Hello everyone,
I have been using AYP techniques for a couple of months now, doing the two times daily routine as recommended.
When practicing spinal breathing, I can't enjoy it and I feel like I haven't got a grip on the basic technique, even though I've been practicing it for 4 months now.
Here's a list of my problems and unclear points:
1)I feel like I'm short of breath, when I'm trying to trace the current in my spinal nerve, my breathing often stops before the current reaches the third eye/root. So my breaths seem to be too short to get the whole lenght of the spinal nerve.
2) I'm generally having a hard time tracing the spinal nerve. How important is timing the breath with the tracing here? I often breath in and when I stop breathing in, the current hasn't reached my head, yet.
3) When imagining the stream going upwards, I often feel nothing, until it hits my head, than I can feel it strongly going forward and than really strong at the third eye. Is this a problem, since I don't feel much in the lower part of the body? Might this create imbalances?
4)When imagining it going downwards, I very often loose it completely after it has reached my lower back. I can't really make it go all the way down to the root, most of the times, I run out of breath. I'm using breath restriction for breathing out.
5) I tried doing yoga breath (filling the stomach first, than the lungs..) but it took so much concentration away, that I couldn't focus on the spinal nerve anymore.
Due to these factors, I can't really relax and I always have the feeling, like I'm doing something wrong. But at the end of my spinal breathing I normally feel more open and ready for meditation, so something is definetly working.
I would appreciate all help, and I'm especially eager to know, if it's ok to force the breath a bit, because I heard one shouldn't force anything and that it can be dangerous.
Sorry for so many questions, I'm probably overthinking it
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Bless you all