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“Destroy your ego; you have no need to
seek liberation; you will be liberation itself”. ~~~ Sri Sai Baba
We can do this process as we read the following session for uncovering the inner
child.
As you are sitting, position your self with breath and feel the sitting position that makes you feel erect; sitting on the sit bones, spine erect, and chin relaxed down toward the collar bone. Sitting and breathing this way we can feel the supportive action of the breath as we use breath to expand the rib cage up and open. Do this for 5 minutes or longer if you wish. Allowing all the joints of the body to relax and feel the breath.
After exploring this awareness of the body and breath allow your feet to swing forward off the ground and hang in place. Now allow them to move freely up and down and notice how child like this feels. If we allow the feet to relax, especially in the ankle joint, and shake we are releasing energy that has been constrained by ABS (adult behavior syndrome) or holding our legs still. Allowing your legs to move in anyway they want to move, turn over your body to a higher intelligence; the baby within. Focusing on alignment and relaxation we can surrender to our body and allow it to move as it wishes.
This is something we can play with all day long as we enter in to the body with breath and opening.
Sound
Awakening the child within using sound also works in this discovery process. The baby makes fun sounds as he/she explores all the possibilities. If we combine motion and sound then we have the fast track to resonating with a baby like feeling that arises as motion shakes off ABS. allowing the unfettered sound and motion of being open to what ever comes across the screen of our awareness.
As you are doing the session above allow sound to come out on the exhale. Any sound to start, because repetition will start to produce many sounds that are child like.
Suggested sounds to play with are; Ba-Ba or MaMa, DaDa and the ever popular NoNo. A short story is appropriate for getting an idea of making child like sounds.
I was giving a 45 minute presentation to children involved with acting and singing at Priscilla Beach Theater. The class was informed about what we will be working with for freeing and opening sound. The children’s ages ranged from 11 to around 7 and there were 8 children to participate.
After saying hello and inspecting the very shy children whose bodies for the most part displayed a timidity that was obviously because of the adult (me) in the room. I asked the children to take a deep breath and on the out breath make an ‘ah’ sound. They followed the instructions but all I got was a timed murmur. So we tried again a slight improvement even though I was suggesting louder. The theory here is making any sound to help open sound itself.
After many attempts with different words and sounds I flashed on No-No as a sound that we might explore. I said ok now I would like everybody to say the word No-No and lets see were it goes. They took in a deep breath, and before I had the time to be pleased they start yelling NoNo repetitively without an ounce of hesitation. This opened doors for further sounds and a feeling of playfulness.
Note: There are no wrong or right positions for sitting, however, knowing the feeling of being aligned with breath will keep us from developing stress and tensions. Sitting in any position accompanied with breath and awareness of the space around the body you will naturally seek what is comfortable while sitting. Adding motion and sound some times brings us to a playful feeling of discovering the ‘Child within’.
“Be your own guru; your own teacher, you have the lamp within you. Light it
and march on without fear.” ~~~Sri
Sai Baba
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