"Practice happens in the body. Paying attention to the body creates space around and inside the knots of tension. What has become compacted through being pushed down, begins to expand, to claim it's own space. As this part of us finds room to grow, it begins to draw energy from what is around. I sometimes practice visualising the space around tension as liquid, a pool of water. Seeing the space around hardness as water or air, as flow, modifies the hardness. Gradually hardness finds breathing space.......the solidity softens just a bit." Katherine Thanas, (1997 p.45) Hearing the voice in the body in Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment. Friedman, L and Moon, S (Eds) Publications, Inc: Boston:MA I read this and it resonated with me. It reminded me of the mindfulness practices for pain I have used. Vidyamala Burch, in particular, uses visualisation like this for pain management. My colleague who has chronic pain has found it to be particularly effective. I guess pain can take many forms...I'm working on acceptance.
http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/mbpm
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Helen Kennett-Bacon.Originally from South Yorkshire in England, I've lived with my husband Neil in Kitsilano, Vancouver for 10 years. We are fur-parents to our French bulldog Dave, I am a Registered Psychiatric Nurse specialising in ADHD. Archives
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