Inner Space: Meditation & Mind-Body Exercise - Turning On Your Center

INNER SPACE
Meditation & Mind-Body Exercise – Turning On Your Center
Dennis Lenell

This book is an investigation into the human body’s inner space.
The book’s purpose is to cut through the fog surrounding the essential human activity of meditation, which is over 5000 years old. The outer layer of this fog for many people is that meditation is a strange practice done by religious people. However, you do not have to wear a turban, dress in robes, or be bald to meditate. Nor do I have to be a reincarnated Tibetan monk to be able to talk about it. Nor do you need to join a cult with a “guru” (the kind of “gurus” who have amassed quite a track record in the modern world giving meditation a bad name and image); you need none of this to access real meditation.
And that’s just it. Are the many various teachers, schools, organizations, and traditions teaching today, are they REALLY meditating? Or, are they just daydreaming a masquerade?
Meditation has been scientifically shown to alter physiological processes, like heartbeat, respiration, relaxation, and brain waves, in positive ways. This is significant. This is done by using a few of the available techniques, although they are never explained with any detail. Are they the best techniques? Much of the research is done by organizations who are promoting their own method commercially. I think that is still called a “conflict of interest.”
The primary question is: What is the best way to meditate and why? This book answers these questions.
Another view from the fog is that meditation is a waste of time, because you are not doing anything; it’s just a passive state. Definitely not true. Real meditation is a focused, concentrated, energetic state, and is one of the most important things you can do. Meditation is a training of the mind – mental development. More than that, it is mind-body exercise. This is why most of the modern interpretations and teachings of meditation are wrong. It is all “in the head.” Meditation is mind-body exercise.
Meditation can increase the mental, emotional, and physical health of human beings. With the whirlwind of input from modern life and its stress, there is a necessity to regularly detach and find the center of the cyclone. That center is your center.

An overview of the book:

● There is an historical review of meditation and mind-body exercise.
● There are over 200 quotes [also 140 images] from authorities supporting a solution to the mind-body problem, which is only a problem because science does not know what and where the mind is.
● We have little or no real control of our mental process.
● Meditation exercises our consciousness by attention, focus, breathing, and relaxation.
● We can control our brain waves for creative problem-solving and higher mental function.
● Mind-body exercise is superior in every way to physical exercise.
● Meditation and motion described without its true center of gravity is off-center and incomplete.
● There is meditation on the center of gravity – at rest and in motion.
● Meditation and mind-body exercise are a practice of equilibrium.
● With the right focus, we turn on the center of mind-body unity.
● Consciousness can only be known within oneself and can only be “grasped” non-verbally.

After reading this book, you will have no confusion over what meditation is and what its practice can do. And, you will be able to practice it.

Table of Contents:

Initial Exposure
1. Have You Lost Your Mind?
2. The History of Timelessness
3. Zen and Now
4. Control at Point Zero
5. Whole Body Breathing
6. True Gravity & the 6th & 7th Sense
7. Homeostasis Is Our Home
8. Unification by Mind-Body Exercise
Introduction
Tai-chi Circuitry
Yoga – Fusing Opposites in the Middle
Aikido and the One Point
Summary
9. Alchemy – Lighting the Inner Fire
10. Mind-Body Meditation
11. Meditation in