So often we are tied up in knots. Most of the time, we don’t realize how we have been feeding a dysfunctional habit or thought about ourselves, and slowly, over the years, these storylines turn up in our bodies and minds as knots. We recognize them as pain, resistance, basically; as the places that scare us. We tied most of our knots ourselves, by mistaking our interpretation of reality for reality itself.  Like Houdini’s, every now and then we have to work our way out of those knots.

The knots manifest in our bodies on the deepest energetic level. In several yogic traditions, as well as Tibetan schools of Buddhism, the infrastructure of this energetic body is made up of something called nadis, think of them as highways in your body. There are said to be 72.000 nadis in the human body, consisting of main highways (through the vertebrae and two on either side of the spine) and a multitude of smaller highways. The knots go in the nadis, causing traffic jams and irritation to the system.
 
I have been working with my own knots last week in two ways that I found helpful. First and foremost, breathing, pranayama exercises are known to unclog your nadis. I have been breathing deep, deeper than usual in some of my yoga classes (thank you Nikki!) and it’s amazing to feel what happens. There’s so much wisdom about breathing, you don’t have to be a yogi to know that ‘taking a deep breath’ is wholesome. So breathe, deep, and this alone will show you where your knots are. Then breathe more and gradually something will shift. Some great, ancient practices can be found through the Yoga Journal website.

Yesterday evening I’ve had the most wonderful, nadi-cleansing experience; I went to a sound bowl concert. Three people rang gongs put on our chests and bellies, sang mantra’s, and basically used every kind of instrument that vibrated, chimed, rang and ratteled those knots right out of your system. It was amazing. I didn’t feel so humming since my drug days! Aside from the thrill, it is deeply, deeply healing. After a while in the session, I was able to go back to the moments when my past self created a knot, untie it and replace it with love. I was able to do this not only for my past and present self, but also my future self. Afterwards we made the same vibrations with our bodies by singing mantra’s. It was a truly transforming and I thank my New Age brothers and sisters for organizing this! There’s probably this kind of activity going on where you live too, and I can highly recommend it. For those interested; I went to a group called Narayana, that play once every two months in Utrecht.

Sending high and loving vibrations to your knots ;D

Geertje