March 30th, 2025

Pinging: technique to find tension and blind spots

Over the past two weeks (week 1 | week 2), we’ve explored your brain’s internal body map (the Hologram) and discovered how certain areas become “blind” — places where tension and dysfunction hide.

Today, we’ll learn a powerful technique to locate and free these areas — Pinging.

Pinging (expanded upon in the Practice section below) allows you to use your Hologram to quickly locate tension and blindness in your body. Like sonar scanning the depths of the ocean, Pinging reveals information about where tension and blindness exist.

Before we practice, it’s important to understand that physical tension and mental blind spots are two sides of the same coin.

At the physical level, tension manifests as contracted muscles, restricted fascia, and blocked energy. At the mental level, this same phenomenon appears as gaps in your Hologram — areas where your internal body map goes dark or fuzzy.

Indeed, these holographic gaps are often why tension takes root in the first place! When you lose awareness of an area because of trauma or injury, it becomes the perfect hiding place for holding patterns, stress responses, and unprocessed experiences.

This fact also demonstrates why Pinging works: it bridges the narrow (but deep) gap between mind and body!

Practice

1. Sit comfortably with a straight spine, breathing naturally and deeply.
2. Focus your attention at the point between your eyebrows (your third eye center).
3. Simply ask this point: “Where is tension being held?” or “Where is there blindness?”
4. Trust the first signal you receive, which might come as a distinct “ping” in a specific location or as a complete awareness of tension throughout your body. It’s important that you do not search, analyze, or think about where tension might be — simply wait for the intuitive response to your question to appear.
5. Once a specific area makes itself known, the next step is to simply breathe into it. As I’ve repeated elsewhere: “Where you breathe, tension must leave!” Breathing into your belly means the abs must relax. Breathing into your shoulder tension means the shoulders must drop. Breathing into your jaw means it must go slack.
6. Rinse and repeat over and over until every single area of bodily tension has dissolved (note: this could take tens of thousands of conscious Pings and breaths, but it will happen!)

For a more comprehensive tutorial on Pinging, check out this YouTube video I made on the topic.

What is prayer?

True prayer is not begging a persuadable (or flatterable) God to give you what you think you want; it’s humbly asking to be cleansed of ignorance and greed.

Such a powerful plea is why prayer is the highest form of meditation, and why it’s critical to have a silent mind while doing it.

Although thoughts can whiz by you at breakneck speeds, they technically still occur linearly, one after the other. That means a few thoughts of selflessness and grace can quickly be drowned out by millions of thoughts of frustration and worry.

In other words, you can be utterly convinced that you are praying, when — in actuality — you’re just on your hands and knees ruminating about your day or scheming on what you believe should come next.

Because the mind is so talented at this kind of shape-shifting, it is often advised not to make up your own prayers — at least at the beginning. That’s because what often begins as an honest attempt to detox the mind of its ego virus quickly becomes an exercise in thinking about yourself to no apparent end.

With that, it is helpful to first repeat tried-and-true prayers. The Lord’s Prayer is one such mantra. Having been said for centuries, it has a vast vibrational force that can significantly alter the state of the meditator, and has the potential to introduce one to the immense grace of God.

Practice with me in the audio below, or stay tuned next week when I help you craft out your own.

(Note: just 3 more weeks before these meditations become pay-walled.)

Meditate

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” — Anaïs Nin

Propping up our long lists of material desires — having the perfect body, eating the best food, cultivating the most expansive network — is the solid yearning to know, and to be right.

In other words, one of our most fundamental compulsions is to acquire knowledge about things, and have that knowledge be fully validated by life.

Unfortunately for the mind, this is a witch hunt to attain the unattainable.

Why? Because knowledge about a thing is not the same thing as knowing the thing. That would be like claiming the word “sparrow” is itself a sparrow.

The search for factual knowledge is an infinite game of whack-a-mole — answering one question always spawns a hundred more. The Universe has a rich sense of humor in this way, always on the look-out to destroy expectation and manifest the unpredictable.

Nothing finite — like a fact or an opinion — will ever “solve life”. There will always, always, be more mysteries accompanying your most-recent revelation and problems replacing your latest solution. Surrendering to this fact yields a peaceful humility. No need to have it all figured out just yet; you can sit back and enjoy the unhurried pace of the Grand Reveal.

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