I am surprised how much I am enjoying it as someone who just started practicing it, I thought it was supposed to be boring or chore-like but whenever my timer rings I get the urge to meditate more and i am doing it twice a day, I guess something about the breathing relates positively to our nervous system.

"The serpent's ability to form its skin by ossifying a portion of itself, and
its skill in shedding each skin as it outgrew it, caused man to regard this
reptile as a symbol of the power of endless growth and self- reproduction.
Man is told, therefore, to be "wise as the serpent" and learn how to shed his
skin - his environment - which is his solidified self; man must learn how to
"loose him, and let him go" . . . how to "put off the old man" . . .how to die
to the old and yet know, like the serpent, that he "shall not surely die".
Man has not learned as yet that all that is outside his physical body is
also a part of himself, that his world and all the conditions of his life are but
the outpicturing of his state of consciousness. When he knows this truth, he
will stop the futile struggle of self-contention and, like the serpent, let the
old go and grow a new environment."

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