Traveling Through the Body

This is similar to the Yoga Nidra practice described in some yoga systems. Swami Rama would teach students a series of locations in the body to be focuses for body awareness. He would start at the forehead counting one, and have students visualize a feeling of being in the forehead. Next was the throat, then down the outside of one arm including the tip of each finger, back up the inside of the arm, then repeating the other arm, and continuing in a similar manner all over the body. Once the student had memorized the pattern, he would practice this each day. For a period of five months, the subjects would practice this at least ten times (or more if desired) each month. The researchers found that during the course of the experiment, at each session they found a large increase in theta wave production from the occipital cortex while doing this practice.