BlueRaincoat
I've decided to drop pranayama altogether, and cut the meditation down to 10 min per session. I will try this routine out for a week or two and see how it goes.
Thank you
Shanti
As I slipped back to my ordinary...umm... level of consciousness, it just returned. Maybe I didn't need as much sleep when I was aware of awareness, but still tried to stick to my bed time routines.
Yes, I'm sure I do have lots of fear stuck in me. As I wrote in my original post, the compulsive thinking stopped when I faced some of those fears head on. It was very clear it helped. Felt such peace afterwards.
I'm not sure how to do inquiry. Yet it felt as if I was doing it all the time between 13 Nov - 20 Nov. With constant awareness of thoughts and feelings, it was easy to just "feel the fear, and do it anyway". How can I shed light on the fear? Should I like, sit quitly and watch the thoughts/feelings?
I might have been clinging to that state of being. When I felt it was slipping away, fear took over. Instead of trimming practices, I actually added siddhasana. Looking back, it wasn't the brightest thing to do. But I must forgive myself. In the end, neither of these two levels of consciousness can be what I really am, even if one of them probably is a little closer.
Thank you