Occupy Your Cosmos
By Gene Nathan MD
We spend so much of our time in our heads, in an imagination that is disconnected with the full force of our spirit, because it is unintentional. It is a haphazard collection of whatever catches our eye, our fancy, our moment. What catches us has a power and a magnetic force of attraction. All through the day, relatively unaware, we are giving away bits and pieces of our attention, and therefore our power, to all of these distractions.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of it. What makes something “right” for us is because it resonates with our integrity, our passion, our love, our light, and the force of our being. What makes something a distraction is that it scatters all of these characteristics of us. It has nothing to do with either the direction we have set for ourselves, or what we came to do or learn.
To recalibrate our imagination, first we return to the body, to occupy our body with our inner vision, breath, feelings, narrative, and love. That is one of the functions of our breathing and body meditation exercises. We bring back all of our distracted and meandering parts that have been pulled from us by a distracting world to our full attention.
Then, using the same intentional imagination, we can take the full force of who we are, which we call “being present”, and send it on a journey back into the universe, on our terms. Occupy our cosmos is one example of an exercise where we take that presence and play in the playground of the cosmos, which I believe to be our real and true home.
Each stop on the journey, which we have marked on the map, such as “place of valor” “reproductive area” or “solar plexus” is a doorway to a new universe. Each of these is not just a leverage point for health and healing, but an exercise and opportunity to build up the muscle of our dream body, (called the hun, in Chinese mythology).
By Gene Nathan MD
We spend so much of our time in our heads, in an imagination that is disconnected with the full force of our spirit, because it is unintentional. It is a haphazard collection of whatever catches our eye, our fancy, our moment. What catches us has a power and a magnetic force of attraction. All through the day, relatively unaware, we are giving away bits and pieces of our attention, and therefore our power, to all of these distractions.
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of it. What makes something “right” for us is because it resonates with our integrity, our passion, our love, our light, and the force of our being. What makes something a distraction is that it scatters all of these characteristics of us. It has nothing to do with either the direction we have set for ourselves, or what we came to do or learn.
To recalibrate our imagination, first we return to the body, to occupy our body with our inner vision, breath, feelings, narrative, and love. That is one of the functions of our breathing and body meditation exercises. We bring back all of our distracted and meandering parts that have been pulled from us by a distracting world to our full attention.
Then, using the same intentional imagination, we can take the full force of who we are, which we call “being present”, and send it on a journey back into the universe, on our terms. Occupy our cosmos is one example of an exercise where we take that presence and play in the playground of the cosmos, which I believe to be our real and true home.
Each stop on the journey, which we have marked on the map, such as “place of valor” “reproductive area” or “solar plexus” is a doorway to a new universe. Each of these is not just a leverage point for health and healing, but an exercise and opportunity to build up the muscle of our dream body, (called the hun, in Chinese mythology).