Course XLII - Teaching 9: Exercises for Monitoring the Sun Wheel

Solar plexus is a center of power. The one who controls this wheel gives life or death. An explanation can be found on the relationship between the Sun Wheel and the cosmic-energetic plane.
You need diverse exercises for developing the solar plexus. Next you will find a description of the only exercise made bareheaded in the sun.
The sun is beneficial or harmful. It is beneficial if the superior mind is awake and alert; it is harmful if one gets drowsy and permits the little brain, or solar plexus, to be active by itself. It is a morning practice, at dawn, after respiratory exercise.
The student should be with the chest bare, looking at the rising sun.
He should try to stare at the sun, and not to blink. At once he shall see the horizon full of diverse shining colors. He should not be carried away by curiosity or any beautiful things, and has to fix his eyes on the sun.
He should try to avoid drowsiness after the first quarter of an hour, and continue this exercise with attention.
At the following quarter of an hour, he will concentrate totally his mind on the stomach and, particularly, on the pancreatic gland, wishing vividly to transmute internally the force of the sunbeams.
This exercise acts on the pancreas –which contains vagotonin that stimulates the sympathetic vagus– and increases the nervous power.
At the third quarter of an hour, he shall dry his body with a towel and cast his eyes down, and shall look up again at the last quarter of an hour.
During this stage, the disciple must restraint his desires, because otherwise they would find easy satisfaction. He should avoid any idea of hatred, death or ruin, not do harm persons around.
When this exercise is over, he will expel any malevolence through the navel and anus, such as the teaching describes it in regard to the Control Wheel.
This power increases quickly as this exercise goes on, and you know the progress by a physical characteristic: your belly becomes intense yellow, golden color, and your chest, reddish during the hour of exercise.