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# Meditation on the Elemental Regions

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- To: "BardonPraxis" <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Meditation on the Elemental Regions
- From: "Rawn Clark" <rawnclark@...>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:35:47 -0700

    Meditation on the Elemental Regions

    © 2004 By Rawn Clark

    I am often asked for some sort of written text that better explains the
    Elements and my answer is always that reading about the Elements is not the
    best way to actually learn about them. The best way to learn about the Elements
    is through meditation and direct work with the Elements.

    The Hermetic mind-set which views the universe as being the result of an
    interaction between Elemental forces was derived from direct, personal internal
    and external observation. The most basic starting place for such observation
    and self-education regarding the Elements is one's own self. For example, in
    Bardon's "Initiation Into Hermetics", the student begins their introduction to
    the Elements through the observation of their own character and the subsequent
    assignment of each character trait to an Element. But that is not the only
    place within ourselves where we can observe the qualities of the Elements -- we
    can also learn about them through the observation of our physical bodies and
    this is what I propose in the meditation that follows.

    * * * * * *

    Lie down on your back next to a wall, with a couple of pillows behind your
    torso and head. The ideal position for this meditation is to have your torso
    elevated at a 30 degree angle and your head at 60-75 degrees. This assures a
    slight compression of the abdomen, an elevation of the heart above the legs and
    an elevation of the head above the heart. Get comfortable in this position and
    rest your hands, one atop the other, over your lower abdomen.

    Become aware of your head region and gently descend into your chest region,then
    your abdominal region and end in your leg region. Relax all the muscles in your
    leg region starting from your feet and working your way up to your pelvis.
    Include your buttocks and sphincter muscle in this relaxation.

    Now spread your awareness throughout your entire leg region and consider the
    ways in which your leg region manifests the qualities of the Earth Element.

    Feel the inertia and still calmness of the entire region. Spend a few moments
    meditating upon the fact that this region remains inert until movement is
    consciously willed, sending an electric signal from the Fire region of your
    body to activate the muscles of the Earth region. Meditate upon this region's
    utter passivity without that impulse from the brain. There is no motion within
    this region except for what reverberates through it's uppermost layer, from the
    Water region above where the rhythmic motion of the breath originates; and what
    reverberates through the veins, from the Air region above where the heart's
    rhythm originates the pumping of blood. No motion originates within the Earth
    region, yet those higher motions from the Fire,Air and Water regions are what
    sustain the leg region and animate it.

    Now shift your awareness to your abdominal region and deeply relax the muscles
    of your abdomen and lower back. Now spread your awareness throughout your
    entire abdominal region and encompass the area from your hips up to, and
    including, your diaphragm muscle. As before, consider the ways in which your
    abdominal region manifests the qualities of the Water Element.

    Feel the fluidity of all the organs of the Water region as they process thefood
    and drink you have consumed and as they purify the blood that pumps through
    your veins. Focus upon the slow and regular rhythm of the diaphragmmuscle's
    contraction and relaxation, contraction and relaxation, over and over in a
    seemingly endless cycle. It is like the gentle ebb and flow at the ocean's edge
    on a calm day, causing the breath to come in and go out, come in and go out,
    over and over. Sense how this steady rhythm impacts all the organs of the Water
    region, moving them back and forth like seaweed caught in a wave's current.

    Located just below your sternum and above your navel lies the solar plexus of
    nerves which control most of the functions of the Water region. This "little
    brain" keeps the intestines contracting and relaxing as they should, keeps the
    diaphragm muscle contracting and relaxing as it should, keeps your kidneys and
    liver functioning and so on. Notice how all these functions carry on without
    out conscious (i.e., "big brain") intervention. We can take conscious control
    of some of these functions but our control is always temporary and soon enough,
    the "little brain" takes back control lest we die. A good example is our
    control over the diaphragm muscle -- we can stop our breath but only for so
    long before we are forced to breathe. While respiration (i.e., the actual
    exchange of oxygen with the blood) occurs within the Air region, it is
    controlled by the Water region.

    The Water region is responsible for the absorption of nutrients and the
    expulsion of toxins. It causes the breath through which we absorb nutrients and
    expel toxins; and, it causes the functioning of the organs that absorb the
    nutrients from our food and drink and that expel toxins through regurgitation,
    defecation and urination.

