Some people refer to energy centers in the body as chakras. Many people associate the term with spiritual mumbo jumbo, however. So here, I will call these our body’s energy centers. They could also be called mini minds, because where we put our attention, energy flows.
Everything is energy. When I teach meditation, I teach you how to manipulate, move and feel your energy. Energy does the most amazing things, depending upon where you place your focus. Quantum physics theory says that energy/matter responds to your intention; therefore, it creates the very thing that you perceive or observe. This shows that we truly have unlimited potential.
I teach four meditation techniques (meditation, however, is in no way limited to these four techniques).
Sitting Meditation
The first meditation technique that I teach is the traditional, sitting meditation. In order to do this, you must sit with your back erect and your perineum firmly on the ground. This meditation technique involves quieting the mind and dropping the mind down into the first, second and third energy centers from the perineum to the solar plexus. This shifts the focus from outside of yourself to inside of yourself.
Our second energy center, located beneath the belly button, focuses on the gut. This is my personal favorite of the three energy centers. We have talked about the brain in your gut in other blog posts. Your subconscious brain is connected to the brain in your mind through the vagus nerve, a superhighway connecting these two brains. The vagus nerve is one of the most interesting, as well as one of the longest, nerves in your body. It touches every vital organ on the way down to the brain in your gut and on the way up to the brain in your head. It is constantly communicating information neurologically, with your neurons sending messages to your brain telling it, “this is real, this sensation is happening.” However, as you will find below, things are not always as they seem to be.
Lying Down Meditation
The second meditation technique I teach is lying down. I will ask you to place your mind in the space between your body and the floor. Your mind will fight you on this, saying, “There’s no space between my body and the floor!” But alas, there truly is. Science has proven that when you lie down, you’re not really touching the floor.
When you lie down on the floor, the electrons within your body are repelling the electrons that make up the floor. Therefore, you are actually hovering above the floor by an unfathomably small distance. There is energy between you and the floor. Electron repulsion prevents us from truly touching anything, yet we perceive this “touch” as real. Our brains interpret the physical world. The nerve cells making up our body send signals to our brain telling us that we are physically touching something. What is really happening is that the feeling or sensation of touch is conveyed to us through our electrons interacting with the repulsion from the electromagnetic field that permeates space time (the medium through which the electron waves propagate).
I will ask you to focus on this space between your body and the floor because, when you focus your mind on that space, you’re no longer thinking about your life. You are outside of the world that you know, the problems that constantly occupy your mind. This opens up the idea of possibilities, which opens up your mind. When you learn this, you will begin to realize that you’re not really walking on anything; in fact, you’re barely touching the ground. It opens up a new, mind-bending world for you to ponder.
Standing Meditation
Naturally, the standing meditation technique comes next. Standing with your feet shoulder width apart, your hands by your sides, you are instructed to focus on the space beneath your feet, between your feet and the ground. Visualize your feet melting into the ground. From your root energy center, you will visualize growing roots down through your legs, through the soles of your feet, into the crystalline center of the earth. Once you are fully rooted into the earth, you drop your core into the golden, viscous earth energy. Let the Earth’s energy flow through the soles of your feet into your body You then place your focus into one of two mini brains: your solar plexus energy center, which represents life force expression; or your heart energy center, which represents love.
Walking Meditation
Finally, we will practice a walking meditation, the fourth technique I teach. Walking meditation begins in the standing position. Firmly root yourself as above in the standing meditation. Focus and hold in your mind an intention of the YOU that you are creating yourself to be with new neural networks and pathways. You then drop into your heart energy center, holding the state of being in thought and feeling, and begin to walk. This practice sends the intention of your thought and feeling into the energy field around you as it is held within you. You are that which you intend to be and which you think you are, and that manifests in your outer reality, with practice.
