2020-09-24 18:18
Although the memories of what was lost to the fires can at times bring moments of sadness, the sweetness of all that is most important in our lives remains untouched and in stark contrast to… Read More
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2020-09-07 19:24
This post will be a departure from the kind of article I usually write.
My wife, Patty and I were forced to evacuate our home in the Redwoods on the evening of August 18 after hearing som… Read More
2020-04-16 19:13
The global battle with Covid-19 seems to be another layer or wedge added to the growing polarity (socially, economically, politically) so evident in the world today.
Metaphorically, Covid-19… Read More
2020-04-08 22:10
The Covid-19 Pandemic has given rise to a whole spectrum of reactions and narratives: from outbursts of fearful reactivity to creative and helpful responsiveness. In a sense, our reactions t… Read More
2020-04-05 01:01
There is a global/collective focus on Covid-19 that has caught the attention of the entire world, holding us mesmerized by the “invisible” threat that it represents. Strangers, n… Read More
2020-04-02 19:27
I can imagine that for many of you, these times of massive uncertainty (brought on by the threat of Covid-19) did not come so much as a surprise or shock, but rather with a recognition and k… Read More
2020-03-19 21:47
This is a repost of an article I wrote over 10 years ago. The information seems to be even more timely now considering all that is transpiring across the globe with the fears and concerns re… Read More
2020-03-15 23:05
As mentioned in the previous post, the Bliss Resonance in the body starts as a subtle vibration in the spine (small like a grain of sand). It is not difficult to feel. It just requires a sli… Read More
2020-03-13 18:09
The visceral experience of the Bliss Resonance puts the mind and body into a kind of swoon, held by the “current” that moves deliciously in the spine!
This “current”… Read More
2020-03-12 16:14
The Bliss Resonance, when moving through the body, holds it in its “contortion” energy. The contortion energy creates a most delicious sensation in the central core of the spine… Read More
2020-03-10 16:33
I believe it is important to go deep quickly when feeling into the subtlety of sensations, of the life force in the body. Otherwise, it is too easy get distracted by the mind chatter that ke… Read More
2020-03-08 20:25
When the underlying Bliss Resonance begins to bubble up in the energetic field of the body, the sensations that are created draws the attention deeply within…if you choose to follow t… Read More
2020-03-05 18:35
When feeling into the overall vibration of the body, you may notice how the focus of mind flits back and forth, between thoughts and feelings…and a combination of both.
Somethin… Read More
2020-03-04 18:06
Connecting with the “resonance of bliss” is a feeling experience, a refining process that transforms coarse vibrations into finer and finer sensations. The inner focus of mind ha… Read More
2020-03-03 18:02
When sitting erect with spine straight, as in meditation practice, notice what happens to the mind’s center of focus. In my experience, there is a “lifting up” sensation th… Read More
2020-02-28 21:54
When you are feeling into finer and finer sensations that reverberate in the central channel of the spine, you may notice how the mind becomes deeply poised upon a most delicate balance poin… Read More
2020-02-27 21:18
Cosmic Mother II, art by Bruce Manaka
When feeling into the overall sensation of the body, while holding intention to connect with finer and finer vibrations, the mind goes deeper and deeper… Read More
2020-02-25 18:41
The centermost “channel” of the spine, when focused upon and deeply felt, creates a unique sensation and effect in the body. The sensation is like a fine thread vibrating inside… Read More
2020-02-24 18:18
There are many subtle sensations connected with the breath. For example, take a deep breath, exhale and keep the breath out until you begin to feel a slight discomfort. Breathe in deeply and… Read More
2020-02-22 20:44
There are so many “entry points” for connecting/feeling into subtle energies sourced in the central core of the body (especially in the spine). Once you notice and acknowledge th… Read More
2020-02-21 18:53
“Surrendering to the Cosmic Dance” refers to the play of Life Force (the awakening Kundalini) in the body, especially in the central core of the spine. As you feel deeper and dee… Read More
2020-02-20 18:30
There is no difficulty in feeling into finer and finer sensations. It just requires a slight shift in perspective, one that feels into the “overall” sensation of the body.
Of cou… Read More
2020-02-19 18:17
The overall sensation of the body, when followed to its subtle reverberation in the spine, is the Life Force, the awakening Kundalini.
