BREATHING THROUGH THE HEART
The goal of any centering practice is to withdraw all the energy and attention that is being invested in the mind and focus and direct it elsewhere.
Breath meditation allows you to do this by redirecting your attention off of your thoughts and over to your breath. Body awareness meditation does the same thing by redirecting your attention to the experience of all parts of your body. The moment you move attention out of the mind and allow yourself to experience something else, allow your attention to be absorbed in something else, your breath, your body, your heart center, there is a return to Stillness, a return to a state of rest and ease. And this shift is ultimately a shift into more flow, more allowing, and more into the very stream of powerful energy that creates your world and your experiences.
Where can you move out of your mind and into your body?
Where can you redirect your awareness to your heart center?
Where can you use your breath to get more centered, aligned, and balanced?
As you go on about your day to day life, you are observing, analyzing, projecting, remembering – you are engaged in an endless stream of mental activity. The world you live in today can have you participating in an excess of thinking and mental processing. And this excess of mental activity is at the root of the stress waves that throw you into mis-alignment and de-coherence – a general undercurrent of unease and disharmony that pervades the background of your awareness. Does this unease, stress, and stream of worrying serve you in anyway? The answer is an obvious ‘no’. So it is important to your well-being to put to practice daily and frequently these methods of returning to a state of openness, expanded-ness, connection, and relaxation. Not only will practices like these few mentioned here transform your experiences of your internal states of being, but it will transform how you experience your broader environment and world as well.
Practices:
Practices like these only take a few minutes but the sense of balance and wellness they bring about are far-reaching. You can do them anytime and anywhere – when you are in traffic, when you are waiting in line somewhere, when you’re at your desk, when you are walking anywhere, when you're sitting down for a meal or some other task. The more you make practices like this a part of your day to day routine, the more you will enjoy a continuous experience of inner ease, greater flow, and more balance as you go through your moments.
Copyright 2010 Kidest OMૐ, All Rights Reserved.
Breath meditation allows you to do this by redirecting your attention off of your thoughts and over to your breath. Body awareness meditation does the same thing by redirecting your attention to the experience of all parts of your body. The moment you move attention out of the mind and allow yourself to experience something else, allow your attention to be absorbed in something else, your breath, your body, your heart center, there is a return to Stillness, a return to a state of rest and ease. And this shift is ultimately a shift into more flow, more allowing, and more into the very stream of powerful energy that creates your world and your experiences.
Where can you move out of your mind and into your body?
Where can you redirect your awareness to your heart center?
Where can you use your breath to get more centered, aligned, and balanced?
As you go on about your day to day life, you are observing, analyzing, projecting, remembering – you are engaged in an endless stream of mental activity. The world you live in today can have you participating in an excess of thinking and mental processing. And this excess of mental activity is at the root of the stress waves that throw you into mis-alignment and de-coherence – a general undercurrent of unease and disharmony that pervades the background of your awareness. Does this unease, stress, and stream of worrying serve you in anyway? The answer is an obvious ‘no’. So it is important to your well-being to put to practice daily and frequently these methods of returning to a state of openness, expanded-ness, connection, and relaxation. Not only will practices like these few mentioned here transform your experiences of your internal states of being, but it will transform how you experience your broader environment and world as well.
Practices:
Practices like these only take a few minutes but the sense of balance and wellness they bring about are far-reaching. You can do them anytime and anywhere – when you are in traffic, when you are waiting in line somewhere, when you’re at your desk, when you are walking anywhere, when you're sitting down for a meal or some other task. The more you make practices like this a part of your day to day routine, the more you will enjoy a continuous experience of inner ease, greater flow, and more balance as you go through your moments.
Copyright 2010 Kidest OMૐ, All Rights Reserved.
