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    Moving Meditation
    Moving Meditation
    Moving Meditation
    Ebook52 pages32 minutes

    Moving Meditation

    By A.K. Finn

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    Finding yourself today means hoping to connect as you shuffle through others' expressions and expertise. A vast array of voices compete to become cultures or identities for you to choose from and then try to adopt from the outside in.

    I'd like to share a source of identity that works the other way—from the inside out. Be empowered as you stand up, just as you are, and allow your body to move however it wants to for no set time. Rediscover a recognizable sense of freedom from your childhood. Find motivation to prepare your body to do whatever you need it to for the rest of your life.

    In this book, I explore how moving meditation connects to concepts like the essence of martial arts, freedom from external constraints, the power of your own transformation story, chi and energy transference, finding your unique identity in society, and more…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA.K. Finn
    Release dateFeb 16, 2022
    ISBN9798201470777
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      Moving Meditation - A.K. Finn

      You and your body

      Children are masters of movement.

      They’re naturally able to allow their bodies to move in the most free, efficient ways possible.

      Just watch kids race through a room, hoist themselves up, jump off of things, roll around on the floor...

      Children also tend to model perfect flexibility and posture.

      Their bodies waste hardly any energy in all their movements.

      As we age, we slowly lose these natural freedoms and abilities.

      I believe the reason for this gradual decline is a change in perspective that comes with adulthood, as well as related changes in habit and lifestyle.

      Grownups learn to measure and account for all our time.

      We always feel the need to be moving toward something, or to be doing as little as possible (on purpose).

      Perhaps it’s this constant pull toward either being on our way or vegging out that leaves us unable to appreciate opportunities to simply experience ourselves in the world for no set time, the way children do.

      Earth is much bigger than we are, so gravity pulls us steadily down toward it.

      Muscles meant to hold our bodies straight slowly weaken as our habits change, and we adjust to mostly sitting and to strictly moving intentionally.

      Joints can misalign along with muscles, causing pain.

      Certain parts once flexible and free become tight like dry gum.

      Other parts once strong grow weak.

      Moving only toward what we’ve next accounted time for causes us to shuffle and bounce around without a properly fixed center of gravity.

      This is wasteful, which is why I believe a strong center of gravity is essential if we want to transfer energy as efficiently as possible when we move.

      Here’s how I once answered a question about where (within our bodies) a strong center of gravity should be located: As bodies droop and misalign, things shift upward and detach. But if your center of gravity remains like an umbilical cord to your surroundings, you’ll feel as though the ground itself propels you forward, high or low. It’s the opposite of the way grownups tend to bob up and down as we walk.

      Some eastern philosophies have a concept of energy called chi (or qi, or ki).

      When I talk about transferring energy efficiently, and about developing a strong center of gravity that connects us to our environment, I believe I’m expressing part of what chi actually is.

      We’ll take a closer look at energy transference and related ideas in the next section, The essence of martial arts.

      This image shows my posture before I started practicing moving meditation:

      The

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