Change Your Perception ( 3 ) .
This is the third part of a series on how to wake up from this fevered dream.
Be fully aware of your body at all times.
Feel the wind on your face.
Hear the sound of your breathing in a place that is silent.
Be in your body.
Ekhart Tolle on a you tube video claimed that the body gets upset when we don't take any notice or interest in it and might even get ill because of this.He also said that it is like we only live in the very top floor of our house and never go downstairs.
A good exercise to make you more aware of your body can be done while you are eating.Really experience the sensation you feel when you put food in your mouth.
Relish the taste when you chew it.When you drink something be fully aware of the taste you experience.
This exercise brings you back into the now, whereas you normally spend your time thinking about an imaginary future or on what happened in the past.Such thinking gets you nowhere and is a trick of the ego to make it believe in itself.But there is only now and that is all there ever has been.Everything that ever happens takes place now.
Another exercise that should be done everyday is to find a room where you will not be disturbed.
Lie down on a bed or the floor.
Firstly breathe slowly and in a regular pattern feeling all the stress leaving your body.
You can tell yourself that when you breathe out stress is being exhaled.
As you breathe in tell yourself that you are inhaling the life force.
After you have done this concentrate on your legs making them relax then slowly go through your body.
When you reach the neck ,face and head you will be surprised how tense you are in these areas.
Then go back to the lower parts of your body and feel yourself dwelling on firstly your feet then your legs ,middle, hands, arms, chest and shoulders etc.
This is very simple, but if done everyday can have a huge effect on how you cope with your everyday life.
Most of us live in our heads and these particular exercises are designed to make you live in your body. The body and the mind are both illusions and the irony is that by concentrating on these illusions you will go beyond them.
Be fully aware of your body at all times.
Feel the wind on your face.
Hear the sound of your breathing in a place that is silent.
Be in your body.
Ekhart Tolle on a you tube video claimed that the body gets upset when we don't take any notice or interest in it and might even get ill because of this.He also said that it is like we only live in the very top floor of our house and never go downstairs.
A good exercise to make you more aware of your body can be done while you are eating.Really experience the sensation you feel when you put food in your mouth.
Relish the taste when you chew it.When you drink something be fully aware of the taste you experience.
This exercise brings you back into the now, whereas you normally spend your time thinking about an imaginary future or on what happened in the past.Such thinking gets you nowhere and is a trick of the ego to make it believe in itself.But there is only now and that is all there ever has been.Everything that ever happens takes place now.
Another exercise that should be done everyday is to find a room where you will not be disturbed.
Lie down on a bed or the floor.
Firstly breathe slowly and in a regular pattern feeling all the stress leaving your body.
You can tell yourself that when you breathe out stress is being exhaled.
As you breathe in tell yourself that you are inhaling the life force.
After you have done this concentrate on your legs making them relax then slowly go through your body.
When you reach the neck ,face and head you will be surprised how tense you are in these areas.
Then go back to the lower parts of your body and feel yourself dwelling on firstly your feet then your legs ,middle, hands, arms, chest and shoulders etc.
This is very simple, but if done everyday can have a huge effect on how you cope with your everyday life.
Most of us live in our heads and these particular exercises are designed to make you live in your body. The body and the mind are both illusions and the irony is that by concentrating on these illusions you will go beyond them.
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