Okay, I've just finished discussing this meditation posture/mantra thing with the spooks. They've been training me in it for a few weeks now; I'd've posted it before, but I wasn't sure I'd got it right.
Stand with your feet very slightly apart, back straight, head and shoulders back a little so as to open your chest.
Place your left hand, palm open, level with the heart and parallel to the breastbone. Your hand should be roughly at a right-angle to your wrist. Make a fist with your right hand and push your knuckles up against your left palm.
Say:
I am the rock, I am the ocean. You should say this an odd number of times, preferably at least three times. Take a really nice, deep, diaphragmatic breath each time.
Now swap hands so that your right hand is open and your left makes a fist.
Say:
I am the wind, I am the mountain. Again, odd number of times, at least three. You should do both parts of the excercise an equal number of times.
This excercise helps you embrace both force and resistance. You become both the eroding power of wind and water, and the mighty steadfastness of the Earth.
Well 'ard.
