Every now and then, I receive an email that I feel the response to it should be shared with others. Below is one of these responses, and I am thankful to the contributor for sending the question to me.
In summary, the question was: You talked about (video) having one of your students doing an exercise meditation healing? Do you ever wonder what you're teaching may be doing unquestionable tactics and practices?
My response:
No, I am not concerned, as I believe in people doing everything they can to take care of themselves by using standard and alternative medicine and procedures. I believe in all systems working together for a healthy outcome and to remove "ego" in order to do it. In other words, what's really best for the patient and not just the doctor.
I have a great respect for the medical field. In fact, I have contributed to it quite a lot in my journey during this life by seeking medical attention whenever I needed it, which appears quite a lot from my many doctor visits of many ailments. This is what brought it to my attention that they are only human and can, and have, make mistakes.
My mother would tell me, as a child, to listen to my body as it is telling me what I need. However as I grew up, I stopped listening and gave over to what I thought was a higher power ... doctors. In doing so, I would sit in a doctor's office and have, at times, serious doubt in what I was hearing, but felt they knew best. I've learned that this isn't always the case. In some cases, I wonder if I would still be here if I had listened instead of doing what I deeply felt that I needed to do ... just a gut feeling I have at times.
Of course, not everyone has that internal wisdom, which is all part of evolving. I don't ever guide anyone to do anything I say without that wisdom. Some I would say to meditate while others I may say to seek out a physician. I use each person's energy, as it should be, when guiding them with what advice they need. This can lead to no two advices being the same, because no two people are the same.
The medical field will create miracles by treating each person as an individual instead of the normal routine of - well, it worked for him so it should work for her. We have become too complacent with dishing out pills as a cure all for everything which is why it works but may still have flaws. The true way of healing is body, mind and soul. The "experts" keep forgetting that last part.
This leads us, in our current awareness, to understand that when a kingdom no longer serves its subjects, it will fall in order for a better kingdom to form. This is why we have so much current controversy in the medical field. We don't want to be misled anymore and we want to be served with facts not fantasy. We don't want to go from popping pharmaceutical drugs to popping tons of vitamins daily either. We are demanding overall wellness and that won't happen until science acknowledge the unseen soul or unseen sources and stops serving only the seen sources.
So when I suggest meditation to help in someone's healing, it is those unseen sources that need to be addressed. Until science starts doing that, it is up to everyone to be more proactive in their health. This means taking full control of your health, by working with the medical field and not against one another. If you find a doctor who cannot comply with this, keep looking ... as they are out there. There are many that still care and not routinely doing things for a paycheck.
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This picture shows how far back, and possibly even further, meditation practices have been employed for many things including healing.
Picture: Medicine Buddha with Lapis Blue skin. This color was used a lot on many historical "holy" figures, not just on the skin, and was, among other things, considered healing.
I beseech you, Blessed Medicine Guru,
Whose sky-colored, holy body of lapis lazuli
Signifies omniscient wisdom and compassion
As vast as limitless space,
Please grant me your blessings.
~ Shakyamuni
Like with some medication, it can take a few weeks to months to take affect?
ReplyDeleteHow fast can meditations take to heal a disease such as diabetes, cancer, or regenerate a limb?
Or cure something like the cold?
Or possible to lose weight/or gain weight?
If there is common or collective thought out there stalling the progress healing of any these things, would it be accurate to state one would have difficulty in proving that the meditations help at all? Or, with that in mind, should the person bother? (And likewise with the pill).
Does it matter how often one meditates? (Such as how many pills, how many times a day, at certain times during the day).
I personally see meditation as more effective than simply taking pills. I understand pills and vitamins help take care of the physical body, and that meditation can help in this, too. However, how people will measure either of their effectiveness is still a block to overcome.
Such as, how can one say the pill was more effective versus the meditation. Or perhaps the meditation was more effective than the pill.
Either way, both methods of treatment are no more effective than a placebo if the pill is lacking from the equation and equally if the meditation is lacking.
As far as pills are concerned, I think their effectiveness would increase based on a person's DNA.
