completely different condition of your energy is generated in
which the connection with the vibration is enhanced and a general
opening is favoured.
Note also that this slightly open position of the mouth is not
taken to force you to breathe through the mouth instead of the
nose. Breathe through the nose, the mouth or both at the same
time, as feels most natural to you.
- Beginners sometimes feel that this technique makes their throat
dry or slightly irritated. If so, produce the friction lower down in
the throat. Beginners often make the friction higher up in the
throat, closer to the palate, which is irritating to the throat. In
any case, by practising for a few minutes several times a day this
inconvenience will soon be overcome. (High quality honey can also
be used as a soother and awakener.) With practice this friction can
be maintained effortlessly for hours.
After a few days of practice the throat friction adjusts itself
naturally and all irritating sensations disappear. - It should be emphasized that the focus of this technique is on
the larynx, not on the breath. In no way can it be regarded as a
practice of hyperventilation, since the intensity of the breath is
just your normal one. It is not even a breathing exercise as such,
since it is only the mechanical action of the air on the larynx that
is used, without especially trying to connect with the process of
respiration. The friction is used to create a stimulation of the
vibration in the larynx, but at a later stage of the practice it
becomes possible to awaken the same vibration in the larynx
without making use of the breath. - Why is the protuberance of the larynx called Adam's apple, and
why is it more marked in men than in women? It is said that
when Adam tried to swallow the piece of apple of the tree of
knowledge, it remained stuck in his throat!
2.2 Purposes and effects of the throat friction
The throat friction is a sound of energy. It quietens the mind and
when mastered, instantaneously induces a ‘tuned-in’ state of
consciousness.
One of its main actions is to amplify any psychic phenomena. The
way we will use the throat friction in the following chapter will
be to connect it with the area between the eyebrows to strengthen
your awareness of the third eye. In later practices the throat
friction will be connected with different structures of the body