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Gautama mentions extending the mind of compassion in the ten directions to infinity, and says the perfection of such an extension is the realm of infinite ether (the first arupa jhana, or immaterial trance).
Lately I’m on a lot about proprioception in equalibrioception– “with no part of the body left out”, a singularity ...
This morning I realized that for me, my study of anatomy is the study of how to relax as awareness takes place.
Sometimes I’m aware of the obturators side to side, hammocking hips from the pelvis; sometimes of piriformis and gluteous, rotating sacrum and pelvis independently; and sometimes of the sides of the PC and rectus, balancing a feeling ...
Some people say that after the chi reaches the head-top, it returns to the tan-t’ien down the front of the body, in a kind of circulation. I do experience an odd kind of circulation, but the connection between the head-top and the tan-tien is not so direct for me.
Cranial-sacral theory is really near and dear to my heart. The premise there is ...