Chapter 2 - How to Experience Expanded Awareness
Summary
This chapter explains how to experience awareness expansion beyond the thought processes of your mind. It describes contemplation exercises necessary to open the filters of the socially conditioned mind.
Daily Exercise
Choose a natural and serene landscape easily accessible to you in your daily routines. It could be a lake, a pond or body of water, the ocean, a desert, a mountain, a forest, a beach, your backyard, the sky, etc. The scene must be quiet and calm with little or no activity. Sit or stand quietly, paying attention to the environment and withdrawing your attention from any thought streams in your mind. Holding your attention on the scene and relaxing your body as much as possible, breathe in through your nose, deeply, slowly, filling your lungs with air. Then, hold your breath for 5 seconds, exhale slowly and pause. Begin the next controlled breath when comfortable. Repeat the exercise progressively from 10 to 12 times.
Practice this exercise at a time of day when you can take a break from thinking of practical endeavors and remain quietly in contact with the natural environment for as long as possible. This simple exercise will gradually expand your awareness so that you may sense the entrance into your inner sanctum, where you will experience inner peace and a refuge from the stress of your world.
This practice will open your energy centers and allow you to merge with energies in the natural environment. As often as possible, stimulate your children’s development by teaching them how to activate their energy centers through this practice.
Ensure the protection of your respiratory system by understanding its critical physiological function. It mediates the concentration of subtle energies in your body. Subtle energy centers throughout your body will lead you to experience expanded awareness and communion with Earth’s natural energies.
Energy Centers
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