Body Healing Meditation

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!

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 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.

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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.