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Balancing and
Unifying
Body, Mind, & Spirit
by Penny Peirce
 If
you can learn to be equally physical, mental, and spiritual, you will glide into
a new kind of unified perception where the invisible will become visible, the
intangible will feel real. You'll gain a stunning insight: you'll understand the
paradox that you are simultaneously an individual and universal in your
identity, with no sacrifice to either. I am "Me," and I am "Us." "I" am part of
the "Us" and "We" are part of "Me."
This allows you to matter-of-factly draw
intuitive guidance from broad, mystical sources: from the collective mind of all
people, from the planet itself, and from the past and the future.
But how does this state of balance actually
feel? When your body, mind, and spirit become one, you'll feel more authentic,
more grounded in your personality, and at the same time you'll move in harmony
with the currents of action and guidance generated by the collective
consciousness. You'll experience your mind as present within and distributed
throughout your body, as your body, and you'll discover your spirit is inside
your body as well and is guiding you. You'll have access to all of yourself in
every moment. No longer will you feel you're partial or missing something.
When body, mind, and spirit are unified, when
you direct your attention outward, you'll experience life as a unified field of
boundless, free flowing energy and knowledge. You'll feel your identity as
something greater than before, a presence that is everywhere, that is inside
everything in the world. "You" won't stop at your skin; your body will feel like
the nucleus of a cell whose walls you can never reach. Insight will come from
everywhere, from all aspects of yourself, all at once. Life will feel familiar,
familial, companionable yet brilliantly spontaneous.
How balanced are you right now? Do you use
one aspect to the detriment of the other two? Or do you forget to use one of the
aspects, causing a lopsidedness in your personality? Develop your underused
aspects.
Balancing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Write about your most comfortable mode of
expression (body, mind, or spirit). Describe the way you make decisions,
organize your life, engage in your favorite activities. Body: Are you
instinctual, "grounded," movement- and stimulation-oriented; do you like
concrete results? Mind: Are you skilled with verbal expression, good at
analyzing, organizing, measuring, and conceptualizing? Spirit: Are you
inspired, a visionary, often "not of this world"?
- Write about your least comfortable (or
missing) mode of expression. What do you avoid and why? Body: Do you avoid
completing things? Are you afraid commitments or possessions might tie you
down? Do you dislike details? Mind: Would you rather hoe the garden or ride
your bike than read and philosophize? Do you avoid planning things? Do you
feel uncomfortable with people who talk too much and "analyze everything to
death"? Are you unconcerned with the reasons for your actions? Spirit: Do you
avoid stopping your work and activities and have a hard time letting go and
just being? Are you unsure of your purpose? Do you feel that originality and
inspiration are lacking in the things you do? Is form more important than
content?
- From seeing which aspects of yourself are
most natural and most avoided, which aspects need more development to balance
out your nature? (Hint: If you're uncomfortable with your body, you might do
something physical using a familiar mode. For example, do something physical
in a mental way, such as exercising and measuring your heart rate, building
something, or doing yoga postures, or do something physical in a spiritual
way, such as free-form dance, tai chi, or hands-on healing. Use the aspects
you know to bridge yourself into the underused one or ones. Write about how
you could balance yourself.)
To unify the three aspects of your
consciousness, you must first merge your mind and body. The mind must come into
the here and now and be alert. If you bring your point of awareness inside your
physical body and give total attention to your body's reality, the mind and body
will become integrated and you won't be able to distinguish them. When mind and
body become one, you'll experience a surprising and magical result: spirit, the
third aspect of self, instantly reveals itself as having been present all along,
throughout mind and throughout every atom and cell of matter. So when you merge
mind and body, spirit floods through both.
One of the simplest methods for attaining
body-mind-spirit unification is a three-step meditation. In step one, you bring
your wandering attention inside your body and place it in its natural "home,"
the geometric center of your brain. This brings your conscious mind into your
body. In the second step, you drop your awareness farther down into your body
and establish a conscious link with the earth, integrating the basic life force
energy that funds your physical existence. In the third step, you activate your
heart, which is the true seat of the soul in the body. As you expand into the
world with the soul's awareness, you'll perceive everything from that high, yet
neutral, frequency.
