the link to ELF fields remains uncertain. A relation between ELF fields and symptoms (sometimes referred to as electromagnetic hypersensitivity) has not been demonstrated.

Electromagnetic fields, as the name implies, are comprised of electric and magnetic fields. These fields are related but have very different effects. Electric fields are generated by electric charges (protons and electrons) even when there is no motion. Magnetic fields exist only when charges are in motion. For example, the magnetic field of a magnet is generated by the electrons of the magnetic metal spinning around the nucleus of their atom in the same way and in the same direction. They are all aligned. Their correlated rotational movement around their respective nucleus creates a magnetic field. Any electron spinning around any atom produces a magnetic field but in many substances—wood, plastic, rubber, and all insulating materials—they are not aligned. Their alignment is random due to other internal forces and so there is no net magnetic field that we can feel. If an electric charge is at rest in a magnetic field, the magnetic field will have no effect on the charge. When the charge is in motion, the magnetic field will make it rotate around an imaginary point. An electric field, in contrast, will always make electrical charges move in the direction of the field (for positive charges) or in the direction opposite to the field (for negative charges). In all materials, positive charges are in the nucleus. The nucleus cannot move or the substance would be destroyed. So in most practical applications, it is the electrons that move.

Since a change in motion implies an electric field that is changing, we have to conclude that a changing electric field will produce a magnetic field. The opposite is also true; a varying magnetic field produces an electric field, and that is why an electromagnetic field can propagate in space. The varying electric field produces a magnetic field, which produces an electric field, which produces a magnetic field, and this process repeats and goes on indefinitely in space and time. Motors work on the same principle that a current (electric charges in motion) produces a magnetic field, which acts on magnets placed on the rotor, which in turn makes the motor rotate.

Within an ungrounded body, electrons and other charged particles react mainly to the electric field component of the electromagnetic fields present in the immediate environment. Because their movement within the body is very slow, they do not respond well to magnetic fields. Internal electrons close to the surface of the skin are the most susceptible to perturbation, and EMFs at 60 Hz (and its harmonics, 120 Hz, 180 Hz, 240 Hz, and higher multiples of 60 Hz) are believed to have very little penetration power into the skin. The electric field is stopped by surface charges. However, the magnetic field penetrates the body very deeply and will produce electric fields inside the body. At 60 Hz, EMF energy is 10 billion times smaller than that needed to break even the weakest chemical bond. Still, there are known mechanisms by which 60 Hz electric and magnetic fields could produce biological effects without breaking chemical bonds. The 60 Hz electric fields can exert forces on charged and uncharged molecules or cellular structures within tissues. These forces can cause movement of charged particles, orient or deform cellular structures, orient dipolar molecules, or induce voltages across cell membranes. The magnetic fields at 60 Hz can exert forces on cellular structures, but since biological materials are largely nonmagnetic (they do not have a net magnetic field like a magnet has) these forces are usually very weak. (MS: Unless Reduced Graphene Oxide is present)

The present understanding of the scientific community on power-frequency (60 Hz) fields can summarized as follows:

• Exposure to these fields cannot be proven to be absolutely safe.
• A relationship has been established between residential and occupational exposure to these fields and human health hazards (including cancer).
• If there is a human health hazard, it is very small or it is restricted to small subgroups (such as young people and leukemia); the possibility of a large and general hazard has been ruled out.

It is Gaetan Chevalier, Ph.D. belief that the last consensus statement will be proven wrong scientifically through Earthing research and other future research. Even though no study has been conclusive so far, we have seen that some individuals are indeed ultra-sensitive and can be severely affected. "Electrical hypersensitivity" cannot be explained by any known mechanisms, as the threshold for known interactions are at least fifty times higher than actual exposures levels. Nevertheless, this hypersensitivity is a real phenomenon and may develop as a result of loss of connection to the Earth.

MICRO-MEDITATION—Between Water & Fire

When the human body is in the middle of the Sun/Earth connection it increases Redox Potential. Like the strings on a violin, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns. The symphony of life is played by the momentum and energy contained within light frequencies from the sun. Light interacts with electrons in the lattice but the momentum is conserved in photons that make the atomic lattice of the cell membrane and tensegrity system. All photons are controlled by magnetic fields generated in mitochondria. Mitochondria is where matter is created or destroyed using light as its raw material.

The Sun is the cathode, where electricity is given out or flows out of—is deemed positive. The Earth is the anode, an electrode from which a current enters; the point where an oxidation reaction occurs—regarded as negative in a galvanic (voltaic) cell.

In this alignment the Sage stays connected through the umbilical center in order to receive limitless nourishment from the womb of Mother Earth (Yin) and nourished by the primordial Chi bestowed by Father Heaven (Yang).

A plant is a polymer of sugar which is stored as starch. We convert the starch into muffins to collect the sun light in the form of glucose. Then it goes into the cells where the Hydrogen is striped reacting with Oxygen from breath, creating water. The energy released is used to generate heat to maintain our body at 37°C and Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) to help the body do work.

All our energy comes from our connection to Sun Light and Earth.

