Electric You
We are electric beings in an electric world. Just like the swirling inner core of the planet creates an electromagnetic field expanding around it, our bodies create electricity that generates a field around us. Every cell that makes us responds to electric charge and every thought, behavior and creation begins with an electric impulse. In the guided meditation below, I'll walk with you through an examination of these forces. You don't have to have a full grasp on how electricity works for this to make sense. Just a comfortable place to chill and a bit of imagination.
*Disclaimer: I say 800 mi instead of 1800 mi referencing the distance to earth's core.
Just know that it's pretty damn deep down there.
Transcript:
Start by making yourself comfortable. Seated, lying down, whatever. Just find a position that’s relatively symmetrical that you can be in, still, for a little bit off time.
Take a few moments to get your wiggles out
Unclench the hands and the feet
Long legs, long arms, long spine
Neutral hips, level shoulders
Your head: centered
Soft face, eyes closed
Now that your body is settled, bring some awareness to your surroundings
The bigness or smallness of the space
The noise or the silence in the air
The lightness or darkness penetrating your eyelids
The warmth or coolness of your external environment
Acknowledge what’s encompassing you
Acknowledge you’re here, now
The guiding theme for this next length of time
Is electricity, the energy created by the movement of little charged particles jumping from one atom to the next
Without getting too technical, I’ll lead you through a series of examinations of the forces around us
The forces within us
And the forces we create
You don’t have to have a full grasp on how electricity works for this to make sense
But my hope is that through exploring this idea
With a relaxed body and a directed mind
You’ll be able to feel how much movement there truly is
Even in apparent stillness
And how we are a part of everything, and everything is a part of us
As the body stills and senses fade
We access a state
Somewhere between sleep and waking
Where consciousness if free to explore domains that tend to be ignored or untouched
When we’re awake and active
Give yourself permission to use your imagination here
Within that mass of electric goo we call the brain
Lies a minds eye that is creative and curious and clever
So have a little fun with it
We’re going to start at the center of the earth
Bring your awareness down
Through the brittle, rocky crust
Through the mantle of solid rock
That melts into a viscous fluid
As it approaches
The molten inner core
Imagine the colors of fire, reds, oranges, yellows
The roaring of flame
The smell of burning
The sensation of heat
Imagine
The very center of the earth
Roughly 1800 miles below where you are now
A giant mass of churning, liquefied metal
Dense, untouchable, almost unfathomable
It’s this constantly roiling core
That not only plays a role in shaping the surface of the earth
But also creates a force field around the entire planet
That giant, churning, iron core
Is made, just like everything else,
Of tiny little atoms
And as that molten vortex swirls
The movement of little charged particles within
Jump from place to place in the heat of it all
And create energy
Create electricity
But the core of the earth is so massive,
So powerful,
That the energy created by the movement of all those tiny little particles
Emanate from the earth and interacts
With other charged particles in solar wind
Which creates a huge field of energy
That surrounds this whole entire planet
It’s called the electromagnetic field
So transition your awareness, now,
Up
Out into space
Through the sky
Through the atmosphere
And into the soundless darkness of space
Faraway galaxies
Distance
Imagine looking back at earth from that space
Oceans and jungles and forests and tundras creating swirls of blues and greens and white
Absolute silence
Floating
If you were a particle in space, you would be able to feel a magnetic pull from the planet
Generated by electricity from the churning inner core
Electromagnetism
Two forces, electric and magnetic, that produce each other
And work to sustain one another
From your spacial awareness,
Start to draw that awareness back down
To the relationship between these two faraway places
The core of the earth and the field surrounding it
Connection between the lowest low and highest high
And feeling that you, in your body, are somewhere in the midst
Despite being surrounded by electromagnetic energy
The earth itself has the ability to absorb or dissipate an unlimited amount of electric charge
Through what’s called “grounding”
Bring your awareness all the way back down to the ground
When an point in an electric current is connected to ground
That point tends to stay at a constant voltage
Regardless of what else happens in the system
With your consciousness and minds eye back in your body
Notice every point on your body that is connected to the surface underneath you
Feel what’s supporting you
What information is your physical support system giving you?
How is your body reacting to that information?
Is it easy to sink in deep? Or are you pushing back?
No need to change anything, just notice
Notice the state of your body
Your whole body
Bring your awareness to the command center of the whole body
Floating in your head
Your brain
Feel the physical sensation of your brain filling your skull
From ear to ear
Crown to mouth
Back of head to the empty space between the eyes
Your brain
The brain, just like the churning center of the earth
Generates electricity
Through the movement of particles orbiting tiny little atoms
It’s these electric currents within the brain that
Help us interpret our situation and surroundings
Create our thoughts
Produce muscular movement
Drive behavior
And keep us alive by providing the information to carry out every basic process life requires
The brain takes in information
By
The eyes seeing
The ears hearing
The nose smelling
The mouth tasting
And the skin feeling
Similar to telephone wires running along the side of a city street
Our body is mapped with circuitry that allows that
Electrical current to extend to its farthest reaches
That circuitry travels from the brain
Through nerves at the center of the spine
And branch into specificity
Let’s map the body now
Using the electrical current generated in the brain
To touch each part of the physical vessel
Notice right foot
Left foot
Right ankle
Left ankle
Right shin
Left shin
Right calf
Left calf
Right knee
Left knee
Right thigh
Left thigh
Right buttock
Left buttock
Right hip
Left hip
Notice
The whole bottom half of your body
Notice
The abdomen
The ribcage
The chest
The heart beating in the chest
The spine
The nerves at the center of the spine
The neck
The head
Notice
The right shoulder
The left shoulder
Right upper arm
Left upper arm
Right elbow
Left elbow
Right forearm
Left forearm
Right wrist
Left wrist
Right hand
Left hand
The whole upper body
The whole lower body
The whole body
Feel electricity running through your entire body
Electricity generated by impulses in the brain
Electricity generated by the pace maker of the heart signaling each life-giving beat
Electricity generated by flowing red blood cells shedding electrons as they pass through capillaries
Electricity generated by the imagination in your mind’s eye
Electricity generated by your passions stoking the internal flame
Feel the electricity within you
You are an electric being
A sack of fluids, tissues
Mapped with electric circuitry
Connected to the ground
Just like the earth,
The electricity within your churning core
Creates a force around you
An electromagnetic force field around you
For every piece of you that is tiny and complex
There is an equal piece of you expansive and unbound
Feel that as you breath in, what is around you becomes a part of you
And as the breath escapes, you become a part of what’s around
In this still, calm state
Experience the sensation of potential
Potential energy, electric
Potential for movement, for creating and expanding
Potential for sustaining and supporting
The Potential to feel connected to everything, all at once
As you shift your awareness back to your environment
What’s surrounding you
Re-experience your placement
Somewhere between the core of the earth and the solar winds
The substance churning at the center of the earth
Is the same substance that swirls through solar winds
Is the same substance that makes the heart beat
You contain a limitless potential
Both expansive and grounded