Body Meditation

This meditation raises one’s life force (prana, chi) and thereby betters all areas of one’s life. It connects the body with awareness, resulting in accessing & receiving life’s wisdom.

Set aside an hour or so in a place away from distractions. Get comfortable and place your attention on your most predominant physical sensation. Continue attending as long as it is most predominant. At some point there will be a shift, and some other sensation will become predominant. Attend to this sensation as long as it is predominant, and so on. Be aware of what you may feel, see, and hear. Their content is not as important as is the fact that you are being present and attending.

Predominant physical sensations may range from easily discernible sensations such as pain, to more ambient sensations such as itching in one’s nose. In the latter case, rather than scratch the itch, one is asked to attend to the itching with only mindfulness as long as it is predominant. Feelings may also be predominant; for example, sadness, anger, or joy. Often such feelings are associated with thoughts. If so, maintain attention on the feeling, rather than on the thoughts.

Body meditation is usually done singly, but there are benefits to doing it in dyads (pairs). Meditators may be physically present with one another, or communicating via phone or online. In dyads, one person vocalizes what his/her predominant physical sensations are, where they are, what they are feeling, seeing and hearing, and how they are shifting. The other simply attends, and may contribute comments as they come to him/her; for example, is there anything you are feeling/hearing/seeing?

As body meditation progresses, one builds life force and is more robust in living one’s life. One is increasingly connected to life and capable of receiving guidance that is beneficial not only to oneself, but to all of life. One is contributing to human evolution and helping bring heaven to earth.