Bodyfulness Meditation – a Somatic Open Awareness process
In this audio recording (18:46 min) of a live session at an Authentic Self Empowerment (ASE) Facilitator Training, Jevon Dängeli guides you through an ASE “Bodyfulness” meditation (one of the somatic open awareness processes). This guided process helps you to embody a mindful state and cultivate an expanded self awareness.
Somatic open awareness fosters the deep realisation that your body is one of the many bodies that lives on this planet which is home to us all – human and non-human beings. As you come home to your body, you also come home to our interconnected and interdependent Nature. Expanding your sense of self in the way it is facilitated in the above recording may result in a broader perspective of yourself in relation to the people and events in your life (past, present and future), which in turn promotes healing.
What is Bodyfulness?
Nobody knows you better than your body does. The collective intelligence of all the cells in your body can be accessed through somatic open awareness – gently exploring your inner landscape with curiosity and getting in touch with your felt sense of aliveness. Through practice, somatic open awareness gradually becomes an embodied trait – an enduring state of spacious (open & flowing) presence accompanied by a felt sense of interconnectedness. This is bodyfulness.
What is Open Awareness (OA)?
OA, incorporating bodyfulness, is an expansive perception that promotes a resourceful state and the following qualities:
- Introspection & interoception – metacognitive awareness in which we can mindfully observe mental activities, emotions, bodily sensations and somatic experience
- Outrospection – heightened awareness of others and the ways we relate to them, fostering deeper connection and attunement, which in turn cultivates empathy and compassion
- Envirospection – broad awareness of the space around us which connects us to everything in the environment and the cosmos
Applied OA is naturally eco-logical – beneficial for you, others, and the world (win-win-win).
– Free OA Resources (videos, audios, articles)