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Roll-Up of Consciousness

Also called roll-up and roll-up effect

Consciousness falling back up the spine to its home in the brain, first noticed in the heart, then perhaps the throat, medulla or crown. Cleaning the chakras with OM Japa loosens its hold on the world so it rises unforced, above the worries of the lower chakras. One of the Three Essentials; what counts is consciousness, not energy.

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00:22“This part is so important because he's talking about the roll-up of consciousness.”Teaches, Dubeyji's Roll-Up of Consciousness - Yogi Explains, Jul 202607:24“It's such glorious work because it takes a little time to get to know these things, and then finally, do I have that roll-up of consciousness?”Teaches, 3 Essential Skills of Kriya Yoga - Yogi Explains, Oct 202509:48“This is the roll-up of consciousness, and so first of all, we've got to learn about HRV resonance because if you're not doing that in meditation, and you're not doing it every single time.”Teaches, Understanding the Ramayana - Yogi Explains, Jan 202500:01“Today, I want to talk about how can we test our roll-up of consciousness.”Teaches, Roll-up of Consciousness Testing - Yogi Explains, Nov 202405:11“The third essential arises because we are cleaning ourselves out.”Teaches, The Three Essentials of Kriya Yoga Meditation, Sep 202315:58“Now, another thing which can happen in parallel is the roll-up of consciousness, and this is what we really want to pay attention to.”Teaches, The Heart Knot In Kriya & Kundalini - Yogi Explains, Jan 202312:40“The sense of self begins to move along the dorsal vagal nerve, and we feel it rising into these different projections of the brain, of the limbic brain, which we call chakras, right?”Teaches, Making Meditation an Adventure, Jan 202108:37“It snaps back into the brain, and I felt that snap back, and I said, oh my god, I'm going to call this the roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, Two Kinds of Yogic Philosophy - Yogi Explains, Jul 202603:35“And then he uses the right brain, and it it's expansive enough that it just pulls him right up into a roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, When the Joy Hits You! – Yogi Explains, Feb 202605:26“Having the roll-up of consciousness, you are solving the very riddle of life.”Discusses, Becoming a Yogi Millionaire - Yogi Explains, Jun 202501:41“I want to have a roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, Navi Kriya Walkthrough, Dec 202411:14“And I responded, that's a roll-up of consciousness into the heart, but then the grind and the issues of life pull us back down, back into the concerns of the lower chakras.”Discusses, Ups & Downs In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Oct 202404:02“It disrupts that connection and allows the energy to come back up into the brain, and that's a roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, The Monkey In the Pot - Yogi Explains, Aug 202410:58“And it begins to cause this roll-up of consciousness, and this comes after the war.”Discusses, Getting Into the Bhagavad Gita - Yogi Explains, Aug 202410:16“You have had a roll-up of consciousness into the heart, and when you're in that place, remember some of those old worries.”Discusses, When Kundalini Goes Wrong - Yogi Explains, Aug 202412:16“I am doing the Om Japa in the chakras, and this will cause a rise of the consciousness, a roll up.”Discusses, Using the Crown In Kriya - Yogi Explains, Mar 202407:46“These kinds of magical things can happen when we have a roll-up of consciousness back towards the brain, and that's what the Kriya Yoga is all about.”Discusses, Meeting MA - OM King - Yogi Explains, Feb 202410:49“It's rolling up back to the brain, and as it does, it's nearing your heart, and so your heart is just full of love, automatically and compassion.”Discusses, Celebrating the Life of Kevin, Jan 202404:08“Well, that's the roll-up of consciousness, isn't it?”Discusses, New Year Yogic Goals!, Dec 202315:30“So the Kriya yogi who sticks with it, who spends a year, two years, three years, and OMs back to the core of the chakras, begins to notice that the energy does roll up, that consciousness does roll up, but it rolls up towards the back of the spine, not the front of the body.”Discusses, Kriya Yoga vs Tantric Practices - Yogi Explains, Dec 202314:02“And we're doing the Om Japa in the chakras, and so we have a little bit of roll-up of consciousness, right?”Discusses, Paravastha Progression In Kriya Yoga, Oct 202312:49“But that clarity of mind gets big, and gets very, very divine through the process of rising up into the higher centers.”Discusses, 3 Insurance Policies In the Original Kriya Yoga, Oct 202314:59“The Kundalini intelligence, which is part of you, your intelligence, will fall back to the brain, and this is the roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, Kundalini