Sharing Light

This is the fourth in a series of Poetic Meditations by The Living Point. This long-form meditation is a special opportunity to connect internally with the goal of extending yourself, accepting the extensions around you, and truly bonding with your environment. Generate profound connectivity to the fundamental energies around you and proceed to resonate with connections waiting to be made.

Transcript

Welcome to Poetic Meditations.

My name is Connor Logan,

Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine,

Accompanied by composer Trevor Wayne Howard.

This meditation and the poetry therein is meant to help review fundamentals,

Teach more advanced techniques,

And also help you understand that your meditation does not necessarily stop inside.

It can be used for others,

To affect how your energy interacts with the energy of the universe around you,

And how all of that is a very powerful part of yourself.

Now,

With all of that in mind,

Let's make sure that we are in a comfortable position,

And ready to relax.

Make sure that you will not be disturbed during this time.

Honor this time for yourself.

Take a few deep breaths as you get comfortable.

You may want to quickly scan and adjust your body in the relaxed position that you find yourself in,

And just make sure that you feel even,

Settled,

And with the liberty to fully relax as we move forward.

As in other meditations,

We will start by focusing on our feet,

And allowing them to feel what they feel.

As you breathe in and visualize the word,

Relax.

Think of the skin of your feet,

The hairs,

And dive deep in between the bones of your toes,

And your midfoot.

Dive around your heel,

And inside your ankle.

Continue to dive into your ankle and view this area in three dimensions.

Try to picture the various bones and attachments,

All that do so much work for you every day.

Breathe in again the word relax as you allow your ankle to fully settle.

You may have noticed a numbness or tingling or perhaps nothing at all,

But give gratitude to the work that your feet do every day,

And thank them.

Thank them as we easily let this feeling move up into your shins.

Think of the long bone of your shin and the muscles on either side.

Dive easily around to the back and allow your calves to soften,

Your Achilles to relax.

Slide up behind your knee,

Allowing your hamstrings to relax and come around to allow the large muscles of your quadriceps to soften and widen as you focus on your knees.

Again,

Just like with your ankles,

Dive deep inside.

Think of all the attachments that allow you to start to walk and stop walking and go up and down stairs.

Jump.

Breathe into your knees and allow your kneecaps to soften and your legs to widen and relax.

Give all these parts a reprieve from the physical positions we hold them in each day.

And as you move up towards your hips,

Allow your toes,

Ankles,

Shins,

Knees,

And upper legs to relax fully.

Continue to breathe deeply and with appreciation.

As you let this relaxation move into the front of your hips,

Into your hip flexors,

The parts that allow you to lift your leg up.

Move around your hips,

Scanning slowly for any areas of tension.

Find one or two areas.

Whichever areas you find first,

Breathe in deeply,

And on your exhale,

Consciously relax these areas.

On your next breath in,

How might it feel to add to this,

Relaxing your lower back,

Your tailbone.

Breathe in deeply,

And on your breath out,

Allow your knees again to separate and relax and take your hips with them.

In your mind's eye,

Focus on the tip of your tailbone and allow the tip to fall to the floor.

You may even want to further this by imagining that your tailbone falls towards the center of the earth.

It may seem like a bit much,

A bit esoteric,

Esoteric,

But allow your body to feel and embrace the gravity and know that whatever is supporting you can and will support you,

That you can in fact fully relax.

In this visualization,

Allow your back,

Tailbone,

And hips to relax.

You are taking time out of your day to honor your body and give it relaxation.

The abyss of the past and future on either side of this present moment is not our focus.

Now is definitely now.

Let this relaxation move into your abdomen.

Think of your abdomen in three dimensions.

There's the area around your belly button.

There's also the area along the sides that allow you to bend left and right and connect your rib cage to your hips.

Dive around the backside and feel the long muscles of your lower and mid-back,

And how they wrap and protect and give function.

To your spine,

Give you the ability to stand upright,

To twist.

As you stay relaxed,

Think of these motions and let all of them at once fall to the floor.

Allow the idea of twisting to fall to the floor,

The thought of bending to slide away.

Let this relaxation move up through your rib cage,

Diving in and out of the spaces between each of them as you make your way up toward your collarbones,

Where you dive deep into your body to your lungs,

Allowing the breath at this point to become even more comfortable.

A new level of deepness as you breathe in and breathe out a deeper relaxation.

Breathe in to your shoulders and breathe out down through your arms.

Dive into your elbows just like you did your knees and ankles and lower back.

Think of all the attachments that you use to hold your phone,

To type,

To drive,

To shake hands,

To play a sport or exercise.

Breathe into your elbows and out and down through the muscles of your forearms and into your wrists.

Breathe into your wrists and hands as you visualize deeply the complex network of attachments here.

