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Reverse the tongue so it points towards the back of the throat, lips closed but jaw loose. Make the sound “Guh-guh-guh-guhguh” as far back in your throat as possible. Repeat it, with rhythmic sucks that make a clucking sound. Make sure that you’re creating a vacuum between your tongue and your soft palate. Pulsate the vacuum on the clucks so that it pulls on your soft palate and uvula. Do it gently because otherwise over time your tongue will become sore. Do this for a while and see if it effects your overall sense of well-being. For me it triggers a ‘softening’ sensation around the heart area. How thrilling! This tongue position in hatha yoga is called ‘Kechari Mudra Stage 1.’ More about Kechari can be found at the Advanced Yoga Practices website 27 , but personally I am not interested in tongue-lengthening exercises. I’m happy to stay just at Stage 1 and use the reversed tongue as a reminder to continue sleep-nursing. Also I now prefer the sound ‘Huh’ deeper in the throat. Quoting an expert: “When the divine goddess comes up, the tongue rolls back.” – Sri Ramakrishna I would suggest a slight edit of the quote: “The uvula/soft palate is Mother’s doorbell. Push on it and see what happens.” Also of interest to me: according to Dr. Rick Strassman, the pineal gland develops from the roof of the fetal mouth before migrating to the center of the brain. 28 Perhaps sleep-nursing massages the pineal? 27 http://www.aypsite.org/108.html 28 Strassman, Rick J. MD (2001). DMT: The Spirit Molecule. p. 61 26
A Few Final Notes Mentioned on the inside front cover but it bears repeating:Swami Vivekananda (founder of The Vedanta Society) wrote that keeping awareness on the heart or the empty mind for 12 seconds [24 blinks- R] is called a ‘Dharana’ (concentration), and a particular kind of wave arises 29 . 12 such Dharanas make a ‘Dhyana,’ (meditation) and 12 such Dhyanas make a ‘Samadhi.’ I’m happy to have this explained so succinctly by the master (and other teachers)! 12 seconds = (two relaxed breaths in and out) a Dharana. 144 seconds (2 minutes, 24 seconds or 24 breaths) = 12 Dharanas or a Dhyana. 1728 seconds (28 minutes 48 seconds or 288 breaths) = 12 Dhyanas or a Samadhi. Combining with Eckhart Tolle’s no-thought blinks, then 3456 blinks should take us through to the other side! Everything that is worth anything I learned from watching animals and babies. When my youngest son was six months old, we lived with another mother who had a boy his same age. They were of course great pals, and one day I came upon them sitting and trading what I realized were nursing sounds. My son, breastfed, was going “Geh-duh, Geh-duh,” duplicating his tug at the nipple. His friend was bottle-fed, and his rubber nipple had a hole in it so large that he basically just glugged down the formula. The sound he was making was “Gul-lah, Gul-lah.” They would repeat their sounds to each other and then laugh hilariously. 29 http://blog.kkaggarwal.com/2014/04/spiritual-prescription-meditation-vs-concentration 27
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