I find that there is an interesting paradox when it com… Read More
2020-02-18 18:37
Cosmic Mother – Artwork by Bruce Manaka
When your mind is “tuned” into subtle vibrations that move delicately in the central core/channel of the spine, the “spotlight… Read More
2020-02-15 23:37
Ideals such as enlightenment, God, samadhi, satori, spiritual freedom, etc. may be lofty and worthy concepts to include in prayers/intentions, but not so practical when it comes to simply be… Read More
2020-02-06 19:27
Surrendering to the Cosmic Dance, artwork by Bruce Manaka
I think of the “Cosmic Dance” as a play with subtle sensations that are always accessible when we allow ourselves to shi… Read More
2020-02-05 18:02
The focus of mind upon subtle sensations is like holding to a delicate “thread” of vibration. This “thread” creates a fine tension in the body that can be tracked to… Read More
2020-01-29 19:31
Surrendering to the Cosmic Dance, Artwork by Bruce Manaka
When the Bliss Resonance begins to “bleed through” in your growing sensitivity to subtle sensations, at first the feelin… Read More
2020-01-28 18:58
Spirit Elephant – Artwork by Bruce Manaka
Again, there are no insignificant sensations when it comes to the approach of following vibrations that move through the body. Every breath (t… Read More
2020-01-28 01:16
Feeling into the overall resonance/vibration of the body takes you to the threshold leading to the vast and oceanic Bliss Resonance. As I’ve mentioned many times before, it is easy eno… Read More
2020-01-26 21:13
Just below the surface of familiar sensations, there is a subtle “feel good” sensation, easily overlooked and usually not given much attention. However, when focused upon and sim… Read More
2020-01-23 18:29
Runaway Monk, Artwork by Bruce Manaka
Surrendering to the lead of the “Cosmic Dancer” is similar to the idea of “losing oneself in dance.” Now, for purposes of going… Read More
2020-01-21 18:44
Dragonfly Dance – Live in Peace, Artwork by Bruce Manaka
Feeling into the overall vibration of the body allows an opening or invitation for you to connect with the underlying “Hu… Read More
2020-01-20 20:49
Surrendering to the Cosmic Dance – Artwork by Bruce Manaka
Surrendering to the Cosmic Dance
In learning to focus the mind for deeper meditation, there is a dynamic interplay of mind th… Read More
2020-01-18 21:56
The sensation of the current of Life Force moving in the body (especially in the central core of the spine) naturally and automatically focuses the mind, drawing it within to exquisitely sub… Read More
2020-01-17 18:25
Please note that in the approach that I use for focusing the mind for deeper meditation, the sole purpose of using music and dance is to connect with the subtle currents in the spine that ar… Read More
2020-01-16 17:53
In learning to focus the mind for deeper meditation, a refining process of the body/mind/psyche takes place, one in which the mind does not direct the process.
At least, in my experience, th… Read More
2020-01-14 18:50
Focusing Mind for Deeper Meditation – Art by Bruce Manaka
What is this “sublimely delicious” experience that I spoke about in the previous post? I think of it simply as &ld&hell…Read More
2020-01-13 18:58
The visceral experience of the awakening Kundalini is very much like a dance, in which we surrender to the “lead” of the Life Force. In this dance, the mind/body/psyche adjust in… Read More
2020-01-12 00:27
What happens after you clap your hands and then feel deeper and deeper into the slowly diminishing vibrations, as suggested in Part IX of “Focusing the Mind for Deeper Meditation&rdquo&hell…Read More
2020-01-05 23:15
In these blog posts, “Focusing the Mind for Deeper Meditation,” I speak often of “subtle currents” and feeling deeper and deeper into “subtle sensations.”… Read More
2020-01-04 22:18
Awakening Higher Self, art by Bruce Manaka
I spent many years practicing meditation techniques without going very deep. I chalked it up to the thought that I wasn’t trying hard enough… Read More
2020-01-02 20:53
Turtle Medicine – Live in Peace Art by Bruce Manaka
The overall sensation of the body during periods of meditation practice resolves to an awareness of an underlying vibration, a gentl… Read More
2019-12-31 21:05
In exploring the subtleties of how to focus the mind during meditation practice, I find it helpful to pay close attention to those fleeting moments when the mind is still, between thoughts… Read More
2019-12-30 20:13
When Kundalini Awakens
The sensations of the incoming and outgoing breath become finer and finer, threadlike, as you deepen your focus upon the infinitely nuanced vibrations that play in the… Read More
2019-12-29 18:57
You can experiment for yourselves what happens when focusing your mind on subtle and seemingly insignificant sensations in the body. There are an infinite number of sensations that can be fo… Read More
2019-12-26 20:11
The mind’s habit of wanting to define and distill meaning to all experiences, even ones of a transcendent nature, can get in the way of going deeper into the subtle vibrations of the e… Read More
2019-12-21 21:55
When connected feeling-wise with the subtle sensations that move through the body while meditating, the “practice” of meditation technique may fall away. In its place, meditatio… Read More
2019-12-20 19:41
