Sat Nam:
Tip of the Nose: is one of the oldest recorded yogic practices. Nose tip gazing, a form of Trataka, concentration of mind as a prelude to meditation, to that state where we have gone beyond our senses to surrender ourselves.
The technique for the Tip of the Nose, fixing the eyesight within:
You may use the finger technique but the one described here comes more natural.
Sit comfortable in Easy Pose. Close your eyes. By closing your eyes first you will cut off 80% of all stimuli coming at your brain, plus, it will disengage the optic nerve and relax all your extraocular muscles which are controled by the cranial nerves (3rd, 4th and 6th). Stay in this position for as long as it takes for you to find yourself in a relaxed state. Then open your eyes and focus on the tip of the nose. Don´t fight it. Don´t strain your eyes. This is the most important part. Don´t strain. If you strain you will feel pain. If you don´t strain, it all will be gain. You know when you are at the tip of the nose, at the Lotus Point, when you see a double outline of the nose. Remember, this is inward gazing, the tip of the nose is the guide. If you concentrate too much on the tip of the nose by fighting strain and ressistance, your mind will be full of nose but not of Bliss. After a while, the nose double outline will merge and will
become one. Then, the outlines will cross each other and form a V point. Look for that V-point. That is your gazing point. Focus there, stay there. If you can not see this V point (it is actually really cool to see it, a Wahe Guru moment), then you are not really fixing at the tip of the nose. Relax your eyes and try again. You will get there. When you feel you are straining too much, relax and keep coming to it.
Once you get there: A teacher's moment here; a lot of us tend to start our Kriya or Pranayam first and then try to focus at the tip of the nose as if it was a consequence or a second thought of the Kriya. Think when you are doing morning Sadhana and chanting Wahe Guru Wahe Jio. We tend to jump into Vir Asan asana, then as we start chanting we try to figure out how to focus at the tip of the nose and sustain it, as if it was a secondary part of it. It has got to be the other way around. The Trataka, gazing, needs to be established first if we are to be in a meditative state.
After you have established into the tip of the nose gazing, then you need to become aware of your breath. Then, you may begin the pranayam. If doing Sodharshan Chakra Kriya, try to establish the tip of the nose gaze before starting the breath, the mental chanting and the pumps.
The Eyes at the Tip of the Nose: Agiaa Chakra Bandh: Stimulates the Pineal gland and the frontal lobe of the brain. It is so powerful because it bypasses the master gland, the Pituitary, and goes straight for the Tenth gate, into the Thousand-Petaled Lotus, hence its name Lotus Point Meditation.
Just for remembering: the eyes at the "Third Eye Point", Shambavi Mudra, stimulates the Pituitary. Eyes at the Tip of the Nose, Agiaa Chakra Bandh, stimulates the Pineal gland.
The Bhagavad Gita says: "Holding his body, head and neck erect and motionless, the aspirant should gaze at the tip of his nose without once turning around." (6:13). This is the chapter that talks about Meditation and Self-Control (Dhyana, the seventh limb, ashtanga, in Patanjali's sutras).
Now for your contemplation: if the Gita really meant to say that we must focus at the tip of the nose to be in the Tenth Gate and fill our mind in nothing but God, then, by concentrating solely at the tip of the nose the mind will be left with the nose but without God. What the Tip of the Nose gazing really means is that we have to fix the eyesight within.
Blessings
Adi Singh
--- On Fri, 12/17/10, pamela <
pamela@rabboar.com> wrote:
From: pamela <pamela@rabboar.com>
Subject: RE: [Kundalini Yoga] Shodarshan Chakra Kriya
To: Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 7:32 AM
Sometimes it is like that for awhile ... one side of the nose or the other
when looking at the nose. Try putting a little round sticker on the very
tip of the nose. It helps. The eyes turning in that way stimulate the
pituitary gland (the optic nerves actually lift to stimulate the very bottom
of the pituitary gland) which is much of the point of focusing on the nose.
Keep trying, just like learning to play the piano, we start with scales and
work up to Mozart!
Arjinder Kaur
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From: Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of muscleben13
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:55 AM
To: Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Kundalini Yoga] Shodarshan Chakra Kriya
Sat Nam!
I would like to know something about this kriya and maybe it affects more
kriya.
It's about looking at the tip of the nose.
When i do this, i found myself looking from one side of my nose or the
other. I thought it was normal but this morning i started seeing both sides
at the same time.
It brought my thinking, is it the right way of doing this.. do i have to
look exactly at the tip or do i have to look in front...
Looking at both sides at the same time was more tiring for the eyes. But i
think that it must help to center oneself. Not being energeticaly too much
one either sides. I am right ?
Thanks for the responses.
Namaste.
Benoit
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