WELCOMING POSTURE
Pure self-care, the welcoming posture is a form of doing bodywork on yourself. Many wonderful techniques that help the body function more optimally enjoy great successes by "facilitating connections," which is simply enhancing communication between different areas of the body. The profession of chiropractic, for instance, removes subluxations to enhance communication between brain and body. Of course, so much more goes into the science of chiropractic, especially as it relates to the care of a patient, but the overall goal is to enhance function by facilitating connections.
The welcoming postures facilitates connections using touch. For ease of application, first learn about the five different areas you will be addressing. Four of them are on the body. From top to bottom, those four areas on the body are: The third eye (middle of the forehead), heart (the feeling heart in the center of the chest), abdomen (the center of the belly), and the pubic bone (above the genitals and below the belly and belt line. Since only four regions on the body will be contacted, know them well. The fiffth and last region is not on the body. It is above it, over your head. The space over your head is considered your expansive body. It represents your energy field, which surrounds your entire body. We will only be accessing that field from over your head.
Start on your back. For ease, always start with the third eye and the heart. The tips of your three middle fingers from one hand gently contact your third eye while the tips of your three middle fingers from your other hand gently contact the heart. While this connection is happening (from simply touching both areas simultaneously), you are relaxing, breathing nicely, deeply, and fully. Your thoughts can be anywhere. Here are some options. You can be focusing on your breath. You can be focusing on the connection between the third eye and the heart. You can formally reintroduce the third eye to the heart and vice versa, the heart to the third eye. You can speak on behalf of each area by welcoming the other area, hence the name the welcoming posture. That means you are speaking on behalf of the third eye (from the third eye) and actually welcoming the heart there. You also speak on behalf of the heart (from that region of the feeling heart) and welcome the third eye there.
After those two areas have been welcomed by each other, maintain those contacts and stay there silently. Imagine that they are talking to each other in a silent language. Give them time to talk and exchange information. Again, you can focus on your wonderful breathing or you can relax into the nothingness. Whatever you do during this time, let those two areas get reacquainted with each other. This is the whole purpose of this practice. After spending an ample amount of time for those two areas to reconnect, you are going to move on to two other areas. For the sake of ease in keeping track, we will continue using the third eye three more times, once with the abdomen, once with the pubic bone, and once with the expansive body, the space over your head. If you can do so easily, when you shift to a new position, use the opposite hand to, in this example, contact the third eye. If, for example, you had your left hand on your third eye, when you shift, now use your right hand for the third eye. If, in that case, your original position had your right hand on your heart, when you shift, you will now have you left hand on your abdomen, simply because your right hand took over the job of connecting to your third eye. Doing it this way keeps the reconnections fresh and allows you to keep us with what you have completed and what you still have yet to do regarding making all of the connections.
When you are done welcoming the third eye with all four other areas, the third eye is complete. Move then to the heart (heart and abdomen, heart and pelvic bone, heart and expansive space). No need to do heart and third eye again. After those three heart connections, the heart is complete. Move then to the abdomen and pelvic bone, abdomen and expansive space, and finally pelvic bone and expansive space. After all is said and done, you will have facilitated 10 different connections. Each connection will be both unique and supportive. During each connection, welcome each area to the other and give each partnership time to reconnect, catch up, and share important information that you (your conscious mind) caannot eavesdrop.
As an overall side note, give yourself permission to participate in things that may feel unusual to you. Again, the brain thrives in the presence of novelty. Yes, practices such as these can seem strange. Yes, they are also effective. They are doing what they are designed to do. The only thing that can stop that is you. Don't let that version of you dominate and not participate. Consider the statement, "The meek shall inherit the Earth." It simply suggests to be open, humble, and not arrogant. Let life do what it is capable of doing, which is quite a lot, especially if you are consciously ushering life in to do it ... and welcoming it.
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