Change the Channel
2000 channels
Your mind needs to be trained to be able to know and recognize the vast spectrum of thoughts and experiences that you can participate in or choose in every moment.
I’ll give you the equation that Yogi Bhajan taught us. In every blink of an eye, your mind releases 1000 thought forms.
1000 thought forms – one blink of the eye
In the thousand thought forms, each thought has a positive and negative ionic pole. So now we have 2000 choices per every blink of the eye.
1000×2 ionic polls – one blink of the eye
We’re only ever really vibrating one thought at a time which means that there are 1999 other thoughts that we leave behind and therefore dump into the subconscious mind, which has a finite storage capacity
So, if you were in a situation, where you feel limited, or you feel lost, you’re suffering, you’re a scared, or fill in the blank with a plethora of human misery, if you’re stuck in some expression that is not your highest quality, your highest vibration, your highest directive of experience, then you actually have 1999 other experiences in every single moment that you could choose from. This is liberating to at least become aware of!
In order to even know that these are choices, you need to have energy, health, and vitality. Most people are so energetically depressed (different but related to emotional psychotherapeutic identified depression) they are stuck in their particular rut of misery and can’t fathom the idea of having the possibility of another channel. So the notion of four or five channels, and especially, 1999 channels is way out of conceptual range because you need to have energy and clarity to even see the rest of the spectrum. And once you can see the possibility, even if it’s just one additional possibilities, then you need to have enough energy, wherewithal, and awareness to change the channel
We normally think of energy in terms of caffeine boost, sugar high, marathons, and other sorts of hyper activities. There is energy, sure, but it’s not the kind of energy needed to toggle between the thousands of options you have. In reality, we know that caffeine and sugar are ultimately depleting. And the energy it takes to kick box, hit the weight room, or run marathons is actually just the very surface of the kind of energy we are referring to.
Energy is a kind of wattage in the system, which again isn’t hyper. A hyper system is one that is fritzing out, so it’s actually using the energy inefficiently. A system with wattage is a clean cool running battery. It’s noiseless. But it can take you from 0 to 320 in .09 seconds if you need and it’s nuanced. It doesn’t have just two speeds. It can drive the vehicle of your human being at 60 mph just as easily as it can drive at 60.5 mph, real energy is powerful, but also very intelligent. This is what you need in order to shift the channels of your mind.
One of the best ways to generate more energy in the system is with the breath, and we’ve been practicing this in many different ways. Prana, is an ancient yogi term for energy, and it exists everywhere in the known universe. Prana even exists in the black vacuum of space. Prana can be taken in through the eyes and through the pores. Eating fresh foods is a great way to get more prana. However, the easiest way for most people to metabolize Pena, and lots of it, is through the breath.
Ancient yogis actually called structured breathing practices pranayama because they knew that breathing was just a way to get more prana into the system. One of our favorite Pranayams is the aerobic capacity and efficiency breath. Here is an example of how to do that. It is a simple, but effective way to amp the wattage of your physiology and energetic bodies.
Aerobic capacity and efficiency breath
Posture: sit and grasp your knees with your hands
Keep your eyes closed, focusing up and at the brow point
Breath: inhale and hold your breath. Flex your spine back-and-forth, using your hands on your knees to create leverage. Flex at a smooth rapid pace. When you can’t hold the breath anymore, bring your spine to neutral and exhale. Inhale here hold the breath, exhale and begin again.
Time 3 to 5 minutes
To finish: sit tall inhale, exhale, and relax
