18 Listen to your body

Attentiveness is a challenge. You talk with someone, s/he say : yes.. yes.. even smiles and shakes s her/his head in agreement.. but what is going on in his/her mind? Is s/he attentive to what you are saying?. Now s/he is talking, are you fully focused to the message s/he is delivering, or are you only triggered by your own interest and the inner stories of your mind while s/he is talking?

Add to that process distractions such as text or phone calls, other triggers from external world (people, objects, noise, smells..) and the outcome is the fact that our attention is very fragile not consistent and jumpy.

Why this phenomenon of behavior doesn’t worry us? Because unfortunately we do it all and we accept is as our “natural behavior or perception” . After that we are surprise that there is such miscommunication is this world. We say “things went out of control” as if “things” have their own inner life dynamic” – the problem is – us – people, each every one of us.

Some people are more aware and search and apply tools to improve their self management, for instance ,do meditation.

There are some many meditations out there. And it takes a lot of motivation and self discipline to find the best one and be consistent. Only by applying a full body and mind meditation, you start noticing changes in you that are beyond “easy going relaxation”. You are calmer, your senses are sharper, you have more tolerance and compassion to people around you and last but not least, you are attentive to your own body and mind.

My advice to people that sees the importance of balanced body and mind and the need to exercise attentiveness : do Vibroacoustic therapy.

VAT (Vibroacoustic Therapy) is a therapy in which, low sound frequencies in the range of 30 Hz- 120 Hz, are transmitted into arms, legs and whole body systems (nervous, skeleton muscular, blood) through transducers that are embedded in a furniture unit. The transducers convert the frequencies into vibrations and in fact, create inner arms &, legs and whole body massage to tissues muscles and cells.

Olav Skille – (A therapist, education and harmonic vibrationsian from Norway), is one of the pioneers and innovator of applying the frequencies as a therapy for whole inner body massage - VAT. Over 30 years of applied research and feedback from patients and therapists – have led him to find the connection between certain frequencies and positive effect of reducing pain, stress and various illnesses symptoms.

Don’t distract your mind with any music. Be attentive to your body. Take a journey inwards.

What do you think, sense and feel?

If you are worried that your thoughts and emotions will continue to stream in endless split and chaotic flow, observe your inner body systems

You can use your imagination for the inner journey as follows:

I'm lying comfortable, relaxed... I close your eyes.

I'm patting my forehead from within.

I feel as if I'm wiping my forehead with a wet, warm towel.

I let it loose. I release the stress.

I breathe deeply.... I let it go...

I feel how oxygen enters and fills all my body cells.

I feel the harmonic vibrations penetrating my cells.

I focus my attention on exploring my inner space of calmness

I let my eyelids close... like heavy curtains

I release their muscles

I release the muscles of my cheeks and let them relax. I feel their heaviness

I let them loose

I release my neck

I touch it tenderly. I feel as if I'm massaging my neck from within.

I feel as if I'm in a swimming pool, warm water surrounds my body up to the

neck. I float on my back and the water tickles my neck

I breathe deeply.... I let it go...

I feel how oxygen enters and fills all my body cells.

I feel the harmonic vibrations penetrating my cells.

I focus my attention on exploring my inner space of calmness

I stretch my arms and my shoulders

I release the tension in my arms and shoulders.

I feel as if my arms are like a bird’s wings… flying high in the clear sky

I feel the inner silence, I feel the outer silence.

I breathe deeply.... I let it go...

I feel how oxygen enters and fills all my body cells.

I feel the harmonic vibrations penetrating my cells.

I focus my attention on exploring my inner space of calmness

I calm my chest.

I hug my chest and I feel its loving reaction.

I observe the inner parts of my chest

I send love and harmony to the organs, glands, tissues, and cells in my chest.

I hug my stomach and I feel its loving reaction.

I observe the inner parts of my stomach.

I send love and harmony to the organs, glands tissues, and cells in my

stomach.

I breathe deeply.... I let it go...

I feel how oxygen enters and fills all my body cells.

I feel the harmonic vibrations penetrating my cells.

I focus my attention on exploring my inner space of calmness

I release the tension in my hips and pat them from within

I release the tension in my thighs and pat them from within

I release the tension in my shins and pat them from within

I release the tension in my feet and pat them from within

I breathe deeply.... I let it go...

I feel how oxygen enters and fills all my body cells.

I feel the harmonic vibrations penetrating my cells.

I focus my attention on exploring my inner space of calmness

I release the tension in the back of my legs and pat them from within

I release the tension in my buttocks and pat them from within

I release the tension in my lower part of my back and pat it from within

I release the tension in the middle part of my back and pat it from within

I release the tension in the upper part of my back and pat it from within

I release the tension in the back of my neck and pat it from within

I feel calm and released from tension.

All my body systems are relaxed and I sense harmony within me.

I feel as if my body is surrounded by a lighted spiral, rising up from my feet,

around my body and up above my head.

I will now calm my thoughts and my emotions

Thoughts that come and go come and go like clouds that come and go come

and go…

The thoughts are part of me, but my being is much more than my thoughts

My being is also the space between thoughts.

I observe thoughts as in my mind and calm them down

I calm my thoughts like a calm clear lake. And if I notice a thought rising up – it's

only natural. I’ll observe it, and calm it down.

I breathe deeply.... and I let it go...

I observe my emotions.

What emotion do I feel right now? Where in my body do I sense it?

What color does it have? How heavy is it? What's its name?

If I happen to have emotions such as fear, anger, frustration,

I'll release them by letting them go.

These emotions function as a red light telling me that I'm in a non-harmonic

situation and I should find a way to resolve it. Once I'm aware of it, I can release

these emotions.

I let in fresh air that spreads oxygen to all my body cells,

And I let go all the tension and emotions I don’t need.

I calm my organs, glands, tissues and cells.

I calm my thoughts like a calm, clear lake.

I calm my emotions like a calm, clear lake.