Exercise in Curbing Impulse
Purpose;
Create a consciousness of thought and action to become aware of impulsive tendencies.
Method
Understand that unconscious and uncontrolled spasmodic movements destroy nervous and mental vitality. Thoughtless and unregulated impulses destroy psychic life. Lost rhythm and power are the result of bad habits.
Implement into your daily life the practice of considered action and movement. Look before you leap. Increase your awareness of peripheral vision. The broader wider vision of the eye which can observe movement and action at nearly 180 degrees. Become aware of movement around. Become aware of other people without moving or taking action.
Use the observation of the eye center in the area between the eyebrows. When reading look from the back of the head and through the eyes. Locate at the back of the skull the areas from which you are able to read and allow the eyes at the front to soften. All this takes some practice but is, in a very short period of time the basis for incredible transformation in action and thought. It is the king of magnetic rhythm.
Exercise; Walking meditation
Purpose;
To develop lung capacity, to vitalize the body, to develop steadiness of mind, to create a powerful internal rhythm.
Method
Begin with the understanding of the proper mechanism for diagrammatic breathing. That is, on exhale draw the floating ribs inward. Inhale holding the floating ribs fill the abdomen, chest upper back. Empty the upper back, chest then abdomen.
Walking count four breaths in (one count for each step), Count four breaths out (one count for each step).
Increase this after two rounds to five in and five out Then progressively increase until 10
in and 10 out; You may not find this comfortable so stop when you are at your maximum comfort zone. When there is strain like in all aspects of life there is no benefit at all.
At this point there are variations;
For increased energy continue the 10 in and 10 out count but add a single count at the turning point between in and out. At this point, the fully inhaled breath continue to add one count each round.
10 in, hold 1, 10 out 10 in, hold 2, 10 out 10 in, hold 3, 10 out 10 in, hold 4, 10 out 10 in, hold 5, 10 out 10 in, hold 6, 10 out 10 in, hold 7, 10 out etc Do not strain or get to the point of discomfort. Maintain a steady walking pace and make sure you allow for change in gradient. Up hills the breathing will be challenged.
For steadiness and calming in this walking meditation hold the breath at the fully exhaled point.
And step by step add a single count to this exhaled position. 10 out, 1 hold, 10 in 10 out, 2 hold, 10 in 10 out, 3 hold, 10 in
10 out, 4 hold, 10 in 10 out, 5 hold, 10 in 10 out, 6 hold, 10 in 10 out, 7 hold, 10 in Do not strain or get to the point of discomfort. Maintain a steady walking pace and make sure you allow for change in gradient. Up hills the breathing will be challenged.