MOBIUS MARBLE EXERCISE

If you need a way to slow your mind down in the middle of the night (or whenever), try this.

While lying on your back/sitting upright, let your hands, fingers tip to tip, rest on your chest. Next, imagine a marble starting at your left fingertips and lazily rolling down your arm to elbow, then up your upper arm and across your shoulder, up your neck. Then, after making a loop inside your head it rolls back down your neck to your right shoulder and arm. Finally, turning at your right elbow, it travels up your forearm to your right hand and fingertips. . . .ready to go again.

To make this exercise require a little more concentration, imagine the marble is on a track in the middle of a mobius ribbon beginning at your left fingertips and running down along the top of your left arm to your elbow where (remaining in its track) it now travels up the underside of your upper arm, across your left shoulder, then crosses over, rolls up the right side of your neck, and continues up into your head where (still in its track) it now briefly comes out topside on the ribbon as it crosses over to the left side of your head, then back underneath as it travels down the left side, across your right shoulder and down your right upper arm to the elbow. Once there, (still in the same continuous track) it now comes out on top again as it makes its final turn and ascends up your right forearm, through your hand. Once there it completes its loop at your right fingertips and is ready to make the next one.

I know. Sounds complicated! But do it very, very slowly at first. Once you get the hang of it, it's easy. It requires some visualization--but that’s the point of the exercise. Visualizing this process forces our mind to stop visualizing anything else--including all the worries, woes and wonderfuls in our lives . Try variations. Making the marble roll successively slower works especially well. Just mind the marble.

Want to take it to a third level? Become the marble.

TODAY.

LET’S GIVE THE WORLD & OURSELVES A GIFT.

LET’S TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE THINK.