We must really be evolving as a race cause it seems that nobody is being let off of big spiritual decisions these days. It's really a gift although it may not seem like one at first, we get to choose, do we become like the serpent shedding an old skin and face the deeper pain, first of all discovering the inner belief in our emptiness then releasing it as the illusion it is ? Or do we let the situations convince us to continue running after our unfulfilled needs as we choose to believe in our lack and hunt for the outer vehicle to fill us up, the Band-Aid to distract us once again from the true experience of metamorphosis. This choice keeps our hunger for love and connection reading the menu rather than eating the meal.
The Universe and free will, will allow either choice, in theory, yet it seems these days the nudges keep getting stronger when we turn away from love and the belief in our fullness and give ourselves to conscious and unconscious survival fears. The problem is that so much of the time we feel ashamed to look at ourselves so instead we engage in power struggles that divert our feelings of lack for the time being. If we couldl remember for ourselves and each other that the only reason we come into a body is to find out where we don't know ourselves and work it through........well Life would feel so much nicer and all the energy that gets invested in judging ourselves and others, would have something positive to dedicate itself to.
The sanskrit word Prana means constant flow. Our fears and limitations create constrictions in the healthy flow of prana. It all starts with Maha Prana the great prana of Creation then steps itself down into physical prana. In our physical prana we have two kinds Chitta or Manas Prana which is a mental prana governing thought and emotion and Prana Shakti which is the prana behind all the physical systems. The nose is one of our most important organs . This is because two of the most important nadis(psychic nerves) Ida and Pingala are located there, one connected to each nostril. The left nostril is connected to right brain and activities associated with it like creativity and deep thought, introversion and the right nostril is connected to the left brain and activities associated with it things like extroversion and physical activity. When we are feeling unhappy we can be sure that these two Nadis are not harmonized. The purpose of Asana and other yogic practices is to awaken your pranic shakti and consciousness and create a harmonious flow between the ida and pingala nadis. Practicing yoga helps to recognise the internal and external aspects of our prana. When we can feel the internal prana it deepens our relationship with the external prana and our senses. At this time in our evolution we do not need to reject the external world of senses to find our deeper meaning, we just need to know it's Source. Knowing the changeless Source of Creation lets us overcome the fear of losing what we experience through our senses, and lets us fully enter life. It's the fear of losing that holds us back from full enjoyment of inner selves ourselves and the outer world. Now back to the beginning when we were talking about the challenges and how understanding prana can help . When the opportunity for transformation comes our way it is the mental prana or the thought process that we want to transform. Doing this will allow the new thought form to educate and heal the emotions. Emotion is actually a mental experience !!!
And the deepest Healer is recognizing that - Love Is -there is nothing that is excluded from it, ever in any moment, in any situation, in any pain, in any revelry...........It simply is everything, without beginning or ending without form yet all forms, without attraction or aversion, without freedom, without entrapment......."Love is yours in the inner hunt for Love that includes the outer enjoyment ...

by Anandashakti