Coming Home Meditation Is on Wednesday This Week ~ Safety Part 2: Cultivating Fierceness
Join me from 9-10:15am EST on Wednesday for a meditation and group discussion about how we can restore a fundamental sense of safety in the body.
Dear Friends,
Last week’s meditation was about cultivating a sense of safety in the body. We talked about how most of us are not rooted—born as we were into a trauma field of dissociation, a.k.a. contemporary, Western, information age, Anthropocene culture.
As a result, we walk around in a low-level state of unsafety; feeling threatened even by non-threatening things and people. This is obviously sub-optimal—it distorts our experience of reality. How much better to be grounded and certain about things. From this place, we can actually walk with confidence and assess accurately when there is a real threat. Our intuition is more online. Our perception is more precise. Our nervous system is relaxed and alert—able to do its job properly.
We spent the session last week soothing and attuning to the root and the sacral chakras. We worked to bring awareness to the base of the body, and nourish the root. This was deeply replenishing. In some cases, it also led us to a direct experience of how much chronic anxiety and agitation there is in our subtle energy system. One way to deal with this effectively, is to use Tantric techniques for eliminating fear by becoming more fearsome than the fear (fighting fire with fire). These are visualization and breathing practices designed to move blockage in the channels have been extremely beneficial for me and I hope they will be for you, too.
On Wednesday morning, we will work with some fierce deities, archetypes, and creatures to embody courage, wrath, and of fearlessness. We will activate the fierceness in our system to see if we can get a taste of what it’s like to walk through the world without fear; to touch back into our innate wildness. We’ll tap into the courage of the heart, the warrior aspect of ourselves.
One of my teachers once said to me, “You have to get rid of the fear in your system or you can’t operate effectively as a Bodhisattva. You won’t be a clear vessel for the mission. You won’t be able to make the decisions you need to make or see things as they are.” I hadn’t made this connection between a life of spiritual service and fearlessness before. Of course, it’s obvious when you think about the great spiritual warriors—countless named and unnamed heroes. Rosa Parks comes to mind right now. Joan of Arc calls to me. Gandhi looms large. Sitting Bull appears. If I think about it longer, I don’t see individuals so much as a quality of being that runs through humanity and can be activated in all of us.
Join me on Wednesday morning, 9-10:15am EST for Coming Home practice.
Is the time of Meditation 9am Pacific Standard Time or Eastern Standard time.? I could even have he standard time misstated since Sunday was a shift off Daylight savings.