🌀The Geometry of Presence 5🌀

The Geometry of Presence… WhereSelf… Collicular Self… Begin by allowing yourself to arrive exactly where you are. Notice the body first. The simple fact of having shape, density, form, edges. Feel the contact beneath you the chair, the floor, the bed, the earth. Let the nervous system register support. Thought and story can soften while the deeper brain recognizes location and orients Being here where you are right now Let location come through contact. Feel the temperature of the air on your skin, clothing resting on shoulders, chest, legs. Sense gravity drawing you downward. Signals to the ancient brain: this moment is real, present, Where you are. You are here. You are located. You are present. This room. This moment. This body. This now. You are here. You are located. You are present. The center remembers you somehow. Now notice the vertical axis of you. Downward settling through pelvis, legs, feet. Upward length through spine, neck, crown. Alive… like a tree rooted below and opening above. Downward support and upward lift meet in one quiet column. This is your pillar of presence. Now notice the lateral axis, right and left. Sense the space to your right side. Sense the space to your left side. Awareness widens gently, like wings opening. Balanced between them. Now notice the sagittal axis, front and back. The room in front of you. The space behind you. Supported behind, open ahead. You are here. You are located. You are present. This room. This moment. This body. This now. You are here. You are located. You are present. The center remembers you somehow. Notice the place where all directions meet. A natural sense of where you are looking from. From behind the eyes. From between the ears. From deeper in the head. From a silent center The compass inside the head. This is the WhereSelf. This is the Collicular Self. The orienting seat from which location is known. You are seeing from it. Locate where the sun rises in the East. Feel first light opening the horizon. Follow the sun arc slowly above your head as morning becomes noon, as noon becomes gold, as day leans gently to the West. Locate where the sun sets. Now pivot ninety degrees to the South. Remain steady in the center of the compass. Then travel inwardly from South to North, through the still point where all directions meet. Feel the ancient map inside you awaken. The world turns around you— and you remain centered. Let attention rest there lightly, notice the direction you are facing as you are with these Cardinal Directions Thoughts may flow. Sensations may move. Emotions may pass. Remain in the Center of the compass. From this center, awareness radiates outward. Walls. Ceiling. Floor. The boundaries of the space where you are Sounds arriving— Left. Right. Near. Far. You remain located while the world arranges itself around you. Now release the muscles Across the forehead… Behind the eyes… At the base of the skull… Through the jaw… Around the throat… Across the shoulders… A gentle loosening allowing the muscles of the body to be at ease. You are here. You are located. You are present. This room. This moment. This body. This now. You are here. You are located. You are present. The deeper brain knows location now. WhereSelf… Collicular Self… The Geometry… of Presence…