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THE THREE YOGA NADIS

The Human Nervous System

The Yogic 'Nadis' are just another reference to the human nervous system.

Nadi literally means 'flow or current' and in terms of human physiology corresponds to the flow of electricity through the nervous system. 

Yogic texts say "Out of the large number of nadis (nerves) in the human body, fourteen are more important, and of these, three are most important. These three are ida, pingala and sushumna."

The nervous system is divided into the somatic nervous system which controls organs under voluntary control (mainly muscles) and the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) which regulates individual organ function and homeostasis, and for the most part is not subject to voluntary control. It is also known as the visceral or automatic system. 

NADI CORRESPONDING NERVOUS SYSTEM BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION
Ida
Pingala
Sushumna Central Nervous System Balance

A balanced life will involve the healthy and balanced experience of the sympathetic and parasympathetic responses. The yogic system refers to this as "sattva" and the Taoist call it a balance between "Yin and Yang."

Others have called it "the golden balance."

What all health systems agree upon is the need for a healthy body and mind.

 

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND POPULAR SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS.
THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

Divided into brain and spinal cord. 

BRAIN : Cerebrum and cerebellum. A midline sagittal slice resembles the fetus, symbol of latent growth, the neophyte, or Sahasrara padma - i.e., full potential yet to be released. 

SPINAL CORD : Averages eighteen inches in length. Eighteen is the Hindu number of completeness. In the Mahabharata we note the eighteen days of the Great Battle, the eighteen battalions that fought, and the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-Gita ("Song of God"). When the spinal cord is dissected out of the vertebral column, along with the brain cone, it resembles a serpent (Kundalini), while the cavity of the spinal canal is sushumna. The spinal cord transmits sensory (afferent) messages to the brain and receives motor (afferent) signals from the brain down its tracts to produce changes in effectors (i.e., muscles and glands). The sensory nerve tracts of the spinal cord represent Ida (receptive, passive) functions while motor nerve tracts down the spinal cord are equivalent to Pingala (projective, active) functions. 

THE autonomic nervous system

SYMPATHETIC : Left and right chains of ganglion, tethered to the spinal cord but running down each side of the anterior bodies of the vertebral column, and averaging twenty-two ganglion a piece, spread out from the coccyx up to the cervical vertebrae. This symmetry is reminiscent of Ida and Pingala with Sushumna, the spinal canal, as the "Middle Pillar" of Western Magical practice. The twenty-two ganglion represent the number of the Avatar, or coming savior in Hinduism, and in Western occult anatomy the twenty-two ganglion correspond to the twenty-two paths on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, twenty-two bones of the skull (used as a "communion cup" a sin the Nordic Skoal), and the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana in the Tarot. Functionally the sympathetic nerves most often act as an accelerator, producing pingala reactions, an extreme example being the so called "fear, fight, flight" syndrome. 

PARASYMPATHETIC : The major section comprises a pair of vagus (in English, "vagrant") nerves, which emerge from the base of the skull to wander down the neck, through the chest, and deep into the abdominal cavity. Again remember the symbolic twins: Boaz and Jachin, Ida and Pingala. Parasympathetic branch fibers constantly meet with sympathetic branch fibers to form plexuses, the major ones on the physical plane representing the materialization of the non-physical chakras. Functionally the parasympathetic nerves most often perform braking actions; I call them the "rest, relaxation, recuperation" fibers, and hence they may be allied to Ida reactions.


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  2. Human anatomy

  3. Human brain functioning

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