Meditation: Bone Watching

Meditation: Bone Watching

Meditation: Bone Watching

MEDITATION

Close your eyes. Move any way you feel...
In a little while, bring your attention to your bones. Watch your bones as you move.
Let your soft tissues carry your bones. Let your bones ride along.

Thoughts on Bone Watching
Bones possess a strong personality, rich with imagery and an innate magnificence. This simple cue effortlessly opens receptive motion. By shifting focus to our bones ‘being carried’, we disrupt the mind’s tendency to command the body to grip, drive, and grind down soft tissue.

I also appreciate the practice’s cultivation of a non-pain-based identity. Pain is often an easy feedback mechanism for motion (interoception). I used to rely on it as a measure of engagement—“I know I am doing this movement because it hurts”—or even as a source of meaning: “It hurts, therefore I am alive, good, virtuous, righteous, atoning for my sins.” Perhaps you share this habit.

In Dancemeditations like Bone Watching, these patterns are interrupted. We awaken a bouquet of sensations and uncover a myriad of ways to ‘feel our way’ into and through life, beyond pain as the primary reference point.

FURTHER READING

To learn more about Dancemeditation
& Dunya's journey, explore her books.

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David
David
12 years ago

Hmmm, I’m sure I have one around here somewhere . . .