During this week I remember to bring my attention to posture, I recognise the tension/torsion in the body.
I allow the body to assume a ‘correct’ posture: the spine straightens naturally; I can move forward or sideways, ever so imperceptibly, until I find the correct posture.
In the chair: I sit on the edge, without leaning on the ‘back’, in the correct posture, breathe and relax.
Inhabiting the body, thanks to the breath getting in touch with the open, soft, relaxed places, as much as with the tense, closed ones, where we can feel a tension or pressure, somehow a discomfort.
Bringing our breath right here, to these areas of the body where we feel resistance to letting go and relaxing. Instead of rejecting or trying not to feel, trying to change or resolve the discomfort, we rest in the very heart of the sensation, embraced by the wave of the breath.
Freedom from the fear of pain.
1 – Exercises (duration: 12m)
2 – Deep relaxation (duration: 29m)
This week
Practice the four postures
I follow five breaths standing, five breaths walking, five breaths lying down, five breaths sitting, then standing again, walking…
This practice does not need a long time, a few minutes are enough.
This practice is inspired by the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Sutra (Satipatthana sutta):
“When walking the practitioner is aware:
I am walking.
When standing he is aware of it:
I am standing.
When he sits he is aware of it:
I am sitting.
When he is lying down he is aware:
I am lying down.
In whatever posture he happens to be he is aware of his posture.”
Four postures: I do five breaths standing, five walking, lying down, sitting, then standing again, walking … (then repeat)
Returning to correct posture: in whatever position I am, I stretch my column, then relax.
This practice does not require a long time, a few minutes are enough.
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