Awakening Somatic Intelligence by Risa F. Kaparo PH.D

Author:Risa F. Kaparo, PH.D. [Kaparo, Risa F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58394-506-3
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2012-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Morning Practice before You Rise

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don’t go back to sleep.

—Jalaluddin Rumi5

Dreamtime Somatic Meditation: A Delicious Transition from Sleeping to Waking Lucidity

Many practices have provided instruction on how to awaken to lucid dreaming in a nocturnal dream. Carlos Castaneda, for instance, suggests looking at your hands and asking yourself if you are dreaming. This Dreamtime Somatic Meditation offers a way to awaken this lucidity in the diurnal dream of waking consciousness. When I recognize that I am the dreamer dreaming the dream into appearance, I can creatively participate in inventing/discovering the reality in which I live.

Of course, when possible, the best way to wake up is on one’s own (from organismic self-regulation) rather than from an externally imposed disruption of your sleep process. Even when you must awaken to an alarm, it is best to gently open yourself to meet the day rather than pressurize your reentry.

Just a few minutes here, caring for yourself joyously through this transition, will reflect in who you become as you enter the day. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Let yourself dwell as long as possible in your silent-level experience, only gradually activating the discursive mind so as not to lose connection to what is happening at the depths of somatic intelligence. In this way, when you rise up from bed, the surface of your mind is congruent with your silent-level experiencing. The surface and depths are at once reconciled. You have arrived, and you are home. This is in sharp contrast to how most people arise—as James Joyce described one of his characters, “living a short distance from his body.”

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