Welcome back to Learn How to Meditate. In this third episode of the Consciousness Development System, Joel Skipper guides us into the deepest layer of the body yet: the inner energetic centers — the heart, the solar plexus, and the lower core.

These practices mark a major shift. You’re no longer just sensing your fingers or hands. Now, you are beginning to tap into the energetic intelligence of your entire being.

What You'll Learn in This Session

A quick review of the foundational awareness sequence (fingertips to shoulders)

How to sense and center yourself in the heart

How to connect to the solar plexus, your power and will center

How to locate and activate the lower center (dan tien, hara, core)

Front-to-back and left-to-right internal awareness exercises

How to begin splitting your attention across two places at once

Understanding the three energetic gates to higher awareness

Why This Work Matters

Most people spend their entire lives disconnected from their internal world. They don’t realize that:

"You can learn to sense, feel, and eventually manipulate your internal state — not in theory, but in real-time."

Joel makes it clear: this isn’t about belief. It’s about practice. It’s about training. And the results are immediate.

Core Energetic Centers Explored

These three centers are pillars of conscious development:

Lower Center (2 inches below the navel): your anchor, gravity, stability, connection to Earth

Heart Center (middle of the chest): expands perception, emotion, presence in all directions

Solar Plexus (just below the sternum): personal power, energy regulation, inner fire

When activated, these three centers begin to form your energetic core — the base of higher-level states like inner stillness, whole-body awareness, and conscious presence.

Key Teaching: Split Awareness

In this episode, Joel introduces a powerful new tool:

Split Awareness: Keep a small part of your awareness in the lower center, while simultaneously sensing the fingertips.

This trains you to hold multiple points of consciousness at once, which is essential for later stages of meditative perception.

Questions from the Audience
Joel answers common concerns throughout:

"What am I supposed to feel?"
You’re supposed to feel whatever you feel. Even if you feel nothing — that’s still awareness.
If you feel warmth, tingling, pressure, or a need to pee — all of that is just energy moving. It’s all welcome.

"Can I do it with my eyes closed?"
In this stage — no. Point, look, and feel. The structure matters. This is training, not preference.

The Bigger Picture

You may begin at Level 0 — where you can’t feel anything inside. That’s completely normal.

But if you keep practicing, as Joel reminds us:

“You’re not creating anything new — you’re simply becoming conscious of what was already happening.”

This is how you build real power, real clarity, and real awareness.

Preview: The Three Gates of Enlightenment

Joel briefly touches on the deeper map:

Lower Center – Internal manipulation of awareness

Heart Center – External manipulation; awareness in all directions

Upper Center – Deep connection to reality and gravity

These gates lead to direct experiences of enlightenment, not through theory, but through disciplined, conscious observation.

Final Thoughts

This session brings you to the threshold of real transformation. You’ve moved beyond surface awareness into the core structures of consciousness.

If you keep going, day by day, you’ll begin to live from a place of deep internal clarity and power.

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Your body is a doorway. Your awareness is the key.
And now you’ve started unlocking it.