Repose: The Potent Pause

In Repose, the objective is to open up your joints as much as you can without causing pain or discomfort.

Repose involves lying on your back on a flat, comfortable surface (floor, bed, carpet, mat, lawn, etc), with arms extended perpendicular to your torso, palms up, legs open, and jaw relaxed, as shown here:

Repose is revolutionary in its simplicity. Although we have discussed a number of variations, the basic idea is always the same: (1) assume an open position with arms and legs extended; (2) hold that position for seven minutes three times daily; and (3) enjoy the physical and psychological benefits.

Imagine a resource that can enhance health, eliminate stress, slow down aging, elevate mood, reduce pain, improve sleep, and increase productivity. Even a single exposure to this resource can energize you and fill you with a sensation of blissful relaxation that lasts for hours or days. Repeated exposure can transform your life in the most positive

When William James wrote about consciousness in The Principles of Psychology, he was basically describing the stream of thought generated in the active mode. Yet James realized that thought alone could not account for all of human experience. “There are two ways of knowing things,” he asserted, “knowing them immediately or intuitively, and knowing

The key to sustaining this blissful state is to recharge it every few hours with another Repose session. We recommend that Repose be done three times a day, preferably at 9am, 3pm, and 9pm (although this can be modified to fit your schedule). If you spread out your Repose sessions in this way, you will never go more than six hours between sessions

This transcendent experience goes by many names: bliss, ecstasy, joy, rapture. Ironically, the decision to surrender to such experience is completely intentional. In other words, you have some control over your decision to give up control. Repose makes that decision particularly easy. You simply choose to take a few minutes out of your day to lie i

So, what does this all have to do with Repose? It seems that Repose works like a “pause” button, giving you a temporary break from the seemingly endless stream of thought coming through the active mode of consciousness. In this pause, the receptive mode emerges from the shadows so that you can immerse yourself fully in it.

recent research on high-power poses such as the one shown below (which has been referred to as the “Wonder Woman” pose): Holding one of these poses for as little as two minutes can raise your testosterone levels by 20%, lower your cortisol levels by 25%, and increase the likelihood that you will be rated by an interviewer as perceptive, confident,

The resource is called Repose.