Energy Rising and Dissolving

Feel the breath as energy rising and dissolving; in its dissolution, peace.

How to practice

1. 1Sense the in-breath not as air but as a current of energy rising.
2. 2Sense the out-breath as that current sinking and dissolving.
3. 3Let each dissolution be complete — nothing held back.
4. 4Between dissolutions, rest in the openness that remains.

Terms in this technique

śakti

Energy, the dynamic power of consciousness; Devi.

prāṇa

The vital breath/energy; here, the upward-moving breath.

laya

Dissolution, absorption; the merging of attention into its source.

Sources consulted

• Jaideva Singh, Vijñānabhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization (Motilal Banarsidass, 1979)
• Bettina Bäumer, Vijñâna Bhairava: The Practice of Centering Awareness (Indica Books, 2011)