Hello and welcome.
This visualization practice will allow you to come into contact with a deeper and very profound state of stillness and quietude within the space of your mind.
This visualization begins with relaxing your eyes before opening what we can call the mystical eyes at the center of your brow and at the middle back of your skull.
This is a valuable way to release strain in the eyes and headaches related to tension in the eyes.
Please assume a comfortable seated position.
You may want to support your pelvis on a pillow or a bolster.
Begin by settling into your seat.
Allow a steady stream of breath to move in and out of your nose.
Allow your attention to draw inwards.
Then draw the back of your skull gently upward off the first cervical vertebra of your spine while lowering the bridge of your nose gently.
So the back of your skull raises while the frame of your face and your nose gently lowers.
You will notice your chin slightly tucking down.
Then relax your tongue onto the floor of your mouth.
Dissolve any tension from your eyes.
Soften the skin on your face.
Completely releasing your tongue.
Imagine doing shavasana with your tongue.
Imagine widening the sides of your skull so that the outer wings of your skull bones are feeling light and as if they are floating.
Imagine to expand and widen the skin between your eyebrows and the region of your third eye,
Which we also call shivastanam in traditional yogic language.
Just resting your attention in the space between your eyebrows,
Connecting to the area of your midfrontal brain essentially.
Expanding this region of the midfrontal brain allows for an experience of timelessness and spaciousness.
See if you can tune into that for a moment.
And once you notice that your forehead begins to feel more open and spacious,
See if you can concentrate your awareness into the center at the back of your skull.
Just as you did with the midpoint at your forehead.
Visualize widening the skin at the back of your skull.
Visualize softening and widening the tissue at the back of your brain.
And releasing the bony structure of your skull at the back of your head.
See if you can sense an imaginary visual field within this back occipital lobe of your hind brain,
Expanding and widening.
And allow your awareness to be extremely fine.
Allow your awareness to be as delicate as a feather or as the wings of a dragonfly.
And sense the ways in which this mindful contact with the back of your skull enables for a deeper,
More profound state of stillness and quietude in the space of your mind,
In the space of your being.
And just tuning into that for a moment.
Allow yourself to rest here.
Allow yourself to drink in this quietude,
In this profound stillness.
And then,
When you feel ready,
Slowly coming back to your senses,
To your body as a whole.
Notice your shoulders,
Your chest,
The abdomen and the torso,
Gently moving,
Pulsating with your breath.
And then take a moment to close your practice.
And when you're ready,
You can open your eyes.
Namaste.
