F R E E
I am going to introduce you to a short body scan I have devised called FREE, FREE being an acronym for Find- Release- Exhale- Enjoy. I’ve called it FREE because if you make it a habit you will become much more free of mental and physical tension. You can do throughout the day, eyes open, at your desk and nobody will even notice that you’re doing it. What they will start to notice though is that you start walking around like a zen master, totally unphased by life. F R E E here is what it stands for. F -Feel – Scan the location of your body and be with whatever you find, really feel it and notice any holding or tension place your awareness on it, watch it change R -Release- Allow the tension to begin to dissolve, let it go, not pushing away but relaxing wherever you can E- Exhale- Take in a deep breathe as if your body is porous and the breathe can actually penetrate into the tension. And allow a big exhale to take with it the last of any tension that wants to leave. E- Enjoy - Return to the area and enjoy any sense of release that has occurred. This is important because the more we reflect on and physically feel the benefits the more likely we are to make it into a a habit. You can do this for the whole body in much smaller parts but for the purposes of a short meditation as an add on practice we will Hit the body in large groups.
