Clearing & Purifying Breath Practice
For The Masculine : Practices
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15m
For many of us, negativity can sometimes feel like a built-up crust when unattended to. You may have cultivated a consistent practice for transmitting love and consciousness, but that crust might feel impossible to break through. You want to free yourself of negativity and unwanted energy to create a clear path for love and consciousness to flow through, but you don’t know how.
In this practice, John will guide you through clearing and purifying your body and auric field to become a pure vibration of love and consciousness. You will get fierce about clearing out unwanted energy and then pull fresh, clean air from the sky to purify your body. This is a practice you can do as needed multiple times per day.
If you want to learn how to clear your body of negativity anytime you need it, this 16-minute practice will show you how.
You will begin in a seated position, creating a solid base in which you feel "bottom heavy." Firmly press the soles of your feet into the earth and tip your sacrum down in order to create a solid triangle between your sacrum and your two feet. If you are seated crosslegged on the floor, the points of your sits bones will replace your feet in the triangle.
Pull your navel in slightly, lower your chin, and use your "lats" (latissimus dorsi muscles) to pull your shoulders down and back, which will open your chest.
Then press down through your rib cage and diaphragm so you can feel your lower body - everything from your navel down to your feet - pressing into the earth and lowering your center of gravity.
At the same time, lift your side ribs, waist, and heart up to the sky.
Before moving into the practice, check to be sure you have all of these parts activated in equal energetics - lower body grounding, waist lifting, heart lifting, chin tucked, spine straight, and shoulders pulling down and back through your lats.
Once you have established a solid base, press your tongue gently on the roof of your mouth and inhale through your nose, down through the back of your throat, and powerfully into your side ribs. Be sure to stimulate and widen the back of your throat with every breath. Feel how opening the back of your throat creates more space in the back of your heart. Also feel how it opens up the back of your brain.
Then open your mouth and breathe a "hot" exhale through your open mouth with simultaneously pushing down into the earth. It's a fierce and ominous exhale - from the primal animal part of you, almost like a growl. Let the back of your body heat up and feel that primal energetic becoming cultivated from the back of your heart as you exhale.
Stay focused. If you find yourself popping out into thought, return to the breath.
Then lift your arms up about chest high with your palms facing out. Let the exhale be like you are expelling matter, crust, negativity, or unwanted energy out through your hands.
For the next 60-90 seconds, connect to that which your cells do not need and actively push it away with your breath through your hands - like the fire of your breath is burning it out of your body. Amplify it. Make it a matter of life and death, so that you can be pure. Get fierce and aggressive about clearing your own energy as if you are preparing yourself for battle. Purify your spine, heart, and energy with every breath.
After 60-90 seconds, breathe naturally and turn your palms up toward the sky. Pull from the deep blue sky - the part of the sky at the top of the atmosphere just below outer space - the fresh, clean, crisp, beautiful air through your palms. Use that clean, fresh, cold air to clear out every cell of your body. Imagine every cell filled with this bright, clean energy. As each cell in the top of your heart, brain, throat, etc. gets brighter, let your exhales distribute this clean, beautiful, fresh energy through every cell of your body.
Pull with your will the Chi of the deep blue sky and let every exhale clear your cells of any gunk or disease. Will your immune system to be stronger.
Begin to include the shell of energy 3-4 inches outside your body. Activate your heart, and from the center of your activated heart, press the exhale of this deep blue sky energy out into your aura. Again, be fierce with it. Use the energy of your heart and the energy of the sky to cleanse your own auric field and will your aura to burn brighter.
Focus strongly and use your intention to amplify this energy for the final minute of practice. Connect to the deepest part of the sky, pull it into your body, and then, from your heart, expel it, widen it, and make your aura very clean and bright. Let every exhale be your heart's fierce determination to be pure, so that when you step out into the world, you are a pure vibration of love and consciousness.
For the last 5 breaths, open the crown of your head and imagine blue light streaming down from the sky through your crown, through your throat, through your heart, and down through your genitals.
After the final inhale of the practice, slowly allow your hands to lower down to your thighs with your final exhale. Then notice the purity in the center of your body - perhaps it feels like clean, white light. Hopefully, it feels wider and like there is an easier flow of energy up and down your spinal column.
Before you open your eyes, connect once again to the earth beneath you, the very top of the sky above you, and feel your body as a bridge between those two very different, but very powerful, energetic forces. Then after giving a bow to both, gently open your eyes.
Disclaimer: Although anyone may find this practice to be useful, it is made available with the understanding that we are not engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this practice intended to be a diagnosis, prescription, recommendation or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual problem. Each individual has unique needs and this practice cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist or other competent professional. Any person suffering from a sexually transmitted disease or any local illness of his or her sexual organs should consult a medical doctor and a qualified instructor of sexual yoga before practicing the sexual methods described in this practice.
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