THE PEACE NOW THOU HUM EXERCISE
(revised 4/5/03- revised again 6-7-03)
A group of us on the Internet decided to do a group meditation on PEACE
for at least five minutes daily at 7 AM Pacific Time.
(inhale) thru the soles of the feet - toes and fingers move up and down,
THEN
I then do the following peace meditation
Slowly purse your lips together, and start whispering an exaggerated
This exercise also keeps me aware of my heartbeat, which in
PEACE - THOU - NOW!
COMMENT: The Sufi teacher Gurdjieff said, "War is a result of the slavery
in which humans live, because humans are asleep."
How many awakenings will it take to trigger a wave that will sweep across
the entire planet?
For this reason, I beg all of us to please surrender to THAT, that ringing
silence and
"Arise, 0 Resplendent Being, Thou Who Art Forever Love Immaculate!
For New Yorkers, that would be 10 AM, of course.
I devised a simple Peace Exercise to accompany it that consists of
very slowly saying "PEACE THOU NOW HUM."
This is how it goes. Please try it as I describe it.
(Also I now do 250 (well, maybe 30 is more practical!) of the following warm-ups for the best results:)
buttocks and mulabandha (kegel) squeeze and nostrils flare and
eyes and smile wide ...
with a closed-mouth suck/nurse on the softpalate/uvula "UMMM"
(exhale through the mouth and relax) "DAH" (taste-sound) --
upon each heartbeat if you can sense the heartbeat
This seems to turn the petals of the heart chakra up -- at least metaphorically.
"Puh' all the way into a French ü or 'EU' sound bringing your
lips even
closer together on each heartbeat (displayed as an *) Repeats are
approximate and should be to one's own comfort.
The mula (kegel) squeezes may also be continued with the repetitions:
(outbreath) PEU*PEU*PEU* PEU*PEU*PEU*PEU*
(inbreath)(tightly - a whistling sound is okay too) PEU*PEU*
PEU* PEU*PEU*
Purse your lips in a tight kiss and continue "PEU" on each heartbeat
exhale *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU *PEU
and on the inhale. Breathe naturally. As you continue to
hold that kiss 'posture', begin very slowly to spread the comers of
your mouth.
As you begin, you should at once feel the ear-wiggle muscle begin to
tense very slowly. You are isometrically tensing the ear-wiggle/smile
muscle against
the 'kiss muscles' to keep a very slow movement into a full mouth smile.
Now move to a rhythmic "EU" on the heartbeat during the
inbreath *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU
outbreath *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU
inbreath *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU
outbreath *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU *EU
(gradually widen the smile to a)
inbreath *EH *EH *EH *EH *EH *EH
outbreath *HEH *HEH *HEH *HEH *HEH *HEH *HEH
(gradually widen the smile to a)
inbreath *AY *AY *AY *AY *AY *AY
outbreath *HAY *HAY *HAY *HAY *HAY *HAY *HAY
(gradually widen the smile to a)
inbreath *AHEE *HEE *HEE *HEE *HEE *HEE
outbreath *HEE *HEE *HEE *HEE *HEE
*HEE *HEE
inbreath *EE *EE *EE *EE *EE
*EE *EE
outbreath *EE *EE *EE *EE *EE
*EE *EE
Stretch the "EEE" until the upper lip flattens against the upper
teeth,
crinkling the eye muscles.
*EEE *EEE *EEE *EEE *EEE *EEE *EEE
*EEE *EEE
Now begin to move the tongue slowly forward to make the "EEE"
change into a hiss, the "SSS" sound in and out. *SSS *SSS *SSS
*SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS *SSS
Breathe the "SSS" in and out for a while, or at least a few times,
and
then move the tongue slightly further forward to form the "TH"
that you can also repeat rhythmically on your heartbeat,
"THA," "THA," "THA," which can gradually change to "THOU,"
"THOU," "THOU," "THOU." After some time, you can begin to
gradually close the teeth together to migrate to DAH DAH DAH DAH
DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH and then closing
the mouth/lips very gradually to create
"NOW," "NOW," "NOW," "NOW" on the heartbeat.
Continue for the rest of the five-minute meditation or beyond.
Finally, the "NOW," "NOW," NOW" can be subvocalized by
Closing the smiling mouth, pulling up the front chin muscles
(in the David Spero sahaja samadhi 'chin up' compassionate gesture),
flatteningthe lower lip against the lower teeth and keeping the "NOW"
on the
heartbeat by moving it backwards in the throat to the uvula and soft
palate area. Now slowly release the smile and the subvocal NOW
will transform into a HUM *HUM *HUM *HUM
*HM *HM *HM *HM *HM, etc.
itself is a very centering meditation.
In my view, even the most awakened amongst us are still asleep and
thus enmeshed in the current war nightmare.
Why? Because I am convinced that if enough of us had awakened totally
to our innate THATness,
then just manifesting our THUSness on this planet -- even perhaps a
very few of us would be enough --
then a wave of happiness and fulfillment would embrace all sentient
beings everywhere.
The armies would drop their weapons as a warm, bubbly feeling begin
to envelop their bodies,
rising from their toes to their legs, their bellies, their hearts and
chests, their throats and chins,
drowning them -- after one delicious fearful quiver of "I am dying!"
as their separate ego dissolves -- in a state of total love, which
is, after all, the very core of our being.
The lack of in the dreamscape we are sharing is stark evidence of our
clinging to "being in charge of ourselves,"
so we remain enmeshed in having yet once again to experience a 'terrible
two' tantrum of truly psychotic proportions.
I had my own 'terrible two's' during the Spanish Civil War, so I know
of which I write.
And "It takes two to terrible two -- two to tangle."
stillness out of which the wave of love who you are manifests.
If not for 'yourself,' then for the sake of the life form.
Nothing else really matters.
Arise, All-Beautiful, and Manifest Thy Nature!"
Sweet Mother Meera Alfassa, quoting "Someone Else."