Doctors use measurements of the medications based on a person's sex, ethnicity, age, other health problems - so far, that's as close as we've become to making pills for specific people. Though the roster is still quite vague. Individual people have more differences in their DNA versus simply deviating from their age, sex, etc.
I agree, hopefully we'll find a culture that balances both things.
You have made some awesome points.
DeleteMeditation, like medicine, all have their good and bad. As I was taught by the universe, some things may take time to heal just as it took time to get ill. Not everything will be instantaneous due to lessons that may be necessary too. There are those "miracles" that could be created due to circumstances like removing a spirit that is attacking someone creating the illness ... as far fetched as that may seem to some.
Then there are those situations with no cure as in death due to an accident. And - until the power of the mind can replace a limb torn from a body, we will still need to replace it medically or not at all, as in some cases.
In many cases, we are not only limited by our lack of awareness but by the many minds that want their truth too ... meaning those that influence the universe with their desires and needs of wanting income to supply what they need to survive ... like housing, food and their own medical needs.
So, it becomes a vicious circle of being ill to support another who is there to help the ill. Like the sayings goes - can't have one without the other or damned if you do and damned if you don't.
That's like in the case of weightloss either meditating or using a pill to lose weight.
DeleteWell, what makes anyone think either of those thing cause weight loss? Maybe it was changing one's behavior through simple habit. That's not meditating on anything and one's not taking a pill.
As far as replacing a limb, why hasn't that been done? If people can change weather pattern with allowance then why not materialize a limb? If the reason being that it's not being allowed, that's a weak argument for meditation's point. Surely there's enough energy out there for a limb to be completely regenerated. It takes a few seconds to lose a limb, so only a few seconds to gain it back. Now that would be something. : )
There must be beings out there constantly scanning this planet in order to not have a limb grow back, to stop the energy to allow it from manifesting. That sounds a bit insane, obsessive, and to some I'm sure, unlikely. One would think that just one case would sneek through. But if this is the case, then mediation is going to have a difficult time in gaining the respect it deserves. Especially if people are unaware of it.
Until meditation can be measured as a means to a cure or treatment, it'll always be the farthest from people's minds. We absolutely need numbers to see that this effective for everyone.
I agree, meditation, like pills, are not the end all be all to all life's problems. We would like to eat right too, however just when we think we are eating right, someone comes along and changes it. It makes the saying - everything in moderation - quite confusing at times. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteAs far as growing a limb back, currently we are not genetically programmed to do so and with science always experimenting, I'm sure it's a matter of time that they will figure that out ... as long as those that don't like changes from science to interfere in that decision. It could just be too science fiction for some to handle. No matter what science does, someone somewhere will want to put the brakes on - which isn't always a bad thing. Not sure if many would appreciate a Frankenstein Monster walking around. ;)
As far as meditation measures, there have been many studies proving the effects of it, yet there will always be the naysayers within the community who don't want to admit it has merit. That's why we have trouble curing cancer, not only is it not profitable (ugly truth) but many more egos benefit from it not being developed due to personal fears. Can you image the amount of people out of a job if they did? Of course, like many in life have had to do with changing professions on occasion, they can always convert to being farmers or such. I know that I've changed my profession a few times. Didn't like it much, but don't like starving even more. What an incentive? Right? ;)
Thanks for all your input. Makes the brain cells love us.
Makes sense. : )
DeleteI can't find any of the studies. : (
DeleteMost of what I'm reading involves meditation that causes relaxation.
"Using controlled clinical trials, these investigators are studying the effects of both types of meditation on health issues such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and the side effects of cancer treatment. The common denominator driving this research is a general recognition that chronic stress is linked to a variety of health problems, such as increased heart disease, compromised immune system functioning and premature cellular and cognitive aging."
I'm not reading anything about a cure for cancer anywhere.
In June, 2007 the United States National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) published an independent, peer-reviewed, meta-analysis of the state of meditation research, conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta Evidence-based Practice Center. The report reviewed 813 studies involving five broad categories of meditation: mantra meditation, mindfulness meditation, yoga, T'ai chi, and Qigong, and included all studies on adults through September 2005, with a particular focus on research pertaining to hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and substance abuse.
