Monday, April 12, 2010

Mental Balancing

For helping with the integration of information and balancing communication between hemispheres of the brain - essential when doing any activity intensely for a long period of time (ie: studying):
("brain button")

Position 1 - index finger and thumb of one hand just underneath the collar bones to either side of sternum

Position 2 - all 5 digits of other hand in/around belly button

Deep exhalations and scan your eyes back and forth Slowly across the horizon. 2 minutes.

Near bottom of exhalation, clavicles (collar bones) and sternum (breastbone) should sink and flatten in slightly. Wait - gently drifting towards empty - until your body inspires spontaneously - Sternum lifting and Clavicles rolling up and back.

Hands in both positions 1 & 2 are soft and sensitive. Pressure and quality of touch varying as you listen in and follow what feels good.

Connect with softness to the rhythm of bulging and hollowing, opening and closing, through your soft belly and mobile upper chest. This provides rich sensory information about your mid line and the relationship between two important organizational centers in the body.

Notice as you scan your eyes Left to Right and Right to Left across a horizon line:
- are there places your eyes tend to jump?
- do you notice yourself looking up or down?
- notice when your gaze is approaching the center and how that transitions to leaving the center

Are you holding your breath?
Commit to surrendering deeply into the space.

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