Meditation is another arm of Oriental Medicine.
Meditation is particularly replenishing for our Yin nature. It cultivates the ability to be calm and simple in a world of stimulation and demand.
What are the two things that prevent most people from benefiting from Meditation?
Thinking and time.
So I teach a very simple and enjoyable form that my own Spiritual Teacher Avatar Adi Da gave for children. It is a moment to moment practice that you can do any time of the day or night, and only takes a moment to start. How long you continue is up to you as you can still function while engaging it.
It is done through practicing breathing with a feeling of reception on the in breath and release on the out breath. The in breath is drawn down the front and more receptive part of the body. This may open up any knots grown out of emotional reactivity.
The out breath has many options for movement but essentially is felt to be a release. These dynamic actions are the dance of Yin and Yang being conducted in the body. Like flowing water, vitality is regenerated with movement. See Oriental Medicine - Yin and Yang and Meridian’s and Qi Gong.
Why Meditate?
When our qi is flowing freely we tend to be happy, we breathe deeply, we are relaxed, open and relational. When our qi is stagnant we are generally angry, fearful or sad- often shut down, breathing shallowly, with a feeling of tension- often in pain and generally not so relational… and we tend to console ourselves with habits that reinforce our patterns- keeping us stuck.
To be able to notice our state and change it is a wonderful way to break the patterning of disharmony. The reception/ release meditation is a simple way to develop greater sensitivity to your state- giving you more choices.
What I enjoy about it most is the feeling of ease and simplicity.
Click here to download a written version of the Guided Meditation.