Has anyone worked with or thought about working with Ken McLeod’s five elements / 5 dakinis from Unfettered mind and the book
Wake up to your life for insight practice without using the visualization exercises? I’m not a visual type of person and I’m not really good at imagining things. Still I think that the reaction patterns and qualities that Ken McLeod brings up are quite useful both for growing as a human being and for letting go of the fears that make us hold on to our separate selves.
I haven’t read the book yet, myself, but I will order it as soon as I can afford it. Right now I going through the recorded sessions here:
http://unfetteredmind.org/five-elements-five-dakinisI would be interested in trying exercises that might work better for someone who is more kinestetically inclined, like I think I am. In session 7 there are a few suggestions for alternative exercises (quote from the transcript):
”Another exercise I often do with people is have them tell a story—the same story—in each of the five elements. And different points will be emphasized.
Another exercise is to observe and act in one element one day, another element the next day, and so forth. And so you really get a sense of how it operates. Another possibility is to take a specific activity, one that you do everyday, and do it in each of the five elements. What are the differences.”
First of all, is this something that I can do at an early stage of my practice without messing it up? Second, would somebody be interested in trying this out too? Then maybe we could exchange experiences in this thread. Third, has any of you done this already? If so, would you like to share some experiences from it or maybe advice? I think I would be most interested in trying the last exercise first, since it is well-defined, kinestetically oriented and not that far from the drama exercises I used to do when I was younger.