"MEDITATION CHAPTER 8"
HEALING MEDITATION
Meditation can be used for many things. It is a food for the
spirit seeking enlightenment, as food is for the physical body.
There are so many uses that I could take up a whole chapter just
outlining them. However, it is best that each of you discover on
your own the far reaching affects of meditation on all three planes
of existence.
This chapter is about healing meditation. I will not get into
the complex subject of healing, but will save that for a book on
energy. What I will do is take you through a healing meditation.
This meditation is not given so that you can go out and heal
others. This meditation is solely for self-healing. If you know
someone who needs healing you can send them this meditation
and they can perform it on themselves.
Let's take a moment to talk about disease. If we take the
word apart (which is fairly easy since it only has two syllables) we
discover it to be "dis ease". Instead of all the connotations we are
used to about disease, let's look at it as just those two syllables for
a moment. When you are not at ease you are dis eased.
Think about this point for a moment. If you are speaking to
someone and you are not comfortable with the conversation or
with the person you are dis eased. This may sound funny, but if
we take this out to the literal sense you can see where some
disease comes from.
When we have disease it is because there is an imbalance on
one or more of the three planes of existence; physical, mental or
spiritual. Usually circumstances or outer causes brings about the
symptoms of this imbalance, but the truth is there is always an
underlying cause (nothing is a definite, there might be rare
exceptions, but I haven't run across any in over 25 years of study
and working with others).
The reason I am going into this in such detail is so that you
understand the different ways a healing meditation can work. You
are not just trying to relieve the symptoms (this is not an aspirin),
but you are trying to find the root of the problem and treat it.
Let me give you an example on a physical level. Most people
when they are feeling ill immediately check for a temperature. If
there is a fever present they will immediately take aspirin or
another drug to bring down the fever. However, what they don't
realize is that the fever is not the problem. The fever is only the
outward sign that there is a problem. In fact, treating the fever
might hide the symptoms of the illness more, so that it is harder to
treat later.
I was in the medical profession for thirteen years and I
worked with many doctors. My favorite doctor was an older
gentleman who cared and loved his patients. We would talk and
he used to tell me that he rarely gave out antidiarrheal
medication. I asked him why? He told me that what most people
didn't realize was that the diarrhea was the bodies way of getting
rid of infection and other poisons that needed to be flushed from
the system. How do you expect them to come out if they are not
flushed from the system? You certainly do not want to reabsorb
them. He said that it was better for the patient to suffer with the
uncomfortable symptom of diarrhea in order to cleanse the system
and promote speedy healing.
Now that I have totally confused you...hehehe. Seriously, I
think that you can see where I am going with this. There are
many ways to look at disease. Not getting caught up in the
symptoms, or treating the symptoms is an important aspect of
healing. Use the symptoms the way the body meant for you to
use them, and that is to diagnose what the disease is.
For instance, we have all had a cold. When we get a cold it
usually starts out with a scratchy throat and a stuffy nose. The
symptoms get worse as the illness progresses. The disease is not
the stuffy nose or the scratchy throat, the disease is a cold.
When you are doing healing meditation bear all of this in
mind. If you are feeling bad meditate and find out why. I
guarantee you the answers are all there, you just have to search
for them.
Now, for the healing meditation. Get in your meditation spot
and take three breaths to bring your body into a relaxed state.
Now go to the state of clear, that means getting rid of all
extraneous thoughts. Now, start with the mental plane.
Concentrate on how you feel mentally. Are you up? Are you
down? Are you feeling any specific emotion? If you are, go back
and find out when you started feeling this way. When you do the
reason will present itself fairly rapidly. Don't relive the
circumstances, as this is counterproductive.
We have all done this. Gotten into an altercation with
someone and gone through the he said she said' syndrome.
Wishing we had said something differently, or not said anything at
all. You can't change the past, but you can change the way you
feel in the moment. Once you find out what you are feeling
uncomfortable about on that plane, and make sure you get it all,
go on to the next plane. Spiritually how are you feeling? Have
your beliefs been attacked, questioned or just misplaced? Has
someone, or circumstances, caused you to feel uncomfortable on
this plane. Go through the same process you did on the mental
plane.
When you have finished this you are ready to go on to the
physical plane. This one should be relatively easy. Most of the
time we know what we are feeling physically without even having
to look. Although, I might add that until there is pain we rarely
pay attention to what our bodies are telling us. Once you know
exactly what you are feeling on the physical plane you are ready
to assimilate information.
Put what you have learned on the other two planes together
with the physical and come up with the overall disease. Once you
have done this go back to each plane and do a healing.
The best way to do this is to resolve what it was that was
bothering you, then surround it in white light. Allow the light to
permeate into every aspect of the situation. Let no corner go
untouched by the light. Do this on all three planes.