Merging Your Awareness
Special article from our friends over at Green Heiress Retreats!
“In this installment of the Green Heiress Retreats blog, we will combine the practices and skills we cultivated in blogs one and two: Breath and Gravity. By bringing these foundational elements together, we will delve deeper into the power of a conscious, perceptive and grounded mind.
Hopefully you now feel comfortable with the first practice of awareness of the breath. This is where you place your awareness on your breath and actively witness the coming and going of your breath. Perhaps you can now have an experience of both the active process of breathing, as well as the stability and consistency of gravity supporting your body. Until now, these have remained two separate facets of your current awareness.
In this exercise we will push past that separation to merge your awareness, taking these two conscious inputs and marrying them together into a single “new” experience.
Part 3: Merging Your Awareness
Remember, the challenge to this work lies in its simplicity and thededication to a steady practice required to make it a strong foundation.
Summon In the Breath: Begin with the breath exercise from the first blog installment: Hello, Breath. Take note of your breath and settle into its rhythm.
Embrace Gravity: Next, as you deepen your awareness and connection to your breath, invite the awareness you have cultivated of gravity to become a part of your active witnessing. Revisit blog two, The Gravity of the Situation if you would like a refresher. As you invite gravity into your consciousness, feel the stability and support of that element.
Marry the Two: As you allow the breath and the feeling of gravity to merge with one another, see if you can deepen this connection as time goes on. You will begin to feel a sense of “robustness” and depth previously unrealized.
Remain Passive: As with all our exercises, do not force the connection. Let it come together on its own, naturally. One need not try to merge the two together, as the dynamic result of the practice comes of its own accord.
This is an active practice that can become the core, foundational element of not only your own desiredself-cultivation, but also of your life. Imagine having an ever-present sense of stability within your being and living your life from the center of this stability. A place where anxiety does not reside. Where a more open view of the world is possible such to witness and participate in the marvels is offers. This is possible, and in a way, it already exists. You simply have to do the work to bring it into being. And that, in essence, is the core of a grounded mind. ”