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ENERGIZATION EXERCISES form talks by Brother Turyananda

The mind has to be convinced about energization.

All of us have disease in our bodies, minds and our emotions. We must get over it by energization.

You are working on your physical, astral and causal bodies in the exercises. Disease has to be removed by the harmony of all three bodies.

What is will power? There are two parts:

desire
enthusiasm- the greatest conductor of will power in your spiritual life.

Problems develop from under action or over action of life energy.

To become spiritual involves biological regeneration. The attention at the C.C. is vitally important in order to draw in the lifetronic energy that heals.

You must do every exercise with devotion.

EE help to transcend body identification, energy identification and thought identification. There is a definite re-engineering at the cellular level to get us ready for the cosmic current.

To concencentrate on the ajna (C.C.) it is helpful to keep the eyes closed free from distractions.

Jitendra

Today i am at a gym at the 'y'. Everybody is using exercise machines.I asked for a separate room where I could energize. I feel so fortunate to have these exercises that Yogananda created. Because they are helpful in the process of recognizing that we are more than the human body. We are energy.

They are the best for me.

The sort of jog in place one though, I always wonder if that is an exercise to see if you can keep you heart rate slow (since if you are going to be meditating afterwards, you may not want that), or if it's just an energy exercise with no attempt to maintain heart rate. Once in a while, it seems I can do that and not have my heart rate increase much at all, but those days are not very common.

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Because they are helpful in the process of recognizing that we are more than the human body. We are energy.

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On the planet that I'm from we have a plant that is similar to rose hips here. It has an ingredient that makes you people look like your get up and go, got up and went. It feeds are internal combustion centers.  :-*

May I ask, which planet are you referring?

Planet Peachy is located in the Razeldorf sector. On the edge of The Tapeworm galaxy.

Well I suppose since thoughts can manifest, it's possible, but at that level I don't think I would be hanging out here, unless I was confused about maya.

 I have needed to find my own encouragement to do the srf energization exercises. Very few people will stick with a physical regimen. These exercises are more than a physical routine. They are also a spiritual routine. One of my main inspirations to continue them;  is because even though I have been around this earth for much longer than most of my friends my health is surprisingly better than most of theirs.

Those spiritual exercises and those given by Amma are truly precious. i can still remember going regularly to the early meditations at the San Diego srf temple and seeing a very elderly woman come every morning with her rolling suitcase and the most cheerful smile. She did those energization exercises with us every morning.  ;D  Draw in the cosmic energy... ooommmm  :D The idea of sending energy to body parts and having a tangible way of doing it regardless if you experience the prana or not appeals to me.

I can confirm the Genius of Paramhansa Yogananda in devising these exercises. The innovation is not in the calisthenics themselves, rather in the conscious control of life energy which is employed by muscle tensing to revitalize all bodily parts.

It is like having barbells in your hand but they are not really there.....they are like portable barbells. It might take sometime getting used to because we are not working against outer forces but instead are relying on inner forces and the development of those inner forces. This whole path brings together many ways of developing our inner resources. Being able to magnify our inner light, our inner magnetism, our inner will power.

Yes mccoy. Sometimes I wake up at nite and feel restless. i believe i get this energy from practicing the energization exercises daily. So i get up and practice them again and if I still feel up to it I will meditate afterwards.

Thank You Paramahansa Yogananda for these exercises and the good health i have which is due in large part from
practicing his routine.

Do the Energizing Exercises two or more times a day – it will become a habit to draw energy into the body.
Be enthusiastic – be aware of the techniques you do every minute.

Brother Bhaktananda

Want to loose weight? Master (Yogananda)recommended doing the running in place 100 times and also the walking in place exercise 100x which is given in the energization work out. One more thing he said: practice the stomach lift many times.

A definite asset of the EEs is that you can do that almost everywhere. The backyard, a  truck stop, home or  hotel room with an open windows,  woods, beach and so on. No particular gear is required, only the mental gear of visualization and concentration

Interesting to see this again Scotty. i remember talking to Brother Turyananda myself and he told me he practiced the energization exercises several times a day. They really develop the will power. When i was younger, more limber and had more time, i used to practice the hatha yoga postures. Which really awakened my kundalini a couple of times. Now i am putting more time into these energization exercises then when i was younger. i also practice the IAM techniques almost every day. Both routines get your breath going and thus the prana energy behind breath. The 20-20-20 breathing exercises also make you have more attention to the prana energy and the breath which are keystones to the meditation routine.

I read about how a lot of folks complete these in 15 minutes. I can too. But I think it's too fast.

I know it says, By this timing you will know if you're going too fast or too slow. But then it says, Do them slowly with deep concentration.

Contradictory really.

It takes me about 30 minutes. I don't see the point in whipping thru them. I'm not so sure PY intended to do all these in 15 minutes, my bet is someone changed it.

Perhaps it depends on how many times u practice each separate 'exercise'. Many times I find it difficult to fit in all the practices. It seems like the 'demands' on our time force us to make choices. I would say that it is good u have made the energization exercises a priority. That is an inspiration to us all. I remember Brother 'Turyananda' saying he practiced them more then twice a day. I think the guidelines were set up so we wouldn't cut ourselves short. Not as 'rules' to shorten our practice if we so choose to make it longer.

SI, I agree with Steve, I would say if you enjoy the EE made with concentration and it takes 30 minutes, you should really take that time as your personal benchmark.

I recall reading in the Autobiography about Master's young Ranchi students  and their ability to isolate all of the muscles and energize them individually. I often think of that when practicing.

