Width Meditation 08/27/2009
 
Lay comfortably on the floor. Any position that is comfortable to you.

Ideally, allow your arms to float away from the body centre. If possible, allow the legs to also float away. 

When we are tense, our bodies seize up, and everything seems to squeeze in to our centres. Tension is held in the centre – the centre of our hips, the centre of our shoulders, the centre of our eyebrows.

Ideally, the centre is where we reach when we need strength, courage, flexibility, breath, and yet it can also be the centre of all our tension, cares and worries. 

As your breath starts to slow and your body and mind start to relax, start to think about the width of your body. Front body, back body. Internal, external. Face. Mind. Allow the tension to leave your centre, and experience the distance between left body and right.

Move through the body, experiencing and allowing this width. 

Become aware of your feet rolling outwards, heels supported by the floor. 

Similarly, experience the external rotation of your ankles and leg bones.

Allow your pelvis to soften and nearly liquefy, giving the legs even more room to widen. Observe the width of your soft pelvis, the distance between right hip and left hip. Envision and even wider pelvis, and go there with your breath. 

Moving up, acknowledge the softness of your belly, and experience the width of your soft breath as it travels in, filling up the chest and abdomen. 

In your mind’s eye, see the width of your rib cage, and watch it expand even more with every soft inhale.

Continuing up the body, imagine a very wide collar bone. Miles wide, and very, very heavy. 

Also acknowledge the width of your upper back, across the back of your shoulders. Feel your wide shoulder blades supported by the ground. 

Traveling up the back of the head, over the crown of the head, come to the forehead, and imagine miles of width across the forehead. Untie the knot between the eyebrows.

Increase the width of your eye sockets, and of each individual eyelid. Un-squint the eyes, and let the top of your head completely surrender. 

Envision the width of your cheeks, your jawline. Allow the jaw, tongue and throat to fall back toward the floor. 

Stay here, experiencing your full width, the sensation of having no held tension, no struggles anywhere in the body.
 
 


Comments

Obesio

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 6:47:03 am

Very interesting blog. I'm caught up with all of the posts and I look forward to reading more in the future.

 



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