start the practices at the given time! Less effort will be needed to
reach the meditation state, and the experiences of consciousness
will be significantly deeper. Apart from these simple results, the
meditation and other exercises will have a much greater impact on
your astral body.
Regularity has an unexpectedly potent action on the astral body,
reinforcing its whole structure. Imagine a ship with a leakage in
the hull. You can try to make all sorts of improvements to the
boat: get better sails, add an engine... these will speed up the ship.
But fixing the leakage will have an even more direct action, since
it corrects a basic weakness in the boat. This is exactly what you
achieve when you work at reinforcing the astral body's sense of
rhythm.
You can potentize your practices even further by preceding them
with a particular sequence of actions. For instance washing your
hands, going to the toilet, taking a shower – whatever you want,
but always in exactly the same order. Do exactly the same
movements, one after the other, morning after morning, and
something will coagulate in the structure of your astral body. It
will also help if you instigate another similar sequence of actions
every evening before your night practice.
The more the astral body gets involved in these actions, the more
efficient the exercise becomes. This means you have to perform
each operation in full awareness, completely in your eye, putting
all of yourself in the action – even if it is something apparently
insignificant such as washing your hands or drinking a glass of
water. Implement any single movement ‘with intention’, never
automatically. More than aware, be awake!
Twilight
The night is yin, the day is yang, and what is twilight? Beyond
the pair of opposites, twilight is a time for transcendence:
awareness of the Self. Sunrise and sunset should be regarded as
precious moments in which a very special energy is available for
spiritual awakening.
It is not very difficult to find out the times of sunrise and
sunset, as they are indicated in most newspapers. These times vary
little from one day to the next, so it is enough to get them once
or twice a week. Anyway twilight is not a punctual instant but
more a span of a few minutes.