And here is my cue (meant to share since last weekend). If off-topic, excuse.
I’ve bought Joe’s meditation that comes with a separate file guiding you in the technique (#recommend).
Adding to what @anon34550888 said, from my noob understanding, you basically have to pull the energy upwards while doing Mula and Uddiyana bandhas.
Have done it for a little while a couple of months ago.
I struggled. I had issues contracting and breathing in at the same time. Could only breathe in all the way up, then do the bandhas. I couldn’t understand how one (me) could focus on these 2 processes at the same time. Could barely (or not) hold the breath for the amount of time.
What really caught my eye about The Internal Alchemical Crucible was the incorporation of these bandhas which instantly took me back to Dispenza. During the guided practice, he’s even going on about Transmuting lower energies, using the body as an instrument of consciousness and so forth (which I’m really digging getting drilled through my subconscious). I thought ‘hmmm I wonder if this… would have an effect…’ Like an Automation?
This bandha thing + tummo (+ my associations with ‘Joe’s’ technique and kundalini [‘kryia / breathing technique’?] – in my understanding, they’re all in the same sphere, that of cleansing and transmutation) are probably the main reason that made me keep TIAC in my stack, 1x every 1-2 days for… about 1 month now? So I thought If this field does what it says it does… I might have struck gold
Finally, after a couple of months of no breathing practice, I wake up at 1 AM and do it.
Like… pleasant wtf… Smoother than a baby’s bum. A la carte. No need to think about it or force. It was… Automatic. Even now that I think of it, the mechanics of it now make complete sense, a new skill ingrained, as if having learned to ride the bike. Not sure whether it was an after-effect of having used ‘Slow Down Time Perception’ but I held the breath… I wanted it to last more, I prolonged it, time passed so quickly. Effortless.
Pretty sure it was TIAC, I’m still smoking, no cardio…