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#100DoPP d52: 43/200hrs (21%+!) YTT done!
Learned & practiced Pranayama, Bhandas, more leading, meditations (on 7 chakras). The chakras meditations in particular were the last thing we did today and had a bit of a “Doctor Strange” moment …
“I don’t believe in fairy tales about chakras, or energy, or the power of belief.” https://youtu.be/Lt-U_t2pUHI?t=55s (time index 55s)
… both when we started learning about chakras, and during the seven 10 minute guided meditations on each in particular.
As a scientist, I treat all such systems as mysticism, more stories and art than reality.
I tried to keep an open mind in two ways: one the benefits of meditation period (as has been scientifically studied), and two to learn and accept such mystic systems/beliefs as aspects of a culture, rather than reality.
After each 10 minute guided meditation, we took five minutes to journal our notes on each experience. I had a different reaction to each one.
But by the fifth in particular I had a feeling of having had enough, of such mysticism, mythology, that they were unnecessary, that I could not relate to them, and just wanted to reject it all.
During the sixth meditation, I was able to turn that emotional reaction of rejection into a more directed confrontation of questions and challenges.
Our teacher had been asking us to share our thoughts and reactions, and I said this one meditation in particular had made me think of many questions, and ask if I should share them. He invited me to do so.