Month: October 2022

The notion of vibration has very little place in Full-Presence Meditation as it is too closely connected to spirituality, the occult and New Age. It is also a catch-all term that allows all sorts of interpretations. Despite these reservations, there is a consensus on several aspects of vibration: Fully welcoming vibration is to turn our awareness towards what we are living Vibration is a relational mode: a good energy or bad vibration Vibration defines a resonance, that is to say a sensitivity to particular frequencies Vibration is a feeling that conveys information Vibration is a force of propagation, it rayonnates For Danis Bois, the movement is primordial and vibration is the effect of the movement, and not its cause. In the meditation today, participants were able to explore three dimensions of vibration. Vibration as ambient atmosphere Vibration is connected with the qualiy of self-presence that can be enhanced by remaining silent and motionless, with eyes closed. This attitude allows meditators to observe and listen to the effect of their posture on their inner experiencing, on their state of being. It results in the sensation of a good vibration and a positive disposition. The first condition to vibrate is to be …

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Danis Bois and Isabelle Eschalier’s book, La méditation pleine présence, les sept voies d’accès à la chaleur humaine (Eyrolles) with a preface by Pierre Rahbi, published in 2019, is now published in English and available in hard copy or as an e-book by following this link. It was translated by Hélène Pennel. This book present the various characteristics of Full-Presence Meditation and the innovative aspects of this practice in relation to other meditative practices, particularly Mindfulness.  Danis Bois clarifies some of the terms used in the context of meditations in general, and Full-Presence Meditation in particular such as the terms full, presence, consciousness and awareness.  He also answers other questions relating to the place of the body in meditation, and the interaction between perception and conscious awareness. This book also traces Danis Bois’s process of discovery and the elaboration of his methodology over the past 40 years, exploring in this process fields such as meditation scientific research (educational neuroscience), philosophy (humanistic thought, phenomenology of perception) and education (perceptual psychoeducation, experiential and existential learning). You will also find in this book practical tools to familiarize yourself with Full-Presence Meditation and to benefit from the unfolding of human warmth in your life. …

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In our first October meditation, Danis Bois reminded us of a notion that is dear to him: ‘Distance is an illusion, as is proximity’. Through the step-by-step process of this meditation, meditators were invited to experiment the various channels that reduce distance between meditators: the voice of the guide and the quality of their presence, silence, motionlessness, energy in motion, transmission and finally thought and imagination turned towards others, towards our aspirations or towards more humanity. The movement that moves within you is not simply an animation and an active principle. It is a quality of presence, a presence that wants what is good for you. Danis Bois. Participants were able to evaluate their own capicity to perceive, grasp and recognise the signs of the presence of transmission: Perceiving within a slow animation, embodied within living matter Feeling and being aware that we are not the origin of this movement And finally feeling a sense of protection, of a presence that is attentive and benevolent When these signs are combined, meditators can direct this transmission towards someone of their choosing or towards a personal objective, by means of thought and imagination.. We can imagine a world that is more human, …

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