Hug Plus Awareness, like anything plus Awareness... Great

Week Two, Day Three: LUST

Concept #10: Add Awareness to Anything

Add awareness to Everything

Add Awareness to Touch

You are reading these words right now.

What if you add on being aware of whether you are breathing in or breathing out?

RIGHT NOW, ARE YOU BREATHING IN, OR BREATHING OUT. SENSING YOUR BREATHING, WHAT HAPPENS?

How does that change what you experience as you read?

And what if you added on awareness/ sensing of your two legs, from hip joint out to the tips of as many toes as you have? (The Gurdjieff meditation. Recall?)

RIGHT NOW, SENSE YOUR TWO LEGS AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE.

CONTINUE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR BREATHING.

So, you are now reading with an awareness of your legs and your breathing?

Does that give you a more full sense of who you are right now?

And right now, as these words come into your brain, or these words come into your ears, you can be also aware of the YOU at the center of this.

You are breathing.

You are in a body with two legs.

Those legs are in some configuration, and have some connection to gravity.

What happens when you broaden out to that? How do you feel? Is there more of a sense of I AM ALIVE at the center of your reading and listening?

And now, why not? Let’s add the arms from shoulders out to the fingertips.

Sensing both legs

Sensing both arms

Noticing your breathing

As you are reading these words.

And then, add on your spine, so it’s as if you have five lines of your body: the spine in the middle and two arms and two legs coming off to the sides.

And the breathing.

How and who are you now with all this awareness as you read these words?

There is a lot of you.

And that’s today’s game:

We combine touch with awareness, that is the spoken, “Now I am aware…” sort.

Will this make things more sparkly and wonderful?

Find out.

Lust Game #4: Hug and Say, back and forth, “Now I am aware…”

“Now I am aware of the feeling our your arms around my back.”

“Now I am aware of my feet on the floor and our thighs touching.”

“Now I am aware of the feeling of our cheeks touching.”

You can sense how it’s going to go.

So, do it.

Back and forth.

Awareness of being touched.

Awareness of your touching.

Awareness of the merging spots.

Awareness of what you are doing:  “Now I am aware of squeezing and letting go of the back of your neck.”

Awareness of what the other person is doing: “Now I am aware of your moving your hand up and down the back side of my ribs.”

And so on.

Chances are this will make the hug and whole different experience.

Try it and find out.

For how long?

A long time.