Unshakable Awareness: Meditation in the Heart of Chaos, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts (Total Embodiment Method TEM) by Richard L Haight & Nathanial Dasco

Author:Richard L Haight & Nathanial Dasco [Haight, Richard L & Dasco, Nathanial]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC
Published: 2020-07-17T05:00:00+00:00

Part V ~ Meditation Training

As our aim is to move toward greater and greater awareness in our daily lives, it is essential that we learn a form of meditation that blends well with our daily activities and that can stand up to the pressures of our training. Ultimately, our aim is to embody the principles of meditation, the result of which is unshakable awareness.

It is easy to assume that the challenges to meditation and awareness are merely mental and emotional, but when we begin to test our meditative abilities under pressure, we rapidly discover that the mental and emotional bottlenecks are but a small portion of the actual challenge. The fact is that a significant portion of our challenges along the meditative path relate to our physical health, specifically regarding the sympathetic nervous system. To embody meditative awareness, we need to understand the physical bottlenecks that can cause the sympathetic nervous system to switch into fight-or-flight mode. When the sympathetic nervous system is in charge, meditative awareness is furthest from our experience.

Because traditional meditation focuses on creating an ideal meditation situation, those methods rarely, if ever, challenge our physical bottlenecks. To master anything, we need to consciously make ourselves uncomfortable in our attempt to stretch beyond the range of our current capacity. To develop the capacities of the physical body, we need to take on physical challenges during meditation.

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