Overcoming barriers to progress - habits,conditionings & the back agnya

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​Dear All,

If you're finding it difficult to make progress or achieve a break-through in any area of your life, whether career or personal (or even in sahaja yoga meditation - see notes), the state of your back agnya chakra could hold the key. Here's a simple way  to clear the back agnya chakra and help you remove the blocks that may be holding you back in life.

The back agnya chakra is located in the small bump at the back of the head and in medical terms corresponds to the occipital lobe, which controls the eyes, and is part of the cerebral cortex, which is the seat of memory ie store of past events.

All our past experience of things, can influence us at a subconcious level.  The bigger the load of the past we carry with us then the bigger the influence. The bigger the influence then the bigger the brakes or drag on our forward progress. It's like running to catch a flight at the airport while carrying a large, heavy suitcase(not on wheels).

As human beings, we're all creatures of habit and conditioning, so we're all carrying some suitcase with us. It may be a small one for some people and a large one for others. Some people's suitcase could contain not only their own items but also items belonging to Auntie Sally or Uncle Billy ie ancestors. Or books they've read or anything that has entered into the subconcious mind(even advertising -see notes).

 

The suitcase could show as repeated patterns of behaviour leading to the same undesired outcome ie being your own worst enemy; difficulty in sustaining a positive change; clinging to old 'knowledge' or old ways(being stuck in the past) and not fully embracing the new; lacking confidence and having doubts about yourself.

So how do you clear the back agnya chakra and set yourself free from any weight of past conditioning?

Easy.

There are two sahaja yoga methods; which can be used: Mantra or a candle & photo.

1. Mantra
Use of 'Mahaganesha' mantra with left palm  placed on back of the head(on the back agnya). Mantra can be said three times followed by short meditation. The Mahaganesha mantra is : 'Om twameve sakshat Shri Mahaganesha sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Mataji, Shri Nirmala Devi namoh! namah!'

This could be included as part of your daily meditation for about a week and see whether you begin to notice the difference.

2.Candle & photo
Since the back agnya relates very much to the eyes; if you clear the eyes then you're clearing the back agnya. To clear the eyes watch the hands in the photo above through a candle flame without blinking until the eyes begin to water. Then blink hard and let the tears wash the surface of the eyes. This technique has the added benefit of improving the health of your eyes if done regularly. (see: candle treatment for agnya chakra)

With practice and as the back agnya begins to clear some of the common indications are a feeling of lightness in the personality; more optimism about the future; increased motivation and zest for life - this can also be accompanied by de-clattering of your home by throwing out many old items that had just been sitting there gathering dust.

See you at group meditation on Tuesday. And the hand photo above will be available at the meeting to take away with you.

Regards

Notes:

The Kundalini is made up of many millions of strands of energy and the number of these that actually rise from the sacrum bone at the base of the spine to the limbic area of the brain determines the depth of self-knowledge a person practicing sahaja yoga meditation is able to achieve(Buddha's nirvana was achieved by the whole kundalini coming up at once). The kundalini awakening is the easy part and many people can get it. But initially just a few strands of the energy come up . Afterwards the real work begins. Which is where the meditation and motivation('pure desire') come in . As a result of conditionings - back agnya- one of three things may happen : the experience of the awakening of the kundalini may not register at all for one person and they may choose not to follow it up; a second person may feel that something has happened to them but because they set the experience in the context of other 'knowledge', practices, or ideas, the uniqueness of the kundalini experience may get so diluted as to fade out. A third person may get over this hurdle, usually because they have read less or not tried many other things before. The barrier for the third person is sahaja yoga 'knowledge' itself because knowledge about the chakras and subtle system seems finite and after it has been understood, then what? So monotony and boredom may set in and the result could be like repeating class 4 over and over . So clearing the back agnya is very helpful.

* See Packard Vance - The Hidden Persuaders about subliminal methods used  in advertising (New York Times Book review 30/12/2007 )