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Namah To Touch Matter

Some of the ways in which practitioners some colours or feel some energy. We may
of Integral Yoga are exploring to touch the also feel some sensations like contraction,
matter of their body are through: expansion, tingling, pain, joy, pleasure,
freedom or some movements. With more
• Natural breath awareness we can detect the light present
• Awareness with inner senses within our body, some parts will have
• Discovering the pure matter at depth more and some parts less. We could detect
• Experiencing cells touching each other qualities like power, joy, delight, beauty,
• Connecting to our subtle physical love, silence, etc. Both on the surface or the
• Connecting to the subtle physical of Masters depth of any body part, we would get some
pulsations and vibrations. Through these
We will begin to explore these methods in methods we get familiar with the body and
this article and continue deeper in future its inner terrains.
articles.
Yet we may miss actually connecting with
The subtle physical is the realm near matter the substance of matter. To discover and
that is far more fluid and responsive to the actually touch matter we need to also learn
Divine touch. Whatever Divine qualities are to shift our awareness into the substance part
soaked within the subtle physical, it then of our body. We may perhaps need to keep
shares its qualities and substance to the reminding ourselves that it is in the matter
physical matter. The subtle physical is both that the Divine is descending into directly,
within our bodies and around it, in the world perhaps because matter can hold the Divine
of matter in the world and in the depth of the best. We will explore how to tune into this
substance of our earth too. process through some short inner practices
in this article. This can support us to become
What is matter? receptive instruments of the New Creation.

“It is MATTER BECOMING THE DIVINE…… We need to train ourselves, as in our body
It is the result of the descent of the supramental awareness many of us miss bringing attention
substance into Matter. Only this substance — to the substance part of our body. Any part of
what it has put into physical Matter — could the body and its flesh and organs has matter.
have made it possible. It is a new ferment. The cells have a mass and volume, which
From the material standpoint, it removes from gives weight to the body. This is what we
physical Matter its tamas, the heaviness of its are referring to as the matter of our body.
unconsciousness, and from the psychological When we touch a stone, it feels different
standpoint, its ignorance and its falsehood (2).” from touching water. A stone is more solid
and we can feel its matter even with our
We need to train ourselves to detect matter hands if we learn to actually connect in a
and touch it within our body. When we place very material way with the stone. When we
our awareness within a body part we see what place our fingers within water we can feel
is present there with our inner vision. Some its flow. If we flip into the substance part
images will pop up on its own. We may see there will be a substance dimension to the

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