Guest guest Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 Sat Nam Dear Group, Could someone advise me on the practice of KY when you are in a flat and surrounded by neighbours. It is extremely quiet here, and just now I could barely tune in properly, nervous somebody could here me. Is this just anxiety or what. I do find it limits my practice, I wanted to do Sat Kriya but always get this feeling if people hear me. It's not that they would complain, I just feel wierd. I mean I can sometimes hear people yawning. I would like to do early morning practice but everyone else gets up early and it is so damn quiet, you would think that would be an advantage. Just now people were walking over my head and it was so intense doing yoga like that. That is the only thing that makes me wonder how suitable KY is for the modern world, I would like to do the meditation for deep anger, but I cant imagine chanting Har, Har out loud and even with minimun gusto. Why is it that this KY makes you so sensitive, especially to sounds. I guess it is just me, but I wish there were a place away from the world where I could practice in peace, and get the true benefit. There is always a sense of repression or holding back. It makes me think of stopping it as now I feel worse than when I started. This is the kind of wierd stuff that is continually thrown into my consciousness, and sometimes I wonder if Kundalini opposes us in some way. I guess most people just wouldnt care and that it is just me, but who would want to hear somebodys heavy breathing. Sukhnivas S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2009 Report Share Posted December 14, 2009 Sat Nam Dear Sukhnivas; I appreciate your posts and I hope I can be of some help to you. I have been in a similar situation, with some of the same feelings and it has been challenging. KY is challenging. It makes you aware of everything, especially things we don't usually care for, like our weaknesses and neuroses, etc. Of course I'm speaking for myself here. I found my anxieties about other people's thoughts and feelings were so severe that I could hardly do KY the way I wanted to. I had to hide everything. After all, the more you reveal about yourself, the more you open yourself to criticism and other people's judgements. And I hate being judged. But you know, there's just no way around it. There came a time where I had to decide whether I am going to be a yogi (whatever that means), or else try to fit in with everybody else and essentially be what everybody wants me to be: insensitive, unaware, clean-shaven, watch TV, stay up late, etc.etc. So I decided in defiance of opposing forces that I'm gonna be me, damn it! But I did it out of a love for what I was doing. So if anybody asks I say something simple: " It's what I do. What do you do? How do you spend your time? Watching TV? That's cool, nothing wrong with that... " After awhile it seemed to work out fine for me. It's a process and you're always getting the benefits, even if you just wake up every day and wish you could do the KY under your " perfect " conditions. First step is awkward. Second step is more comfortable. And pretty soon you're very comfortable wherever you are, and it might even work out that you find a place absent of neighbors who can hear you. And if that happens, it will probably be soon after you finally find yourself comfortable where you were all along. And you've graduated and get to confront the next of life's trials... So my advice is this: Love your neighbors! Love their noises. Love your noises. Love KY. Love the process. Love that you're not where you want to be. Laugh about it. Really find it all funny. And one other tip: I've found for myself that I can lower the volume of some chants while retaining the depth that I want in the meditation. I just vibrate lower, and remember it is vibrating, not singing, that is important. That's some of what I think. I hope this helps. Blessings to you. -Tegbir Singh Kundalini-Yoga , " beautiful22 " <22taro wrote: > > Sat Nam > Dear Group, > Could someone advise me on the practice of KY when you are in a flat and surrounded by neighbours. It is extremely quiet here, and just now I could barely tune in properly, nervous somebody could here me. Is this just anxiety or what. I do find it limits my practice, I wanted to do Sat Kriya but always get this feeling if people hear me. It's not that they would complain, I just feel wierd. I mean I can sometimes hear people yawning. I would like to do early morning practice but everyone else gets up early and it is so damn quiet, you would think that would be an advantage. Just now people were walking over my head and it was so intense doing yoga like that. > That is the only thing that makes me wonder how suitable KY is for the modern world, I would like to do the meditation for deep anger, but I cant imagine chanting Har, Har out loud and even with minimun gusto. > Why is it that this KY makes you so sensitive, especially to sounds. I guess it is just me, but I wish there were a place away from the world where I could practice in peace, and get the true benefit. There is always a sense of repression or holding back. It makes me think of stopping it as now I feel worse than when I started. This is the kind of wierd stuff that is continually thrown into my consciousness, and sometimes I wonder if Kundalini opposes us in some way. > I guess most people just wouldnt care and that it is just me, but who would want to hear somebodys heavy breathing. > Sukhnivas S. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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