First let me say I am not a KY teacher, just a guy that decided to do Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. So whatever your teacher says trumps what I say. I started a 40 day practice and kept it join for 15 months. Stopped and then started again a little over a month ago.
I found a couple of challenges that caused unnecessary delays in my practice. Hopefully these simple simple pointers will save you some time and aggravation.
The first challenge was counting. I tried making audio recordings, counting in my head and nothing flowed. A tip I learned on this newsgroup was to use the left hand to count. Use the left thumb as a pointer. The four fingers become your abacus. First touch the base of the pointer finger, then the base of the middle finger and so on. The next row of four starts with the first joint of the pointer finger and continues on the joints of all the fingers, the next row starts on the second joint and the last row is the tips of the fingers. Each of these 16 points gets 3 pumps and a Wah Hey Guru. 48 pumps. Simple. Elegant. After a couple months I just knew how many 48 was, but it took a while of using the fingers to get there.
The second hard thing is your right hand. The instructions just show a picture of the right hand up and do not mention dropping it. Not only is it hard to hold up your arm and hand for extended periods (I was up to 62 minutes a day for six months) but it is distracting when you are focused on the tip of your nose. Guru Rattana confirmed that it is OK to put your hand down while the breath is held in. This is so much better. You can focus on the subtle effects of the breath, mantra and pumping and not on how much your hand and arm hurt!
Those two are the main tips I would tell anyone. Focusing on the tip of the nose is also hard, and if anyone has ideas on this please share. Mostly I just pushed through.
The last tip, and I know we all have busy lives and this is hard, but if you can take a little still time after SDK I think you will probably find great value in the stillness. Give the energy a chance to marinate.
During these longer dark nights is a great time to start this practice.
Sat Nam,
Tom
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