21-Day Dhyana Sadhana - Day 7 - Energy Awareness and Body Integrity

Day 7 for the 21-Day Dhyana Sadhana, 21-Day Meditation Practice daily online retreat as we approach Divali 2024. 

In this practice we learn about creating integrity in our being - mind, heart, body, energy, and our spiritual Self working in alignment. 

This meditation shows a process of how to use the inner powers of mind and heart to positively influence the body.

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Meditation Transcript

Please come into meditation. Posture. A little focus with the spine aligned, shoulders relaxed.

Close the eyes. Bring your attention inwards. Take a few deep breaths, noticing your body, noticing the emotional space, noticing the mind.

And if you're able to try to sense the group energy, the connection of all of us together, that connection is beyond time and space.

How can you come into the group energy in a deeper way?

By acknowledging the exchange that happens when you breathe in, feel the support of the group energy, the togetherness. When you breathe out, you are offering the best of yourself, your presence into the group, that it may support others.

And take a deep breath and just affirm the "I am". I am here. I am experiencing. I am observing. Notice your individual experience. 

Remember that feeling of I, that feeling of the sense of self. It is supported by the divine, by the sacred within you. And so it's your connection back to the source.

When you breathe into that sense of I, what do you feel? What do you observe?

Become skillful in your breathing. Slow, steady inhale. A slow, steady exhale. Balancing the breathing.

When you do this, you are balancing two flows of energy in the body. It's called prana vayu and apana vayu. And by balancing these two flows of energy, we become very steady and stable.

Breathe through that point of the brow, energy center for the mind space. Breathe through that point of the heart and the center of the chest energy center for the heart space. 

As you breathe out, you're clearing any limiting patterns. You're letting go of what you do not need.

Letting go of the thinking from the mind, limiting thoughts from the mind. Letting go of heavy and old emotions.

And when you breathe in, you are opening up to the expansive space of the mind and the heart.

Open up to the loving energy of the heart, kindness to gentleness, compassion, and open up to the limitless potential of your mind. Don't let there be any boundaries or barriers in your mind. Just allow it to expand infinitely and enjoy the spaciousness of your mind.

And as you do this, as you hold that inner posture, now breathe down to the gut. Do some abdominal breathing.

Can you feel that some of that spaciousness makes its way into the body?

We're letting go of the limiting patterns of holding the body. We want to discover the full power of the body when it is aligned with the inner self. 

As you breathe out, let go of the tensions and stresses. Open up the awareness to your body.

Observe the posture position of the limbs. Observe the spine supporting from inside. Observe the breathing apparatus, the beating of the heart and the feeling of the different organs. Observe the muscles and joints.

Observe the gentle electrical tingle of the nerves. And if you're able to observe the flow of blood, it's a subtle feeling of movement and circulation inside.

Hold the entire body in your awareness and open up to loving the body.

The body is your first friend before you even know your mother. The soul knows the body and begins experiencing the physical body.

You can affirm with your mind, I love you. My body I care for you and I hold you close in my being and hold the body in that higher vibration of your heart, transmitting the vibration to every single cell.

Let that loving vibration, that compassionate vibration, be an organizing principle for your body. Your body is an instrument of that loving energy of your soul. Let every single cell shine with that energy.

Go deep into your heart, and as you breathe, allow that energy to overflow from the heart, point at the center of the chest, and using your breathing, allow it to flow to the different parts of the body.

This is how we align the body and heart, by caring for the body, by loving the body deeply.

This body is such a blessing to us, enabling us to fulfill the spiritual mission in this world, allowing us to learn and experience and explore this world. What a blessing. Open up to the gratitude towards your body.

It enables all the spiritual learning of this world. It enables all the joy and experience of this world.

What a blessing.

You feel how the body responds to that vibration. It feels thrilled. A gentle smile comes as the body knows you are holding it. Like the child that is deeply loved, the body knows it's being taken care of.

Just hold yourself in that space.

When you truly love something and someone, you want the best for that person or for that thing. When you truly love the body, you want the best for the body. You want it to be in the best health, taken care of in the best way.

Set the intention now in your mind and will strive to take care of my body in the best way that I can. That's a demonstration of loving. 

Now let's come into the mind, focusing at that point between the eyebrows, but keep that gut connection. So the mind is holding the body, and now we want to support the body with our thoughts.

Every thought is a powerful vibration that influences the body.

So we want to empower the body with our thinking thoughts that will lift the body. But you have to keep that brow and gut connection to transmit the thought powerfully into the body.

My body is strong.

When you say that thought in your mind, you should feel the vibration as a wave entering the physical body. My body is strong.

My body is flexible.

My body is vital and energetic.

I hold my body in perfect wellness and balance.

My body shines with the spiritual power of my soul.

My body is beautiful and attractive, mesmerizing to the world.

 My body is swift and graceful. 

My body is coordinated and balanced.

I hold my body in perfect wellness.

My body shines with the spiritual power of my soul.

Every thought influences the body.

Take a deep breath and begin feeling the breathing with the entire body. With each breath, expand, stretch the connective tissue. Open up the skeleton and the joints.

And when you exhale, gently relax, release. Feel the structure of the body. Inhale, expand, stretch, and open up the body. And exhale. Relax. Feel the connection of the body. Inhale, expand, and exhale. Relax.

Now let's nourish the senses as we make our way BACK to engage with the world.

Breathe into each ONE of the five senses, identifying them.

Tune into the weight of the physical body. Take a deep breath and pull yourself all the way back, alert and ready for today.

And when the moment is right for you, I invite you to gently open the eyes.

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Reflection

​1. What did I observe in meditation? What did I observe in the body? Heart? Mind? Energy?
2. What was striking in the meditation experience that I want to remember? 
3. What was challenging for me today? What can I do to work with that challenge? 

Feel free to ask your questions and post your reflection in the comments if you wish for some feedback.