The Body’s Release of Separation

"During the morning meditations, as I sank deeper into being, heat began to rise through my core and into my head. I felt very expansive, almost suspended. Sounds passed straight through me with no resistance. It happened twice, and each time it subsided, the separate self seemed to take back over. Could you offer some thoughts on this? Rupert says: ‘The separate self is a belief and a feeling, but it has its counterpart in the body as tension or contraction. When you sink into being in these meditations, that contraction relaxes – you feel less constricted, more expansive. Sometimes there’s a corresponding release in the body. In you, it expresses as heat rising. In others it may be tears, laughter, shaking, or sometimes more dramatic movements. These are all examples of the tension in the body – the bodily location of separation – relaxing and expanding as you sink more deeply into being.’"

From event 21 - 28 November, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at The Vedanta, 21–28 November 2025

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