At any moment when you are meditating, be free to move. You can stretch, yawn, jump up and go for a run or walk, do asana, take a shower,
You can lie down and take a nap.
This is a higher form of discipline because you are taking care of your needs and not creating meditation to be yet another place where you have to practice denial.
Your wiggly impulses are a spontaneous form of kundalini yoga. You are marrying the restful part of the cycle with the move it. Notice in particular any impulses in the muscles around your spine. From time to time, engage the muscles along your entire spine, from the base to the top of your head. Get into undulation, subtle or major, tiny motions or large.
When you are free to move and wiggle, at the same time your body is free to dive into deep relaxation. If you are meditating and get restless and want to go for a walk, this is a success of meditation, not a failure. Go walk and come back tomorrow.
Over time you will develop a sensibility about how to take care of your body, how to move with joy, which then sets you up to have a deeper rest cycle in meditation.
This serves meditation, because as you relax and go deep, your whole body becomes an instrument your soul is playing.
This is the skill: Give yourself freedom to move in any way that occurs to you. Lift up and down, expand and contract, be heavy and light, moving wildly or serenely. Continually give yourself this freedom. Break out of the mindset that meditation is sitting upright and sitting still.
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