What happens when we normally sit for periods of meditation, with intention to focus the mind one-pointedly on the Divine? I know for myself that I spent years practicing techniques without… Read More
2019-12-18 18:57
When you begin to recognize the subtle forces at play…the push/pull/squeeze/twisting dynamics of the Life Force moving in the body, especially in the spine, then you will recognize t… Read More
2019-12-14 23:21
Turtle Medicine, artwork by Bruce Manaka
The paradox of subtlety (of sensations) in the body, to me, is a grand mystery! It is a mystery how certain sensations in the spine/body, so subtle a… Read More
2019-12-12 18:26
Considering how pulverizing to the body, mind and ego the Kundalini process can be, where does the “sweetness” come in? Now, this is an aspect of the awakening Kundalini that to… Read More
2019-12-11 19:21
Regarding the feelings of “sweetness” mentioned in the previous post, I would like to elaborate further because it is, I believe, at the crux of the process of the awakening Lif… Read More
2019-12-10 19:30
Artwork by Bruce Manaka
The play and dance of Kundalini is a most delicate feeling connection with finely nuanced sensations inside what seems to be the central core of the spine. We all hav… Read More
2019-12-09 19:15
When feeling into the “overall resonance” of the body, you might notice feeling a fine underlying vibration/sensation that can be tracked to deeper and deeper levels and that is… Read More
2019-12-06 17:49
In these posts I am suggesting the use of the sensitivity of your feelings to focus the mind…on finer and finer sensations, on the sensations that can be tracked to their “acti… Read More
2019-12-06 01:29
To me, the “paradox of subtlety” is the mystery of how feeling into barely perceptible sensations can serve as a “doorway” into profoundly blissful states of being… Read More
2019-12-04 21:48
There is an aspect of the awakening Kundalini (the subtle current of life force in the spine) that is anciently familiar. It imparts a sense of wonderment that a sensation so close and inti… Read More
2019-12-03 23:55
During the fleeting moments of “no-thought,” when the experience of all sensations/vibrations felt in the moment resolves in the mind to the primal “Hum” of the body… Read More
2019-12-02 20:37
I believe it is in noticing the small, incremental shifts in awareness that opens a pathway for us to feel into finer and finer nuances of sensations…and that ultimately opens us to… Read More
2019-12-01 23:23
What do I mean by the “underlying vibration” of the body? When sitting in meditation pose, the mind can easily focus upon the overall sensation of the body. Now, with the intent… Read More
2019-11-30 23:01
I believe it is important to experience what we might think of as “bad habits” from a different perspective…namely a different feeling perspective. Let me explain what I… Read More
2019-11-28 01:44
There are subtle sensations connected with desires (of any kind), along with their corresponding thoughts and memories. In learning to transmute desires, for me it has been helpful to feel… Read More
2019-11-26 19:22
Mystery of the Human Body, Chakra system
The mind constantly seeks engagement with memories, desires, social interactions, pleasures, distractions, etc….and it avoids (disengages from… Read More
2019-11-25 21:45
The mind is like a “pattern generator/seeker” that constantly creates and moves towards form, structure and meaning. It doesn’t like to deal with messiness or things outsi… Read More
2019-11-23 22:11
To me it seems that the “busy-ness” of mind, as well as its habitual patterns of thinking and relating to the world, makes it a little too easy to slip into mindless thinking an… Read More
2019-11-21 21:13
I would like to elaborate a bit more on the “pattern disrupt” of the mind that seems to be required in order to feel the subtle currents in the spine, not only during periods of… Read More
2019-11-20 18:28
As mentioned in the previous post, it was “for want of feeling slightly below my familiar set of sensations…” that I spent years in meditation practice without connecting… Read More
2019-11-17 22:50
The habitual patterns of the day-to-day mind makes it easy for us to navigate our lives, without having to learn and relearn all that is required for us to make it successfully through each… Read More
2019-11-15 19:15
Alchemy of Bliss
Fleeting moments of “no-thought” during periods of meditation are very different from “absent-mindedness.” When deeply “tuned” into the v… Read More
2019-11-13 19:53
Connecting With the Bliss Resonance
When feeling into the overall sensation/resonance of the body, with the intention to focus upon subtle vibrations, you may begin to feel intimations of a… Read More
2019-11-12 23:06
When holding the exhaled breath out to a slight point of discomfort, the purpose of this exercise is to feel and track the subtle sensations that are created in the body. Please note that a… Read More
2019-11-11 18:22
Learning to access deep states of meditative trance is not difficult when you allow yourselves to simply feel the overall resonance of the body…with the intention to follow sensations… Read More
2019-11-09 20:50
There is another approach that allows a different pathway to connecting with the fine currents that move through spine and body.
