the focus in your eye, the world turns into a constant source of
wonder. You can very well implement this path where you are,
here and now. Leaving your job and fleeing into a cave would not
necessarily be an advantage. The problem is not so much to change
your activities but to achieve them with the new awareness.
Life in the eye: tips, tricks and traps
- It is always good to use a few reminders: each time you see
them, you go back to your focus. For instance tie a ribbon around
your wrist, or stick little pieces of paper at key locations on your
walls. Or write a note on your mirror, paint one of your nails a
different colour... - Doors and gates have a strong symbolic resonance. A powerful
practice is to remind yourself of your spiritual aspiration each
time you cross a doorway. - Another powerful method is to get a watch with a countdown
and to make it ring, say every seven minutes. Each time you hear
the signal, re-focus your awareness in the vibration between the
eyebrows and breathe with the throat friction for ten or fifteen
seconds. Seven is a good number for self-transformation. Actually,
what is important is not the length of the interval but the fact
that the signal and the practice are repeated with extreme
regularity. This gives a sense of rhythm to the astral body and
deeply imprints in you the habit of being in the eye. - Now let us try something. Close your eyes, start breathing with
the friction, build up a strong vibration between the eyebrows for
1 or 2 minutes. Then open your eyes, keeping the tightest focus
between the eyebrows, and look at yourself in a mirror.
Obviously your friends and relatives will find it a bit confronting
if you address them with a face like that! So what to do? Firstly,
whenever you are talking to somebody, practise being in both the
eye and the heart (technique 5.13), so that the intensity of your
eye will be tempered by the opening and the softness of your
heart.
Secondly when, through practice, you have become more
established in your eye, the intense semi-frowning of the
beginning will disappear and you will look quite normal.
Meanwhile, try to play it diplomatically.