For example, Melatonin is made with morning Sun in the frequency of Red light, but it requires 3 hours of deep sleep in total darkness at night to be released and start working.

Electrons move from the Earth to the body and vice versa when the body is grounded. This effect is sufficient to maintain the body at the same negative-charge electrical potential as the Earth. We hypothesize that this flow of free electrons into the body is the mechanism by which inflammation is brought down.

Grounding powerfully reduces electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on the body.

The holy trinity is: Sun, Earth & Water.

Level 1

1. 

   We sit without crossing the legs (sukāsana/muktāsana) on a meditation cushion (zafu)
2. The knees are inclined into the ground, knees lower than the hips, keeping the spine erect
3. We look at the horizon with half-closed or closed eyes

4. 

   We breathe in three (3) parts using the 3 Diaphragms: Starting from the Abdomen (60%), Chest (38%) and Collarbone (2%). The same order in the inhalation as in the exhalation
5. We press the tip of the tongue lightly onto the palate just behind the upper teeth, completing the circle the Governor Vessel (Du) and the Conception Vessel (Ren)
6. We visualize roots into the ground from our sacrum, coccyx and the base of the legs grounding (water). You and the Earth are One.
7. We visualize a white Star above the crown up high at a distance and sized comfortable to us (fire)
8. With each breath we stretch the spine toward the heavens as if we were hanging from the hair, creating harmonic coherent energy imbibition.

9. 

   Once aligned between Mother Earth (water) and Father Heaven (fire), we visualize before us a Hydrogen atom. We place our attention and awareness on the "space" between the electron and the nucleus. We only observe the space—the spinning vacuum that contains all potentiality and all existence. Dissolve in it. We perceive a harmonic coherence in both brain hemispheres
10. We meditate only 10 minutes for the first time and then fewer minutes
    The goal is to complete a meditation in only one breath

You are complete!
Align to the beginning of existence and enjoy the trip

When we say "alignment", it is in reference to the Sagittal Plane Curves which give us the perfect connection to Earth. The curves are maintained when we use only a Zafu allowing our hips to be higher than our knees. As the Sacral aligns in its natural Kyphosis, the upper natural Lumbar Lordosis, Thoracic Kyphosis and Cervical Lordosis easily follow. In its natural alignment the Spinal Cord optimizes its natural "antenna" characteristics in communication with the surrounding environment, therefor allowing Meditation to be experienced.

Curtesy of "Anatomy of Spine" by Dr Pankaj Surange MBBS, MD, FIPP — for educational purposes

Level 2

At this level we incorporate the contraction of the Pelvic Floor (perineum) only on the exhalation. Once we fill the third Clavicular phase of the Three-Part Breath, we hold it in full for 1 second, and then slightly contracting the Pelvic Floor we start the exhalation, maintaining the contraction throughout the exhalation. At the end of the exhalation we relax the Pelvic Floor completely and start the inhalation with the Pelvic Floor relaxed throughout the inhalation.

This practice further internalizes the control and flow of energy through the Lower-Middle-Upper Dantian from Mother Earth (water) to Father Sky (fire) optimizing the Meridians and Chakras of our energy body. Let us remember that we are made up of four (4) bodies: Physical, Emotional, Mental and Energetic (spiritual).

At this level we count the breaths and alternate the position of the legs. Every nine (9) breaths we exchange the inner leg out and the outer leg in. Ideally placing the heel of the inner leg in contact with the Perineum.

Level 3

At this level we incorporate the contraction of the Pelvic Floor during the full breath, inhalation and exhalation, and we incorporate the Ujjayi breath—"the one who emerges victorious". We maintain a slight contraction of the Pelvic Floor, throughout the breath (inhalation/exhalation cycle), and we initiate the Ujjayi breath, maintaining it throughout the breathing cycle and throughout the duration of the Integrated Meditation.

To achieve Ujjayi breathing, the epiglottis is slightly contracted creating a restriction in the flow of air to the lungs, which will produce a soft and constant sound similar to the sound of the sea.

The Epiglottis is a cartilaginous valve located in the throat behind the tongue and in front of the larynx, and is usually upright at rest allowing air to pass into the larynx and lungs. When a person swallows, the epiglottis folds back to cover the entrance to the larynx so that solid and liquid foods do not enter the trachea and lungs. After swallowing, the epiglottis returns to its original upright position. (See Graph)

One must also contract slightly the Lower Dantian (Wellspring of human energy, 2^nd brain, Microbiome) three Triangle Points, the Hui Yin, the Shen Que, and the Mingmen.

• The Hui Yin (Gate of Death & Life) is the 1^st external point of the Conception Vessel (Ren Mai 1) located in the perineum, at the midpoint of the line joining the anus and scrotum in the male, or the anus and posterior labial commissure in the female. The 1^st external point of Governor Vessel (Du Mai 1) is close-by, located at the midpoint of the line joining the tip of the coccyx and the anus.
• The Shen Que (Spirit Gate of Chi from Heaven, CV8) located in the center of the umbilicus, connected with the five internal organs.
• The Mingmen (Gate of Destiny, Fire for Life, Vitality, Du4) located on the posterior midline, below the spinous process of the 2^nd lumbar vertebra (L2), it powers the Internal Organs.

