Body
Healing
The human body possesses an
enormous, astonishing, and persistent capacity to heal itself. Disease
generally occurs when we abuse our bodies or deprive them of basic requirements
to keep us healthy over extended periods.
The
Cell and Its Amazing Ability to Renew Itself
The most fundamental unit of the
human body is the cell. All human life originally begins as one single cell,
which then divides into many more cells, until a baby is born after nine months
of cell division inside the mother's uterus.
Every second that we're alive,
the cells in our bodies are endlessly working to bring us back to a natural
state of homeostasis or equilibrium. When we turn to medicines or physical
manipulations of our body's systems to heal us, we are really only facilitating
our bodies' natural ability to heal from within.
Each cell is a dynamic, living
unit that is constantly monitoring and adjusting its own processes, ongoingly
working to restore itself to the original DNA code it was born with, to
maintain balance within the body. Cells have the ability to heal themselves, as
well as make new cells that replace those that have been permanently damaged or
destroyed. Even when a large number of cells is destroyed -- something that
happens almost daily within our bodies -- the surrounding cells replicate to
make new cells, thereby replacing almost immediately the cells that were
destroyed.
When a bleeding injury occurs
anywhere in our bodies, blood vessels at the site contract to slow the
bleeding. Next, blood platelets begin forming a blood clot where the injury is
located. White blood cells then accumulate at the spot, and destroy and digest
dead cells by secreting special enzymes stored in small packets in the cells
called lysosomes. That way, dead-cell debris is removed and new space is made
for new cells to occupy.
Almost simultaneously, the
process of new cell formation begins. These new cells originate mostly from the
newer layers of cells of a particular tissue, while older cells are pushed to
the site of the injury, to gradually fill the space that was made by the
injury. This remarkable and complex process automatically stops when the
healing is complete.
This
healing process is not just for injuries. It also takes care of normal,
everyday wear and tear. Damaged, destroyed or dead cells are replaced in great
numbers daily from our skin, mouth, intestines, and blood.
Free
Radicals
The definition of a free radical
is any atom or molecule that has a single, unpaired electron in its outer
shell, making it unstable and highly reactive. Free radicals exist within the
body's cells, and they are a normal part of the process of making energy within
the cell (i.e., metabolism). A small percentage of the oxygen that is used to
make energy, goes to making free radicals.
Free
radicals chew up waste resulting from damage to the cell's genetic code storage
(the nucleus) or to the cytoplasm (the cell's body, excluding the nucleus). But
if free radical numbers become excessive, they create disease. Factors that
increase production of free radicals in our cells include: inflammation,
infection, and extreme stress.
Disease
More and more people are getting
wise to the fact that contracting disease is avoidable, and within our control.
Whether it's the common cold, or something more onerous such as heart disease
or cancer, we have to work at getting those illnesses.
Leading
healthy lifestyles and consuming healthful (as opposed to toxic) diets, will go
a very long way in keeping us healthy, whether we are young or older.
Proper Sleep and
Rest
A recent study by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention found that as many as two-thirds of all
Americans don't get enough sleep.
The optimal amount of daily sleep
for the average person is eight hours, and for a child, 11-12 hours. But the
myriad responsibilities that many of us, adults and children alike, juggle in
this modern day, make it so that many are robbing themselves of one of the most
crucial elements of maintaining good physical, as well as mental/emotional
health.
The body is endlessly working to
repair and regenerate itself. This happens to a great extent when we are
sleeping -- when our body's energy is only minimally being used to sustain
autonomic nervous system function (that is, involuntary functions such as heart
beat), and most of it can be directed toward restorative and healing processes.
Shorting
oneself on sleep is known to weaken the immune system. To get energy the
artificial way (say, through caffeine) is to do the body a great disservice, by
denying it the amount of rest that will make all its systems, including the
immune system and the body's healing and restorative processes, work at their
best.
Diet
Another way in which we can
greatly improve our body's powerful self-healing properties is by eating a
healthy, nutrient-rich diet.
