Healing Aids and Practices
Master Your Emotions
The nervous system can be burnt-out by too much emotional stress. The spiritual master Paramahansa Yogananda says, “If we connect a 120-volt bulb with a 2,000-volt source, it would burn out the bulb. Similarly, the nervous system was not made to withstand the destructive force of intense emotion or persistent negative thoughts and feelings.”
There are two ways of reducing emotional stress:
- Consciously work on being calm during life’s challenges
- Reduce your store of suppressed emotions
Consciously Cultivate Calmness
One of the great lessons of life is to remain calm, no matter what challenges we experience. This is very hard to do. My personal challenge is to overcome fear, which has caused most of the problems in my life. At times, the fear I have experienced has been very intense, and this burnt out my nervous system, greatly contributing to my development of electrical sensitivity.
Meditation is a great help for developing mental calmness. Meditation connects us to the source of peace within us. We need to learn how to carry the calmness found in meditation into our daily activities.
A very accessible form of meditation is the Silva UltraMind System. This is inexpensive and very effective.
Qigong (“energy cultivation”) is a combination of movement and meditation. Two modern forms of Qigong that appear to be extremely effective for achieving a calm state are Spring Forest Qigong and Cosmic Freedom Qigong (CFQ). Qigong can also be an extremely effective tool for healing physical and mental illness because it greatly stimulates the life force.
Kriya Yoga is an extremely potent technique of meditation, but it is more than a technique: it is a way of life. As such, it is not for everyone. The focus of Kriya Yoga is on devotion to God and service and requires a lifetime commitment to Paramahansa Yogananda. However, you can practice the prerequisites to Kriya Yoga to see if it is a good fit for you, without making a lifetime commitment.
The following are powerful tools for meditation:
- Yogi Amrit Desai’s Yoga Nidra CDs. These are extremely powerful, deeply healing guided meditations.
- Swami Janakananda’s Yoga Nidra CD. This is a highly regarded guided meditation into conscious deep sleep.
- Metaforms 3-D Star. This is a sacred geometry form that is especially good for achieving deep states of meditation.
- The Mind-Tek Ultra Meditation System and Eternity CD.
- The Immrama Institute Insight CD.
- Holosync Audios from Centrepointe Research. I believe that these audios are overpriced, but they do work.
The following books are recommended for people who are interested in the spiritual path:
- Say “Yes” to Love: God Explains SoulMates through Yaël and Doug Powell. This is the most important spiritual book I have ever read. God speaks to you in first person about the purpose of life, the supreme importance of love, and abundance as our birthright as children of God. The purpose of the Soul Mate relationship is described in detail: the Soul Mate relationship is the fastest spiritual path to God as it is designed by God to make all-fulfilling love in abundance. Love is the key to healing ourselves and this world: when enough people are living in an ideal Soul Mate relationship, the planet will be transformed into heaven on earth.
- Say “Yes” to Love: God Explains SoulMate Love and Sacred Sexuality. This is perhaps the single most important book on human sexuality that has been written in any language! In this book you learn that the purpose of human life is to Make Love in the context of a Twin Flame relationship, and in that lovemaking, bring forth new creations. Sex is divine in the context of a loving relationship. God is a sexual being, and all of creation is a result of the union of Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine. Sex as God intended it is good for you and all of creation! Enjoy it, indulge in lots of it, have fun with it, play with it! The book is referring to pure, heart-centered tantric sex, not unfulfilling procreative sex in which the man ejaculates. Procreative sex is destructive except when used to create children, but loving tantric sex between Soul Mates will literally save the world.
- How to Hear the Voice of God by Susan Shumsky. This book is very important because it teaches scientifically how to get guidance directly from God through faultless intuition.
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. This is a spiritual classic and reading it changed my life.
- All books by Gina Lake. These are short and easy to read books of wisdom that contain very practical methods for spiritual growth.
