Aligning Hara & Earth: Connecting to Our Mother
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TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE
Journey into your hara, the center of your physical self. Then focus to align your hara with Earth, nurturing a connection to support your developing light body. This enhances the ability to bring dreams into form, our ideas into reality. By turning some of your attention inward to strengthen and align your hara, you become a conscious contributor to our manifested reality rather than allowing outside forces to direct the show. Whatever appears to be unfolding in the external world - whether it be political, environmental, social or even viral - you always have the option to address it from within your own body. If there’s anything you see that you want to be different, inside or outside of you, the following process will empower you to make the changes you want. Learning to harness your life force in this way could be where your greatest leverage lies.
Our bodies are evolving. In this podcast we explore a system of meditative exercises that support us to move through this process consciously. Each episode includes discussion about the science of our changing bodies, as well as a guided journey to expand and adjust our developing light body. Whether you've struggled with quieting your mind or you're an experienced meditator, you can use this work to safely and enjoyably navigate into altered dimensions of experience.
This material has been developed by Saul Goodman (founder of the International School of Shiatsu and the author of The Book of Shiatsu, Shiatsu Shin Tai and Light Body Activation) over 35 years of rigorous research. It can assist you to activate your evolving body and use it to explore different frequencies of activity. I’m Lynn Goodman, Saul’s colleague and wife, and I’ve studied and taught with him for 20 years. As you listen to this episode, I encourage you not to believe anything I say. Enter into it with beginner’s mind and find out what’s true for you. These words are merely here to guide you into a direct experience with yourself, and your inner realm should be the primary source of your information and guidance.
Hara is a Japanese word. Anatomically, it refers to the abdomen, but it means much more than that. Hara is the center of a person, not only physically, but also energetically. Some believe it to be the spiritual center of the body. Each individual is seen as a microcosm of the universe, and the hara is seen as a microcosm of a person's whole life. When you strengthen your hara, you’re shifting your whole being towards wholeness, vitality, and balance.
In this light body activation material, we consider the hara to play a major role in translating our ideas, images, and dreams into physical reality. There are several reasons that we connect hara to the activity of manifestation. First of all, it is the physical seat of our digestive system, which converts food into usable fuel for our body to function and act in the world. The hara transforms food into energy so that we can act, so that we can carry out our visions on the physical plane. The hara also holds the reproductive organs, which function to spark and create new life in manifested form.
Another factor in the hara’s function to translate dreams into reality it that it is the energetic center and physical component of the conception vessel meridian, an electromagnetic current which runs up the front of the body. The word conception is defined as ‘the process of becoming pregnant .” When the conception vessel meridian is flowing with strength and balance, it gives the capacity for visions to begin forming into third dimensional reality through a process of fertilization. Ideas become pregnant. They enter the phase of developing into physicalized form. When conception vessel is flowing well, our ability to conceive is enhanced.
A third factor that contributes to the hara’s role in manifestation is related to the hip structure.The hip structure is the bony aspect of the hara, and the hip joints are the mechanism that set the hara into motion. The hara and its motion are prominent factors in moving our intentions into the life sphere; they play a strong role in determining what unfolds there.
We’ll begin the following guided process in a different way than previous episodes. First, we’ll do a bit of physical movement in order to get our hearts pumping and our hip joints loosened up, so make sure you have some space to move around on a firm surface for the first part of this.
Then we’ll sit down to do some Do-In, a traditional form of self massage. This has many positive effects in the body including better circulation, digestion, absorption, and oxygenation. Blood quality improves. Hormonal function steps up, reproductive organs awaken and sexual energy receives a boost. The flow of Conception Vessel, the meridian that energizes our ability to materialize our thoughts and dreams, is increased. The physical and energetic benefits of hara massage are tremendous. Then we’ll move into more meditative light body activation work.
2 notes before we begin:
You can download instructions for the Hara massage we will do; the link for that is in the show notes.
If you want to use your hands and heart to support those around you, you can enroll in a great video instruction course on treating the hara. It’s at a 50% discount this following week. You don’t have to be a shiatsu therapist to take this class - anyone can learn these skills to increase the health of family and friends. However, many professional bodyworkers do use our classes to deepen and expand their repertoire. The link to this class is also in the show notes.
Ok, time to journey into our body, our hara, our planet. The following guided process will expand your capacity for conscious creation, empowering you to manifest your visions into this earth plane. Make sure you have a quiet space to focus where you won’t be disturbed. Put on some comfy clothes, turn off notifications on your phone, and settle in to enjoy your dear self. Here we go….
[GUIDED PROCESS]
Conclusion
You’re accessing information from a very primitive, cellular level when you go into your body in the way you just did in the process. You don’t need to figure everything out with your mind right now, just feel. The sensations themselves are information. They will often filter down into intellectual understanding after the actual visceral experience.
It becomes more important to take care of your body as your energy system develops. As higher frequencies begin to stream through your cells, organs, meridians, chakras, and other aspects of your developing light body, they’ll exert more pressure against any restrictions. Here are some ways you can support your physical self to be as clear as possible so that the expanded frequencies don’t cause friction and discomfort:
give yourself good quality fresh food, cooked with love, and eaten in a relaxed manner
trust your inner guidance to lead you to the most optimal supplements, teas, and special treats without getting too rigid about any of it
get plenty of sleep in a dark, quiet room
cultivate nourishing thoughts and beliefs
keep reaching for relief/improvement in how you feel no matter what’s going on around you - contentment is a skill you can practice
Activating your body through these processes can be transformative work. In a way it’s so simple, while also being an extensive system you can use to explore and expand into new dimensions of experience. Doing consciousness activities without some kind of framework to bridge present experience with developing possibilities can be like going climbing without a rope. When someone goes rock climbing, the rope itself is not the experience, but it provides safety in ascending or descending into different elevations. This light body activation material is like a rope or a scaffold. It’s been developed over 35 years of rigorous personal experience to provide a reliable method that can support anyone to safely activate their evolving body and use it to explore different frequencies of activity.
Thanks so much for your presence today. I really enjoy doing this work with you and look forward to another light body activation adventure soon.