It is important to minimize our
consumption of processed foods, as well as artificial food additives,
preservatives, colorants, flavors, etc.
A diet rich in vegetables and
fruits, and low in animal fats and hydrogenated oils, is best for all of us.
Lean sources of protein such as beans are also great. Nuts and seeds are rich
in nutrients and fiber, and have beneficial oils.
Many nutritionists agree that
eating raw vegetables is preferable to cooking them, as they have the most
nutritional value when they're in their raw state. However, lightly steaming
vegetables is also good. If you add vegetables to a meat soup, add them after
meat has been cooked for 30 minutes or longer; leave vegetables to cook for
10-15 minutes only. Fresh herbs (parsley, cilantro, thyme, rosemary, and many
others) are also packed with antioxidants (free-radical fighters), add great
taste, and can be added to dishes and soups after dish or soup has been cooked.
Organic foods are preferable over
non-organic, as they have fewer traces of pesticides and growth hormones.
In
addition, organic fruits and vegetables have been found to have higher contents
of flavonoids, plant compounds with antioxidant properties believed to aid in
the prevention of cancer.
Exercise
Regular exercise strengthens and
conditions the body's cardiovascular network and helps reduce emotional stress.
It also promotes better sleep. You and your children don't have to go crazy
with it -- it can be a fun activity that the family can enjoy, such as
bike-riding, or just a regular walk that will stimulate blood circulation, and
help the body oxygenate and purify itself.
Each of
us truly is in charge of our body's health. And the more we work with our
bodies, by giving them what they truly need, the less we will need to resort
to...prescription medicines or doctor's visits!
Meditation and Body Healing
Meditation
is a healing art that is overlooked by most people. Meditation is very
beneficial for the mind, body, and spirit because it helps raise their energy
vibration. It has been hypothesized that people whose energies vibrate at higher
frequencies rarely get sick. The main reason is because disease-causing
microorganisms have a hard time surviving in a body that is vibrating at higher
frequencies.
Russian
scientists had actually done experiments that can somewhat proved this
hypothesis. They found a way to purified water by just using higher vibrational
energy of the Earth. This was done by mimicking the hidden powers of the
ancient pyramids. By putting contaminated water under a pyramid built by
Russian scientists, they were able to destroyed all the microorganisms without
adding any chemicals. They believed this was possible because the pyramid acted
like a medium that can condense energy and increase its vibrational rate. For
more information on this experiment, please visit www.gizapyramid.com.
Meditation
and Self-Healing
Our bodies are marvelous self-healing
mechanisms. They are constantly busy with self-repair and working to move
towards greater balance. The same is true, I feel, for our psyches. Tap into
your intuition to promote healing. Relaxing into the flow of what is happening.
Then bring your attention to an area
needing healing. Allowing something to be in our awareness is helpful in and of
itself. Our attention is like a beam of energy and intelligence and when we
direct it somewhere energy for healing is provided. The inner intelligence of
the body puts that energy to good use. That’s the basis healing guided
meditation. We can also be more proactive, as it were, learning to direct our
energy in more specific ways. We drop into our inner knowing to find just the
right “flavor” of energy for the situation. Visualization is a tool that is
often used for healing.
When
self-healing through meditation, let what needs healing to be fully in your
awareness, and then see what “wants” to come, just naturally, to help the
situation. It is always more powerful to connect with your own inner knowing.
Your mind will pick up on the phrases you need for your process. As you are
prompted to bring in energy, let that take whatever form comes easily. Some
people may have very clear visualizations. For others, it may be something very
subtle. Most importantly, it doesn’t have to be visual. You may have just a
vague sense of some energy or movement. The energy may seem more auditory, like
a hum, or kinesthetic, like a feeling of some texture or touch. Or you may just
want to relax into the feeling of the meditation. Whatever comes easily for you
is just right! (www.meditationoasis.com)
My Notes.
