Awakening the Third Eye

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  • Often when performing the throat friction you can feel a tiny
    but distinct vibration in the larynx by gently touching your
    Adam's apple with your fingers. (The Adam's apple is the external
    protuberance of the larynx, in the upper part of the middle of
    the throat. It is more marked in men than in women.) In the
    beginning this vibration under the finger is often felt more
    clearly during inhalation than exhalation, even though the same
    sound is produced during both.

  • How deep should the breath be? Its depth and rhythm should be
    as normal. Slightly deeper breathing may be implemented in the
    beginning, in order to generate a clearer friction. But you do not
    need to hyperventilate: this technique does not aim at creating the
    type of breathing used in rebirthing. Our purpose is to activate
    the energy of the larynx through friction. The emphasis is not on
    breathing but on awakening the larynx of energy.

  • The purpose of the throat friction is to reinforce your
    connection with the ‘energy’, a term that may sound vague in the
    beginning but will become more and more meaningful as you keep
    working on your third eye. As you become more accustomed to
    this friction practice, you will only have to tune into the flow of
    energy around you and the right intensity of the breath will
    follow automatically. Depth and rhythm will vary, for it is the
    nature of energy to vary, and it is our purpose to learn to flow
    with the energy.

  • The energetic action of this friction breathing will be greatly
    enhanced if your neck is straight and vertical, in line with the
    rest of the spine. The more perfectly upright your neck is, the
    more power is released in the larynx. This can be experienced as a
    sudden intensification of the vibration that sometimes takes place
    when slightly moving the neck, thereby coming closer to the
    perfect uprightness.

  • The mouth is only slightly open, but still it is important to
    make sure that it remains open, and more precisely that the lower
    jaw is relaxed so that the upper and lower teeth do not meet.
    When you have become familiar with the vibration between the
    eyebrows (introduced in the next chapter), come back to this
    point: try to practise the throat friction with your mouth tightly
    closed, and then with the mouth slightly open, alternating the two
    positions to feel the difference in your energy. You will notice
    that as soon as the lower jaw is relaxed and slightly dropped, a


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