𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐥𝐤 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 . . .

From Will Johnson ...

The Incredible Hulk 

Walks into a Meditation Hall . . .

Dear Embodiment family,

So the Incredible Hulk walks into a meditation hall and sits down on a cushion. Maybe, he thinks, this will be the answer to my strange predicament. He sits down immobile, like a stone garden statue of the Buddha, and begins to observe his breath entering and leaving his nostrils. Certainly, he hopes, my mind will become calmer and clearer, and I’ll finally find some peace from that explosive . . . thing . . . that wants to keep erupting in my body.

Good luck with that, Hulk.

What fascinates me so much about the Incredible Hulk is that he’s unable to quell the powerful transformational energies that routinely need to come alive and express themselves through his body. You and I may not have the Hulk’s superpowers but, much like him, we have stifled energies, repressed sensations, and withheld breath that all want to cast off the noose of suppression, come alive, explode open, and completely transform us in the process.

Deep inside us lies our own private version of the Hulk, a magnificently potent and dynamically alive energetic core that our capitulation to the quality of consciousness that passes as normal— often lost in thought, out of touch with body, barely breathing—so effectively keeps under tight wraps. And, when we finally can hold it back no longer, it starts erupting through the entire body, popping open through all the constraint and resistance to what so wants to awaken.

think of body as something wrapped around a breath

but unlike a dead mummy’s wraps

our awakening back into radiant life

lies in letting the wraps flow freely like silk scarves on 

each breath like an amoeba expanding through the 

entire body on the inhalation retracting through the 

entire body on the exhalation almost as though body 

were a balloon that expanded everywhere on the 

inhalation retracted everywhere on the exhalation

sensations and energies that can no longer be held 

back explode open

Our task is not to quell the magnificent sensations in every cell of the body, the powerful energies that live at the very center of our centers, the breath that wants to come alive. The Incredible Hulk can’t suppress any of that. In truth, neither can you. Try as we might to keep everything neatly contained and under wraps, the suppression causes too much distress which is only able to heal itself and even transform into bliss if, again like the Hulk, we just surrender to who and what we are at the core of our being and let it express itself, sometimes gently, sometimes explosively.


Joy to the world,

Will

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