Our lips and its inner substance seems to be carrying something precious that we can bring into deeper body work and healing. Long back there was a practitioner who used to do body work but had a challenge of getting distracted by thoughts. One day when she was in practice, the deeper body work was going on very good and she said in-between that she was getting distracted due to thoughts. There was a sudden intuition where the attention was brought to her lips. This intuition happened twice or thrice. And then she was told to bring her attention to her lips and connect her lips to her mind region, and leave it open to the Vastness above head. In a few minutes she became very calm and reported that the noise in her mind became calm and she accessed silence. All she did was to move her awareness and breath within her lips and kept it connected to her mind and also above her head. We have tested this practice in several retreats of ours and the same experience has been unfolding for many.
Before we explore more into this aspect of our lip and its healing for our body, let us examine the act of kissing. The lips have an inner substance. The act of giving a kiss is very different from the act of kissing as a sexual interchange. A kiss offered to a child, spouse, family member or a friend can actually be healing. The substance present within lips seems to have this capacity. For a kiss to be healing it should be done in a non-stimulative manner. When we deeply study the movement of a kiss, it is a master condensing and letting go movement. When we kiss there is a natural condensing of substance in both the giver and receiver. Then there is a natural let go which is an expansion of inner substance both for the giver and receiver. This kiss offered need not be with touch alone. Even a flying kiss or even a close connect with another human, without any physical contact has this aspect of a condensation subtle touch and a let go or expansion movement.
Let us take this insight and explore inner healing with our own lips. We can connect to the substance of matter within our lip. We can do this with our eyes closed or open and feel into the mass and soft substance within the lip. We can do our regular practices like be with our natural breath or connect our lips to the Divine or Consciousness above our head. With the substance of our lip and movement of condensation and expansion we can kiss each part of our body and its substance from head to toe. This can be done with eyes closed and eyes open.
Let us give an experiential description again. We keep our awareness within our lips. We can be with our breath and connect the lips to Consciousness above head. We should be feeling the inner substance of our lips. This will often open up a sense of joy or a feeling of light or subtle substance within our lips. Now from or with our lips we focus say on our head region. It is almost like with our lips we touch the substance of our head and kiss it. This will be like condensing the subtle substance of our head – not the physical actual head but the inner matter of head with is more pliable. We then let go but our lips is still in contact with our head. The letting go is natural expansion. We can do this once or twice and then travel through all parts of our body in this manner.
The same practice we have been doing with our awareness before. We take our awareness to different parts of our body. We condense and let go the part and connect the part of our body to Qualities present above our head. The same we are doing with our lips now. It is the substance of our lips which is doing the process for each part of our body. The lips seems to have some unique advantages. The substance within our lip can sense very deeply into substance of other parts, condense and expand and heal deep tissues. So we can kiss our inner substance of all parts of our body with the substance of our lips. Also the substance of our lips does not absorb entanglements. It seems to be able to be untouched more naturally, especially when we keep our lips linked to Divine above during this Sadhana.
Doing this process with our lips also seems to be giving a heightened sensing. For example when the lips are working on a pain area on our right shoulder blade, soon the pathway of pain can clearly show up. For example you may see a interlinkage to a specific point inside a jaw bone or tooth and which extends to a point in the right ear. We can gently allow our lips to continue the practice in the path shown until the point in the right ear.
Each part of our body that we are working on with our lips, it is good to keep that part of the body relaxed and soft. This helps the process to unfold beautifully.
A lips that is constantly chanting a chosen mantra or the primordial sound AUM has a greater capacity to heal in this manner.
You can also kiss the subtle substance of Divine Masters in a very humble and sacred way. Thus in a state of intimate union with our Divine or Divine Master, we receive Their sacred subtle substance within us, as much as Grace bestows upon us and as much as our body has the capacity to receive.
Keeping our lips with a mantra, offered to Divine above and connecting to each and every cell of our body and condensing and expanding it and connecting each cell to Divine above is this Sadhana process that is unfolding.