Yoga Nidra by Richard Miller Ph.D

Author:Richard Miller, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

The Law of Opposites

When you live identified with the belief of being a separate ego-I, you are governed by the Law of Opposites in which all that is seen as positive is held captive by its opposite. Darkness cannot exist without light, or good without evil. Pain cannot exist without pleasure, or conflict without its opposite, peace. Opposites are complementary polarities arising within a unified field of awareness. Opposites are always paired, and our suffering is sustained by our inability to experience and transcend any pair of opposites.

As you explore the Body of Feeling and Emotion, you are playing in fields of opposites where you invite into awareness the myriad array of feelings and emotions that you will likely experience during your lifetime. You can, for instance, welcome the feeling of comfort and then invite its opposite, discomfort, into the body. You then swing back and forth between these two feeling, going first to comfort, then to discomfort and back again, until finally you experience both simultaneously. You will do this with naturally occurring feelings such as warmth-coolness, lightness-heaviness, and pleasure-pain. Then you play in the opposites of emotion. You may take the emotions of calmness and peace and then explore their opposites of agitation and anger. Or you may choose the emotions of joy and happiness and then find their opposite in sadness, despair, and hopelessness.

When you work with opposites in this manner, you explore where specific feelings and emotions are experienced in particular areas of the body. For instance, the perineum and legs are often associated with opposites of safety-fear, security-insecurity, and groundedness-ungroundedness. You move back and forth between these pairs of opposites while noting the sensations that arise in their associated areas such as the legs, pelvis, sexual organs, solar plexus, heart, arms, throat, and head.

When you work with the opposites, you are awakening the discriminating insight that every experience, when fully allowed, is both an expression of, as well as a pointer to, your underlying nondual True Nature. Yoga Nidra respects the transformative power that opposites play in sustaining and resolving disease and suffering and how they are utilized for the purpose of enlightenment.

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