The Double Strategy To Focus And Take Charge Of Life

Shooting an arrow with a bow and hitting the target can be very difficult if we don’t first take the time to relax and, while still, aim calmly.

In the same way, we need immobility to search well for our own center so that from there the best of our movements can emerge quickly and fluently.

Immobility helps to focus and from there any movement can be better performed.

Always throughout the day there comes a time to stop, to remain standing, sitting, firm, still, observing our own breathing, our balance, and feeling the importance of our life … life itself.

It is time to enjoy and give thanks for the opportunity to experience this awareness, the miracle of feeling life. And from this focus of stillness and peace, we can wish for this to extend to others.

It is a priority to clear the erroneous of a bad observation or a bad action that can cause suffering and to sharpen the aim in what is really important.

First: practice immobility

Immobility can be found standing or sitting on the floor or in a chair, in both cases in an upright posture, with a straight back and drooping shoulders, eyes closed or staring, and in a relaxed and smiling attitude.

We propose a serene posture in which to enjoy being immobile :

1. A tripod is formed with the body’s center of gravity, and as between the legs of a tripod, the same distance is left between one knee and another, between them and the spine, and between the knees and the neck.
2. The weight of the body rests on the sitting bones. On this firm base the body is kept vertical but totally relaxed.
3. The eyes close softly, focused on the present, perhaps feeling the pulsations.
4. Hips, thighs, knees, calves, feet, and toes remain relaxed.
5. You breathe gently and slowly.

This stop helps to focus, to pay attention and to feel from that immobility the movement of the breath and the heart, the small swing of rebalancing and especially the comings and goings of the enormous amount of ideas that the mind is capable of generating.

This posture of immobility will be the base of our meditation, but also the base where we can recover our center, our aim and our ability to carry out the destiny of our life with the greatest possible precision.

Every day look for some moment of stop or immobility where to recover your posture, your center, your dignity and your smile. It is about knowing how to be with pleasure on your own site.

As Patanyali said in his Yoga Sutras , the posture for meditation should be firm and relaxed. An affable, joyful and serene posture, but immovable, with the fluidity of the water and the strength of the rock.

This, although it seems contradictory, is not. Unify the opposites and return the balance.

Second: make small gestures to regain your center

It is also important to be aware of the center of the body, located under the navel, and to know how to move from it, feeling how the force of gravity and antigravity come together. Remember that you need to practice. Every day you have to choose a moment to stand up and begin that practice.

• Physical, mental and moral skills are not acquired in a weekend course; most are accomplished with daily practice over months or years.
• You have to recover a few minutes from which to start to develop new challenges, something like the base camp from which to project extraordinary routes.
• Each one is his own boss, he takes responsibility for doing it, chooses his limits and takes good care not to overexert himself, but to perform movements that are comfortable for him.
• Before starting, you must become aware of yourself and what is around you.

Then you can:

1. Make contact with the ground or the earth as if it were a large battery full of energy.
2. Try to have a good verticality and move in it in search of balance.
3. Grounded, feel gravity and antigravity, contact with the earth and with the sky.
4. Try to move in a relaxed way, with little use of force and without losing awareness of oneself, the environment and the interaction that is maintained at all times.
5. Feel how the whole body is energy and how it releases it.
6. Move sideways, back and forth, up and down, controlling space and movement possibilities. Enjoy the movement, with its rhythms and melody, enter a pleasant dance or dance, move all the joints: neck, shoulders, hands, spine, hips, knees, feet.
7. Do the yoga sun salutation.
8. Carry out a brief relaxation and a positive induction, in the sense not only of improving your own body image, but of feeling capable of realizing your own purposes and at the same time feeling loving and compassionate towards others.
9. Finish the practice with a little meditation.