PRACTICE 3: building conscious body awareness
THIS IS A MINDFULNESS PRACTICE TO SUPPORT YOU IN STAYING PRESENT IN YOUR PHYSICAL BODY WHILE YOU MOVE GENTLY.
PLAY ON THE EDGE OF YOUR FEAR.
FIND A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN STAY
UNINTERRUPTED. USe A TIMER.
SET YOURSELF A BLOCK OF TIME
(recommended 20mins)
sink into this short Practice:
select a comfortable posture.
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find A SEATED POSITION neutral/BALANCED in both hips.
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discover a position lying on your back on the ground.
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set yourself on your hands and knees in a table top posture.
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CHOOSE TO create a POSTURAL variation
USING A TIMER, SET 5-15 MINUTES FOR YOUR PRACTICE.
BEGIN IN A POSTURE where you feel completely at ease
Invoke the BREEMA principle BODY COMFORTABLE,
make sure that you are paying CLOSE attention.
NOTICE YOUR BODY BREATHING, NOTICE YOUR BODY HAS WEIGHT.
REGISTER TO YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE,
REGISTER THAT YOU ARE NOT AFRAID.
FROM YOUR BEGINNING POSTURE ALLOW YOURSELF TO GENTLY MOVE IN A CIRCULAR, SPIRAL LINES EDGING YOURSELF IN YOUR MOVEMENT NEARER TO AN edge WHERE FEAR COMES IN,
PAUSE THERE,
DEEPEN YOUR BREATHING AND WAIT
ALLOW RELAXATION TO enter INTO YOUR POSTURE,
INTO YOUR MIND AND BODY
ALLOW SPACE FOR THis to occur,
TO YOURSELF FEEL THE TRUTH IN THE STATEMENTS;
MY BODy HAS WEIGHT ~ MY BODY BREATHES.
FROM HERE YOU CAN DEEPEN YOUR MOVEMENT,
CREATE FOR YOURSELF the space to LEAN INTO THE EDGES of a stretch, MOVE FORWARD INCLUSIVELY, IN THE EXPERIENCE OF noticing each part of your BODY with full AWARENESS.
THIS IS WHERE RELAXATION ENTERS OUR CELLULAR CONSCIOUSNESS
where THE BODY IS ABLE TO FULLY SUSTAIN & INTEGRATE CHANGE.