Human Earth Body

Join Rachelle in a guided meditation that will take you on an auditory journey into the elements within and around you. This guided meditation is an audio-only version of this practice, inviting you to explore the ways earth, water, fire, air, and space express themselves in mind, body, and environment. The practice will end with the sound of a bell.

Transcript

May this practice offer healing to your body,

Mind,

Heart,

And soul in whatever way serves you.

May this practice be offered with reverence and in service to all living beings.

To begin,

Please sit or lie comfortably,

Perhaps in direct contact with the earth if possible.

Beginning to feel the body settle into the earth.

Feeling into the qualities of the body.

Feeling the qualities of the earth element within and all around the human earth body.

Perhaps there's an attunement to density or solidity or steadiness.

Perhaps there's an attunement or awareness to stability or structure or support.

The earth element can also lend the quality of inertia or slowness,

Consistency,

Stillness.

Feeling these qualities within you,

Perhaps there is the earth element of nourishment,

Being in physical form,

A separate identity,

Human versus earth.

The earth element is indeed the base element,

The foundational element.

It's an accumulation of all the other elements.

The earth ecosystems are a great example of how to balance the elements.

Begin to feel the body's point of connection with the earth,

The foundation,

Your base.

Feeling your sit bones or your feet or perhaps your back or maybe even your lying on the earth with your hands.

Feeling those points of connection and attuning to the density in the body.

The density and slower energy of the lower chakras.

The earth element associated with the first root chakra.

As you're feeling into the earth's qualities within the human earth body,

Begin to attune your awareness to the earth's gravity.

Pulling the body back to the earthly home repeatedly,

Reminding us to return to our grounded foundation again and again.

As the earth consistently,

Firmly meets,

Holds,

Steadies and supports the body.

Out of the foundation,

Mapping the shape of the hills and valleys,

The contours of all the regions of the limbs and torso.

A continuation of the earth's topography,

The human earth body as one.

Feel the flesh,

The muscles,

The fascia,

The fat.

Feel the digested,

Composted and assimilated plants and food and insects and animal lives and stored heat and all the other materials that make up the flesh of the earth,

The soil of the human earth body.

Now begin to feel the strength and structure of the bones.

Just like the boulders and rocks and gemstones within the earth's soil,

Providing structure and form,

Integrity,

Even a crystalline matrix and nutrients to the soil within the human earth body.

Feel your spine rooting down,

Expanding skyward like an ancient giant old growth tree rooted deep down through the soil and flesh to the earth's bedrock,

Interconnected into the soil,

Rooting towards the core of the human earth body.

At the same time there is rooting,

There is also the canopy of the spine tree reaching and expanding into the sky and into space like the brain's neural network branching out in all directions,

Seeking connection,

Expansion and light.

Your spine,

The human earth body,

Spine of the old growth tree,

Network of roots reaching out into the soil,

Connecting to all the other earth and plant life.

And the canopy reaching out towards the sun,

Feeling that spine of the human earth body reaching in both directions.

Begin now to attune to the qualities of the water element within and all around the human earth body.

Attuning to the capacity of water to move earth and to transform from gas to liquid to solid and back again.

The water element,

Fluid,

Rhythmic,

Associated with the tides and the moons,

Freedom of emotional flow,

The nourishment,

Aliveness.

Water element,

Providing changes in temperature,

Offering softness and flexibility,

Absorption,

Cleansing and purification,

Resonance.

The water element associated with the second chakra and sometimes the fourth chakra,

The sacral chakra and the heart chakra.

Feeling the water energy and element flowing within the human earth body.

Feel the heart pumping with warm blood deep in the core of the human earth body,

Like the core of the earth pulsing with molten lava,

Creating a centering pulsation and rhythm.

Feeling the blood and lymph as it circulates nourishment and moisture to the inner environment and organ ecosystems of the human earth body,

Just as rivers of the earth supply nourishment and life-giving water to all the different ecosystems of the world.

Feel how the water equality of the human earth body transports nutrients,

Cells,

Seeds,

Stones,

Buoyancy throughout the system and the cycle from rain and the consumption of water into rivers and vessels,

Into a reservoir of water in the ocean and the fluid matrix of the human earth body.

Feeling the liquid form of the human earth body,

The flexibility,

The fluidity,

The flow.

Now begin to attune to the qualities of the fire element within and all around the human earth body.

The fire element offers clarification,

Purification,

Heat,

Transformation of earth into ash and air.

Fire associated with alchemy and radiance and light and sun.

Fire element associated with intensity and potency and passion of emotions and associated with the third chakra,

The solar plexus chakra.

Feeling the fire element in your digestion,

The burning and metabolizing of food,

Like earth's composting of plants and tree materials,

The pumping action of the muscles of the human earth body generating heat for the inner environment.

Feeling the spark of the fire element in the nervous system,

The human earth body mycelial network of interconnected webs of communication,

Sparking connection.

Sparking nerve transmission throughout the system,

Like a spark of fire or a ray of sunshine.

The fire element moving along these thin,

White,

Hot filaments of the nervous system and the mycelial network within the human earth body,

Creating connection,

Radiance.

Feeling the spark of your spirit deep within your heart,

Like the sun radiating warmth out to the earth,

Out to the human earth body.

Tuning awareness now into the qualities of the air element within and all around the human earth body.

Feeling the expansion and freedom and openness and inspiration,

The air element associated with wind and breath and mental activity,

The breath of life through everything,

Air element associated with spirit,

The fourth and fifth chakra,

The heart and the voice or throat chakras.

The air element more subtle than the previous elements,

Feeling the subtle kiss of air and sky on the skin of the human earth body.

Feel the spaciousness of the sky calling for the expansion of the breath,

Elevating and expanding the lungs and the heart and the voice and the mind and the vision towards sky and towards expansive space.

Feeling the breath of the trees and the plants and the rhythm of the breathing ocean as you breathe in and as you breathe out.

The oxygen generated from the plants filling and nourishing the human earth body.

Attuning to the symbiosis of the rhythm of the ocean of breath within and the rhythm of the ocean in the tides and the waves of the human earth body and the breath of life.

Attuning your awareness to the qualities of the space element within and all around the human earth body.

Space element,

The subtlest of all,

Formless,

The ground of all being,

Potentiality,

Possibility,

Emptiness,

Fullness,

Space element associated with the spirit and the potential of all other elements.

Feel the coherence of the human body with the earth body.

Feel the expansion of space and perception,

No beginning or end between the human and the earth.

In the field of the space element becomes the human earth body.

Interconnected oneness.

Feeling into the sky and space inviting body,

Heart,

Mind and spirit to expand like the stars and the galaxy,

The sparks of lighted inspiration between your spirit and the spirit of the universe.

Finally,

Feeling the cycle between all the elements,

How earth moves to water,

Moves to fire,

Moves to air,

Moves to space and all flow into each other again and again and again.

Attune to each of these elements all at once now within the human earth body.

Seeking balance between the elements.

Seeking an easy flow between the elements.

Taking this final moment to see what the human earth body is calling for.

Perhaps there's one element to strengthen and sit with longer.

Working your way back from space element distilling down into air in the human earth body,

Distilling down into fire within the human earth body.

Distilling down into water and finally down into earth feeling the body again in contact with the earth.