📝🧘🏽 Yogi Dhruvaji’s Diary

👑🔆🧘🏽 Moorchha Pranayama

🧘🏽 Moorchha, an ancient yet very simple hands-free preparatory yogic practice for meditation, is accessible to anyone, anytime, and anywhere. For instant rejuvenation, I recommend doing Moorchha in the following three simple sequential steps in one held breath:

😤⏸️🧘🏽 Pause Breath

1️⃣🧘🏽 First, pause your breathing, after inhaling or exhaling gently, by stopping your navel from expanding out for inhalation or contracting in for exhalation (Kevala Kumbhaka). After that close your eyes.

🪑❌🧘🏽 Forget Location

2️⃣🧘🏽 Then, with your breath paused, in as many less seconds as you can, try as per your capacity to quickly forget where you are sitting, standing, lying, or located. Thus, feel that you have become location less or disconnected from the surroundings, i.e., you no longer know where you are (Sthanatita). Your capacity to forget where you are will gradually increase by practice. So kindly do not be discouraged if you can’t initially feel location less. Also, do not try to feel that you are in some other location instead.

⬛😔🧘🏽 Black Out

3️⃣🧘🏽 And finally, with your breath still paused in the location less state, blackout (Moorchha) yourself for as long you can by feeling like you are unconscious in a coma. Blackout everything in front of your closed eyes, by tightly pressing down your closed eyelids first and then the muscles above your eyebrows, without raising your cheeks upwards, to further enhance your blacked-out state. Throughout this blacked out state, focus on the xiphoid process, the small bone in the center depression where your ribs meet at the middle base of your chest, i.e. your front heart chakra point. Open your eyes and then release your breath.

Notes

⚫🧘🏽 Stay in this third blacked-out state for as long as you can comfortably hold your breath as per your capacity, without becoming breathless at the end. After the blackout, release your held breath by letting your normal breathing start gently on its own with minimal in and out movement of your navel. Do not hold your breath so long that you’re forced to take deep breaths after the blackout. Try not to dwell on any thoughts or visions that may appear during any of the three steps. Repeat the above three steps of Moorchha for as long as you like.

🕕🧘🏽 You can quickly complete the first two steps to prepare for the third step of blacking out by pressing your eyelids tightly. Staying blacked out in a location less and breathless state in the third step for the maximum time possible, as per your capacity, is the goal of this practice. An upright position of the back, some ventilation in the room, trying after deep sleep, deepening your left nostril breathing through other breathwork, mudras, postures, bending your left knee and raising it, etc. before beginning the three steps might help you hold your breath more easily and longer throughout the three steps.

🕕🧘🏽 You can practice the second step of feeling location less separately first if you can’t quickly enter into it during the three steps. You can also first practice the second and third steps only if you can’t hold your breath right away, the first and third steps only if you can’t feel location less, or the third step only if you can’t initially do the first two steps.

Benefits

😤⏸️🧘🏽 Kevala Kumbhaka (natural suspension of breath, which is the goal of the physical asanas connected to the body, and, of pranayama or breathwork connected to the mind), 🪑❌🧘🏽 Sthanatita (physical and mental delocalization, which is the goal of pratyahara or withdrawal and focus connected to the intellect), and ⬛😔🧘🏽 Moorchha (blacking out unconsciousness, which is the goal of dharana or concentration connected to the ego) are the three powerful practices shared in the ancient science of Yoga to attain profound Moorchha-induced meditation almost instantly, even in an initially unbalanced state.

🌈🧘🏽 This three-step Moorchha helps us reach and heal the core self which lies deep inside the body, mind, intellect, and ego, stay free from disease, halt the thoughts, stress, and anxieties, eradicate mental noise, balance every single thing in the body and mind rapidly, open the channels, and effortlessly enter the deepest self-discovering, health-improving, healing, transforming, resetting, empowering, inspiring, illuminating, vivid, loving, and blissful meditation known as dhyana and samadhi.

📆🧘🏽 DEC 5: Just one suspended, placeless, and blacked out breath keeps me united with my inner self for a long time.

🧘🏽 Geo-spatial physical and mental unlocalization is the key to self-discovery as it helps to penetrate beyond the ego and reach the true self.

🧘🏽 The deeply I forget where I am while holding my breath, the more closer I come to my true inner self.

🧘🏽 In the profound silence of locationlessness and my held breath, the chaos of the world fades; with each heartbeat, I unearth the essence of my being.

🧘🏽 To lose myself in my own placelessness is to find the uncharted territories of my soul; in the depths of breathlessness and unconsciousness, my true self awakens.”

🧘🏽 As I suspend my breath in the dance of unlocalization, I drift beyond the mundane and dive deep into the ocean of my inner truth.”

🧘🏽 The further I detach from the exterior environment, holding my breath like a secret, the closer I float to the vibrant shores of my authentic self.”

🧘🏽 In that moment of paused breath, when awareness blurs reality, I transcend external space and touch the infinite spirit within.

🧘🏽 Each breath I hold is a whisper in the dark, revealing layers of myself that only unlocalization can illuminate.

🧘🏽 The magic of forgetting my place in the world, while pausing my breath, is where my soul starts to bloom.

🧘🏽 In the quiet gasp of suspended breath, spatial unawareness, and blacking out, I journey inward; only by forgetting where I am, do I remember who I truly am.

📆🧘🏽 DEC 5: Starting to pen down my Moorchha chronicles to inspire myself in my journey to my self. Please bookmark my journal blog to your phone home screen if you like for quick access to read and hear my daily entries.