The Human Shaped Bubble: Exploring Your Potential
If you’ve read some of my past articles discussing meditations based on Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practices, specifically the role modeling or healing mentor meditation practice, I use Loizzo’s notion of a human shaped bubble emerging after dissolving the ordinary body during this guided meditation practice. This dissolution of the body and reemergence as embodied openness (human shaped bubble) allows for the meditator to completely change their orientation to challenges and obstacles. At times, I give instructions as seeing the newly emerged self as a powerful, flexible and expansive being. I like to think of it as losing the limited sense of self or the small self and trading it in for the …show more content…
I may notice worry, trust or self-compassion issues occurring in the session and suggest them as themes for reflection. I often discuss these themes and see where the client is at with them as a topic of interest. If they confirm that this theme resonates with them I will move on to guiding them through a personally tailored meditation practice. In these cases, I introduce the obstacle or challenge directly using a meditation that helps them to befriend the challenge. I may direct them to try to make contact with worry, trust or self-compassion. In the role modeling meditation I direct them to show the mentor that specific challenge, which are often more readily visualized after the preceding therapeutic discussion of the matter.
When the meditator make’s contact with the specified challenge in the guise of a human shaped bubble or open embodiment, I am guiding them to consider it in light of a powerful, strengthened and resilient form of self. It is orienting the transformed body in a way that allows for ideal openness and flexibility when dealing with challenges. When doing the role modeling version of a guided meditation the meditator is facing the role model with the power of their own openness and are primed to borrow the role model’s capable …show more content…
Add to this the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practice of visualizing oneself as a female bodied or male bodied deity (not dependent on one’s human identified gender) and the ultimate integration of these forms within one’s self is the practice of gender liberation. It is a chance for not only queer communities but all human beings to see beyond gender and sexuality labels. These Tibetan practices may be interpreted as ultimately dissolving the gender binary system, even if not consciously designed to do
If you’ve read some of my past articles discussing meditations based on Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practices, specifically the role modeling or healing mentor meditation practice, I use Loizzo’s notion of a human shaped bubble emerging after dissolving the ordinary body during this guided meditation practice. This dissolution of the body and reemergence as embodied openness (human shaped bubble) allows for the meditator to completely change their orientation to challenges and obstacles. At times, I give instructions as seeing the newly emerged self as a powerful, flexible and expansive being. I like to think of it as losing the limited sense of self or the small self and trading it in for the …show more content…
I may notice worry, trust or self-compassion issues occurring in the session and suggest them as themes for reflection. I often discuss these themes and see where the client is at with them as a topic of interest. If they confirm that this theme resonates with them I will move on to guiding them through a personally tailored meditation practice. In these cases, I introduce the obstacle or challenge directly using a meditation that helps them to befriend the challenge. I may direct them to try to make contact with worry, trust or self-compassion. In the role modeling meditation I direct them to show the mentor that specific challenge, which are often more readily visualized after the preceding therapeutic discussion of the matter.
When the meditator make’s contact with the specified challenge in the guise of a human shaped bubble or open embodiment, I am guiding them to consider it in light of a powerful, strengthened and resilient form of self. It is orienting the transformed body in a way that allows for ideal openness and flexibility when dealing with challenges. When doing the role modeling version of a guided meditation the meditator is facing the role model with the power of their own openness and are primed to borrow the role model’s capable …show more content…
Add to this the Tibetan Buddhist Tantric practice of visualizing oneself as a female bodied or male bodied deity (not dependent on one’s human identified gender) and the ultimate integration of these forms within one’s self is the practice of gender liberation. It is a chance for not only queer communities but all human beings to see beyond gender and sexuality labels. These Tibetan practices may be interpreted as ultimately dissolving the gender binary system, even if not consciously designed to do