Clap your hands three times and then rest them with palms up… Read More
2019-11-08 18:03
I would like to elaborate a bit more on the approach of using music to connect with the Bliss Resonance, the subtle “feel good” sensations that move delicately in the spine and&m&hell…Read More
2019-11-07 20:11
When feeling into the overall vibration of the body—with the intention of tuning into finer and finer sensations—the underlying reverberations of the Life Force (energy in the bo… Read More
2019-11-05 18:22
The resonance of the body (its overall physical vibration), holds the mind in patterns that it has grown accustomed to. These familiar, habitual patterns become the day-to-day “reality… Read More
2019-11-02 20:17
When you truly “get” and viscerally experience the bliss component of subtle (and yet familiar) sensations, then meditation technique may shift to accommodate how the Life Force… Read More
2019-10-31 23:54
The approach that I take with meditation is simple and can be summed up in this way: feeling the overall sensation of the body and then tuning into finer and finer vibrations.
Of course this… Read More
2019-10-30 18:00
When tuning into the subtle “nudges” of the life force, as felt in the spine during meditation, you may find yourself naturally lifting/stretching the spine upwards…becaus… Read More
2019-10-23 18:42
In any practice of meditation technique, there can be a tendency to miss the very subtle inner “nudges” of how the life force wishes to move in the body…if our focus is ri… Read More
2019-10-20 19:22
When focusing the mind in meditation, there are no insignificant sensations, as they can all be potential entry points in connecting with the underlying resonance of the Divine Subtlety.
Eve… Read More
2019-10-16 21:04
When we enjoy an activity, such as dance, or playing the guitar, our minds can become very focused, usually around the enjoyment of the activity. For purposes of focusing the mind during med… Read More
2019-10-16 03:55
Focusing the mind during meditation sometimes seems to me like trying to shoot a bull’s-eye from 100 yards away while riding a bucking bronco!
I know for myself that I spent years in m… Read More
2019-10-14 17:04
What do I mean by “meditative swoon?” It is a visceral experience that occurs when the mind feels deeply into the overall sensation/vibration of the body. As the mind continues f… Read More
2019-10-13 22:10
Focusing of mind seems to happen quite naturally and fairly easily when the attention is placed on the overall sensation of the body, with the intention to feel into finer and finer vibratio… Read More
2019-10-12 21:55
A way to focus mind quickly in meditation is to “quickly feel deeply.” The feeling experience, especially if the intention is to connect with subtlety, has a way of neutralizing… Read More
2019-10-11 18:13
The “resonance of being” is a visceral experience of all that is felt in the moment, a gentle vibration or “humming” of the body. The mind may not give much value or… Read More
2019-10-10 21:39
What is felt when tuning into “subtle vibrations” in the body? Initially you want to feel the overall sensation of all that you experience in the moment. For example, take a deep… Read More
2019-10-09 16:49
Feeling subtle sensations in the body is not difficult. The suggestion here, in order to go deeper in meditation, is to initially feel just slightly below the surface of what you normally fe… Read More
2019-10-08 18:43
Using will and intention to focus the attention to one-point may have less than satisfactory results, especially if using the mind to focus the mind. I have found that incorporating the feel… Read More
2019-10-07 17:33
When feeling into subtle sensations of the body during periods of meditation, it requires doing so just long enough that you notice what happens to the mind that turns its attention inwards… Read More
2019-10-06 21:52
Wherever you are, in whatever circumstance, let the mind focus quickly within, not waiting for the meditation environment to be perfect. It is helpful to keep the eyes relaxed, quiet, still… Read More
2019-09-16 19:34
In my healing journey with Lyme Disease, I cannot say that it was a step-by-step, linear progression of doing “this,” doing “that,” following this protocol, following… Read More
2019-08-20 17:55
The main point I wish to convey here is that the problem solving, linear/logical mind, as powerful and important as it is in taking care of our bodies/minds/psyches in our daily lives can, i… Read More
2019-08-18 06:24
In my experience with the Lyme Disease “entity,” even though it was far outside the “zone” of what was familiar, I did not question for a second whether it was &ldquo&hell…Read More
2019-08-07 21:05
As mentioned before, I don’t believe there is a “one-size-fits-all” approach to healing, especially with “tricky” and insidious illnesses such as Lyme Disease… Read More
2019-07-17 22:21
When I speak of the “hard shell” of my mind, it is the mind that attaches fiercely to sense of identity, to patterns of the world that are familiar, secure and “normal.&rdq&hell…Read More
2019-07-14 21:57
Perhaps the idea of an intelligent Lyme Disease “Entity” is a bit much to accept…and that’s fine. This is just how Lyme Disease showed up for me and how, ultimately… Read More
2019-06-11 20:06
As mentioned in the Part IV, when going through the daily challenges of Lyme Disease, there were many periods of just enduring as best as I was able to…and at a certain point there ca… Read More
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