The Key to Natural Healing
Natural Health & Healing
How to Heal Yourself
With the accelerating growth of Mastery of Meditation, I am also receiving a growing number of emails and requests all of which, unfortunately, is difficult for me to keep up with. I do however try to get to every request, some later than I would like, but the sheer volume makes even that impossible sometimes. So I appreciate your patience and understanding with regard to this.
Many of the emails and questions I receive, as you can imagine, are health related issues. Some are quite complex medical problems, which are simply impossible to address adequately over the internet with a simple email response. So to help all of you with your health and healing process, I want to explain the key aspect of natural healing, as I feel this is the first and most important step to treating the body and helping it cure itself.
I will again use the wise words of enlightened master Jean Klien, from his book the Ease of Being, to help explain this core concept of natural healing. The most vital aspect of natural healing is being in a state of relaxation and ease. In other words, not being stressed about your health, illness and body. I know how hard that can be and the following 2 quotes on the body and natural health, should help you to achieve this peaceful state of mind.
The Body’s Power to Heal Itself
Q: I find it hard to understand how pain points to the ultimate?
A: […] Another way to express this is to let the body be body. The body has an organic memory of health. You have the proof of this in the fact that when you cut your finger, it heals within a week. The body evidently knows precisely how to heal itself.
Q: Then the natural state of the body is pure health?
A: Yes. There may be some momentary disturbances, but the fundamental state of the body is health. The true physician embodies total health because he is health. He helps health heal the body by going with it. Many modern medical techniques or medicines oppose health in viewing the body as an enemy. There must not be any violence. It is important for you to regard your body as a friend who knows perfect health.
What is the Body?
Without the thought of being a man there’s no man. You have an idea of a body but in reality it dosen’t exist. The body, the man are ways of thinking.
You do not wake up in the morning. It is the idea of a body which wakes up in you. What is there before the body wakes up? You are!
Key to Natural Healing
So the above two insights should help put you at ease with regard to your body and any illness or disease it is facing. There is monumental empirical evidence now that shows the problems that stress causes to the body, and in the same vein, it is now widely accepted that the ideal state for the body to heal itself is when the patient is positive, aware and relaxed.
Understanding that the body has a built in blue print of perfect health and it will do all it can to heal itself, I feel, is a very reassuring fact. The human body has enormous intelligence which it has accumulated over centuries, it know exactly what to do and how to do it. Your job is mostly to listen to it, and assist it with it’s inbuilt healing capabilities.
Many alternative medicine systems embrace and understand the above situation. They are designed to work with the body to help it heal and also, more and more, Western medicine is acknowledging and aligning with this view. You can read about Ayurveda, the ancient Indian science of healing, and how it models it’s treatment to help restore the natural state of health in the article Introduction to Ayurveda – The Science of Self-Healing.
The second concept of the body as just an idea that awakens in the vast timeless silence which is your True Self, I think is just mind blowing. I find this view to be very powerful and effective in giving one great freedom from the ebbs and flows of physical health and wellbeing. Such a view should profoundly relax you and allow you to approach the disease with a peaceful frame of mind. As a matter of fact, a natural extension of this great insight if you think about it, is the fact that death itself is an outdated and irrelevant concept as well, which can be discarded from your psychology. So now what is there to worry about?
So whatsoever health issues you are facing, keep in mind that the fantastic human body knows how to heal itself perfectly well and also remember, that you are simply the consciousness within which this drama of life and physical manifestation are being enacted. Smile, be happy, be brave and enjoy the game.
Hi Anmol, this is my first time to be introduced to the power of meditation and what it can do for the body and the universe as a whole. I find your site very helpful and informative. I will try to follow your techniques. cheers and more power always!
Hi Anmol,
Great site with wonderful information. Is there any specific pranayama and/or postures to maintain blood pressure
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Hey Tom,
Thanks for sharing your personal experiences with us. It is amazing how much trouble our mind’s cause our bodies.
You are right, that Western medicine, although acknowledging the importance of our mental state, is yet to give us many natural tools for dealing with it. I hear yoga, pranayama and meditation are now part of the medical programs in places like Brazil, etc. so that is good to hear :-D.
Cheers,
Anmol
Brilliant, Anmol. Well done article. You got it right:
“The most vital aspect of natural healing is being in a state of relaxation and ease. In other words, not being stressed about your health, illness and body.”
Even western medicine is starting to figure this one out. The only problem is, they offer few if any ways to do just this. Your site offers lots of good stuff in this regard.
I know that my spiritual journey led to me healing from a decade of chronic fatigue. It wasn’t easy, but it was simple. Meditate, walk, inquire, release on my emotions, all things you counsel. My particular route was The Sedona Method, but other techniques work just as well.
“The second concept of the body as just an idea that awakens in the vast timeless silence which is your True Self, I think is just mind blowing.”
Yes, it is mind-blowing. And, it is true. All is just a manifestation of the One. Even the body. I’m seeing it these days as more a wonderful useful tool, to be treated with kindness and respect, but not to be worshiped or fawned over. Bodies are wonderful, but they are not us.
Thanks again for a great post.
Hey Ben,
Absolutely yes, a very key aspect of health, natural healing and more is to understand this unity between body and mind.
Thanks for sharing your insights with us.
Cheers,
Anmol
Hey Louise,
Certainly of the requirement of “Abiding Passion for the Truth”, the abiding part is the challenge :-D.
Cheers,
Anmol
Hey Anmol,
Nice post.
One of the largest challenges I see with healing is our views tend to separate the mind from the body, when the two are only different sides of the same coin. Mental traumas are always reflected in the body, and physical traumas are always reflected in the mind.
I love your site!
keep smiling,
ben
Wonderful article, Anmol. I believe this is true. What I have problems with sometimes is the length of time this takes, patience being a virtue I really need to work on…
Cheers,
Louise
Hey Zenator,
Always a privilege to have you stop by. I love what you are doing with your website (http://www.zenator.com). It is great.
Cheers,
Anmol
such a very wise post. thank you…