comfortably by your sides. Close your eyes and become
aware of your body’s natural self-balancing movements.
These subtle shifts in the activation of different muscle
groups to keep you from falling are being orchestrated by an
elaborate neuromuscular system. Balance centers in your
inner ear and brain are continuously communicating with
your postural muscles, helping you overcome the gravita-
tional force that is trying to bring you down to the ground.
Feel the Law of Least Effort and the Law of Dharma at
work within you as you witness the perpetual adjustments
that are occurring without your conscious input.
Now open your eyes and bend your right knee, bring-
ing the sole of your right foot as high as possible onto your
left thigh. Hold this position until you feel steady, then,
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