Does Rhythmic Breathing or Chanting help to circulate the Microcosmic Orbit?

Generally, it does not. I may advise some students to do it in the

very beginning to help them calm down, but urge them to get along

without it as soon as possible. All that is called for is that you concentrate

on the energy center or centers that you are working on. If

you pay attention to your breathing, the power or the warm current

will not concentrate itself at the center but will scatter.

I have many students who had been practicing for many years

(some for as much as twenty or thirty years) who told me that they

had never felt any unusual energy in all their years of practice.

When they came to me I told them to just concentrate on the points

and not to pay attention to breathing. Many of them, in their first

session, often after just a few minutes of concentration, experienced

bliss and power, and found themselves deep in concentration.

All of these students were well prepared and had a lot of energy

in reserve, but didn’t know how to turn it on and have it flow in

the proper channels.

There are countless methods of breathing and they all make it

very hard to feel the “warm currents”. If you can concentrate on the

point assigned to you and do not pay attention to the breath. If you

can put everything out of your mind and just concentrate on that

point, the power will flow freely. When you concentrate, you casually

watch the point. There is no straining, no great act of will power,

but just passive watching. In this situation of just watching you will

feel very calm. So don’t pay any attention to the breathing, just

watch the energy center.