All sessions involving work with chakras and meridians should be followed by
a relaxation exercise called "Shavasana". It allows one to rest from bioenergetic work, which can be very tiring, as well as to get rid of bioenergetic defects that have not been eliminated yet.
"Shavasana" is relaxation of body and mind in the position of lying on the back.
We need to lie on the back and make sure that we feel comfortable. Nothing should distract us. Then we begin to relax the body starting with the toes. We may imagine a surface perpendicular to the axis of the body � like a glass wall � and move it through the body from the toes to the head; behind this surface no tension remains. We lose any sensation of those parts of the body behind the surface. Alienate them, saying mentally:
"This is not mine, this is not mine!�" If we regain sensation of any part of the body move the plane through this section once again. After the surface has passed the head you may experience the following states:
The first state: consciousness (self-awareness) vanishes. You fall in something resembling a deep sleep, but this is not a sleep. Consciousness is regained in about 18-20 minutes. You feel thoroughly rested, as if after a long deep sleep. This is quite a blissful state. You do not have to stand up abruptly, just enjoy it.
The second state: consciousness remains, but absolute peace comes down. You may scan the entire body with an
"inner sight". You may enter the inner space of your body from below and see light and dark regions. Gray or black colors mean disorders on one of energetic planes, which correspond to the manifest or still latent stages of diseases. Try to gather all dark stuff in heaps as if with a rake and throw it outside the body.
When doing shavasana we may also experience involuntary going out from the material body: we may suddenly become aware of ourselves being in our usual form but in an unusual position � for example, soaring above the floor or standing on the head and so on. There is nothing to worry about, though: once we feel like getting back into the body � we will find ourselves there right away. But under no circumstances one should encourage oneself to perform such exits: these are still exits into a coarse space dimension � into the so-called
"astral plane". One should learn how to exit immediately into the highest spatial dimensions, but the methods for doing this are different.
Children under the age of 12 must not be taught shavasana: having realized that they are out of the body they do not always want to get back into it.
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All these exercises should be practiced regularly: it is impossible to get the full effect from them after only one session.
