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.
My favorite introduction to meditation is the Meditation: A Beginner’s Guide CD by Shinzen Young. Shinzen provides a clear description of the profound benefits of meditation and also a clear description of meditation practice as focusing on the breath. The benefits of meditation not mentioned by Shinzen are: physical healing and creation of good karma. The real benefits of meditation come from regular and long practice, the longer the better, in my experience! The more I progress in meditation, the more I look forward to practicing it more as it is powerfully healing on every level, physical, mental and spiritual. The ultimate goal of meditation practice is to attain a state of unconditional boundless joy and permanent freedom from suffering.
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.
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.
The following are powerful tools for meditation:
- Yogi Amrit Desai’s Yoga Nidra CDs. These are very effective, deeply healing guided meditations.
- Swami Janakananda’s Yoga Nidra CD. This is a highly regarded guided meditation into conscious deep sleep.
- 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:
- The Beginner’s Guide to Buddhism by Jack Kornfield. This CD is an excellent overview of the spiritual life and basic spiritual practices!
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. This is a spiritual classic and reading it changed my life.
- The End of Your World by Adyashanti. This is an outstanding book on spiritual awakening, providing a sense of what to expect from higher states of consciousness and excellent guidance on how to outwit the common tricks of the ego that prevent attainment of permanent Self-Realization.
- Wisdoms by Dorothy Maclean. There are a few books that claim to contain words from God, but this one is at the top of my list. Are you ready to give your will to God? This book contains guidance for souls who are.
- How to Hear the Voice of God by Dr. Susan Shumsky. This book is very important because it teaches scientifically how to get guidance directly from God through faultless intuition. All of Susan's other books are extremely well written and helpful.
- 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.
The benefit of resolving trauma from the past is that we can handle the same events without becoming as stressed about them. When have more control of our minds and emotions, we have more control of our life. Apparently, it is possible to achieve such a state of composure that even if we are in a war zone with bombs exploding around us, we can be completely at peace within, absolutely fearless, but achieving such an advanced state of composure requires much more than deep emotional healing, and meditation is the best method for achieving that advanced state.
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. Ram Giri has described precisely how to do this process in seven steps called Open Attention. Resisting the release of suppressed emotions, which is what most people do because they are afraid of losing control, 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. Another simple breathwork technique is the Emotional Unhooking Process. I experienced diminishing returns after practicing Vivation intensely for about six months, and then I stopped practicing it because it was no longer worth the effort. After that, I used many other methods to purify my mind at a deeper level, but my favorite method is meditation because it does far more than purify the mind.
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 using willpower. The Release Technique is much more difficult to learn than meditation or breathwork for many people, but the goal is the same.
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.
The Healing Codes may be one of the most effective and easy to use methods of healing self-help available: it is designed to dramatically reduce stress by removing harmful images from the mind and body using a combination of introspection, prayer, special hand positions and focusing on truth statements related to the issue being healed. According to some experts, stress is the primary cause of disease, and the Healing Codes work directly on the source of stress in the mind and body. The Healing Codes are available in a very affordable book form, but there are also much more expensive different packages that are available with different features. I feel that these Healing Codes could significantly improve your chances of overcoming electrical sensitivity and achieving happiness if trauma or suppressed emotions are a significant cause. The Healing Codes method is similar in some ways to the energy psychology methods mentioned in the previous paragraph, but I feel that it is distinctly different, is easier to practice as presented in book form, and may appeal to a broader audience than the energy psychology methods. Please see the Healing Codes Report for more information.
Another very promising but less popular method of emotional healing is Energy Restructure created by Jolly Stickley. She uses and suggests innovative methods for healing inner issues one layer at a time until the highest level, truth, is achieved.
Core Transformation is another method that is worth investigating: “This simple 10-step process offers a graceful way to change unwanted thoughts, feelings, and habits, and achieve goals you thought unattainable.” It is a powerful method of integration.
Mantra for Healing, by the Sacred Sound Choir, is a very beautiful recording of one of the greatest mantras for healing and protection. It is very healing for both mind and body.
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.
Meditation techniques will eventually heal suppressed emotions, but this can take a long time because meditation works at a 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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