Apana or apana-vayu is the basic energetic force that makes you horny in the first place. It is a downward flowing energy that allows menstruation, ejaculation, childbirth, defecation etc. Because it flows downwards in tends to stimulate the genitals, causing desire to arise. This watery tendency of apana has an overall depleting effect on the person over time--watery energies drain lifeforce and fiery energies burn out upwards, wrinkle and gray you. Eventually this leads to death. Consequently yogis will use methods to reverse this flow. This is done by unifying apana with it's opposite, prana which is the fiery, upward-moving aspect of life-force. Some yoga asanas will begin to do this, as will many forms of meditation or in some people just maintaining a sattvic outlook and sattvic thoughts.
-V. On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:56 PM, anonymousff wrote: >> I think we shouldn't confuse urdhaveta with prana-kundalini. > Urdhaveta >> as a process has some remarkable characteristics well beyond simply >> having apana start to unify. > > **** > Vaj, > > Could you say more about this? I would like to know more? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
