Eyes Wide Open by Will Johnson

Author:Will Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Spirituality/Buddhism
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 2016-03-17T16:00:00+00:00

Eyes of the Head, the Heart, the Belly

When the feeling presence at your eye center splits in two, you stay locked in your eyes and head, and unbidden thought proliferates. Seeing solely with the eyes of your head, you bring tension into the cranium and reinforce your perception of separation between your inner and outer worlds.

But when you start relaxing the tensions in your physical eyes, the two centers from which you look come together as a more unified presence and coalesce in a single location somewhere in back of your physical eyes. When you can relax so deeply that the place from which you see moves from the surface of your physical eyes into the area of the back of your neck, down even into the middle of your upper torso, you start seeing through the eyes of the heart. Unbidden thought starts turning itself off, and it’s easier to feel more unified in yourself and in your relationship with the world you look out on as well.

And if you keep relaxing the eyes and the body even more, you can feel your locus of vision drop down even farther, deep into your belly. When your belly becomes the place from which you see, you enter into an even greater dissolve, where you and the world you look out on may feel even more conjoined.

So . . . put yourself in your eyes. Let yourself be the person who sees from your eyes and is out of touch with the feeling presence behind your eyes. Become the person who solely sees with and through the eyes of your head. Whom do you become when you look out from your eyes alone, and what kind of world do you see?

Next, move your awareness back and down, behind your eyes. Let yourself see from the feeling presence in the back of your neck and upper back. Let the awakened feeling presence in this part of your body become the center from which you see. See how the tensions in the eyes relax as you do this. See how your perspective on the world you look out on starts to shift as you feel more empathically related to the visual field. Awaken the feeling presence in the middle of your chest, and integrate that feeling presence with your seeing. Whom do you become when you start centering yourself in, and seeing through, the eyes of the heart?

And then drop down and relax even further. Let your completely relaxed belly and lower back become the pupil of your eye and the center of your vision. Grounding yourself in the feeling presence in the belly, seeing from its felt center, lets you dissolve right into and through visual field, and when visual field shows up so dramatically, thought vanishes.

From the eyes, you move back and down into your heart lens. Out of your heart, you drop down even farther into your belly. Seeing through the eyes of the head keeps you fixated on the outer world.

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