The body has the ability to heal
itself from any dis-ease under the right conditions.
Prevention
is always better than cure.
Dis-ease is a symptom. And it is
usually accompanied by pain. Pain is a messenger, that’s all. Ask yourself what
the dis-ease is telling you? What messages is your body giving you?
Chronic pain can be very
debilitating and frustration at the rate of healing or lack of healing can
cause loathing for the specific body part. Give more love to that body part.
Nurture it.
An holistic approach to healing
or management is essential as one cannot work without the other! There are many
avenues to choose from.
The Mind: Reducing stress. Saying Positive
Affirmations. Being mindful of our belief systems. Going with the flow of life.
Self-nurturing. Counselling. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. EFT. Hypnosis.
The Body: Dietary requirements. Exercise.
Rest. Avoiding toxins/detox. Genetic/hereditary influences. Herbalism. Flower
remedies. Aromatherapy. Acupuncture. Kinesiology. Reiki. Integrated Energy
Therapy.
The Spirit:
Self-love. Divine Connection. Fulfilling life purpose. Forgiveness. Growing
& learning. Community connection. Meditation. Nature connection.
Always follow your intuition when it comes to
healing modes. What works for one person may not work for another. There are
many routes to healing and management depending on individual circumstances and
preferences. Let yourself be guided to the right choices and people to help.
Meditation
relaxes the body, relaxes the mind, and allows for the body cells to
communicate with each other while removing interference from the mind or
emotions. There is much research now into how meditation helps with specific
body ailments such as blood pressure and pain.
Try not to beat yourself up for
having dis-ease of the body. It is not realistic to go through life without
challenges including physical ailments.
Try these tips:
·
Going
with the flow will help. Don’t resist.
·
Thank
the dis-ease for bringing a problem to your attention. Learn about the ailment
from both a physiological and emotional point of view.
·
Thank
the pain for bringing a problem to your attention.
·
Feel
the pain, accept it and the associated emotions of it deeply, but do not
ruminate.
·
Decide
to learn, grow and heal from it.
·
Go
with the healing mode(s) that you are drawn to. You might want to use a combination
of traditional natural healing methods along with modern medicine.
·
Start
your focus with either mind, body or spirit healing but always include each one
eventually.
·
Practice
detachment- telling the ailment/pain to go away once it starts.
·
Feed
the ailment with love and healing energy. You don’t have to meditate to do
this- just close your eyes and imagine the ailment being surrounded in healing
white or green light.
·
Every
bedtime, tell your body to heal itself as you rest.
·
If
you work with angels, call on Archangel Raphael and healing green light.
NB Always consult your GP or health
professional for advice.
Body Healing Affirmations:
“I
listen to my body`s messages”
“I am
willing to release the pattern within my consciousness that created this
condition.”
“I love
my body, I treat it with respect and care.”
“I am
getting better every day.”
“I am in
full health.”
Meditation Script for Body Healing
Here is the script for the Body Healing Meditation on the 20th November.
Tell your body to relax. Let your feet & legs soften into
position. Drop your shoulders. Relax your hands. Tell your face and jaw to
relax. Allow your full body to soften down and relax into a natural position.
Take a cleansing breath in…and breathe out the
tension in your body.
Allow your breathing to fall into its
own natural rhythm, not trying to control it in any way. Just observing as you
breathe in relaxation, and breathe out tension.
If thoughts
intrude, allow them to pass, and return your attention to the meditation.
Feel your chest and stomach gently
rise and fall with each breath.
Notice how your body feels. Breathe
in relaxation. Breathe out tension.
Continue breathing, and stay mindful of it.
Now I will bring your awareness to your body,
scanning for areas of discomfort, noticing how each part of your body feels,
noticing any twinges, pains, imbalances. Starting at your toes, take note while
moving on up your ankles into your lower legs. Then noticing your thighs, your pelvic
area, buttocks. Into your abdomen and lower back, ribs and sides. Bringing your
awareness on up into your chest and upper back area. Your shoulders, moving
down into your upper arms, lower arms and fingers. Bringing your awareness back
up to your neck and throat area, your head, face, eyes, ears, nose, mouth.