Breathe out through your fingertips.

Think of your palms,

The base of your thumbs,

All of the bones that make up the middle part of your hands,

Each knuckle as you dive down toward your fingertips.

Continue to allow every breath to relax you more and let each moment that passes sink you into your relaxation.

Now,

Let this move into your neck.

Swallow lightly as you allow your Adam's apple to simply fall whichever direction towards the floor,

Either down your body or through your body,

Depending on your current position.

Let your ears fall away from your scalp.

Let your temples soften and your eyes relax.

Let your eyebrows soften along with the bridge of your nose.

Scan through your scalp from your forehead to the crown of your head,

To the bony part of the back where your skull meets the top of your neck.

Think of your upper lip,

Your teeth,

Your gums,

Your chin,

Your cheeks.

Breathe in and allow all of this to relax.

Breathe in as you review and rescan.

Rescan this relaxation throughout your body.

Boundless is the idea of wrapping your body in kindness,

Wrapping it in the idea of relaxing and softening it toward the earth.

Now,

Let's move on to the idea of how your meditation does not stop inside you.

We're going to build energy and share it.

Think of the area just below the tip of your breastbone,

The solar plexus.

Breathe in the thoughts of a pinprick of warm yellow light,

Taking seed at that place.

Breathe in relaxation and allow this pinhole to widen,

To broaden.

See if you can work to expand the radius of this pinhole.

With each breath in,

It expands.

It expands.

With each breath out,

Just intend to maintain its size.

So each breath in brings more and each breath out solidifies the gains.

So take this thought with you in the next week or so,

And whenever you have a moment,

You can sit,

Breathe 10 or 20 breaths,

And think of this warm widening spot.

And I'm sure that you will find that you will easily get back to it.

And perhaps in time,

Be able to widen it quickly.

So now,

Who is the first person that comes to mind when I say,

Bring this light to someone else.

The first person that comes to mind,

Let it be that person.

Allow it to be that person fully,

Vividly.

If it's because this is someone you care for and think positively about,

Focus on that.

If it's someone that you need to resolve a conflict with,

I encourage you to think of this person for their good qualities.

Think of this person sitting comfortably.

Relaxed,

Happy,

And think of scanning through them with one breath,

Top of head to tip of toes.

And relax them.

Breathe in again,

And on your breath out,

Visualize them softening further.

And on this next breath in,

A pinprick,

Warm yellow light starts to fill their center.

Let's take a few moments here to breathe and build this warm center in them.

See the happy smile on their face.

Grow relaxed and pleased as you help them build energy.

As with yourself,

On each breath in,

You build their energy,

And on each breath out,

You maintain what they've gained.

Take the last few moments here and give some of your mind's eyes attention to this brief act of kindness and tie your warm yellow center to theirs.

Relax and breathe as we hear from the Tao Te Ching that states,

As your wisdom reaches the four corners of the world,

Can you keep the innocence of a beginner?

Think of that humbleness as we hear this poem.

Entering the room as a new addition,

All are moving as one.

Unaware of my entrance,

They glide together,

A skying of energy.

Old master in front,

Happy to lead,

His simple energy,

Clean and true,

Guides and holds them together like glue.

He smiles,

Noticing me,

You.

Invitation to join with respect shown,

He can tell I've done this before.

No scorn,

But pride shorn off like a winter coat,

Such a simple act.

The gift you first think of returning,

But keep instead and love.

Your time taken aside and shown augmentation,

Progression through unlearning,

Churning back to motion my most important,

My energy that provides calm,

Drives my appetite,

My lust for life.

I will accept this lesson,

This instruction,

Honored by intention,

But humbled by my limits,

Identified and described.

I'm shown I've much to learn.

Rest to palm,

Calm and thankful.

I'll proceed.

Begin to breathe normally,

Closer and closer to your waking state.

Take time to thank and appreciate your body for working with you,

For relaxing along with your mind,

Your breath,

Your intention.

Be kind to yourself as you slowly begin to move towards your waking normal state.

Become aware of your environment around you.

Start to bring back together the pieces of your day.

And slowly,

At your own pace,

Open your eyes.

Smile internally about this experience.

Consider how it felt to relax,

To visualize your body,

To become more masterful at connecting with yourself while retaining the innocence of a beginner.

While becoming part of this kind of energy around you,

And while learning how to share it with someone.

Look up when you're walking.

Take time to notice those around you as you move,

As you drive,

As you work,

And as you play.

Enjoy the feelings and connected emotions that a warm centered person exudes.

Reviews

Love this meditation - envisioning energy moving collectively was such a wonderful vision and through the instructors gentle cues my body relaxed to the experience

Really lovely and loving.