My Biodynamic Meditation session this morning was about breath, awareness of my central energy channel, awareness of the Tide moving up and down and then settling at my sacrum as healing energy for a bit, moving up to my solar plexus region, and then to my crown chakra.
The energetic sensation was that of effervescence at my sacrum and my crown, and like soothing kindness at my solar plexus.
Continue readingMy intent when starting today’s Biodynamic Meditation was to keep my attention focused more on my sensation, with little distraction from my monkey mind.
It worked.
Intention is so powerful. It’s like making a promise to yourself and then honoring it.
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Did you even know that your bones are 31 percent water?
My Biodynamic Meditation this morning had a lot of Tide moving in my central energy channel.
The swirliness settled in the lower part of my sacrum and then in my sphenoid.
The sphenoid is a mostly hidden bone that many are unaware of.
Continue readingToday’s Biodynamic Meditation was different.
Radiance at my face from the start, after 5 physiological sighs.
Tide moving up and down in my central energy channel.
No stillpoint unless it was brief, more of a pause.
Then…sensations in the skin, especially of my arms and legs. Pleasurable.
Continue readingGo within and find the dance.
We are polyrhythmic beings.
Breath. Heartbeat. Circulation. Tides. Internal and external rotations. Digestion. Circadian rhythms. Fluid motion. Cellular activity. Neuronal activity. Lymph flow. And so much more.
To become still in body and mind is to begin to sense the magnificent dance occurring within each of us.
L’chaim!
Continue readingYears ago, a Zen teacher gave me a koan, a topic of inquiry: whole body awareness.
I started exploring this, and when I reported a discovery, she’d say, “That’s one way.”
That inquiry changed my life, and it’s ongoing.
In Biodynamic Meditation, the quality of our attention matters.
There’s the object of our attention. Is it small, large, near, far, internal, external? Known or unknown? Whole or a part?
Continue readingThe three most basic skills of meditation are posture, internal awareness, and returning to internal awareness when the mind wanders.
Many meditation practices begin with breathwork to bring awareness into the body and to cultivate a state of calm.
In Biodynamic Meditation, the next step is awareness of sensations, without any judgment or story, just simple awareness, nerves transmitting sensations to the brain.
Some people are internally oriented, and it will take less practice to maintain awareness of their sensations.
Others, like me, have worked at it for a long time. It does get easier with practice.
Continue readingThis morning I woke with a twinge in my sacrum. It’s the area affected by multiple old injuries.
I did some movement that helped.
After I started my Biodynamic Meditation session, I sensed a couple of sweeps of the Tide, and then it settled into a sacral stillpoint.
I’m not sure exactly when that stillpoint became swirliness, because the swirliness only made small swirls with lots of pauses in the tissues on the back of my sacrum for the rest of my 30-minute session.
Old injuries are often complex. They can affect muscles, fascia, ligaments, tendons, nerves, blood flow, bones, etc.
Continue readingMy Biodynamic Meditation today was to the point and sweet: 10 bhastrikas, Tide, pelvic stillpoint, then swirliness of healing energy.
This after about 5 hours sleep, but not feeling tired, so far. Did a sleepover with a friend and stayed up really late watching two movies about men that I’d never seen before, Die Hard and Godfather II, a fantasy of a hero and a character study of a tragic life.
Much to ponder about humanity today.
And now, off to a waiting hot tub.
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My Biodynamic Meditation this morning started with 7 Bhastrikas, sukhasana, and radiance at my face.
Then, sensing the Tide, mixed with monkey mind, until stillness prevailed.
The Tide seems to be a fundamental part of our well-being.
It’s so close, yet most of us don’t know about it until someone tells us, and even then it takes motivation to deepen our perception and discover it in ourselves.
There’s no science on it (yet), but it seems obvious that something so regular is actually regulating something.
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