The Art of Dylan

Now sit crisscross; spine erect; head bowed slightly; elbows softly bent; thumb and forefinger almost touching; eyes closed; control breathing; air glides in expanding lungs, pushing diaphragm down, and pushing chest proudly out; air glides depressing chest, diaphragm rises as lungs squeeze; feel the flow of air; feel the rise and fall of your chest. This is just the body breathing, no thoughts, no to dos, just being.

Imagine the sun. Take its energy and let the flaming hot and blazing orange flares become bright yellow warmth that guides the glistening white light into your mouth. This light goes up through your nasal cavities into the crevasses and caverns of your brain. Sense the ease in tension in your frontal lobe’s personality, the loosen in the tightness of your eyesight as it glides over your occipital lobe, the silencing of the secretary thalamus of your brain increasing your focus and concentration, washing out the junk and clutter of your speech making it slick and articulate. Let the calming fire descend your spine, enrapturing every vertebra is it coils down. Once your spinal cord is sparkling and sizzling hot, let it travel beyond onto the nerves that round like roads leading to: your chest cavity allowing you to breathe, to your fingertips and toes as it allows you to feel the most fine points, and to your genitals thanking the nerves for what they accomplish there.  

Now let it flow down your throat to your vocal cords. Illumination will overcome your trachea, bronchus, bronchioles, all 5 lobes of your lungs, and the alveoli sacs. Your lungs are full now, and ready to pump their oxygenated illuminated blood to the Left Ventricle of your Heart. Your heart will pool and push luminous glittering blood through your arteries, and all the tissues in your body will receive the tingling twinkle of the warmth. The biggest artery in your body will supply your kidneys as you use this light to filter out and strengthen them. While in this cavity of your body take a moment to think of your reproduction system, imagine the warmth as a blanket over your ovaries or testes and have the flow complete the circuit there as well. Throughout the rest of your body, your capillaries will  exchange oxygen, but the lava will remain. This magma will travel back through your veins to the Right side of your heart, making pit stops at your lymph-node gas-stations clearing out all the infectious gunk and leaving only a well-oiled fighting machine. This creates a closed loop inferno.

Now swallow this blazing campfire down through your esophagus to your stomach. Outline your stomach’s figure as if caressing it and protecting it from all the acidic foods you have eaten. Take a break here and start at your liver, flowing to your spleen, your pancreas, and your gallbladder. Clean their sludge out as well and allow a free flow to the top of your small intestine where the two illuminated areas meet up. You are going to sit here for a while as you allow the glowing sludge to slosh through 25 feet of intestines inside your abdomen. Remember, once you reach the valve that allows you into the large intestine, to clear out the pockets of haustra that hold trash. Follow this flow all the way through to your anus. 

This circuit of bodily light has finished when you take one more breathe of brightness to surge quickly through. You are now in the darkness of space as you elegantly speed towards the flaring and scorching sun.  You enter the sun’s surface and reach the center. (1) This is where your body will cut along the dotted lines of your nose, mediastinum, and belly button leaving your body in two halves. These halves fade and dissipate as you are left with your chakras. Each element of life can be applied to whichever chakra suites you best, but for me the sun/heat/passion/fire they belong within my heart. 

(2)Focus on the spherical power-ball within your heart cavity. It may be grimy, crusted, and hard to open. That may be due to numerous concepts including but not limited to: allowing work and life to be unbalanced, allowing oneself to act in a matter that does not satisfy integrity or one’s soul and therefore not being true to oneself, and allowing oneself to indulge in too much stress. Depending on the susceptible apparatus causing disdain, depends on how long it will take to clear the dimmed lit sluggish energy center where our sentiment lives.

(3)Calmly and deliberately drive the encrusted layer off the sphere’s surface. It’s as if a big paint brush smooths over upper part of the sphere, the bottom of the sphere, the left, and the right of the sphere. If resistance is met, go from another angle. Continue to advance the whisking process until before you float a red flaring, orange warming, yellow joy, and white content ever flowing and churning ball of lava. Take a moment to live within that lava, allow that lava to reach outside of your imaginary lined body and conjoin with the sun that warms this Earth. Allow a smile to drift to your face as you feel full, playful, and captivated.  

Allow that gleeful zing to guide you down through the Earth’s atmosphere as if you are the ray of gamma reaching down. Enter the hydrogen bonding top of the ocean and start ascending your crisscrossed body to the ocean’s floor. As you float further down, imagine the salty water entering your body in the same way the flaming magma did. Let the fire out as the turquoise gleaming sea sloshes through and cleans every crevasse of your body. Softness as buoyant as saltwater will allow you to feel as humble as the ocean which takes on and accepts numerous currents. Sway with the rhythm of the current and feel free. Feel yourself calm down and flow: back and forth, back and forth. 

