Ask for inner peace. In this podcast, Eckhart takes the audience through his

renowned inner body awareness meditation, encouraging everyone to sense the

aliveness in every cell. He believes that this is one of the tools which can

free us from the ego. He also discusses asking for guidance during meditation. He

says, we may be asking for material possessions or the solution to a

difficult life situation. And he says, the important thing to notice is what

comes after we ask, we become still and surrender to receive wisdom. He

believes only then the answer will arise from a place of alert stillness and

inner peace. Thank you. Welcome everybody. It's wonderful to be back with you all. I'm

looking forward to the next hour or so. Looking forward to it in the present

moment, of course. I suggest that you close your eyes. I may do the same. And get

in touch with the sense of aliveness that pervades your inner energy field. If you

can't get there immediately, feel the aliveness in your hands, the sense of

animating presence, one could almost say. So you suddenly realize that your hands

are there without looking at them or touching them. There's a feeling of

hand, but you're not small visual image attached to it. And before we go into the

rest of the body, I can already show you by showing you the example of hands, how

to let go of visual image, because as we go into this meditation in a couple of

minutes or so, I'll be asking you to let go of the image of inner body. And let's

just do it with the hands to start with. So you can feel the energy field in your

hands, but your hands are resting on the table on your lap or wherever they are. And you can

sense the aliveness. And at this moment, you may still have a mental visual image of

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