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What position
should I choose
Before we
proceed to the actual meditation practices, we need to clarify
the different body positions in which meditation can happen most
efficiently.
Lying down, sitting, or standing
One common way to meditate is to lie down on your back
without a pillow. Alternatively, you can choose to sit in a
traditional meditation position. Both positions have their
advantages and disadvantages.
When sitting upright with crossed legs, energy is forced upwards
in the body. The crossed legs block the energy from moving
freely in the lower body, causing it to rise and become
available for cultivating more intense states of consciousness.
When lying down, the quality of consciousness generally
decreases, but you can access more interoceptive information in
a state of relaxation. Lying down signals to the body that there
is no fear, helping the body relax but also bringing it closer
to a sleeping mode.
Therefore, when we lie down, energy circulates more freely,
resulting in a trade-off between consciousness and awareness. In
a lying position, we become
more body-aware
but less conscious.
When we sit up in a meditation position, the 'lux' of awareness
goes up, but so goes the tension and energy needed to keep the
back straight which again propels us into a state of control
where we remove ourselves from the flow-zone. Surfing these
opposites requires that we get familiar with our inner selves in
every meditative situation. Let me give an example. You sit up
with a straight spine where your awareness goes up but at the
same time you brake the flow connection to your inner body. In
such situation you might want to relax your spine a little bit
and deviate from the ideal straight position. Due to this little
adjustment you enter your body's meditative flow zone. Another
situation could be that you get too day-dreamy when you lie
down. You might then change your position to sitting. You might
even experiment with a standing meditation position
with closed or staring eyes. In the standing position there
energy flow in the body is at its max as compared to the two
other positions.
What is vital here is that you get accustomed to listen and feel
all the micro-sensative feed backs your body provides you with.
The Importance of Symmetry
Whatever position you chose in the moment, standing, lying
or sitting, body symmetry is of vital importance. I guess
everybody who have had psychedelic experiences will have come to
know the tremendous importance of body symmetry in order to get
the energies flowing along the pathways of what we poetically
could term 'holy geometrics'.
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