Sacred Body Oracle: Energy Tributaries

By Michele Geyer

READING: Nourishment and communication move through your many body systems. Like tributaries off a primary river, these channels carry vital energy and life forces to and from your spinal column into your brain, organs and limbs. Release stagnancy; purify and nourish your body, your emotions, and clarify your spiritual experience with simple focused breathing.

You can practice gentle breathing for many purposes and benefits: relaxation, health, self-awareness, and even deep meditation. Your breath is an expression of your life force. You can purposely move this beautiful biological, yet subtle energy with conscious and connected breathing.

PRACTICE: Find a comfortable position. You may lie on your back in an open posture, or sit upright in a chair with your feet on the floor. Relax and close your eyes and begin to breathe naturally and gently, following your breath into your body. Where does it go? What part of your body feels the energy as it moves in and out? Breathe for a while and just notice.

Be kind to your body, always breathe slowly and gently--no force.

Now try breathing into your lower belly. Place your hands on your belly, feeling it rise and fall, expanding as you inhale and relaxing as you exhale. Breathe like this for a while, becoming aware of how you feel as your lower belly receives the energy. Relax your neck and shoulders, your forehead and your eyes. Relax your chest; feel your breath and your belly.

Next, breathe gently into your chest. Feel your chest rise and fall with the breath. How do you feel as your breath moves through your chest? Fill your whole ribcage as the breath expands into your upper back and the sides of your ribs. Breathe deeply into your chest several times. How do you feel?

Now try inhaling into your chest and belly simultaneously, expanding your whole torso as you breathe in and out. Breathe out and down into your arms and legs. Imagine you are releasing old, stagnant energies through your fingertips and toes.

Breathe out and down your spine toward your tailbone; breathe in and up toward your head. Feel the river of breath in your spinal column. Feel its energy moving out from your spine through the many energy tributaries.Feel the energy of your breath moving like soft and quiet streams through every cell of your body. Inhale and exhale softly for a bit and just notice.

DAILY OBSERVATION: Be aware of your breath as you move through your day. Pay attention to where it goes as you inhale; how relaxed you feel as you exhale. Bring your attention back to yourself, stopping now and then to simply and slowly breathe--in and out--feeling your body.

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