I recommend that you use this technique as
preparation for any intuitive work. Once you complete the three steps of the
meditation, you can continue to meditate quietly.
The "Three Power Points" Meditation
Centering: Sit in a
chair with your feet on the floor and your palms resting facedown on your
thighs. This creates a closed circuit of energy flow within your body. Adjust
your posture so your head is level and so you feel evenly balanced between the
left and right sides of your body. Close your eyes, breathe evenly, and bring
your attention inside your skin. Draw the energy from above your head into the
geometric center of your head, and imagine a point in the middle of your brain
between the pituitary and pineal glands. At that imaginary spot, let a pinprick
of light break through. Through that white hole, allow the pure diamond light of
your soul to emerge and form a tiny crystal ball. Go into that spot and stay
there. Imagine the glossy light radiating through your brain in all directions,
clearing away old thoughts of fear, doubt, and confusion.
Grounding: Shift your
attention now to the base of your spine, and imagine a spot just in front of
your tailbone. At that imaginary spot, let a second pinprick of light break
through. Through that white hole, allow the pure diamond light of your soul to
emerge and form a tiny crystal ball. Feel the vibration, or tingling, which
begins in that root energy center. Let the vibration spread in all directions,
filling the bottom of your pelvis with a pool of clear light. Imagine that the
liquid light becomes "heavy" and starts to drop straight down from the bottom of
your spine into the earth below you. Watch it melting through the ground,
magnetizing toward the center of the earth, and forming a thick column of
shimmering clear light. When the light from the base of your spine merges into
the clear light in the center of the earth, you may feel magnetized downward or
heavy in your chair, as if it would be difficult to even stand up.
As soon as the downward connection to the
center of the earth is established, an equal flow of energy starts to rise up
the column from the earth's core into your body. As you visualize this, relax
the bottom of your feet, see them opening, and feel the energy entering your
feet and flowing through your ankles, calves, knees, thighs, and hips. As it
rises, you may feel tingling or heat. Let the earth energy and knowledge pour
into the pool at the base of your spine.
Expansion: Now bring
your attention into your chest, to the heart center. At that spot, let a third
pinprick of light break through. Through that white hole, allow the diamond
light of your soul to emerge and form a tiny crystal ball. Feel the vibration
which begins in that heart energy center. Let the tingling spread in all
directions, taking the clarity and compassion of your soul everywhere throughout
and beyond your body. As the clear light radiates through you, let it dissolve
any darkness, tension, or contractions that might be in your tissues and cells.
As the light expands incrementally beyond
your skin, include your environment inside the ball of your awareness. Let
things around you become familiar and personal. You might say to yourself, "The
chair is in me, I am in the chair; the house is in me, I am in the house; the
tree is in me, I am in the tree; the city is in me, I am in the city...." Feel
the super conscious Presence in everything and look for the light within all
matter.
BE INTUITIVE TODAY! Get impressions about
physical places and spaces. Keep your journal with you so you can jot down
notes. Let your body feel relaxed and open as you enter new environments today.
Maybe you'll ride in someone else's car or on a bus or train. Maybe you'll go
into your garage or out on your porch, or to the market, bank, your colleague's
office, or a new restaurant for dinner. In each new environment ask yourself:
"What do I know about this place? What kind of thoughts are filling this room?
What kind of consciousness does this place naturally facilitate? What happened
here before I arrived? Does this space need to be cleaned out energetically? Do
I feel safe here? And why?"
 This
excerpt was reprinted
with permission from " The Intuitive Way" by Penny Peirce, ©1997,
published by Beyond Words Publishing, Inc,
http://www.beyondword.com
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About the Author
Penney
Peirce is a gifted intuitive and a popular lecturer, counselor, and trainer in
the art of "skillful perception". She works throughout the United States, Japan,
and Europe as a coach to business executives, psychologists, scientists, other
trainers, and those on a spiritual path. She has been featured in several books
and numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Penney makes her home near San
Francisco. Visit her website at
http://www.intuitnow.com
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