Taking note of any areas throughout your body that may need some healing.
You will hear my voice, and you may
have thoughts pop in your head, but gently guide them back out, and bring your
attention back to my voice.
Breathing in beautiful fresh energy.
Breathing out tension. Breathing in fresh white light,and letting it travel
down into your whole body, cleansing as it moves through you.
Breathe in
healing, and breathe out tension.. stay mindful of your breathing and know that
every time you breathe in you are cleansing your entire body. You are breathing
in cleansing energy and you are breathing out tension..
Now I will
help you to use your intuition to bring healing, to your body, to your emotions.
You will be using visualisation, or simply sensing something.. when I make a
suggestion you might feel something or hear something. Just allowing whatever
comes to come.
So now bring
your attention to some area of the body, something that needs healing,
something that’s causing you some distress. Just let that be fully in your
attention. Fully in your awareness. Letting go of any judgements about it.
Letting go of any way that your mind evaluates it.. simply being present to
whatever youre experiencing that’s causing you distress. Letting it be held in
a space of healing, compassion, and letting go of any meaning about it notice
exactly how it feels. Where do you feel it in your body? Is it thick, thin,
heavy, light? What colour is it? Whats the texture of it? Of the emotion or of
the sensation in the body? Feeling what its like. Letting go of any resistance
to it, and just falling into it. It might be that if it’s a physical problem
there might be some emotion about it as well..simply experiencing that.
And now, allow healing energy to come, and it
could come in the form of a colour, a light, a texture, a vibration, a sound, a
tingle, just some vague feeling of energy. Let it appear however it appears for
you. Let it come to that emotion or to that physical sensation or that body
part. If its something in your body that you can imagine how that looks..
imagine healing energy coming, just the perfect energy. Maybe the energy feels
hot and needs cooling energy. Try out different colours, see what colour needs
to come. Maybe the colour needs to be bright or dim, maybe soft, maybe hard.
Maybe it moves.. just allow anything to come into your imagination. Anything
that feels healing to that area. Deep in your intuition is the knowledge of the
exact right thing to bring in.
So now we`ll take a little time to let that energy heal that
area, heal that emotion. Not minding the thoughts that may be present, just
easily coming back to the healing if your mind wanders.
Theres no right or wrong way to do this, just letting
your imagination and intuition bring the colour, bring the feeling. Or you
might find you want to let your whole body fill with healing energy. Or imagine
what that body part would be like if it was working perfectly, in perfect
health. You can imagine it perfect, comfortable, whole. Emotions may come up,
fears, doubts, frustration, sadness, all sorts of things. Simply experiencing
that is all part of healing. Maybe the energy wants to move around in that
area. maybe you want to bring in some swirling light, whatever feels good.
Noticing what it is that that part of your body or part of your emotions is
asking for. It might even be your whole body, maybe youre fatigued, or not
feeling well. You can let your whole body be filled with whatever energy or
colour or quality it needs.
Not minding the thoughts that come through as you do this
process. It doesn’t matter it still works. Treating yourself with compassion,
holding what needs healing kindly. So now we`ll take a few more minutes just
continuing with this healing process.
Breathing in healing, breathing out tension. (Repeat).
Now, I want you to imagine that you are breathing in some
more fresh energy, this time a beautiful green healing light. Breathing it in
through your nose and letting it travel around your body, filling you with
healing green light. Allow
this wonderful light to radiate through your body, filling every little space,
healing every cell that it fills. See this loving energy moving to wherever needs healed. See
yourself basking in love. See this energy fighting the disease that has
attacked your body. Visualise in detail the green healing energy consuming the
atoms of disease and destroying it forever. See yourself returning to good
health. Breathing in fresh, healing energy, breathing out tension. Take a few
moments to allow this healing light fill your whole being.
