Your Yoga. The Energy of Light.

This practice allows you to receive the Sun's Energy through the eyes' energy channels, but its purpose is broader. One of its qualities is that it uses our most important sense, sight, to give any practitioner an Experience of Light. Ordinary vision, limited to the physical spectrum, becomes a means of passing into subtle, spiritual vision. This may be particularly valuable for practical-minded people inclined to trust only what they see.

Consequently, this practice may free you from depression, low spirits, withdrawal, inner anxiety, vague fears, apathy and other psychological conditions. It can promote the development of important brain centres such as the pituitary and pineal glands, and of the brain as a whole, even in people whose development in this area was delayed in childhood.

Practice

All you need is a white sheet of paper and some thread.

Take an ordinary white sheet, such as A4 printer paper. Use the highest quality possible: white and uniform, without holes or noticeably thin patches.
Make two holes and attach thread to both sides, adjusted to the size of your head as shown below. You can use several strands, a cord or a ribbon, whichever is convenient.

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Description of the Practice

Choose a sunny day; slight cloud or haze is acceptable.
Sit somewhere comfortable in sunlight: a forest clearing, a bench near your home, a balcony, or the floor beneath a sunny window. Sunlight through glass is acceptable, but open the window for direct rays if possible.
Put the paper mask over your face with the tip of your nose roughly at its centre. The paper will curve around your face under the thread's tension, covering your entire field of view. Sit facing the Sun. You need not raise your head; keep it in a natural, comfortable position.
Sit however you like, on a chair or cross-legged, perhaps in lotus. Rest your hands comfortably, for example on your knees. Keep your back reasonably straight, your body relaxed, especially the face, and your eyes closed.
Sit quietly for a minute with closed eyes, relaxing further and concentrating fully on the practice.
Then open your eyes and gaze into the distance before you. Simply hold your gaze as you would when looking far away. If this is difficult, imagine looking at the horizon or a very distant point in space.
After 10–30 seconds you will begin to distinguish bright moving points or particles. The longer you look, the clearer the scene becomes: thousands of shining particles of light move before you, each along its own path.
Continue watching this beautiful sight.
At some point, something may seem to switch in your consciousness, and everything becomes three-dimensional. You discover yourself suspended without support in a space that shines and sparkles all around you, without boundaries or limits.
The first experience may excite you emotionally, causing this beautiful state to vanish as the mind becomes agitated. That is all right: you can experience it again in later sessions, and your mind will gradually become accustomed to it.
To finish, close your eyes and sit for a little while.

Note

Increase the practice gradually. The first session should last no more than five minutes. Establish this duration with a week of five-minute sessions, then move to ten minutes, and so on.
Sunny weather may not always be available where you live, creating unavoidable breaks. This is fine: practise when the Sun is out, even if there are gaps of five or ten days.
Once you can practise for twenty minutes or more, a break of thirty days or longer means you must again become accustomed to the sunlight gradually before returning to that duration. This adjustment period can be considerably shorter; judge by your sensations.
Consult a medical professional about your health and obtain their approval before undertaking this practice.

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