Eckhart Tolle guides a short practice on feeling the energy in your body to move out of your head and into presence. He argues that shifting attention from thinking to bodily awareness connects you to a higher intelligence and brings clarity.
I haven't mentioned being in the body for a while. So let's feel it now that you are actually feel the energy field of your. As you sit there and as I sit here, we feel a certain aliveness pervading the body. It's very simple. But some attention has to go there. Otherwise you can't feel anything. Which means you have to take some attention away from thinking. If you're fully in thought, you can't feel your body at all. You don't feel alive anymore, just abstractions. So the beautiful thing is it's not only that your body loves being acknowledged and getting your attention. It's a very healing thing to do. And most importantly, it slows down your thinking considerably. If it doesn't even stop it completely. Because if you have your attention here, you can't have it there. And this the embodied state, it's quite nice. What you're feeling is not ultimately the physical body. It's already halfway beyond the physical body. Chi, life energy. And I call that it's halfway between form and formlessness. It's a bridge. Qi is the bridge between the formless dimension and the form. So it's wonderful to stay inside. And it can be. You can do it anywhere when there's enough room. You don't need to focus on externals. 100% have some attention in the body. We sit here, boredom disappears. For example, when you have attention in the body, you're not bored. You actually enjoy being feeling alive and that it can serve as an anchor for staying present. And that can be one way of looking around at the world without unnecessary mental labelling as clarity of perception. And looking at the situations that arise in that clarity of perception. And from that clarity of perception, you know what you need to do or what needs doing in that situation. It's a higher intelligence that you contact via the body, a higher intelligence than the acquired knowledge of the human mind. And then you know what to do. It acts, it tells you have an insight or a spontaneous doing or if there's nothing to do, being is enough. You can enjoy just being. Sleepless nights are wonderful opportunity for going into the body. Oh, I can't sleep. I wish I could sleep. Why don't you do something useful, go into the body and then you lie there and feel the aliveness. Oh, I wish, I hope I won't go to sleep too soon, because it's so nice. And before you know it, you've gone to sleep. Perhaps. And then you wake up in the morning, perhaps you still feel a lingering sensation there in the body. And if you don't, as you wake up, put your attention into the body first before you start thinking about the day for just a couple of minutes, three minutes, two minutes, It's a good start of the day to feel alive. Can't be a bad start of the day. I'll tell you what a bad start of the day is. Listening to the news. First thing it keeps. It's. It's a grounding, but not a heavy grounding. It's like rooted in being it.
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