The Flow of Space

I went to a workshop last week which I said I would report back on, but I've just realised that I never did so here is a description of one of the exercises.

Hold a rock in your hand.





Hold you hand out to the side and feel the rock in the following ways.

1. Imagine the rock has a force inside it (call it weight). Feel the force striving to get to the ground. The rock is almost alive and is pushing against your palm its its desire to return to its natural resting place on the earth.
2. Imagine the rock is being pulled toward the earth by a force (call it gravity). The pull of the Earth is like a magnet acting on the rock, and you can feel this attractive force through your hand.
3. Imagine you are standing in a shower; a shower not of rain, call it space. You can feel the space flowing down on you from above, an etheric downpour acting on every part of your body. The rain of space cascades onto the rock and pushes it toward the earth, and only the upward pressure of your hand holds the rock steady against the flood.

Each of these different interpretations of the feeling of holding a rock in your hand is subtly different. Hold onto the last interpretation.

Space is water. Standing is swimming.