Guest guest Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 Sat Nam Darham, I think I'd rather have people think I was a fool and an idiot!!! with love and laughter SiouxB > HOT SHOWERS AND ELEPHANTS > from "The Ancient Art of Self Healing" > > "There is a procedure when you feel very emotional, uptight, and ridiculous. Rather than showing to people that you 'are really an idiot, there is a better way to deal with th i s . Go to the bathroom, take of f your clothes, and get under the shower. Take hot water and drink it. Continuous drinking is difficult so stop for a while and then continue drinking it. Fill your stomach. Then bend forward and t ake the f i r s t 2 f > ingers and put them in back of the throat, tickling the throat until it makes you throw up. Four or five times throwing up will ease you enough. Then take a hot shower. This is one case where you have to take a hot shower, not a cold one. Then towel yourself dry and put on your beautiful clothes. Do this only in emotional circumstances where otherwise you would get a stomach ulcer. You can do it everyday in the morning if you like. > They call it "Elephant Kriya." It is what the elephant does, and 'they live very long and very healthy. They take the water through their trunk all the way up into their mouth, then they suck it back and blow it up. After this you can't take a cold shower." > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 HOT SHOWERS AND ELEPHANTS from "The Ancient Art of Self Healing" "There is a procedure when you feel very emotional, uptight, and ridiculous. Rather than showing to people that you 'are really an idiot, there is a better way to deal with th i s . Go to the bathroom, take of f your clothes, and get under the shower. Take hot water and drink it. Continuous drinking is difficult so stop for a while and then continue drinking it. Fill your stomach. Then bend forward and t ake the f i r s t 2 f ingers and put them in back of the throat, tickling the throat until it makes you throw up. Four or five times throwing up will ease you enough. Then take a hot shower. This is one case where you have to take a hot shower, not a cold one. Then towel yourself dry and put on your beautiful clothes. Do this only in emotional circumstances where otherwise you would get a stomach ulcer. You can do it everyday in the morning if you like. They call it "Elephant Kriya." It is what the elephant does, and 'they live very long and very healthy. They take the water through their trunk all the way up into their mouth, then they suck it back and blow it up. After this you can't take a cold shower." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 Hi SiousB, Thanks for the "love and laughter". Elephant Kriya, also called Mantanjini Kriya, is something men really need to do. Women, generally speaking, are much more in touch with their feelings and are certainly reminded of their humanity on a monthly basis (la vez de la mez). But even so, there are levels of rejection and revulsion that are just never, ever allowed expression in civil society. This need to "expulse" is a healthy thing and necessary for survival. But because this need is very rarely explored deeply on an individual basis, people get involved in ridiculous behavior that leads one away from happiness and satisfaction. Instead, folks get into polarizing politics, and flag waving which is really nothing more than a strife of personal interests masquerading as a contest of principles. (that's right, politics is bull-guano!) So you see it is difficult for all the rest of us if others don't care if they are thought as being a "fool and an idiot". Here is a scenario we have all been subjected to. We were born to one or two parents. One parent stayed home (Mom) and cared for us. She did the best she could. She did her best tuning into the needs of the child but having never raised a child and maybe not having a network of support around child rearing, she may have had some anxiety onboard about this. She may have even transferred her need for reassurance onto the child (unconsciously, of course). A child may have learned (in a pre-verbal way) that "mom needs me to eat so that she is happy and relieved". You know how moms get around food. This is easily integrated into a lifelong mantra and underlying belief of "I need to do something in order to be loved". I bet we all know someone who does that. The fact is, love is all around us. It's biting at our heels every second of every day; but we can't feel it. Well, this kriya more than anything other technique I can think of (with the possible exception being the Kriya for Inner Anger) give one a chance to dramatically clear themselves of that swallowed belief. How many men base their value and worthiness on what it is they can do or perform? Women who still in need of "awakening" do the same. I hope I am giving a better picture to you and anyone else what this Kriya is all about. This inner resentment, shame, self distrust must come out. When that happens, we feel forgiven. When this unloading happens, we are then free to express our real WANTS, and passion returns. If we aren't cleared, even the benefits of our practice stand the chance of being severely shaken if our mantras are being recited from some small and disciplined corner of our broader self. A broader self that still has go forth into a sometimes very neurotic world. It's very big, this Kriya, and it's a good thing I don't have to sell any of this to anyone to make a living. I use it and am inspired to use it even more based on