John Vervaeke | Find Your Root | After Socrates Ecology of Practices #4 @johnvervaeke | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Join Dr. John Vervaeke as he introduces a practice called "Finding your Root". This practice aims to help you develop a unique form of relaxation that enhances your meditation experience, countering our traditional method of relaxation that often leads us towards sleep rather than elevated consciousness.
Diving into the core of meditative relaxation, Dr. Vervaeke compares the process to a martial artist's rooting technique. This technique requires both stability and relaxation, which leads to increased sensitivity and alertness without the mind becoming scattered. Such sensitization and stabilization are necessary for developing an acute sense of awareness, something that's invaluable not only in martial arts but also in situations of deep dialogues or Socratic practices.
Dr. Vervaeke emphasizes the importance of having a rootedness that allows you to remain stable yet sensitive, enabling an optimal flow within any situation. He highlights how this ability to root can be transferable to most aspects of our life, invoking the phrase from the Buddhist tradition, "sitting as still as a mountain, but as alert as a warrior."
This episode guides you through a detailed, step-by-step exercise to help you learn the art of rooting. Starting from a centered state, you'll be guided to expand and contract your awareness, inflating and deflating like a spherical balloon, leading you from a state of opening to a state of gathering, mimicking the flow of yin and yang. You'll be taught to find your 'sweet spot' between these two states, fostering a connection between you and the earth, stabilizing you downward while sensitizing you upward.
After going through the routing practice, you can then begin your meditation, following your breath, labeling your distractions, and befriending yourself. Revisit this episode to follow along the guided sequence as you learn to incorporate this vital practice into your meditation routine.
As always, thank you for joining in this journey of self-realization and mindfulness. Let the practice of finding your root guide you to a heightened state of awareness and sensitivity in your life.
Join Dr. John Vervaeke as he introduces a practice called "Finding your Root". This practice aims to help you develop a unique form of relaxation that enhances your meditation experience, countering our traditional method of relaxation that often leads us towards sleep rather than elevated consciousness.
Diving into the core of meditative relaxation, Dr. Vervaeke compares the process to a martial artist's rooting technique. This technique requires both stability and relaxation, which leads to increased sensitivity and alertness without the mind becoming scattered. Such sensitization and stabilization are necessary for developing an acute sense of awareness, something that's invaluable not only in martial arts but also in situations of deep dialogues or Socratic practices.
Dr. Vervaeke emphasizes the importance of having a rootedness that allows you to remain stable yet sensitive, enabling an optimal flow within any situation. He highlights how this ability to root can be transferable to most aspects of our life, invoking the phrase from the Buddhist tradition, "sitting as still as a mountain, but as alert as a warrior."
This episode guides you through a detailed, step-by-step exercise to help you learn the art of rooting. Starting from a centered state, you'll be guided to expand and contract your awareness, inflating and deflating like a spherical balloon, leading you from a state of opening to a state of gathering, mimicking the flow of yin and yang. You'll be taught to find your 'sweet spot' between these two states, fostering a connection between you and the earth, stabilizing you downward while sensitizing you upward.
After going through the routing practice, you can then begin your meditation, following your breath, labeling your distractions, and befriending yourself. Revisit this episode to follow along the guided sequence as you learn to incorporate this vital practice into your meditation routine.
As always, thank you for joining in this journey of self-realization and mindfulness. Let the practice of finding your root guide you to a heightened state of awareness and sensitivity in your life.
