I hit a pothole while driving and this affected recovering injuries, so my range of motion is decreased again.
I read something from here about being able to recap with shorter motions or while walking, if you were extending fibers from your chest, I think? I have not seen those fibers, so I don't know if it's worth doing recap.
I'm taking a break from passes, I'd like to still do useful practice. Is it still worth doing recap if I can only turn my head a limited amount left and right?
My current plan is to go sit in a darkened room and look for colors. In the past I've seen swirls and what look like strands "overlaid" on my regular vision, those have usually shown up stronger after recap + passes, so I think those are the "yes, those colors". But I've never seen a "puff", the colors seem to be overlaid to my vision, moving and my eye chases, the swirls curl and sparkle, but they don't seem to be independent of my vision, but overlaid.
So my second question is, does that color searching sound like I'm doing this right and should keep looking and following those with my eye, or are those a distraction from the real puffs?
Thanks in advance for the advice.
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the colors will move like they are eye junk at first, later on that will change.
Interesting, I was wondering about them. Thanks for the info.
Even when something very apparent shows up, you should gaze softly at it.
Of course you can use a limited head sweep!
And better not to think about those fibers being visible. All the instructions say are to inhale those you got stuck in memories, and exhale those others embedded in you. But without mentioning that becomes visible.
Trying to see those before you reach the purple zone, might cause weirdness in your perceptions.
It's not as bad as people who try to "visualize" the results, due to poor teachings from meditation systems.
But it's almost that bad.
If you want to look for colors, always do a little scooping and placing on the pouches, even if all you saw was a smear and nothing you could scoop.
It gets your double curious so that it's more likely to swarm around, and come off the inside walls where it's crusted to get away from you.
But don't do that the whole time, since that's not technically recapitulation.
Thanks for the pointers.
What Castaneda book should I read for this?
Might be in the witches books, but I don't recall any of the books of Carlos saying you can use a limited head sweep.
And of course, in lecture notes Taisha and Florinda likely often comment that you can do recap on the fly, just during your daily life, and the head sweep can be just a tiny one.
There's also a comment somewhere, likely in a book of Carlos, that don Juan could rearrange his entire life in a single headsweep.
Which shouldn't seem as mysterious as it does.
If you practice recap until you are traveling back in time each practice session, that headsweep would store amazing power from all the times you intended it to work that well.
You could have moved your little finger back and forth instead, and then that little finger would have picked up such power.
But there's also the breath, which can in fact "fan" the second attention brighter and make dim waking dreaming scenes more concrete. That also stores the intent to expel foreign energy from your luminous egg.
Trash as don Juan called it in a quote posted yesterday.
What’s recap? Sorry, noob here
Recap is a technique to get back your energy of awareness, which is stuck in the obsessions of your internal dialogue, and keeps you from switching to new realities.
Where you focus your awareness, even if it's not on purpose, determines which reality you exist inside.
It also leads to amazing time travel abilities!
And presumably to living on 5 billion years past death.