After letting go, letting it glow, and letting it flow, we now come to letting it float. In this exercise, we cultivate a sense of weightlessness — a feeling of weightlessness and floating.
The word “light” carries two meanings in English. It is the opposite of both “dark” and “heavy.” This dual meaning works well for our practice because it helps us work simultaneously with both body-feeling and visioning—the right hemisphere functions cultivated by REM Autogenics.
We normally ignore the weight of our limbs and are accustomed to feeling them as weightless. It is therefore relatively easy to find the floating, weightless feeling within the felt-sense of the body. In an altered state of consciousness with enhanced body-awareness, we can experience the heavy body and the light body simultaneously.
The light mantra serves two purposes:
(1) it helps induce a floating feeling of relaxation in the body
(2) it prompts awareness of visual imagery.
Using the word “light” helps induce both buoyancy of the body’s felt-sense, and luminosity of the inner visual field. Having cleared the body-feeling in Exercise 3 by evoking clarity and transparency, we now in Exercise 4 induce a
We are now ready to bring the four exercises together and practise them as a combined mantra which carries us through the sequence of sensations on a single out-breath.
We can then begin applying this single combined mantra to the body core. Having mastered it in the limbs, the periphery, we are ready to come in to the central core of the body where there is more of a visceral emotional complexity to the felt-sense.
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