Purpose

To minimize consciousness of the physical world; particularly after hatha yoga; particularly during all forms of meditation, especially those favoring the right brain hemisphere such as Master Meditation.

General Sphinx Position

• Face down on a clean covering over floor,
• body stretched to maximum length;
• face resting on the back of the right hand resting on the back of the left hand.

Specific Position

• Bridge of nose at the pineal gland rests on the first phalanx of the right index finger
• internotching of the top-of-nose notch and first phalanx notch.

Getting into Position

• Get into general position.
• Move around until comfortable and fully stretched out in a straight line.
• Move hands/face around until comfortable.
• Breathe very slowly and deeply, completely emptying lungs and filling them all the way down to the lower abdomen,
• making sure air is freely flowing through both nostrils (thereby energizing both brain hemispheres).

Check body for places holding tension and relax these:

• Usually legs, arms, back, shoulders,
• neck will be holding some.
• Object is to go completely limp and
• melt into floor,
• thus forget body.

Just after hatha yoga, energy is aroused in body;

• If the body is in Sphinx Position, all aroused energy tends to express itself mentally and above-mentally.
• Closes off outside world. Puts you in your own free dimension where all cares vanish
• relax there whenever all other available space is inhospitable
• Anything goes in there—
• let it be—
• watch, more and more closely,
• at aspects more and more ignorable/usually ignored.