Hi. Thank you, Almustafa, for answering my previous questions. However, I'm still trying to figure out some things.
1) What exactly causes suppression? Does making yourself concentrate on one specific thing at the exclusion of everything else cause suppression? And if so then how is meditation not a form of suppression? It's easy for me to see to how emotions can be suppressed, but I'm not sure I understand how thought-suppression works. If I'm anchoring my attention on my breathing and a lustful thought arises and I shift my attention back to my breathing how does that not cause suppression of that thought?
2) I think I read somewhere on this website that doing root locks (mula bandha) is a form of suppression. That doesn't make sense to me. How is that possible?
3) When my sexual energy has the tendency to move downwards, my body seems to automatically want to tighten the area around my perineum as a way of preventing that energy to flow outward. Is this something that I should be counteracting? Because even when I practice Ham-Sah very vigorously, it oftentimes feels as though an emission is imminent if I try to counteract that tightening.
4) Swami Sivananda recommends using headstands to transmute the energy. Why don't you guys ever recommend them. Is that not a valid form of transmutation?
5) To prevent wet dreams, is it necessary to do a concentration practice (whether pranayama or meditation) while I'm lying in bed and about to go to sleep?
6) and if so, is it better to a) meditate on an overall feeling of equanimity with the breath or b) equanimity with the overall feeling of the body or c) equanimity with the overall energy in the body, or is it better to d) visualize the energy circulating up the spine?
7) To prevent wet dreams, is it advisable to try to enter into sleep consciously (while doing a meditation)?
8) Does making my breath intentionally deeper constitute a form of suppression? Is it harmful or beneficial?
1) What exactly causes suppression? Does making yourself concentrate on one specific thing at the exclusion of everything else cause suppression? And if so then how is meditation not a form of suppression? It's easy for me to see to how emotions can be suppressed, but I'm not sure I understand how thought-suppression works. If I'm anchoring my attention on my breathing and a lustful thought arises and I shift my attention back to my breathing how does that not cause suppression of that thought?
2) I think I read somewhere on this website that doing root locks (mula bandha) is a form of suppression. That doesn't make sense to me. How is that possible?
3) When my sexual energy has the tendency to move downwards, my body seems to automatically want to tighten the area around my perineum as a way of preventing that energy to flow outward. Is this something that I should be counteracting? Because even when I practice Ham-Sah very vigorously, it oftentimes feels as though an emission is imminent if I try to counteract that tightening.
4) Swami Sivananda recommends using headstands to transmute the energy. Why don't you guys ever recommend them. Is that not a valid form of transmutation?
5) To prevent wet dreams, is it necessary to do a concentration practice (whether pranayama or meditation) while I'm lying in bed and about to go to sleep?
6) and if so, is it better to a) meditate on an overall feeling of equanimity with the breath or b) equanimity with the overall feeling of the body or c) equanimity with the overall energy in the body, or is it better to d) visualize the energy circulating up the spine?
7) To prevent wet dreams, is it advisable to try to enter into sleep consciously (while doing a meditation)?
8) Does making my breath intentionally deeper constitute a form of suppression? Is it harmful or beneficial?