Disturbance Program - Yogi Explains, Jun 202313:13“When you can rise up into the medulla, he's talking about a roll-up of consciousness into the brain, right?”Discusses, Leaving Yogananda, Jun 202322:06“The roll-up of consciousness, you might feel energy jump up into your heart, and your heart kind of explodes.”Discusses, Energy Omnibus - Yogi Explains, May 202310:53“But the first one that we really can begin to grasp is when we have a roll-up of consciousness into the heart, and that's exactly like the lover.”Discusses, Pratyahara Myths of Sensory Withdrawal, Jan 202307:34“And then do I have the roll-up of consciousness into the brain?”Discusses, 3 Levels of Paravastha in Kriya - Do Be Do Meditation, Dec 202221:04“This idea that I'm presenting to you of the consciousness rolling up is a little bit different than just pure kundalini.”Discusses, Sesame Street Chakra System - Yogi Explains, Sep 202216:14“And eventually this will cause the roll-up of consciousness.”Discusses, Is My OM Japa In the Chakras Working?, Aug 202203:49“And so I call that the roll-up of consciousness, right?”Discusses, How Chanting Works In the Brain, May 202203:33“We don't care so much about the roll-up of the energy to the top of the head.”Discusses, The Golden Thread of Meditation, Apr 202203:47“That's why I say it's like a roller shade that rolls up into your brain.”Discusses, Do Be Do Be Do Meditation, Nov 202116:49“What is required is the roll-up of the consciousness back into the brain.”Discusses, Meditation Misunderstandings, Sep 202104:06“It assists in that roll-up of consciousness into the brain.”Discusses, Samadhi Therapy - Kriya Yoga, Sep 202112:11“It just kind of rises back to the brain, and I call that the roll-up effect, right?”Discusses, Ashokji's 3 Teachings - Guru Purnima, Jul 202102:14“But there's something else that happens in meditation, and that is that we roll up into the brain.”Discusses, Download Phase in Meditation - Getting Answers, May 202104:26“And if we can understand that the chakras are projections of the brain, and that by Om Japa we will cause what I call a roll-up, so we can feel energy going up and down the spine.”Discusses, Kriya Has Been Fixed!, Sep 202002:05“Now, in the Big Bliss training, I give a demonstration and an explanation of what I call the roll-up.”Discusses, You Have a Nimbus, May 202000:11“That includes the om japa, the roll-up of consciousness, what many people call the kundalini rising, the left amygdala of bliss, and the right hippocampus of expansion and spaciousness and union and oneness.”Mentions, Two Roads to the Higher Self - Yogi Explains, Oct 202611:10“You begin to notice more and more of the buddhi mind, and that is the beginnings of the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Soak Up What Shows Up - Yogi Explains, Aug 202605:34“I cannot force a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Understanding Kriya vs Paravastha - Yogi Explains, Aug 202608:47“You have to have the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Taoism and the Right Brain - Yogi Explains, Aug 202606:54“Because that's going to help my consciousness roll up back towards the brain.”Mentions, 5-Step Meditation Progression for the New Year – Yogi Explains, Jan 202614:27“I noticed this movement that Forrest is calling the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Where To Put Your Mind In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Nov 202506:09“It's sitting very still and inviting that freeze response, parasympathetic system to take over, and so we start to feel bliss, and that bliss furthers the deepening of the experience, allows us to let go, and through all of that Om Japa and that letting go, we start to have this roll-up of consciousness, and it feels and it looks absolutely magical.”Mentions, The Multiplicity Effect of Kriya - Yogi Explains, Jun 202504:42“In other words, have a roll-up of consciousness into the upper nervous system and taste the deep brain.”Mentions, Ramakrishna & the Forgetful Farmer - Yogi Stories, Jun 202510:17“Do that, and you are bound to trip over something good, and somewhere in there, you're going to have a roll-up of consciousness into your heart as you are interiorized and experience profound loving kindness.”Mentions, The Crux of Yogic Meditation - Yogi Explain, May 202503:01“It gives you a roll-up of consciousness back into the brain.”Mentions, Back To Basics = The Path - Yogi Explains, May 202513:14“Sometimes I hear about a Kriya Yoga, and they get caught up in some of the language that the old Kriya Yogis use, and they think that they're supposed to stay in one point like the spiritual eye as they do the entire Kriya, and what they're really looking for is a roll-up of consciousness, and this will happen automatically after you're done cleaning.”Mentions, Why Kriya Yoga Isn't Visualization - Yogi Explains, May 202508:09“You have a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Higher Self Therapy - Yogi Explains, Mar 202511:36“From the first day that I met Ashokji, he told me my purpose is to get you into the medulla when you have a roll-up of consciousness into the brain, into the deep brain, and you can Google God.”Mentions, The Map Is Not the Territory - Principle - Yogi Explains, Feb 202510:32“Like I said, we might rise up into the heart, and if you do, you've had a roll-up of consciousness, and it goes from the heart to the throat to the medulla to the crown and to expansion.”Mentions, Paravastha Progression - Going Into the Deep, Jan 202512:41“You're getting to know that through the roll-up of consciousness, the downloads that happen.”Mentions, Peace First, Not Happiness - Yogi Explains, Sep 202408:31“The HRV resonance, the sitting very still, which awakens the freeze response, the four proofs that let us know we're in the parasympathetic, the Om Japa in the chakras that clears the way so that the consciousness can roll up into the brain, right?”Mentions, Never Miss Meditation Strategy - Yogi Explains, Apr 202412:22“I'm doing this HRV resonance, sitting very still, four proofs, Om Japa in the chakras, roll-up of consciousness, tranquil breath, freeze response.”Mentions, Radical Balance In the Deep Brain - Yogi Explains, Apr 202405:58“You have a roll-up of consciousness into the heart, and suddenly there's an ease, there's an expanse in your heart.”Mentions, Twice-born In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Mar 202409:01“And the purpose of the progression that I just gave you is the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Mula Bandha Warning - Yogi Explains, Feb 202409:13“You start feeling energy going through the body, and it's something new, and you also have roll-up of consciousness, right?”Mentions, Kundalini and Vitamins - Yogi Explains, Jan 202410:09“You've had a roll-up of consciousness into your heart.”Mentions, Facing Death, For Life - Yogi Explains, Nov 202310:28“We roll up into the brain, and we don't just go up; we cross over.”Mentions, How Does an Out of Body Experience Work In the Brain? - Yogi Explains, Nov 202302:05“We're going to have a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Small Downloads In Meditation - Yogi Explains, Sep 202314:50“The energy and the consciousness will roll up into the heart.”Mentions, Holographic Universe & OM Japa - Yogi Explains, Sep 202301:36“It allows for the tranquil breath, the freeze response, and the roll-up of consciousness, and these are kind of magical things because you can't force them, right?”Mentions, Grace Level 1 and 2 - Yogi Explains, Aug 202313:38“It can cause this roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Meditative Stability - Yogi Explains, Jun 202318:25“You just roll right up into the brain, and when it happens powerfully, you feel it very powerfully.”Mentions, Kriya Without OM Is Tamasic - Yogi Explains, Jun 202301:44“It's all about this roll-up of consciousness into the brain, which is demonstrated on the Big Bliss training.”Mentions, Weekend Retreat From Home - Yogi Explains, May 202314:55“It is this beautiful handle to get a grasp on these projections, clean them out, and cause all of those processes to reverse back into the brain in a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, The Kriya Yoga Bliss Program - Yogi Explains, Apr 202302:30“You might have the tranquil breath, the freeze response, and the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Relax the Face To Go Deep - Yogi Explains, Mar 202303:33“The second level is tranquil breath, freeze response, roll-up of consciousness, then expand and let go, inviting in your guest.”Mentions, Setting the Table For Deep Meditation - Yogi Explains, Mar 202311:55“That's secondary, and all of this is completely secondary to the tranquil breath, the freeze response, and the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, 3rd Eye Experiences - Yogi Explains, Jan 202305:07“And I just saw a beautiful depiction of the roll-up of consciousness into the heart.”Mentions, Every Great Story Returns To Simplicity - Yogi Explains, Dec 202211:06“If you can do all of that and begin to get into the freeze response, the tranquil breath, and the roll-up of consciousness, you have accomplished all of concentration.”Mentions, Where Is Concentration In Your Teachings? - Yogi Explains, Nov 202207:46“I've got the progression of the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, WARNING - Just Push Through!, Nov 202213:23“You'll have a more powerful roll-up of consciousness towards the brain, a deeper tranquil breath, a deeper freeze and a deeper roll-up to the brain.”Mentions, Origin vs Doorway of the Chakra - Yogi Explains, Nov 202213:03“So I talk about the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Building Your Meditation the Best Way!, Oct 202213:29“Okay, that's what it actually sounds like, and I'm approximating a little bit of that so I can disrupt the chakra and cause the consciousness