Applying Ujjayi restricts air flow and adds vibration to the breath, which activate the vagal nerve which regulates HPA axis activity, which activates and strengthen the vagal nerve which is beneficial to the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) central to allostasis, stress responses, energy metabolism, and neuropsychiatric function. Helps the creation of Nitric Oxide (NO) in the nasal cavity, one of the most versatile components of the immune system. Helps restore Telomeres. The premature shortening of telomeres is associated with aging.

Nitric Oxide (NO), initially described as a physiological mediator of endothelial cell relaxation plays an important role in hypotension. It is an intercellular messenger and has been recognized as one of the most versatile players in the immune system. Cells of the innate immune system―macrophages, neutrophils and natural killer (NK) cells use pattern recognition receptors to recognize molecular patterns associated with pathogens. Activated macrophages then inhibit pathogen replication by releasing a variety of effector molecules, including Nitric Oxide. In addition to macrophages, a large number of other immune system cells produce and respond to Nitric Oxide. Thus, Nitric Oxide is important as a toxic defense molecule against infectious organisms. It also regulates the functional activity, growth and death of many immune and inflammatory cell types including macrophages, T lymphocytes, antigen-presenting cells, mast cells, neutrophils and Natural Killer (NK) cell. However, the role of Nitric Oxide in non-specific and specific immunity in vivo and in immunologically mediated diseases and inflammation is poorly understood. (Link)

During the past two decades, Nitric Oxide (NO) has been recognized as one of the most versatile players in the immune system. It is involved in the pathogenesis and control of infectious diseases, tumors, autoimmune processes and chronic degenerative diseases. Because of its variety of reaction partners (DNA, proteins, low–molecular weight thiols, prosthetic groups, reactive oxygen intermediates), its widespread production by three different Nitric Oxide Synthases (NOS) and the fact that its activity is strongly influenced by its concentration, Nitric Oxide continues to surprise and perplex immunologists. Today, there is no simple, uniform picture of the function of Nitric Oxide in the immune system. Protective and toxic effects of Nitric Oxide are frequently seen in parallel. Its striking inter and intracellular signaling capacity makes it extremely difficult to predict the effect of NOS inhibitors and Nitric Oxide donors, which still hampers therapeutic applications. (Link)

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are studying whether inhaling a gas called Nitric Oxide can help treat patients with COVID-19, or even prevent people from getting the disease.

Although Nitric Oxide is widely used to treat patients with respiratory failure, MGH is the only hospital in the United States, and one of the few in the world, studying it for the treatment of COVID-19, according to the CDC. (MGH is conducting one of the studies in cooperation with teams in Alabama and Louisiana.) (Link)

The Role of Will in Meditation

The quality of how your mingmen (gate of destiny) functions is determined mainly by your Will (zhi). The consistency of your will is fundamental in your ability to strive for your authentic self and fulfil destiny. The nature of our will may determine whether you fully express the authentic self or whether your habitual behavior extinguishes the flame of mingmen.¹

Will (zhi) is an active conduit between the heart and the kidneys that directs the inward interaction of the shen (spirit) and jing (essence) to guard the Gate of Destiny and essence (mingmen = Governing Vessel 4). For the heart's purpose to become manifested and transform life, it must combine with the potential of heaven's purpose as stored in the jing. The spiritual alchemy of the sage is the process of the heart spirit (shen) extending into the jing, directed there by will (zhi). It allows the heart to know and manifest the true nature, as vested by heaven, in the depths of self (jing). With the manifestation of heaven's will, you establish ming (destiny) in the world, which gives off the light of inner illumination (ming).¹

The interactions between our original endowment of yin and yang, early and later heaven, the shen and jing, and the intermingling of water and fire combusting within the alchemical furnace of mingmen are the physiological foundation of human health and evolution. The continued integrity of these interactions ensure that life unfolds smoothly, health is maintained, and destiny fulfilled. As long as these interactions occur without deviation, our qi (chi) may be said to be "true" (zhen), and it is the zhenqi that supports the integrity of the authentic self.²

Reference:
1. Nurishing Destiny, Lonny S. Jarrett, p. 85; Published 1995
2. Larre, 1995, p. 63; Jarrett, 1992b, p. 357

Micro-Meditations incorporates necessary internal-external alignments & energy flow including:

• A path to the Void, the Source
• Consciousness of the Vacuum
• All human Chakras in the front and the back
• Cardiac Coherence
• Creation of Calcium ions
• The human Ergosphere
• Gene expression
• Production of Nitric Oxide(NO)
• Regulates mTOR which controls cell growth and metabolism in response to nutrients, growth factors, cellular energy, stress and autophagy
• Structure Water
• Schumann resonance
• The 3 Rhythm breath using Respiratory diaphragm, Pelvic-Floor diaphragm and Thoracic-Outlet diaphragm
• Unified Space-Memory network
• and more… (Please read all previous text on this page)

"If you understand that you are a Being of Light, why do you meditate
at the speed of Molasses?
We are made to Meditate at the Speed of Light!"

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