past experiences and these recent conversations. Thank you Henno for reminding me of this jewel I could say a bunch more on how this can save a relationship or end a bad one, but I'll save it for another email. Sat Nam, Dharam P.S. Thank you for the Scott Songs link (http://www.scottsongs.com/pages/frame_set.html) SiouxB wrote: > Sat Nam Darham, > > I think I'd rather have people think I was a fool and an idiot!!! > > with love and laughter > SiouxB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2002 Report Share Posted October 31, 2002 In other words "You can't go forward 'til you get it out of reverse" --Hugh Thompson a true Vietnam hero (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/guides/debate/chats/thompson/) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Dear Darham, Yes, I see. Now I understand the significance and importance of this Kriya. It is why we often feel "sick to our stomachs" due to powerful emotions which we suppress. I suppose one could achieve a similar cleansing on other levels besides the physical -- perhaps by intense TM visualizations (?) An angry volcano about to spew -- the lava eventually cooling and becoming part of the natural earth once again? Many years ago, when I was dieting to loose weight, I would picture putting all the unhealthy food I craved into a bucket, mixing it with pop, coffee, juice -- whatever and mixing it all up. I certainly curbed my appetite when I thought of it like that! Thank you for your in light in ment Love and peace Sioux B >snip>>>> Elephant Kriya, also called Mantanjini Kriya, is something men really need to do. Women, generally speaking, are much more in touch with their > feelings and are certainly reminded of their humanity on a monthly basis (la vez de la mez). But even so, there are levels of rejection and > revulsion that are just never, ever allowed expression in civil society. This need to "expulse" is a healthy thing and necessary for survival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Yogiji has given us "The meditation to eliminate thoughts we dislike" and it is as "sophisticated" as any visualization and it does get some energy moving. The problem is how do we make it a whole body experience?.....one where our reflexes are engaged. This is key when reasserting one's sovereignty and controlling one's domain. Yeah, it's more than suppressed emotions that this Kriya is dealing with (which incidentally aren't causing stomach pain). It's a chance to regurgitate wholesale, deeply held subconscious assumptions about our whole world. Assumptions, that few yogis I know ever get beyond after they leave the mat, or even while on the mat. Our ultimate (and my daily) goal as Yogis is to master our prana (with a small p) and merge it with the Prana (with a big P) of creation. To have no separation and be continuous. I want to trust my body and it's wisdom whenever possible and let it speak to me. In this dialogue I don't want to channel my mom, 5th Avenue (advertising IS emotional cruelty), Hollywood, thousands of years of socially repressive cultures or the Pope, when speaking to my heart. I want to know about something that gets me that clear. On this, I don't need to reinvent the wheel. This is an old idea in ancient cultures that are close to their bodies, the earth and the feminine aspect unlike our culture of "walking and talking heads". With this being the accepted norm it's hard to not get any on you. The older cultures don't freak out over pain and death. There is a place for it. This whole idea of Yoga (yoking with the Infinite) is best accomplished from deep in the gut, near the navel point, near where we were first linked thru our umbilicus to the world around us, a womb with no view. Ask any artist who loves their work, where in their body they feel it? Their body may contort as they try to express where that is. Lastly, visualizing this process might be about as satisfying as visualizing Thanksgiving or Sex. Walking on a wilder side, Dharam Cris shared with us the following "I've read that the Hopi's will face the rising sun and as it emerges on the horizon, they spit to symbolically remove any ill-will or acts from the day before. The Navajo also use sunrise as the time to regurgitate, after sipping a medicine after a long sing, a healing ritual involving days of chanting and an intricate sandpainting, which is also destroyed at sunrise." SiouxB wrote: > Dear Darham, > > Yes, I see. Now I understand the significance and importance of this Kriya. > It is why we often feel "sick to our stomachs" due to powerful emotions > which we suppress. I suppose one could achieve a similar cleansing on other > levels besides the physical -- perhaps by intense TM visualizations (?) An > angry volcano about to spew -- the lava eventually cooling and becoming > part of the natural earth once again? > Many years ago, when I was dieting to loose weight, I would picture putting > all the unhealthy food I craved into a bucket, mixing it with pop, coffee, > juice -- whatever and mixing it all up. I certainly curbed my appetite when > I thought of it like that! > > Thank you for your in light in ment > Love and peace > Sioux B > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Hello Dharam, interesting info....also, it sounds easier to do than the regular elephant kriya becasue it is more spontaneously done. thanks for constantly posting such interesting and useful info! Sat Nam Preeti HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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