Inner Work

For the week of March 7, 2005

Extending Our Bodily Presence

Through prayer and deep meditation, we sometimes find ourselves in contact with a very high energy, one that changes our entire perspective and state. And we may naturally want to come back to that again and again, feeling it to be the leading edge of our inner work. However, if we focus solely on coming to high states, we tend to lose our moorings. To be an effective bridge between heaven and earth requires keeping our feet on the ground. Furthermore, the true leading edge of our inner work is wherever we happen to be and whatever state we happen to experience in this and every other moment.

Work at sensation is indeed work on our soul, on the absolutely necessary foundation soul that can serve as our vehicle for access to the higher worlds. We can work at sensation almost anywhere and any time, with the exception of safety critical situations like driving. Although it may seem relatively mundane compared to what happens in deep meditation, sensation is the basis on which all our inner work stands. And so we continually return to sensing our body.

For this week, work toward extending your practice of sensing. You might consider increasing your sensing work along one of more of the following dimensions, which also apply more generally to our work at presence:

• Frequency: how often you come to sensation
• Duration: how long you work at it each time
• Intensity: how strong it is
• Breadth: how much of your body has sensation

In addition, if you are able to come to full-body sensation, then you can work at shifting your perspective from being in your body and sensing it, to being in your sensation body.

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