I learnt about discursive meditation as a teenager in the 80s while reading a book by a Quaker about classic Christian disciplines. I started doing meditation then, which I have continued on and off ever since, but the posture aspect of the meditation either wasn't highlighted in that book, or else I ignored it..
What I have found since beginning to work with the DMH is that the five minutes of relaxation at the beginning is having significant effects on my state of mind. I find that the little exercise in the DMH where you let go of the tension in all the parts of the body from the head down is something that I look forward to and find myself repeating when I tense up during the day.
When I sit in this posture now, both during meditation and increasingly during the day, with the intention of connecting down to the currents of the earth, my feet tingle. Like many thinking people I have spent most of my life in my head, and the first half of my life as part of a religion where light and the heavens are good and darkness and the earth are bad.
This exercise, in helping me to connect literally with the earth, and imaginatively with that telluric current flowing up from the depths of the earth is truly transforming and balancing the way I live in the world.
So thank you:)