This is a description of a skill which will help you learn to shed the impressions, images, and structures that come with the process of living. It is something that can be practiced and will bear fruit over time; but just like a plant, if you try to make it grow faster than is natural, you will only meet with frustration. And just like a plant, if you only observe it after one day it seems there is small growth. But if you look over time – a week or a month or a few months of letting this plant be in the light – you may find that within you there is a miracle.
It is beyond blessing what can happen in the body if one listens to the inner instructions. There is a resource within. It is opened by being present – putting one’s mind on the place that needs healing – with a feeling of willingness or allowing for that which is is beyond life, and which supports, transforms and heals life, to touch one. This is the key that unlocks the human form to reveal the boundless capacity to heal. Then the attention becomes the perceptive scan that focuses or draws the light/life/grace/power that heals.
Why does one do meditative practices? How do they help? They develop the innate inner capacity to be aware of the subtle. To focus, concentrate, hold steady the attention, which is the door through which healing flows.
Step 1
Be aware of what hurts in the physical, emotional, mental, moral (relationship), and spiritual bodies. Choose something specific and clear rather than a huge ever-present issue in life for practicing this technique, until you are satisfied you have mastered this skill.
Step 2
Be mindful of that which is beyond life and yet supports and sustains all of life. Be aware of its boundlessness. This is what keeps all of life in existence. It is the source of that force which grows the plants and animals, moves the wind, transforms a seed into life, and it can heal, rebuild and remake things. Then remember or imagine it in its healing form – you might think of a master, saint, a prophet, of grace, mercy, love, or the essence of the elements, or of a glorious vista that transformed you – and open to the possibility that what created all of this is also that which heals. Open yourself to receiving something from above/beyond/within.
Step 3
Turn your attention to the place that hurts, letting your attention be like a magnifying glass is to the sun, holding the attention steady on the place, and letting the light of healing slide through it, flowing light, life, and soothing and healing to the place you’ve chosen.
Step 4
Feel that somehow this has offered healing. Go into your day with the mind expecting to notice the subtle and overt changes in your self.
Step 5
You could say a prayer that is meaningful to you, for healing.
Here is one:
Beloved Lord, Almighty God
Through the rays of the sun,
Through the waves of the air,
Through the all-pervading life in space,
Purify and revivify me, and I pray,
Heal my body, heart and soul.
Amen
Remember, you can translate the words of a prayer so that you receive the intention behind the words. For example, use the word "Universe" instead of "God", if this helps you to orient to that which heals.
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