- Anastasia and all other books by Vladimir Megre. These books describe the adventures of the author with Anastasia, who is a saint living in the Siberian taiga. Anastasia is an extraordinary living example of human potential, who shares her wisdom in a unique way that is profoundly inspiring.
Reduce Suppressed Emotions and Integrate Trauma
Suppressed emotions are the result of trauma we have experienced in the past but have not integrated. Suppressed emotions can be released by certain challenging events in combination with subconscious triggers. By reducing the store of suppressed emotions, the challenging events in life are less likely to result in the release of large charges of suppressed emotions. In other words, by reducing the store of suppressed emotions, unresolved trauma from the past can be integrated or resolved.
When you understand how challenging events can result in the release of suppressed emotions, you will welcome these events as opportunities for healing. The way to handle the release of suppressed emotions is to welcome them by breathing into them, instead of resisting them. Resisting the release of suppressed emotions causes a great deal of stress on the body.
There are many ways of reducing the store of suppressed emotions without experiencing difficult or challenging events, but I decided on a breathwork technique called Vivation because it seemed to be relatively safe and simple to practice, but very effective. However, the training for Vivation is expensive. You might be able to learn it from the book.
If you decide to use breathwork for healing suppressed emotions, be aware of how it affects your nervous system. Breathwork can greatly increase the amount of life force flowing through the nerves, and if your nervous system is extremely weak, breathwork could damage it even more. Some breathwork techniques are more forceful than others, and some are not really designed specifically for healing suppressed emotions. Be careful. Rebirthing is powerful, for example, but it can bring up so much trauma from the past that it can be overwhelming for some people, or retraumatizing, which is counterproductive.
The Release Technique / Abundance Course is a spiritual path that is entirely based upon releasing suppressed emotions. The Release Technique is much more difficult to learn than meditation or breathwork for many people, but the goal is the same. Some people combine The Release Technique with the Silva UltraMind System.
There are many energy psychology techniques available now that can help people heal unresolved traumas from the past: Automtic Freedom, which may be the best of the energy psychology techniques due to its love focus, Quantum Techniques, which has helped people to successfully heal chronic health issues, Emotional Freedom Technique, Thought Field Therapy, Tapas Acupressure Technique, Be Set Free Fast, EMDR, EDxTM, Zensight and others. There is some controversy over the science behind them and their effectiveness, but they may appeal to you. Core Transformation is another method that is worth investigating. Vivation is much simpler than any of these methods: all you need to do is breathe and feel your feelings without resisting them. Another simple breathwork technique is the Emotional Unhooking Process. Breathwork may or may not be as effective as the more complex energy psychology techniques, but it was sufficient for my needs.
Ultimate OM, by Jonathan Goldman, is a recording of thousands of voices chanting a rolling OM. According to Yoga philosophy, OM is the cosmic sound of God, the Word that creates the universe. The music is infused with light and love, as Jonathan Goldman instructed his vocalists to do while chanting the sacred sound. It is very healing. It is great for healing suppressed emotions. Great to listen to while sleeping!
Shri Anandi Ma’s Mantras for Releasing Fear are extremely potent for releasing suppressed fear. Take care that you do not play the CD for too long, or you may become extremely stressed and irritable. Shri Anandi Ma also has Healing Mantras for healing the physical body, Mantras for Abundance and Peace Mantras.
The bocArus CD is specifically designed for healing the mental and emotional bodies. It is very powerful, and should be used with caution.
A few other tools listed on the Other Healing Tools page are effective for healing suppressed emotions, such as Merlin’s Amulets, e.Pendant and Moldavite jewelry. However, most of these tools do much more than heal suppressed emotions.
Meditation techniques will eventually heal suppressed emotions, but this can take a long time because meditation works at a very subtle level. The coarser vibrations of suppressed emotions are usually healed more quickly with techniques specifically designed for that purpose. Healing suppressed emotions will directly improve your experience and depth of meditation.
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