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Omphaloskepsis is defined as a
meditation while staring fixed at one’s navel practiced by eastern
mystics as an aid toward inducing a mystical trance. In the sense of
this definition of meditation use for creativity, it is only an
alternative to any other external object of focus.
However, the naval is much more than something at which to stare. It
is something to contemplate. It can be contemplated at three levels.
One is the naval is the source of your physical life and you as a
physically manifested being. It represents all of you that is
physical and all that is contained within your physical body such as
the genetic characteristics. It is your tie to the lineage of
humanity and a particular heritage.
At a second level it represents the solidification and your
commitment to have a physical life. A physical life to either have
experiences you have elected to have or you have agreed to have. You
body is the perfect physical vehicle to have these physical
experiences. You naval is an access point at to why you choose the
particular body you have and what is it you wish to accomplish with
it.
At the third level where you are the creator of your experiences and
the reality of those experience your naval represent starting point
for the unfoldment of your creation.
Cutting of the umbilical cord is representative of, and analogous to
a ship severing “shore power” from the pier to become self
sustaining ship afloat on the oceans of the world. Once the
umbilical cord is cut, power shifts from the nurturing of the mother
to one’s heart.
One will always need a mothering presence to become that independent
being then at some time a separation will need to occur for you to
become your own self sustaining being under you own power.
In one way, the severing of the umbilical cord is the cause of your
separation from oneness yet it is your opportunity to become an
independent being with Creation. It is a gift of untold proportions.
The umbilical cord represents the fulfillment of this drama, the
separation from oneness into an independent being, on the physical
plane.
The same process happens on the nonphysical plane. We must separate
from a nurturing and life given energy to become a separate and self
sufficient unique being operating from an internal flow of creative
life energy. Contemplating this aspect of the naval can take you
back your origins and an independent consciousness.
The exercise can be done with the naval covered or exposed. However,
there is great symbolism if naval is exposed. If the naval is
exposed, one will look at the “naked” truth and not mask what one
needs to see in a way that is acceptable to the mind. The mind must
learn to face the naked truth about reality and about itself and the
body it inhabits. An exposed naval will help to take the mind into
the truth of what is, unmasked as to what it thinks.
If you wish, you an do the exercise looking into a mirror at your
naval. And to gain an even more profound impact, sit naked in front
of the mirror looking at your naval and your nakedness in the
nakedness of the truth of your being at each and every level of your
being.
The Omphaloskepsis Exercise
Relax and prepare yourself
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Keeping your eyes open
staring at your nave visualize a pool of water within your naval
at its center. If you wish, look at the mirror as the pool of
water and you are simply staring at your reflection in this
pool.
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Imagine this pool of water is
full of ripples emanating outward from a single point at your
naval as if someone is dropping stones onto your naval into the
center of the pool
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While visualizing this pool of
water, focus on your breathing.
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Allow yourself to feel your
chest rising and falling.
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As you feel your chest rising
and falling, go back to the pond and realize the very fact that
you breath you are causing ripples on the pond.
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Synchronize your breathing
with the ripples.
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Each time you breath in, see a
rock fall into the pond to cause a ripple.
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Each time you breath out, see
the ripple expand outward and quietly dissipate to nothingness
such that at the end of your breathing out, there is only a calm
pond.
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Become aware that between the
time of completely exhaling and inhaling as the next stone
begins to fall to cause another ripple, the pond is perfectly
still like a sheet of glass.
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Allow this process to continue
- a ripple outward, a calmness, a ripple outward, a calmness, on
and on and on.
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Allow the calmness to permeate
your being.
Inquiry of the Source/source
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As you stare at your naval
imagining this ripples emanating outward from your naval, you
are at the Source of your current life.
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Ask yourself, “What does my
navel really mean and represent to me and why did I choose this
particular body that I have?”
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“Why did I choose this
particular, time, place, family and body?”
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Pay attention to any thoughts,
feelings or images that occur and do not judge them or suppress
them.
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Pay attention to, and become
come aware of, the entire process that you experience during
this meditation
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Take as long as you need to
contemplate the naval.
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You can, if you wish, use your
naval as an anchor point and go backward or forward in time
asking yourself “What brought me to this particular time, place
and body?” or “What are the potential impacts of using and not
using this body/”
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Allow yourself some time to
record any notes on your observations and any insights they my
have obtained.
You can use this exercises and the
symbolism of the naval to go back to the source of any event and to
see how and why the event was caused to unfold as it did. It is only
a matter of you asking the question in that state of calmness
focused on the source and allowing yourself to be open to what you
receive.
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