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Healing Though Meditation
February 28, 2009 by Ray Baskerville
Healing though meditation occurs in multiple ways. There are all the physical and psychological health benefits we gain from the practice. There are also deeper levels of healing available in meditation.
When we are practicing a body based meditation, we may begin to notice all manner of aches and pains in the body. They may range from gross to very subtle. If there is a pain in a particular part of the body our habitual reaction will usually be to want it to go away, to change it or move away from it. If it is not indicating a physical problem, with the knees for example, then there is the opportunity for release and healing.
Pain and tension in the body indicate a place of holding, a place where some unresolved, incomplete or unhealed ‘past’ is held in the subconscious. The body being the
place where the subconscious is stored, not a exact analogy but good enough.
In meditation then, when we can simply become present to pain, accept it and make ourselves available to it, release of what is held takes place. How this happens is covered in detail in Letting go the means of Liberation
As release occurs understanding might emerge of what was held and how it has shown up in our lives. For example there may be a persistent pain in the right shoulder and going deeply into what it holds you might become conscious of an issue from childhood with your father. So this childhood reflection received from the father becomes the way through which we can see what it is in ourself. The issue isn’t the father or what he did, it’s not about him at all. He was the reflection of of what was already within oneself. To understand this read Karma & the Law of Attraction.
From this initial insight about a childhood experience we might start to see that we actually have this pattern in some form with all men; as a way of relating – or not relating – that we have with men. Ultimately we will come to see that it is a pattern of distortion in our masculine polarity. Very often, if we take things back in this life, if the issue is in the masculine then the first imprinting will be from the father and if it is in the feminine, from the mother. But they are not causal. They reflect and imprint what we bring with us into this life, and the law of sympathetic attraction draws us to parents that will match the karma we have chosen to work with in this life.
A workshop participant of mine once reported the following after doing one of the meditation component of Living Liberation. In meditation they became aware of a pain in their left kidney, in applying the practice, memory and its feelings emerged. The memory was from childhood and an issue of bed-wetting, the feeling content was from the mothers reaction to this, which was angry and shaming. The fact that the pain was in the left kidney, coupled with the mother as reflector, indicated to me that the deeper levels beyond childhood related to wounding in the feminine polarity, probably around shame.
Such insight though do not always occur, sometimes the pain simply begins to dissolve. My attitude is that understanding and insight arises when appropriate and beneficial. Many of us are so mentally dominant that we can easily get lost in analyzing and intellectualizing our experience and this misses the point.
If the pain is emotional it works exactly the same. We experience emotions in the body, so in the same way we choose to let ourselves feel it, be present to our experience of it, be as available to it as we can and then notice what unfolds.
Obviously we can’t sit and meditate whenever we have uncomfortable feelings or emotions, but if we practice meditation in this way we stand a good chance of developing the ability to stay present to our experience in the rest of life and how we live becomes a healing meditation.
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