Follow Steps 1-3 from the latter element. This time allow the waves to crash into your crusted edges. This is where I combine my throat and 3rd eye chakras to my forehead (my mind). Allow them to break away your walls as waves break away rock to sand. Think of the bacteria and the algae that we evolved from. Think of the Darwinism it took to get here. Once you have opened this chakra, allow the roar of the waves to slow. It’s a clear glass day on the water’s surface, and your chakra dances as a salt whirlpool would. 

If you’d like to stay here longer, imagine the ocean around and above you to be lighter shades of green blue. Allow other animals to flow by you and even through you. Maybe a turtle, a flounder, or a shark swim by. Your mind is your oyster, taking care of your mind and using your imagination is how you create the pearl. 

You  will escape the surface of the water with liberty as whichever bird harmonizes with you (sometimes for me it’s a seagull, or an eagle, or a macaw parrot- our totem poles do not have to be assigned to one animal for each element: it is okay to allow what feels right even if it doesn’t fit what you’ve always had, or maybe wanted). Let the air dry you from nose to wings to tail. Fluff out, puff out, and be proud to be boundless. Before you get serious with meditation take a moment to imagine yourself falling onto clouds, plopping into them, and breaking through them with a sense of ability and opportunity. Allow yourself to laugh and giggle at the way this amusement. 

 Follow Steps 1-3 again. This time, think of the air you just flew through, the air that encompasses all of Earth’s Atmosphere, the oxygen that trees give off and animals breathe in, the carbon that humans exhale and trees inhale, the breadth of all individuals similar and different from yourself. Take that very light air that is needed by all within our planet in this solar system and be thankful for it. Allow it to dry out your insides and to whoosh past all your organs. Allow the agility and nimbleness of featherweight succumb you. This spherical chakra aligns best with my solar plexus (intuition), and that is the sphere I focus on here. 

Slowly float through the atmosphere like a tissue. Land your tush on the sand and remain crisscross applesauce. Wiggle your ass into the broken down rocks we call sand, and feel what’s around you: the hot sun you just became is beating down on your loosened facial features, the soothing waves of the ocean like the womb of the Earth weakening your social walls, the graceful air cooling you and humbling you.

Think of the bed rock beneath you that is fed by the magnet of our Earth’s magma; this is centering you. Think of the fossils, the death, the ashes of those animals and plants that came before you. They lie on-top of that bedrock enriching the soul you prosper from. Think of the roots of a tree, your tree- the tree you are going to become. These roots will grow in the carbon-based leftovers of our Earth’s ancestors. They will twist and twine like vines on the side of a building, or Twizzlers in a floppy bag. Their strength is  durable and full of vitality, yet fuzzy like velvet on the surface. 

The roots grow endlessly beneath you, until they enter the souls of your feet and the sacrum of your spine. Every vein, every artery, every curve of your body is a root of this growing tree. The tree starts to grow upward, through your body. It’s essence grasps for the heat of the sun, the flow of the water, and the breadth of the air. Extensions of branches grow leaves and the magnitude of your tree feels satisfied to a growth that just fits. 

Bears itch their backs on your bark, squirrels find solace in your branches, rabbits find residence in your stump holes, deer graze on the grass around your tree (even curl up to it like they do when sunbathing), elephants nibble your leaves, and birds learn to fly off your branches from their nests. This is where I feel motherhood and fatherhood from Mother Earth, and this is where I feel Mitakuye Oyasin.
This is where my Sacral and Root Chakras combine as one.

Finally, for what I call the 3rd eye or what others call the crown chakra. This sits above your head, outside of your body. This is where I see the whole world in one chakra. I envision what NASA has laid out for our lucky eyes as this spherical ocean swirled, land filled, air consumed, soul dwelling habitat. Excavating this ball can be hard sometimes, especially if you spend a longer time away from meditation than usual. However, once this ball is unearthed (pun intended), there will be a wave of unimaginable incomprehensible happiness that will overcome you. You will be thankful for everything that makes life simply life. Everything. 

Dec. 24th 2018
“Dawn (the most beautiful, peaceful, magical, and perfect time of day) with my love; coffee cups in hand; watching Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury Dance in the sky; listening to the wind move the trees as they welcome the sun; happy little larks in love and exploring the world together.”

Dec. 22nd 2018
“Last night as we stood on the beach, I took it all in: the light of moon as the fire of my heart; the flow and crash of the waves as fluid as my soul moves; the wind on my body as free as my mind; and the sand beneath me thanking Mother Earth for this body; thanking Father Universe for this life; and thanking my snug for this love.”