BREATHING THE VOID

In the past few months, the abstract and conceptual Void has grown as close to my personal, human experience as my breath and heartbeat....
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This growing intimacy with the Void deepened as recently as yesterday, as I was writing another revision of the Present Moment Brocades, Version 12.7 while riding in the bus from Malaga on the Andalusian coast to Vilafranca in the Catalonian hills of Spain.

​1/9/2020
​The sixteen hour bus ride was a supportive setting for going more deeply into breathing specific characteristics of the Void. The idea had germinated a few days earlier ~ I'd written one breath into the Present Moment Brocades and started practicing it, so it was 'working' in me.

On the bus is where a characteristic for each of the nine movements was written. The nine were further refined afterwards, as I practiced the movements to the recorded voice and re-worded some for clarity in audible form. Focusing on breathing the Void made the bus ride more bearable, as well.

Each of the movements is a piece of brocade, based on and evolved from the 'Eight Pieces of Brocade', with a ninth added. In Version 12.8 (written in the midst of intensive energies while staying at the Alaya Retreat,) these breaths of the Void end each movement and provide closure and transition. When the breaths are really focused and felt, I find them very helpful as refreshers in moments over the day.

MOVEMENT ONE
Breathe the unbounded being of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT TWO
Breathe the pure potentiality of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT THREE
Breathe the supreme stability of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT FOUR
Breathe the infinite creative intelligence of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT FIVE
Breathe the love for love itself of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT SIX
Breathe the all sufficiency, and self existence, of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT SEVEN
Breathe the self-expressive artistry of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT EIGHT
Breathe the joy, and laughter, of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

MOVEMENT NINE
Breathe the unwavering wholeness of the Void through your Present Moment Sphere into your centerline; feeling the column of energy expand. Breathe Chi energy back to your Present Moment Sphere.

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