When you can stabilise yourself on the edge for more than a few
seconds your awareness becomes super-awareness, and you get in
touch with the mystery of the threshold. This is also the stage
that will give you the capacity for an unusually quick recovery and
make you a master sleeper of the Napoleon type.
From this discussion we can draw the following practical
conclusions: Do not include phase 3 if you are practising alone,
without the spoken instructions of a friend or a cassette, and if
you are practising in bed just before going to sleep, especially if
you tend to fall asleep each time you go through the countdown.
Do include phase 3:
- if you have difficulty falling asleep
- if you are practising during the day to recover from fatigue. In
this case the intermittent dozing that comes from the countdown
is one of the best ways to refresh yourself - if your awareness has become consolidated and if you are
starting to be able to approach the razor's edge, without being
projected into sleep - if the night practice is conducted for you by a friend. It may
then be interesting to spend more time in phase 3 and to go on
oscillating for as long as possible on the edge as discussed above.
You can then spend a good 15 to 20 minutes on the phase of
countdown.
15.6 Phase 3c: vibration in the nose while inhaling
If practised regularly, this exercise will greatly enhance your
sensitivity to smells. Moreover, you will significantly improve
your capacity to catch the energy from the air. As you become
more expert in this part, it will become obvious that a clash takes
place between the vibration of the air and the membrane inside
your nose, each time you draw the air in. Focus on this clash, be
more and more aware of it each time you draw the air in, and a
sharp feeling of vibration will develop in your nose. An
unexpected awakening will take place in your nostrils.
It is almost as if you were ‘drinking’ the air. This nourishes and
reinforces the whole pharynx and has a direct effect of
stimulation on the third eye. Remember that your third eye is not
a spot somewhere in the forehead, but more like a tunnel that goes
from between the eyebrows to the back of the head. The olfactory
nerves, after travelling in the nasal mucosa, gather and pass into
the head cavity through the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone,