The body meditation can be a place of inner transformation wherein you experience being enlivened to take up your path each day. You may find you want to include this meditation into your daily routine, whether in the morning, or the evening. There may be times when you know you need to go and just “do it,” such as when you feel you are at the end of your rope.
This meditation begins with the guidance meditation that always evokes your eternal loving source/spiritual family as you call upon them. You may be inspired to do this alone, or with a friend, or a group. You may want to do it with your spouse, or significant other. Everything you have experienced registers in your body – both joy and sorrow – in the present moment. And as you open to surrender completely and totally your life as it is in the body meditation, you are opening yourself to transcendent loving wisdom, the love that moves the sun and other stars and knows the path you walk.
The first thing is to choose the posture that is best for you. Then you only need to invoke your eternal loving source/spiritual family and go through the entire meditation. Possible ways could be as follows:
O (name for eternal source), Hinduism (Brahman), Buddhism (Buddha Mind), Taoism (Tao), Judaism (Yahweh, Adonai, Hashem …), Christianity (God), Islam (Allah) … or other names/symbols for the eternal-divine source (Abba, Amma, Heavenly Father, Divine Mother, Eternal Beloved One, Eternal Loving Creator … )
With deep gratitude and humility, in communion with my spiritual family on this side and the other side, on earth and in heaven, especially I turn to you O (Jesus, Mother Mary, particular Saints, Bodhisattvas, Enlightened Ones …)
In Communion with you, with all that I am, with all that I have experienced throughout my whole life, from my earliest beginning in the womb, up to and including all that I am experiencing now, I open to receive the outpouring, divine, all-permeating light, the eternal spirit of love, from within the depths of my own heart, bringing me the healing of mind and body I truly need to respond to the call from Spirit given me.
After choosing your way to evoke awareness of eternal source/spiritual family, then choose a verse that resonates deeply with you to begin the body meditation such as: “O Eternal Beloved One, Loving Creator, in communion with (names of Enlightened Ones you call upon) your eternal spirit of love radiates to …”
You can say your chosen verse just once, and then name each aspect of the body as you focus on the eternal spirit of love penetrating, radiating to this aspect. Or, you may want to have pauses after groups of the body systems.
The Body Meditation
In communion with you, O (name/s), the eternal spirit of love radiates to:
- my entire structural system, every bone in my body.
- my entire muscular system, every muscle, ligament, cartilage, tendon in my body.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the brain stem in the back of my neck, the pineal gland at the top of my head, the pituitary gland in the center of the forehead above the eyebrows.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the brain, the brain fluid, my entire nervous system and every cell in my body.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the entire auric field radiating from my body.
- the root chakra, belly chakra, solar plexus chakra, heart chakra, throat chakra, third eye chakra, crown chakra.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- my eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth, gums, throat, the thyroid and parathyroid glands in the throat area, the carotid and parotid arteries alongside the neck.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the layer of skin covering my body and the hair on my body
- my neck, shoulders, upper arms, forearms, wrists, hands, fingers, finger nails.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- to restore magnetic balance in my body
- my immune system and my lymphatic system.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the bronchi, the lungs and my respiratory system.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the thymus gland above the heart, the heart, the heart valves, the arterial system, the venous system and the blood flowing through my arteries, veins and capillaries.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- my kidneys/adrenal glands, liver, pancreas, spleen, gallbladder, bladder and the urinary system.
- my stomach, the duodenum, the small intestine and the large intestine – the ascending colon, the transverse and descending colon.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- (for women) my mammary glands, uterus, ovaries and the female reproductive system.
- (pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
(for men) my prostate gland and the male reproductive system(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- the tailbone, the spine, the spinal fluid, each vertebra, each disk.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- my hips, thighs, knees, calves, ankles, heels, feet, toes, toe nails.
(pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
- to release any harmful bacterial, virus, viroid, fungal infections, parasites, carbon monoxide, any environmental toxins, toxins from any source, of any kind that are present anywhere in my body. (pause and visualize Spirit radiating to these)
After this, you can have some kind of closing affirmation or prayer: “O (Eternal Source/God/Spirit, Enlightened Ones, Saints, Angels, Bodhisattvas, … departed loved ones), In communion with you, the eternal spirit of love radiates throughout my whole being, blessing and harmonizing my mind and body that I may realize my call to serve the highest good of all beings.”
If you have found your way to access guidance you can ask if any system is weak, and the cause and what is needed for resolution. An article on my website that gives insights on this are: “The Spiritual and Physical Causes of ill-Health.”
I always make use of this meditation in a private session by phone or in person. After guiding you in this meditation, if you choose to have a session, I will ask Spirit if there is any imbalance, the cause, and what Spirit gives for healing, rebalancing. Often there are things to close to us that we cannot get to by ourselves. The vision in my book is that as people find their own way of accessing guidance they can profoundly help each other. I have experienced others bringing forth for me what I could not get on my own. And I have done the same for them. Having a session can make a huge difference in your life.