Awakening the Third Eye

• 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

Chapter 2 – The Mysteries of the Larynx