    While the "little brain" has a high degree of autonomy and the organs of the
    Water region are responsible for much of the sustenance of our bodies, itis
    nonetheless dependant upon the heart beat of the Air region and the organs of
    the Fire region which serve as the seat of our conscious awareness. Without the
    animating force of consciousness awareness and the pumping heart, the "little
    brain" dies and the organs of the Water region cease to function. Yet it is the
    Water region which sustains the body and keeps it fitfor consciousness to
    inhabit . . . one cannot exist without the other.

    Now shift your awareness to your chest region and deeply relax the muscles of
    your chest, shoulders and upper back. Now spread your awareness throughout your
    entire chest region and encompass the area from your diaphragm up to, and
    including, your shoulders. As before, consider the ways in which your chest
    region manifests the qualities of the Air Element.

    Feel the expansion of your entire chest cavity with the intake of breath forced
    by the expansion of your diaphragm. It is as if you are unfurling your wings
    and taking flight. It lifts your entire being, making it feel as light as air
    with the influx of oxygen to your blood. And then, with the deflation of your
    lungs forced by the contraction of your diaphragm, your body is momentarily
    focused upon the exhalation of carbon dioxide and, perhaps, upon expressing the
    distillation of your thoughts through speaking or singing.

    The Air region lives with the same rhythm of the breath imposed by the Water
    region, but with the addition of a second rhythm imposed by the Fire region --
    that of the heart beat. This is a much faster rhythm than that imposed by the
    Water region. It is here in the Air region that these two rhythms meet to serve
    their single purpose -- oxygenation of the blood. Fed by the lungs and powered
    by the heart, your life's blood is pumped to and from every corner of your body.

    It is in service to your life blood that your heart and diaphragm interact and
    influence each other. For example when your heart beat increases and you need a
    greater supply of oxygen to feed its faster rate of blood flow, your breathing
    increases; you can slow your heart rate intentionally by slowing your breath
    rate; etc.. In other words, the two rhythms of Fire and Water are
    interdependent and together, they create a third, more complex rhythm within
    the Air region.

    Now shift your awareness to your head region and deeply relax the muscles of
    your neck, face and cranium. Now spread your awareness throughout your entire
    head region and encompass the area from your shoulders up to the top of your
    head. As before, consider the ways in which your head region manifests the
    qualities of the Fire Element.

    Herein lies the most complex organ of your body -- your brain. This
    highlyspecialized organ translates your consciousness awareness into electrical
    and chemical signals that are capable of communicating with your entire body
    and which allow you to communicate and interact with the external world. Your
    brain is a place of ceaseless electrical and chemical activity. The input of
    every active nerve in your body gets routed through your brain andyour brain
    perceives and then interprets all of that input.

    All of the sensory organs are located within the Fire region except one -- your
    sense of touch, the which organ (the nerves) is spread throughout yourentire
    body. Nonetheless all perception through the senses and all interpretation of
    those perceptions, occurs within the Fire region.

    The Fire region is also the center of expression. It is here that the signals
    originate which move your hands and feet, flex your facial muscles, form your
    mouth into words and synchronize your breathing in the service of speech. It is
    here that your consciousness translates itself into thoughts and words and
    feelings and causes them to be expressed.

    The organs through which we physically feed ourselves (mouth and nose) and
    through which we astra-mentally feed ourselves (eyes, ears, sinuses, and
    tongue) are also located in the Fire region, while those systems through which
    we normally excrete (urinary and bowels) are located in the Water region.

    The Fire region is the place where your consciousness integrates with physical
    existence. From here, your consciousness extends its will upon the Air, Water
    and Earth regions and, through them, upon your external environment.

    Now expand your awareness to encompass all four Elemental regions
    simultaneously. Spend several moments meditating upon the interaction of each
    region with each of the other regions. Observe and experience their
    interdependence.

    * * * * * *

    This meditation can also be expanded and applied to the Elemental regions of
    astral body and temporal mental body. For more information in this regard, I
    recommend the first three Lessons of the "Self-Healing Archaeous" audio series.

    My best to you,

    :) Rawn Clark

    29 September 2004

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