Question about the Fire Breath and sexual desire
October 26th, 2007
Dear Puran.
I have been practicing the heart meditation on my own for a while and I’m having a great experience. One day I could see a heart beating in every object and element around me. Thank you for sharing such a great way to find our unity .
My problem is, each time I do the fire breath I feel heat in my body, which I understand. Sometimes I feel my head very heavy which is OK. But my concern is that lately I’ve been having an increase in my sexual desire immediately after the meditation and sometimes during the meditation. Is this a normal feeling? Or am I doing something wrong to attract negative energy around me? Most of the time I feel close to Light, to God ,to LOVE during the meditation. I worry because my intention is pure but why is this happening?
Please reply.
With Love
Nour
Dear Nour,
As I understand, you’re concerned that having an increase in sexual desire during and after meditation is an sign that you’re doing the meditation incorrectly.
On the contrary, when doing the Fire Breath, (described in detail in Living from the Heart) this is to be expected. The Fire Breath causes a rising current of energy to flow up and into the heart. An increase of body heat comes from the increased metabolism. The intense concentration on bodily sensation that is typical of Heart Rhythm Meditation, together with the increased energy the Fire Breath produces, will naturally lead to an increased effectiveness of all the organs. The Fire Breath also burns calories very fast.
I don’t see anything wrong with sexuality. It is as natural as eating and sleeping. It produces a great feeling of closeness and intimacy between two people, and euphoria and peace whether together or alone. The power of these feelings can give rise to abuse or to love. It is the way you express your sexual impulses that makes them right or wrong. All that produces happiness is good.
You can always turn off this effect by doing the Water Breath.
The only thing I would be concerned about in your meditation is that the rising energy stops at your heart and is then directed forward. I don’t recommend letting the energy rise higher than the heart. Your heart needs this energy, which it turns into courage and creativity. If you were to let it rise straight up the spine, it would become hard to deal with and produce undesirable results. By holding the energy in the heart, the heart receives the greatest benefit.
With love, Puran
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Add your own1. Siraj al-Haqq | October 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I’ve had some rather intense sexual feelings during and after some of my meditation sessions. Beyond the physical aspect, though, I also had strong mental and emotional responses of love. Actually, these experiences were all about making love with another, and with others, but not simply in a physical way. They were about making love manifest in an incredibly holistic way, through a total engagement with another with all aspects of my being - with my physical self, my emotional self, my intellectual self, my spiritual self. These experiences didn’t actually involve any direct physical connection with another person - I was alone doing my meditation - so there was no actual sexual activity in the usual sense. But these experiences of making love with another were very intense, very powerful and very heart expanding … far beyond the typical act of having sex.
Each time I’ve gone fearlessly and fully with the flow of these experiences and each time the effects lasted for a long time . . . and are really still with me. What was born out of this love making was a flood of insights into the nature of Love, the power of Love and the potentials of Love in a much more ‘tangible’ way than I had ever known or imagined before.
As Puran commented to me years ago regarding a powerful and expanding experience I had through another person, I hadn’t fallen in love with her, but with God through her. In the meditation experiences I’ve just briefly described, I was continuing my love affair with God through the openings created by my meditations. There’s really no adequate way to describe that kind of experience - you just need to experience it for yourself. If only we could all do this … over and over again … the world would be a very different kind of place.
2. Asatar Bair | October 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Wow, great comment, Siraj al-Haqq!
The fire breath is amazing, in the power and passion it unleashes.
Thanks, Nour, for the great question and to Puran for the insightful answer.
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