Meditative practices

I am constantly in various meditative states, which many people use the term to mean “not thinking” or “relaxing” but originally it was a word used for “thinking” and “thoughtfully pondering” all of which I do, including meditative exercises which can include the often unrecognized “writing and posting and answering” to more involved bodily movements from walking, to dancing, to worship acts or even showering.

I practice extremes in thinking, “hell meditations” or simulations, inoculations, calculations, logic maps, possibility paths, all sorts of things, even organizing things, prioritizing, ordering, categorizing, negations, essentials rediscovered, building from the ground up, abandon and release, masturbation, you name it lol and I name it. Following clues, reading.

For the particular physical worship practice, it is actually quite ancient and universal for humans though is now not so popular, and was practiced regularly from Japan to the Americas, the whole world of humans.

Anyway regardless of the beliefs involved specifically, Buddhists, Hindus, Tibetans, Ancient Europeans and Africans and Egyptians and Sumerians and Persians and Chinese and Japanese all would wash themselves and keep themselves hygenic as this seemed to be very important to people, to always be clean and bathed and have washed orifices.

They would ablute themselves with water, making sure they are clean, rubbing their heads and faces with water, their hands up to their elbows, their feet up to their ankles, basically the exposed extremities and after symbolically and physically purifying their bodies, at certain points of the day as measured by the positions of the sun typically or other factors, they would go to some set aside area or set aside a space by laying down a mat or sweeping it or going to this clean space, sometimes in nature, and sometimes it would be considered special after their activity there or its use, and stand.

The typical positions were standing, bowing, kneeling, and prostrating in the kowtow form with knees bent and hands and forehead and perhaps nose at times to the ground. This in Buddhism is also considered an extremely important posture and meditative act and the highest form of physical meditative exercise some have seemed to say. In any case, it was performed by Pagans and Christians alike across the entire world as the symbol for submission, surrender, obedience, and worship. Ultimately in all cases it was supposed to be towards what is considered The Real or the Reality, what controls or moves experience and Nature or Life itself, the Power.

They would typically repeat this, generally accompanied by praises, prayers, thoughts, ponderings, and whatever else may occur to them of any sort, sometimes with a divinatory or oracular function as well for inspiring things or reminding one of things while reciting or repeating things and being perhaps in a mild relaxing trance due to the motions, the repititions, the light and darkness shifts even with eyes closed or opened between standing and the darkness in prostration and the shifts between being upright and high and down and low to the ground and humbled which all reflects the nature of experience and life as we know it.

After this, they would stop, or if in the companies of others wish them peace and affirm solidarity and go about their business and normal activities in the day.

The standing position was typically accompanied by the hands being placed or locked over the area between the chest and belly as seen in Sumerian Worship statues as a symbol of obedience and humility and respectfulness and restraint and self-control.

When praying or making appeals it was common for people to lift up their hands as if cupping water or offering something.
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/21/2d/11/212d11509ee087047ad34136176d50f7.jpg here you can see the areas that are typically washed as exposed and the appeal posture with hands raised and cupped.