The report concluded, "Scientific research on meditation practices does not appear to have a common theoretical perspective and is characterized by poor methodological quality. Firm conclusions on the effects of meditation practices in healthcare cannot be drawn based on the available evidence. Future research on meditation practices must be more rigorous in the design and execution of studies and in the analysis and reporting of results." (p. 6) It noted that there is no theoretical explanation of health effects from meditation common to all meditation techniques."
I'm just not finding the studies out there that have concluded meditation has cured cancer.
I would like to take a look at one and view how they concluded this.
It could be a help in my understanding of it. I don't deny it, but I can't seem to find much information supporting it beyond reducing levels of stress.
Thanks so much for your research. :)
ReplyDeleteRemember that praying is asking and meditation is receiving. To me meditation is important to use in order to know what direction one must have in order to do all they can to help themselves, as I said above - to meditate it away (whatever IT is), seek medical attention, or both. I believe that all sources should be used, but meditation(along with guided imagery)can give us and edge, something like a GPS does for a trip. ;)
I have had people comment on my videos that meditation has helped them, maybe it was reducing the stress that actually created the cure. Stress can be toxic to the body and mind. However, I firmly believe that not all things are cured by meditation alone, just as miracles have been documented that have made medicine scratch their heads when it occurs. I've even heard doctors say, "It's in God's hands." Even they look towards miracles when they know things are out of their control.
The reason meditation may not work by itself is that we have to believe in what we do (mind power) and many don't, as well as some things not being allowed. For instance, in Jesus case when he meditated in the Garden to "be relieve his trials", obviously the answer was no.
There was a case back in the 80's of a little boy with a cancerous tumor in the brain and I believe I read it was inoperable. He was put on a meditation program of seeing the tumor being eaten away and the image he used was Pac-man). It was clinically observed to reduce in size to the point of disappearing. Now, was he on anything, like chemotherapy? I don't recall that in the article I read. Yet, I do recall it being authenticated my his medical doctors and x-rays.
Of course, this was done back before internet was around, but I would think somewhere it could be available still to read about it. At least, I would hope so. In the meantime, I did a Goggle search and did find this story of something similar.
Of a Boy, a Brain Tumor, and a Battle: A Biofeedback Success Story
http://candidaabrahamson.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/of-a-boy-a-brain-tumor-and-a-battle-a-biofeedback-success-story/
This is a good article too - The Science Behind Guided Imagery
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belleruth-naparstek/guided-imagery-cancer-patients_b_1026296.html
So, there are still the pros and cons to this subject, and I feel, as I mentioned before, many egos seems to get in the way of many things. Who will be right or wrong will constantly be fought over the expense of the health and possible death of the patient. Once we have more information being accepted about the flow of energy that is created by the mental beings here and there, we might see more "miracles."
As my realistic mind sees it - we aren't meant to live forever in these bodies, so it is us that invents these situations to take us out. Might as well enjoy the ride the best we can and for as long as we are here ... this go around. :)
Both are interesting articles, though the boy with cancer doesn't tell us much of anything, and can't be contributed to anything definite.
ReplyDeleteWe really don't know what happened with this person.
There wasn't any metaphysical or medical confirmation to what it was that made the boy recess.
Maybe he was getting radiation therapy, too.
I certainly wouldn't take anyone's word without being shown myself metaphysically and/or seeing the results through body measurments. Otherwise it's like saying "Well this happened because this happened." When it was really something else.
The other article, however, has an actual scientific study, since metaphysics can and absolutely should be studied and compared using numbers, actual data, and shows something believeable. If metaphysics cannot be measured using numbers, for the sake of healing people, then it's not of much use.
Most people will want to know the percentage of people that were healed using metaphysics before using it as an option
Though me being me, I would do it anyway for the sake of anything helping. I know better.
I think the concept of healing anything whether it be metaphysics, medicine or both, is one big cluster____.
