Pituitary & Pineal Gland: An Anatomical Meditation, with Gil Hedley

so for many years i have been teaching a pituitary and pineal gland meditation which is really sweet and i thought i'd share it with y'all but first you have to learn a little bit of the positional anatomy of the pituitary and that pineal gland i'm going to start with the pituitary because you got to start somewhere so the pituitary gland bunk right there see a little green dot that's the pituitary gland now do you see there's an x here x marks the spot that's the optic chiasma now the optic chiasma is the pathway of the optic nerves of your eyeballs as they cross over behind themselves so you see how the skeleton has cones a very cone shape here for the eyeball and there's a kind of a hole in the back the optic nerve passes through there at an angle right because the two eyeballs are in these cones seated in these cones so the nerves cross over each other like this we call it the optical asthma and beneath it sits the pituitary gland now another way to get to your pituitary gland oh where does it sit it sits i should draw it in let's put it it sits in the cella turkica the turkish saddle of your sphenoid bone so it has a nice little pocket there it's not just dangling in the wind it's seated in a pocket the solitaka so you follow your optic chiasma back or your optic nerves and where they cross x marks the spot you'll find the pituitary glands seated in the in the cell turkica now you'll notice the bridge of the nose actually seats here too so if you go to the bridge of your nose or the bridge of his nose and he goes straight back basically at the midline and then drop down into your salizurkica so that's another way to find it but also notice the soft palate here if you take your tongue and follow the hard palate all right welcome and go straight up from there and there's what's called the sphenoidal sinus of the sphenoid bone and then the pituitary gland so three strategies for finding your pituitary gland follow your optic nerve back to x marks the spot and drop down follow your bridge of your nose straight back and drop down into the cell of turkica i'll bring our tongue to the soft palate and go straight up this is a way to sort of three a three-pointed approach to finding your pituitary gland what i'm going to ask you to do now and if you're doing this with us at home and joining us here in our studio just just sit down right and and re and in a relaxed position it doesn't have to be fancy just but do sit down so that you know if you're going to close your eyes you don't keel over right so we want you seated uh for this exercise i say don't do this home but i won't do want you to do at home just seated so come with me inside your seminars and you're going to navigate your inner space here by basically just following back through the cones of your eyes to where the nerves cross over and you'll be right over your pituitary glinder follow the bridge of the nose straight back and don't do this with thinking but do it with feeling actually sort of feel your way back there and finally you can go rise up through the soft palate and and triangulate these different spots and what i want you to do with me is actually notice the quality of sensation that you feel when you pay attention to this place in your body where your pituitary gland lives you might notice particular qualities of sensation that you that surprise you or that that sort of leap leap out to your attention as you just kind of hang out here in this place it's in your body so it's yours to feel and just gently hang out there notice the quality sensation in your body that are particular to the place where your pituitary gland lives let your eyebrows be soft and then bring your attention back to the room you can continue to feel the sensations and with your attention in the room just you might say oh i felt such in such a way or such in such a way i'm not going to tell you what you feel i'm not going to plant any ideas in your mind but just allow yourself to add to your inventory of self-knowledge the quality of sensation that you notice when you hang out with your pituitary gland now we're going to add the pineal gland where is the pineal gland well this is a self-portrait by the way you like it so the pineal the pineal gland i have drawn right there where does it live it lives in the back of the third ventricle it has a little feet touching the thalamy on each side of the brain the thalamus here is this little round part here that marks the interthalamic adhesion we're looking at a cross-section this would be the corpus callosum of your brain this would be the neocortex and here we have our our our lateral ventricles so the pineal gland sits at the posterior aspect of the third ventricle which is kind of the negative space around between the two thalamus tissues and you can see the fourth ventricle here anterior to the cerebellum with the aqueduct of silvi passing the cerebral spinal fluid through the ventricles here and notice how if you were coming up from the spine you'd be sort of splashing like a like a like a like a ball on a fountain the pineal gland now if we drop straight down from the crown of the head the high point of your head here you come into your pineal gland it's absolutely in the middle of the the sagittal section right so it's in the middle plane along with the pituitary directly down from the crown of your head another way to get to your pineal gland well we can't see the ears here but if you went to the if you went to right here on your ears and kind of went straight in and met that midpoint from the crown right in the sagittal plane you're going to come might be a little above the cartilage here a little above the cartilage right there you go a little above the cartilage so so here's the cartilage you know we got to get up a little bit maybe oh maybe it's more towards the top of your ear now that i think about it yeah it's kind of more towards the floppy part of your ear and you go straight in there and another way to access your pineal gland is to go back to your pituitary gland and to do kind of a back dive because the pituitary is about two inches forward and a half an inch down from the pineal so you kind of draw an arc between the two see like that i like to say it's literally like doing a back dive i'm the pituitary and i'm reaching for the for the pineal okay so let's go there together okay our pineal gland if you just settle in again like you did be seated and allow yourself to follow the pathways i just described you might drop down from the crown of your head like a like a plum line or a pendulum down to your pineal gland or you could also kind of go like we described from the tops of your ears here your ear cartilages and follow your way into the center meet up with that midline again or you could just remind yourself of the feelings you felt when you visited your pituitary and kind of arc up and back from there and you'll find the pineal place and as you do just notice what surprising qualities of sensation you might feel there and maybe there's uh distinct sensations particular to the place where your pineal gland is as opposed to your pituitary and again it's not a thinking process but a feeling process that brings you into this space within yourself and notice the quality of sensation when you pay attention to that area now you might add to this as you enjoy that sensation that you can actually kind of reach forward from your pineal forward and down towards your pituitary and as you arrive at the pituitary place you can kind of pause for a moment and then arc back and you can actually create a sensation relationship between your pituitary and your pineal gland just kind of arcing back and forth between the two not a very gentle pace that allows yourself to actually generate within you a combined sensation characteristic of both the pineal and the pituitary now this is an exercise that you can do by yourself or with friends or silently while you're working with a client who might be on your table and you're holding their head in your hands and you can you can go to this place in yourself and find yourself in training your client to a very deep and peaceful place within themselves it's a nice way to do service actually it's a nice way to create an entrainment that's very positive and enriching it's nice to know where your pituitary and pineal are and if you're back in the room with me now you might be aware of the quality of sensations that are still present to you not just lost in an internal world but this can be present to you in our in our common environment and uh again i'm not going to tell you how you feel but i'm going to let you enjoy the potential feelings that you have within you so there you go a little pituitary pineal meditation it's a fun thing you can do so easy to feel good in the human body with just inviting yourself within as a seminar to travel deep in inner space thanks for sharing with me this experience bye

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Keywords: pituitary, pineal, glands, Gil Hedley, Gil, Hedley, anatomy, meditation, integral anatomy, human anatomy, anatomical meditation, pituitary and pineal glands, how to meditate with the pineal gland, how to meditate with the pituitary gland, how to find the pineal gland, how to find the pituitary gland, brain anatomy, anatomy of the brain, glands of the brain, human dissection

Id: Nr8H3n9-TzM

Length: 12min 25sec (745 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2020