Practices by Samael Aun Weor
1. Do you feel irritated or full of anger? Are you nervous? Reflect a little; remember that
anger can provoke gastric ulcers. Control anger through breathing. Inhale the vital air
very slowly (do not inhale through your mouth; inhale through your nose, keeping your
mouth properly closed) mentally counting 1-2-3- 4-5-6. Hold your breath, mentally
counting 1-2-3-4-5-6. Now, exhale very slowly through your mouth, mentally counting 1-
2-3-4-5-6. Repeat the exercise until your anger subsides.
2. Hang a silk thread from the ceiling of your room with a needle at the end of the thread.
Concentrate on that needle and try to move it with the power of thought. Mental
waves, when developed, can move this needle. Work ten minutes daily on this exercise.
In the beginning, the needle at the end of the silk thread will not move but, with time,
you will see that the needle oscillates and moves vigorously. This exercise is to develop
mental power. Remember that mental waves travel through space and pass from one
brain to the next.
3. Sit at a table facing the East, rest your elbows on the table and proceed in the following
manner: place the thumbs of your right and left hands into your ears, cover your eyes
with the index fmgers, cover your nostrils with your middle fingers, and seal your lips
with your ring fingers or little fingers. Inhale Slowly counting to twenty. Hold your
breath and count from one to twenty. Exhale slowly counting one to twenty. It is
necessary to remove your middle fingers to inhale and exhale but during the retention
of your breath the middle fingers should hermetically seal your nostrils. It is necessary
for you to try to see the tattwas with the third eye during the retention of your breath.
The third eye resides between the two eyebrows. At the beginning you will see nothing
but after some time you will be able to see and recognize them by their colors. Akash is
black and its planet is Saturn. Vayu is greenish blue and Mercury is its planet. Tejas is red
like fire and its planet is Mars. Prithvi is golden yellow and the Sun is its planet although
it is also influenced by Jupiter. Apas is white, and Venus and the Moon are its planets.
4. A man, after having studied himself discovered that he had twelve defects that were
bothering him. This man said, “Just as it is impossible to catch ten hares at the same
time, because the hunter who wants to try this would not catch any, so is it also
impossible to do away with my twelve defects at the same time.” This man arrived at
the conclusion that it would be better to catch one hare and then another, first to do
away with one defect and then another. Therefore he decided to dedicate two months
to each defect. After twenty-four months, this man no longer had the defects; he had
