Phase 2: palms up, palms down
Sit up with your back straight, palms upwards. Do not rest the
hands on your knees. Take half a minute to strengthen the
vibration in the hands and its connection with the eye, by
implementing the throat friction.
Then turn the palms downwards. The hands are still suspended in
the air and you are still breathing with the friction, but now the
palms are facing downwards.
Sense the quality of the vibration in your hands and all over your
body.
Then go back to the first position, with the palms upwards. Sense
the quality of energy in your hands and compare with the former
position.
Sense the general feeling inside yourself and see if you can
perceive any difference with how you felt in the former position.
Keep swapping from one position to the other, sensing, and
exploring your feelings.
Tips
- The more you become attuned to the perception of energy, the
clearer it will become that it's not only the quality of vibration in
your palms but the energy in your whole body, that varies from
one position to the other. The ‘flavour inside’, the atmosphere of
consciousness, changes completely. In the beginning these
variations may seem subtle but as you progress they will become
more and more tangible and distinct.
This leads to a science that aims at inducing particular states of
consciousness by tuning into different positions of the hands and,
more generally, of the body. Elements of this lore have been
incorporated in the rituals of all the traditions you encounter on
the planet. For instance, these ‘gestures of energy’ are called
mudrā in Sanskrit.
As you may judge for yourself while going through these
exercises, it is only if your perception is open that the gestures of
energy will yield their real effects.
Let us explore two of these very traditional gestures.
6.8 Gestures of energy
Sit with your back straight. Rub your hands for a few seconds and
then become motionless with your palms upwards.
Become aware in the eye, aware in the hands.