to go back towards the brain and create a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Which Mantra of OM is Right? - Bija Mantras, Oct 202218:12“We have a roll-up of consciousness, so you might notice this cool trickle or this cool wave coming through the whole body.”Mentions, All of the Freeze Response - Pratyahara - Yogi Explains, Sep 202202:40“I talk all about that roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Progressing Through the 3rd Eye - Spiritual Eye - Yogi Explains, Sep 202206:25“The consciousness rolls up into the brain, and now he's sitting with the gods and goddesses, and the divine is coming down.”Mentions, The Star of David is the Perfect Yogic Symbol, Jul 202212:53“So when you get to that point, you have a roll-up of consciousness into the medulla.”Mentions, Breathe Through the Body vs the Brain, Jun 202207:00“It's really wonderful, especially when you can use some of the names that that we that we use here: the tranquil breath, the freeze response, the roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, Sharing Spiritual Experiences, Jun 202203:41“It will help to pull us up towards the brain, towards a roll-up experience.”Mentions, Khechari No Khechari Technique, May 202203:34“He's talking about a roll-up of consciousness.”Mentions, The Distress of Arjuna and Talking To the Higher Self, May 202212:46“We're learning to create that roll-up of consciousness back into the brain, and that's the one of the primary principles inside of Kriya Yoga, the Kriya Yoga of Lahiri Mahasaya, and it's what makes it so powerful is having that very very subtle experience of the roll-up of consciousness back into the brain, and so you can see a little bit of that in the Sphinx.”Mentions, Strength To Change, Apr 202216:38“They went into a samadhi because they learned about the roll-up of consciousness, and so they're like, well, I'll just do this, and they just did it, and they rolled up and they expanded, and they went into a samadhi.”Mentions, Darshan Dependence and Shaktipat, Jan 202211:51“You might go into the freeze response and the tranquil breath and the roll-up of consciousness into the brain.”Mentions, Your Kriya Is Wrong If..., Dec 202105:44“So I'm so grateful for him that he sat there and allowed me to demonstrate the progression of the roll-up of consciousness back into the brain.”Mentions, How I Beat Depression & the Real Kriya Yoga, Dec 202109:58“That's the roll-up, that's the bliss, and that's really what guides me.”Mentions, How I Left the Ashram - Lightning Experience of Kundalini, Nov 202113:53“You can look for the tranquil breath, the freeze response, and the roll-up.”Mentions, The Achievement Riddle in Meditation, Nov 202130:23“It's all about clearing away and allowing that roll-up of consciousness back into the brain for a very deep experience in the brain, in meditation.”Mentions, The Animalistic Nature of Chakras in Kriya, Oct 202111:04“Feel as if you are rolled up into the brain.”Mentions, How Much Should I Fill the Lungs? - Resonant Breathing, Aug 202121:49“You know, they all all I got is the you know the freeze response, the tranquil breath, and the and the roll-up into the brain.”Mentions, The Power of Small Wins In Meditation, Aug 202111:18“So we kind of flow up the spine, we roll up into the brain, and so that would include the roll-up.”Mentions, Spinal Breathing Kriya Mistake, Jul 202109:46“And just like you would silence the vibration inside of a plane, you are silencing the the vibration in the chakra, the negative vibration, and it allows you to detach and and roll up into the brain.”Mentions, Remembering My Kriya Guru, Jul 202110:54“And in that training, you see the roll-up, and I think I think it's a marvelous demonstration.”Mentions, Delayed Gratification in Meditation, May 202107:30“I call it the roll-up.”Mentions, Myth of Celibacy in Kriya Yoga, Sep 202009:04“The roll-up, by the way, that I mention in the big bliss training is another aftereffect poise state, beautifully.”Mentions, Paravastha of Kriya, Aug 202007:26“So now fast forward to today, I have explained, I think I explained on a video, and I I know I explained in the Patreon group that that state when you have the freeze response and you have the tranquil breath, and you have the roll-up into the brain”Mentions, Is the Pineal Gland the Seat of the Soul?, Aug 202010:20“And now you're sinking into a beautiful deep meditation where the body disappears and you get to roll up into the brain, the state that Lahiri Mahasaya called Krishna.”Mentions, The Rapture of Meditation and the Freeze Response - Kriya Yoga, Jun 202010:28“Wow, and you feeling yourself roll up into the brain?”Mentions, Ratchet into the Tranquil Breath and Bliss - Kriya Yoga, Jun 202016:57“You'll kind of roll up into the brain, see yourself in front of the spiritual eye.”Mentions, 2 Forces Block the Spiritual Eye - Yogananda in Mejda, Sep 2019
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