BELLY OF HER BEING


blue hands enfolding

the belly of her being

resting on her bum


there are many kinds of postures one can adopt for meditation and prayer...here, she is anchored to the ground "resting on her bum" with hands enfolding the "belly of her being"...the belly is the center of the body," the hara in Japanese, the naval chakra in Hinduism, the physical center of gravity in the body.


as a practice, consider laying the hands gently on the skin over the "belly of one's being" (one hand resting on the belly, the other hand on top, with the thumbs interlocking comfortably)...feel the pulse of the hands coming into alignment with the pulse of the belly...if the pulse of the hand in contact with the belly is not in sync with the pulse of the belly, it may take a couple of minutes for them to align...start with feeling the pulse in the middle of the hand in contact with the belly, then focus on the pulse of the belly, finally let the 2 pulses come into rhythm, "allow" them to come into alignment...it is not something to force...by holding the intention of the pulses aligning, it will happen all by itself...once the pulse of the hand synchronizes with the pulse of the belly, stay with the unified feeling of one beat for awhile, feel the hands enfolding and centering one's being.




 

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