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Friday, September 3, 2010
India
LEP
well, here's my first post specifically documenting my experiences in bidaidi, karnataka, in a traditional vedic monastery.
I've been here for about two weeks now and it's been an intense experience. I first got here and did three days of a four day program called NSP. It addresses mental blocks and vulnerabilities known as "samskaras" through various meditations, accompanied with detailed explanations about how each works and what sort of change is elicited in a human body due to these processes.
After this program was done, (I had already done an earlier version of NSP about an year ago in LA) I noticed a significant change in my levels of discomfort with being in India. I have never really been very comfortable visiting India in the past due to various reasons: the pollution, distance and unfamiliarity from my usual life, etcetera. however, I felt a somewhat strange desire to know more about my culture and heritage. This was despite all the things that I felt bothered me.. so I either grew up a huge amount in two years or there was an inherent change in my perception towards my discomforts.
I believe the latter.
About a week later, the program that I can here for began. it's called Living Enlightenment Process or LEP and aims to prepare the human body physically and psychologically for enlightenment. Now for a quick background on me and my beliefs of this concept. The first time that I had ever heard of something such as enlightenment, I was quite young. I had been raised on Indian comic books that attempted to portray the various Hindu deities and their qualities. I distinctly remember the Gautama Buddha comics speaking about enlightenment but nothing more specific than that.
Almost a decade after the comics, I heard about enlightenment again, but this time through my parents. They had found a very traditional vedic master who said that it was the singular purpose of a human birth; to achieve enlightenment. I don't think I was mature enough to understand what that really meant and I simply shrugged it off and went about my merry way.
Fast forward two years to this summer. After incredible trials and tribulations in my social and personal life, I decided that I needed to give this sort of traditional thought a shot and headed over to India.
I'm slightly behind in my experiences (about two weeks to be exact) but I will upload my daily experiences as time progresses. Now with the brief background that I have above, I'll go ahead and describe my day.
today was one of the most special days; I had been waiting for this meditation since arriving here. Swamiji had mentioned that he had come across a meditation technology that used the breath to excite all the muscles in the body and cause a physiological change on the way it is built to create a permanent structure. For example, the results of this meditation would be incredible increases in muscle mass and strength, along with simultaneous fat loss. It seemed far too good to be true, but I was open to try new things. I mean who knows, in the off chance that it did work, it'd be amazing!
However in the two weeks that I had been here, I didn't really have a chance to workout with weights or be on a high protein, so I lost significant muscle mass and was quite dismayed. I was slightly anxious for this meditation process to work and woke up early and bolted out of my bed to the class. I won't go into the specifics of the techniques, but as I performed it, I felt an intensely hot sensation all over my body, one that is very similar to the feeling that accompanies a very heavy workout.. with brief numbness, accompanied with blood rushing back to the area that hard been worked out, as well as the tingling sensation. I observed my muscles swell slightly and I'm extremely excited about the possibilities that this process may hold. and keep in mind that the meditation we had done was done for maybe 30 minutes at most and I was feeling effects that I usually do after a long 2-3 hour workout session.
I've been here for about two weeks now and it's been an intense experience. I first got here and did three days of a four day program called NSP. It addresses mental blocks and vulnerabilities known as "samskaras" through various meditations, accompanied with detailed explanations about how each works and what sort of change is elicited in a human body due to these processes.
After this program was done, (I had already done an earlier version of NSP about an year ago in LA) I noticed a significant change in my levels of discomfort with being in India. I have never really been very comfortable visiting India in the past due to various reasons: the pollution, distance and unfamiliarity from my usual life, etcetera. however, I felt a somewhat strange desire to know more about my culture and heritage. This was despite all the things that I felt bothered me.. so I either grew up a huge amount in two years or there was an inherent change in my perception towards my discomforts.
I believe the latter.
About a week later, the program that I can here for began. it's called Living Enlightenment Process or LEP and aims to prepare the human body physically and psychologically for enlightenment. Now for a quick background on me and my beliefs of this concept. The first time that I had ever heard of something such as enlightenment, I was quite young. I had been raised on Indian comic books that attempted to portray the various Hindu deities and their qualities. I distinctly remember the Gautama Buddha comics speaking about enlightenment but nothing more specific than that.
Almost a decade after the comics, I heard about enlightenment again, but this time through my parents. They had found a very traditional vedic master who said that it was the singular purpose of a human birth; to achieve enlightenment. I don't think I was mature enough to understand what that really meant and I simply shrugged it off and went about my merry way.
Fast forward two years to this summer. After incredible trials and tribulations in my social and personal life, I decided that I needed to give this sort of traditional thought a shot and headed over to India.
I'm slightly behind in my experiences (about two weeks to be exact) but I will upload my daily experiences as time progresses. Now with the brief background that I have above, I'll go ahead and describe my day.
today was one of the most special days; I had been waiting for this meditation since arriving here. Swamiji had mentioned that he had come across a meditation technology that used the breath to excite all the muscles in the body and cause a physiological change on the way it is built to create a permanent structure. For example, the results of this meditation would be incredible increases in muscle mass and strength, along with simultaneous fat loss. It seemed far too good to be true, but I was open to try new things. I mean who knows, in the off chance that it did work, it'd be amazing!
However in the two weeks that I had been here, I didn't really have a chance to workout with weights or be on a high protein, so I lost significant muscle mass and was quite dismayed. I was slightly anxious for this meditation process to work and woke up early and bolted out of my bed to the class. I won't go into the specifics of the techniques, but as I performed it, I felt an intensely hot sensation all over my body, one that is very similar to the feeling that accompanies a very heavy workout.. with brief numbness, accompanied with blood rushing back to the area that hard been worked out, as well as the tingling sensation. I observed my muscles swell slightly and I'm extremely excited about the possibilities that this process may hold. and keep in mind that the meditation we had done was done for maybe 30 minutes at most and I was feeling effects that I usually do after a long 2-3 hour workout session.
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