Bandha Parichheda

Bandha Parichheda is a simple practice that helps us work with the subconscious and cuts off the effect of memories, emotions, and judgments upon us so that we can be free once again.

Our body is simply being. It has no feelings. It doesn’t feel pain or pleasure. The mind, on the other hand, is not physical. It produces emotions from feelings. It reproduces pleasure and pain from memory and experiences them through the body. Our memory is a mix of emotions.

For these emotions to stay in the memory, they are recorded with the experience that caused them. These memories over time are forgotten, but they trigger pleasure and pain depending on the experience we are going through in real-time. Hence, they are called sub-conscious memories.

Imagine you are sitting alone, wanting some time with yourself. You don’t want to think, but the mind plays the memories stored in the subconscious. You can observe them if you will. However, sometimes, they are loaded with emotions, and then the mind reacts to them emotionally by laughing, crying, being angry, etc.

Then, people in the present speak hurtfully and vengefully by judging our intentions, choices and actions. We, too, judge others’ intentions, choices and actions by being nasty, hurtful, and vengeful in our thoughts and words.

Bandha Parichheda is a simple practice that helps us work with the subconscious and cuts off the effect of memories, emotions, and judgments upon us so that we can be free once again.