YOGIC ALIGNMENT

EUGENE HALLIDAY Podcast

In Yoga this means aligning all the parts of the being in one, unified direction. The parts to be aligned are the urges from below, the feelings from the chest region, and the thinking in the head. If we put numbers on these then we have a single appetite in the belly, two feelings in the chest: like/dislike and, in the head, five specialised sense organs, all connected by a coordinating spine. These are not normally aligned at all. The purpose of doing so is to attain a much higher level of functioning: a “super-function.”

Historically, most people did not concern themselves with coordinating the three centres. However, most people today have got them in line in some degree, especially the chest and belly centres. Yet their thinking has no power over the feeling life or over the primary urge. Thinking goes on, but does not interfere with the other centres. To rectify this takes work. We have to will to do it, to aspire to it.

The starting point is observation: We observe that thinking, feeling and urging are located separately in the body. The keyword for the aspirant is “watch.” Do this for 3 months: the first month you watch the drive to see where it goes. In the second month you watch your likes/dislikes, the continuous flux of feelings. In the third month you watch your thoughts; you will find them chaotic. After three months you will be convinced that the only unity is in the urge department.
The next stage is to be more disciplined and at the end of another three months you will have become a ‘disciple.’ You start again at the bottom, but this time, instead of just observing your internal processes, you interfere with them. You deliberately follow each urge, feeling and thought and see the effect it is having on the other two centres. You are now studying and interfering with the process.

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