THE ANCHORING CODE: GETTING BACK IN YOUR BODY
5. Take a couple of breaths up and down the channel. Begin by pulling the energy up from the earth two feet below where you are standing, inhaling
upward through the whole channel of the legs and into the central channel. Collect the breath in the core, then exhale upward through the heart, the throat, the third eye, and out through the top of the head. On the next inhale, draw the breath down from overhead, through the head, throat, heart, belly, and mūla bandha; then exhale down through the legs and into the earth. Ideally, you will eventually be the breath as it passes through the body.
ADDITIONAL YOGA POSES TO INTEGRATE THE ROOT CHAKRA
You can use the following asanas along with Chair Pose to enhance your work with the Anchoring Code. (For additional resources regarding yoga poses recommended for use with each of the seven Energy Codes, visit drsuemorter.com/energycodesbook.)
Once you feel steady and grounded in each posture, begin to integrate Central Channel Breathing, pulling the energy and breath from beneath the feet, through the central channel, and exhaling out through the top of the head, then inhaling through the top of the head and down the channel, and exhaling out through mūla bandha and down through the soles of the feet into the earth.
• Warrior 1 (vīrabhadrāsana I)
• Pyramid Pose (pārśvottānāsana)
• Tree Pose (vṛkṣāsana)
• Standing Forward Fold (uttānāsana)
Common Obstacles with the Anchoring Code
When I teach the Anchoring Code to a group at a live event, a few common challenges inevitably arise. These are easy to work through and typically resolve with practice.
Challenge #1: You can’t squeeze and breathe at the same time. Oftentimes when people find it difficult to breathe into the belly and squeeze/lift the belly and pelvic floor at the same time, they get confused about which one they should be doing. “Do I squeeze or breathe deeply?” they ask. My answer is always, “Yes!” You have to try to do both at the same time so that you can feel the resistance—the friction—that this creates.
Remember that we create friction in order to figure out a path toward knowing who we truly are. The internal friction of squeezing and breathing at the same time is an internal alternative to the story-based, bumper-cars approach to evolving our consciousness. One way we learn in this world is through resistance. For example, when we debate with someone, we come to know more of who we are because of the distinctions that are being made—the differences. Likewise, when we generate resistance internally by simultaneously squeezing inwardly and stretching outwardly as the breath is filling the belly and the muscles are tightening, the resistance makes the distinction between pressing in versus pushing out. We can feel it with our sensory system and find where we are supposed to be “living” inside the body in a manner that we might not have noticed before. We learn, through the resistance,
“who and where” we are. By creating this resistance internally, we don’t have to create it in our outer world relationships. The mind relaxes, as does our body’s fight-flight- or-fright response, and we create an environment more conducive for the Soulful Self to emerge. Afterward, we relax the pelvic floor and maintain our sense of Self.
Challenge #2: You can’t feel or sense any of these areas when squeezing. Many of us have been living in our head for so many years that we’ve lost the ability to feel the subtle sensations of our body. That’s really okay! If, as you practice squeezing on the inside, you can’t really feel it, place a hand on the outside of the area and gently press until you feel sensation there. To help bring your focus to the base of the spine for mūla bandha, for example, press on the low belly, just above your pubic bone, or even sit on one of your hands or feet. For the heart, press your fingers into the
breastbone, “go inside,” and press back out against your hand, or else lie on your back and lift something heavy as if doing a bench press. For the throat, use your palm or fingers to apply a light pressure on your neck (front or back), again “go inside,” and press out. And for the pineal gland in the center of the head, press between the eyebrows as you rotate your eyes upward. You really don’t need to worry about doing it “right.” In the next chapter, you will gain more understanding of what to do in this situation, but for now use these suggestions. The goal here is to bring your focus and conscious awareness to the area you’re working with, so you can begin to build the photon density—the presence—of the Soulful Self there. Your ability to sense it will return and build!
Challenge #3: It feels like too much to do all at once. When people start to do these practices, especially Central Channel Breathing, it can feel like a lot to concentrate on at the same time. But that’s true for many things we become proficient at in life, such as coordinating hands and feet when learning to drive, or cooking a meal with multiple dishes that all need to finish at the same time, or perfecting that golf swing—
geez! I invite you to go into these, and all of the Energy Codes tools, knowing that they might feel a bit awkward and mechanical at first, but that, like anything else you’ve ever learned to do, they will get much easier with practice. In fact, you may begin to feel more ease with them in as little as a few days. Stay in a place of love and compassion for yourself, and it will happen even faster.
If you can’t squeeze all the anchor points and breathe up and down through the central channel at the same time, start by practicing mūla bandha alone. As you go about your day, take a moment to lift the pelvic floor and feel your own energetic presence there. Breathe several times in and out, and then release it. Repeat this as frequently as you remember to throughout the day. Then build on it by squeezing the heart, and practice having your awareness in those two centers as you take deep belly breaths. Then add the throat, and finally the attention behind the eyes. You’ll be breathing up and down the channel in no time!
Most important is that you don’t give up. Mūla bandha is something anyone can do, and even this sole, small effort will have a big impact as it begins to steer the mind toward the Quantum Flip we’re striving to create with the Energy Codes. So start small, and take it step by step, building your awareness within the central channel and breathing through each piece of the practice until it becomes more accessible. The
same is true for all of the other Codes’ practices: break them down into smaller bites if you need to, but stay at it. The benefits are too tremendous to give up.
Once you’ve established an anchoring of your conscious attention inside the core of the body, you’re ready to further engage and identify with the Soulful Self. You do this by sensing and feeling the specific energy patterns happening within you that are associated with your life experiences. You’ll develop a whole new method for understanding and responding to what’s taking place in your life, gaining benefits sooner than if you were to continue learning only at the level of story. My true intention for you is for you to live not in response to the world, but rather as the creator that you are built to be. The world needs more original thinkers who are awake to their full capacity—and that means you! This is your time. We’ll be activating this and more, in the Feeling Code, next!