Those kids were blessed to have such a Master at such an early age. Although I expect some of them did not continue with the practice.

Brother Turiyanada on the:

ENERGIZATION EXERCISES
1 The mind has to be convinced about energization.
2 All of us have disease in our bodies, minds and our emotions. We must get over it by energization.
3 You are working on your physical, astral and causal bodies in the exercises. Disease has to be removed by the harmony of all three bodies.
4 What is will power? There are two parts:
a desire
b enthusiasm- the greatest conductor of will power in your spiritual life.
5 Problems develop from underaction or overaction of life energy.
6  To become spiritual involves biological regeneration. The attention at the C.C. is vitally important in order to draw in the lifetronic energy that heals.
7 You must do every exercise with devotion.
8  EE helps to transcend body identification, energy identification and thought identification. There is a definite re-engineering at the cellular level to get us ready for the cosmic current.
9 "When doing the Recharging Exercises, invoke a reverential feeling. God Himself has given these exercises to Guruji. You are to be embraced by God as Christ Energy."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pg8OoxHahQ&feature=youtu.be

Found this compelling.

Yes it amazing having exercises that help you use imaginary barbells without paying for a gym or expensive workout equipment. You can take your gym equipment wherever u go! There is muscle tension associated with picking up a barbell. In the same way u can consciously exert tension in those same muscles. You can get the same result but at the same time consciously draw energy inward to do so and develop will power in the process!

well, actually the results are not exactly the same, since the mechanical stress provided by weights or bodyweight in some calisthenics is much more than that provided by simple energization. In other words, weights will tend to cause substantial increase in skeletal muscle mass, whereas the EE might act more on mitocondria , the cellular energy plants, that seems more germane to pranic control.

Also to grow muscles is not always necessary to emply weight and gym appliances. Jail inmates in lack of gyms practice push-ups,. pull-ups and many other exercises which take advantage of bodyweight.

EEs remain a unique concept anyway and a sure way to keep muscles and connective tissues healthy.

I still practice these spiritual exercises every day and will never forget the day my blood pressure dropped from about its usual 150 over 98 to 120 over 72 and has never gone up since. I thank Paramahansa Yogananda for this miracle in my life and have no doubt in my mind that he performed this miracle and my religious devotion to practicing these energization exercises was part of my cure because I remained faithful to the practice of these energization exercises he created. It is 2:06 a.m. where I live and I am going out on the porch to practice them now!

At the end of a very busy day Paramahansa Yogananda would often be seen going out outside and energizing. Since he recommended practicing the energization exercises twice a day he often went back into his room and later was seen walking back on the porch to practice them once again.

I remember talking with Brother Turyananda and that he told me that at the time he was practicing the energization exercises 3x a day. They build will power in us as well. He also told me he was trying to lose weight and that he ate one day and then would not eat the next. Alternating from one day to the next; eating and not eating. I asked him if I should do the same and he said “No”. He told me the best way to lose weight was to push yourself away from the dinner table lol.

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Below I am practicing the energization exercises at Lake Michigan near where I live.

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Those exercices are so simple, so surprising for the new one on the path, and yet every year I discover something new, or something I didn't understand about them.
They are also a preparation for Kriya : learning to move the energy by the simple use of will, with the support of a physical support.
They are a treasure, and we often underestimate them.

Thanks Komyo just reading your post inspired me to get off my ass here and not be a couch potato. After reading your post i have sufficient motivation to get up and practice these exercises that Master has given us.

One quite convenient aspect of the energization exercises is that they all can be done standing. This makes it possible to practice some or all of them anywhere you may stand.

Would love to be able to energize and meditate with you some day!

Steve, beautiful picture!  :)

Lately every time I practice these spiritual exercises I thank Paramahansa Yogananda for developing them for me. They include every part of the body and help keep the body limber and in shape. No commitment to SRF is required to get the energization exercises. I try to always go thru them once before 12 noon so I do not find myself out of time to run thru them the second time at nite.

Paramahansa Yogananda lays out a method somewhat like a direction manual in the lessons. He says this about meditation and the energization exercises;

Before we can meditate scientifically we must be able to concentrate and before we can concentrate we must free ourselves from the distractions of the senses in the body.

The first step in scientific meditation therefore is to control the body and this we learn to do through the energization exercises. Behind the gross physical body is the intelligent life force in the form of five life currents, the crystallizing, Assimilating, circulatory, metabolic and eliminating currents. These continually sustain the body and its functions. To fully control the body we must be able to consciously direct the life force.

I think we all, for instance, put together a chair or some kind of furniture or mechanical device or model plane or car or ship that is sent to you online through the mail and usually comes with a manual. Quite often we like to just rip the box open and try to start putting it together. That has often been my approach. Then when we run into challenges and parts don’t fit together we have to go back to the manual and start from the beginning; finding out where we went wrong. I think that it is very similar with the SRF lessons. It is almost like a written manual and Step-by-step procedure in which you can go back and look and see what you left out and what you have yet to perfect.

God has given to us the omnipotent instrument of our Will, by which we can control all forces,  including the life force within our body. When in practicing the energization exercises, we concentrate at the point between the eyebrows, the will gradually becomes attuned to the soul and charged with its divine power. Thus strengthened, the will can command the life force to bring about any changes desired in the body — to free it from disease, tensions, or restlessness, and make it a fitting temple for meditation as well as a perfect instrument to express the divine qualities of the soul — and the life force will then obey.

Wonderful.