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 As I slowly, gradually get into , in the groove of , regular daily meditation( I sleep longer Saturday morning so forget the 6 am habit) I find it is like a friend I rely on to keep me warm and stable and that grows over time. Like cozying up to a lover on the couch, one gets quiet and peaceful, or reading one' s favourite book or whatever that quieting habit is when alone and everything slows down, which nowadays, due to electronic media, maybe we stopped allowing ourselves anymore. So inner fear and anxiety of disapproval from others dissipates and I have a center. Of course it is easy to talk of technical progress. This does ot seem to be the central point however. Since I have been doing energy work so long I jump hurdles quicker. Little tricks occur to me and make sense that I learned before. Kechari mudra with tongue opens throat chakra, lets energy flow there. Cross arms over chest and it holds warmth in the heart chakra and as I felt yesterday energy comes from crown so turn eyes upwards to help direct flow of energy from there. Siddhasana is sitting with heel under perineum to block downward flow of energy. These four techniques hold energy upwardsin heart, head area.  At any rate is is a work in progress which spontaneously develops like a friendship. My yoga is growing similarly like since I started my cleaning job I had to do less yoga so my flexibilty suffered. Now it is returning. 

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I am doing this again easily for example or in splits putting face on floor next to knee and hands around heel and grabbing wrist with other hand.  Then one keeps pushing leg forward and leaning back as you pull back leg slowly towards head. I find this getting easier just by itself as my back gets more flexible and legs loosen up and I see a clear parallel between this and the gradual progress in meditation. Make no big push or pressure. Just over time let it come and eventually it will seem easy. Like you watch professional athletes who just flow but really they worked on it for years. I really could not meditate for years but I cannot imagine all that massive energy body progress wasted over years and not being able to acheive deep peaceful states. It would make no sense.

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I did initiations into kriya yoga. Meditation technique involve all senses being developed using imagination to visualize, hear, smell, etc and create full movie as one sequentially builds control. This is no vipassana, blankness. At the end of training one 

learns samadhi technique which is suspension of breath. One hears of nirvikalpi samadhi and various other types which are said to be final enlightenment or immortality ( soruba samadhi?). At any rate I automatically just go into this minimal to no breathing state as I sit in siddhasana. I am not sure about mirror under nose technique to see if I am really breathing but it seems in this positions one can do with litlle breath anyway. Perhaps this accelerates electrical current flow and slows thought. At any rate I don't try to think of anything, just calm down. Often I get a jingle in my head or random thoughts but generally it quietens more or less towards the end and I feel some additional progress in energy flows in various body parts. If this and peace of mind continues through morning, day then it can be beneficial just as the asanas added flexibility and vigour can help in my job, making me younger, as I am 55 the sports element of yoga is critical. I seem to have lost weight in the last month doing intermittent fasting so that is a benefit as well.