Thank you for sharing the articles.
Exactly, I think more studies need to be done on it and not poo-pooing it away as being too "out there." It would be nice to see the scientific results, especially considering all the things we know about psychic attacks. Wouldn't it be nice to develop equipment to be able to view that something is coming at us instead of form us?
ReplyDeleteI agree, we should be working towards all over understanding and healing, which I do believe many have been advancing in this field ... slowly but surely.
On my video about Healing Meditation, there are some positive comments that have been left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIhcrzUlCxM
This allows me to believe there is some hope if those that apply it (or any technique used) find comfort in it.
Like: Thank you, this is helping with the frequent soreness I get in my left upper back and neck area. Now to get better at it. : )
Or: Ahhh...I remember when I first use to use this meditation. It works wonders, now I AM brought back to it once more. As you speak of this white light I can feel my well being, biological structure, psychological structure, etc....reconnecting with this light as it flows through my head :D Continue your work
Again, is it the meditation techniques or the time it would normally take to heal that helped? Or both? Maybe one day science will be able to answer it with the testing that I feel is being done.
Or ... people can meditate and ask the universe themselves. That's always an avenue to take too. ;)
It would be nice to have equipment with those abilities, so as long as someone isn't blocked from inventing it. : \
DeleteI will take a look. It's good to see people stating they've been helped through this.
With some people however, I can't help but wonder if it really is all in their head and nothing more. : (
Very true, that's why even some testing can be flawed because of human input. If they don't tell the truth or a partial truth, it can sway the final results. Very sad, but I've heard this has been done but the truth doesn't come out until many years later. I've even heard of people who work in labs that alter testing for self gain or hate. What a mess. :(
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteI care about myself, so I'll fight for what I need to do.
It's like I told them, If they think I'm ever going to get renal dialysis, an organ transplant or surgery, or more medication, they've got another thing coming.
I won't do it. They can shove it.
I'd rather live the last days of my life without tubes and wires hooked into my body to give me an extra 6 months.
I could take or leave the medical field or meditation as far as healing.
Treatment is a different story, but healing not so much.
Both have their messes, egos, hidden agendas, and people ready to defend one side over another for the sake of money or a good laugh, maybe get their underlaundary in a bunch.
It's a cluster----.
It sounds like you will be fine. Good attitude. <3
ReplyDeleteI just won't put up with anyone's crap - if they want to attack my body, I'll die and be a problem for them out there (like you've stated how many times).
DeleteAnd if they shove me in a body, I'll come out and do what I need to be a bigger problem for them until they get tired of it.
Their choice.
So either leave my medical attention/ meditation as it is or pay the freak'n price. : \
You have a strong will, which is a good thing in order to survive with whatever method. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you. : )
DeleteI was asked to share this with you too. You can find videos about him as well. He meditates, gets around fine, but doesn't eat or drink. You should read his story and watch the videos about him. When I first heard about it, my first reaction was ... no way! However he has been studied by doctors under close observation.
ReplyDeleteIndian Mystic being studied because he hasn't eaten anything for 70 years.
http://www.livescience.com/8224-indian-mystic-claims-eat-70-years.html
However, we cannot define what we haven't investigated. Did he not eat or drink while not being watched? Only the universe knows the truth and meditating may help with that answer. Another could use for meditating ... seeking wisdom.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I really like the image of the Buddha, and it reminded me of the lapis lazuli stone I have. I've read that some stones are connected to the chakra centers in our bodies. Not sure if it is true, but it's something to try.
ReplyDeleteI also love your comments, they contain so much information and I feel lucky to be aware of people like you. Others can learn so much from you, only if they want to listen.
The color was suppose to represent healing in this picture but blue is a chakra color. It represent the throat chakra.
ReplyDeleteWeisseEdelweiss is a friend of mine and is studying in the medical field. I value her input as it helps keep me on my toes. She does her very best to do that too. ;)
Thanks for the compliment. I try hard to learn all I can and share what I learn. I feel I am always learning and sharing. :)