the spine ·the body chakras
10 · Soles
Where the Soul Meets the Ground
the practice
Your feet. The bottom terminal of everything you are.
what it is
What is the earth saying through your feet right now?
the pair
Muladhara. The energy root and the physical sole are the same principle at two densities. One felt through stillness. The other activated through pressing. Both say the same thing: the ground is here.
the reflection
I am standing. That is the sentence I keep returning to. I am standing. The standing was not given. The standing was discovered. The standing is now part of what I am. I will not be a body that has-not-stood again. The first standing has happened. The standing is in me now.
The ground is still there. I am still on it. The conversation continues whether I am attending or not. That is the gift. The ground does not require my recognition to keep holding. The ground holds whether I notice or not. The walker who never notices is held just as fully as the walker who notices every step.
But — I have noticed. The noticing is mine now. The noticing is what I get to keep from this chakra. I am a body that knows it is held. That is different from a body that is held without knowing. The knowing is small. The knowing is also everything.
I stand a while longer. I let the weight of standing be what is happening. The standing is sufficient.
Something is warming in my middle.
the readings
No reading stands at this vertebra yet.
standing here
passing through
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