It’s funny how you can be on a Spiritual path and be doing all these amazing practices and trans-formative meditations for years and receive little in the way of noticeable results, and then one day out of the blue you have an unexpected life altering revelation. That is exactly what happened to me this past Tuesday during a well earned day off.

It was a sunny, hazy and mild November day on the Shawangunk Ridge with the late autumn gold clinging to a small smattering of trees.  During my hike I started doing a walking meditation by being conscious of every step and engaging in my “Power Attunements” process (a personalized mindfulness mediation adapted from a process described in Eckhart Tolle‘s book “The Power of Now). Then all the sudden, without thinking about it I started to apply a very subtle energy lock (from Yoga practice) during my exhales and found that by doing this subtle movement I was suddenly able to exhale more deeply and completely than I have ever done in the past. Continue reading →