Attachment is when we believe our desires. It is when we think and act transactionally. It is when we are willing to barter our current peace and happiness for a peace and happiness that we believe lies in the future or in the past. 

I call compulsions, reactions, and hot spots that show up in our systems and in our relationships with people and the world activations because these impulses are simply made of energy- energy that is trying to guide us back to the heart.  When we have an activation we feel it.  We know that there is something in us that is asking us to listen, to look, to see. 

In yoga tradition and symbology the snake goes a step further than even the notion of life, death, earth, and sexuality by bringing forth the concept of Kundalini. Kundalini is the primary force of the subtle body of energy that lies within the map of the physical body, and it is an anatomy just as vital, detailed, and investigated in the various Indian traditions as is the physiology of form.

What are the physical benefits to breathing and how do we do that?