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8. Awareness Circulation

You were talking about awareness, awareness circulation, and psycho-mental circulation. What do you mean by that? What is the difference?

There is no difference. Just as you know the concept of blood circulation, the circulation in the body, in various postures, there is also circulation of the awareness: that is psycho-mental circulation. Your mind circulates. So it is the same thing, there is no difference. Therefore, you have a different effect of the poses: Janu Sirsasana has a peculiar mental effect, because of pranic, mental circulation. And Kapotasana will have a different effect. You do Janu Sirsasana for two minutes and Kapotasana for two minutes, why do you have different effects? Because the awareness, the circulation of the mind is different.

In Janu Sirsasana, the mind becomes serene. In Kapotasana, it gives you some other effects, it triggers you, it energises you, it makes you active. So that is the mental circulation, or awareness circulation, and every posture has a different mental circulation, and that's why there are different effects.


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