Tips for healing soul pains
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When I embarked, by sheer serendipity, on the path of enlightenment
through Siddha Yoga and meditation in 1979, I had no idea that along with
meditative bliss and daily insights in the truth of the universe, I would
be feeling PAIN. I became aware as my meditation progressed, that little
knife-like stabs were lodged in my heart area. As I meditated this
irritating ache would appear and sometimes remain for days. It was
sometimes depressing and painful, like a cramp. I knew intuitively that
these pains were not of physical origin, but were unresolved FEELING
trauma from the past rising up to consciousness to be resolved.
I did not want to overpower, ignore or numb the pain because it was
clearly a dis-EASE emerging out of the darkness of denial and needing to
be healed. If it was something that I created in unconsciousness,
whatever it was, I had to face it and accept it. If it were attachments
from other entities that were draining my energy, then I wanted to be able
to let that go also. Over the years, wrestling with ways to NEUTRALIZE
these soul aches, I found strategies for dealing with the pains-- and some
that totally eliminated them PERMANENTLY.
What to DO:
Practice until you find one that works.
Get into your usual meditation posture. Do your usual spiritual practice
and when you are feeling peaceful and will be uninterrupted, try these
techniques for salving soul pains. You may want to record this on a tape
to play to yourself when you do it.
1. Salve #1 - Parallel Universe
This has also been called the Merkaba type salve.
a. Focus on the center of the pain and make every dimension, feel and
aspect of it very clear in your mind. Try to feel the color, smell and
whole dimension of the pain.
b. When you have a clear template in your senses of every aspect of this
pain, tell your self to "Go - Find the OPPOSITE."
c. You will then feel yourself zooming out into space.. very fast (this
is your Merkaba) and with this template in your mind as your guide to
where to go. Don't worry if it takes a while... enjoy the journey.
d. When you find the opposite that you are seeking, (don't ask me how you
just know when you have it, but it always comes to me) then take it into
yourself - or grab it - and bring it back with you. When
you get back to your body, then bring the "thing" that you found right
into the pain. AHH - there will be such a relief. You have just
neutralized your pain. (Subsequent to publishing this on the net, people
reported it curing many pains including headaches.)
What is so interesting about this method is that it is PERMANENT
and it is the ZERO point that so many people talk about nowadays. This
pain is gone-- never to return.
#2 Salve - No MIND:
This technique was given me by a friend.
a. Sit in the center of the pain.
b. Now as you keep the pain in your awareness try to imagine that you
have to describe a flower to a blind person. ( If that doesn't work as a topic
try to describe a taste of a peach to a person who has never had one.)
What will happen is that the pain will drop out of your awareness and you
will be left with NO MIND... a very profound state to be. No pain!
#3 Salve - Neti Neti
This technique is similar to the #2 where you sit in the pain and
concentrate on every aspect of it.
a.You do not try to resist the pain or
ease it, but you stoically face its full impact.
b. Then when you have a clear full sense of the pain say "I AM NOT THAT,"
and wait. You will feel a shift, and then say it again, " I AM NOT THAT!"
which is "Neti Neti" in Sanskrit I believe. You continue to feel the shifting
energy to your statement... it feels as if a layer of an onion is peeling off and
underneath each layer is a new level of it. So repeat this until there is
no more pain left.
#4 - Dharana
This technique comes from the Vijnaanabhairava - an ancient text
from India which gives glimpses of the truth. The book has many more such
techniques such as: "Towards whatever object the mind goes, one should
remove it from there immediately by that very mind, and thus by not
allowing it to settle there i.e. by making is[sic] supportless, one will
be free from agitation (of the mind)." Verse 129.
So everytime your mind tries to rest on a subject, make it switch to
something else.... i.e. as it tries to keep returning to your pain, force
it to think about your big toe, or the noises in the street or something.
It is as if you are training a dog. Every time it disobeys you, jerk the
leash and pull it back. This will leave you in a state of great bliss and
definitely no pain.
#5 Salve - Hungry Ghosts
This technique is Tibetan. It worked in 10 minutes for me with a
person who was attaching to me and draining my energy.
a. Imagine the person or thing which is pulling on you very clearly and in
full sensory images. I.e. colors, shapes, smells etc.
b. Ask this entity - "What do you want?"
c. Listen for the answer. It will be a feeling of lack that they have
about themselves which they are trying to get from you. Feel what they
are answering and if you can't hear it then ask again and again until you
have a clear picture. You can ask them to clarify what it is also.
d. When you have the answer - because you are infinite and connected to
the divine-- there is no limit to what you can do. So you SEND to this
entity as much of this "stuff" or this quality that they need. With me it
was about beauty..my former friend wanted my beauty. So I sent him tons
of it... Just pour it in to this entity.
e. When you feel they have had enough of this quality... ask "Is that
what you want?" and they will answer "Yes." and then you say, " So you
do not need to come to me for it any more now." And they should then
disconnect from you since they have their own "supply."
It sounds bizarre.. but... the rules are not the same in the
etheric realms as any shaman will tell you. As soon as I did this to a
man who had been bothering me for 8 years, he was out of my field! What a
relief. I have never looked back from that day. This is the technique
that I believe helps Monks go into epidemics and not get sick
#6 Naming:
This one comes from Jack Kornfield's book" A Path With Heart." He
says that naming one's demons can have the effect of making them
disappear. I quote from p. 100.
" Choose one of the most frequent and difficult demons that arises in your
practice, such as irritation, fear, boredom, lust, doubt ... for one week
in your daily meditation, be particularly aware of each time one of these
arises. Carefully NAME it. Notice how it begins and what precedes it.
Notice what triggers this state. Notice how long it lasts and when it
ends. Notice what state usually follows it. ...Finally sit and be aware
of your breath, watching and waiting for this demon, allowing it to come
and go, greeting it like and old friend.
These are just some of the techniques that I have found which have
helped me deal with "soul" pain as I call it. It is really the soul
trying to stretch to its full capacity in a way and finding itself
constricted I think. I hope these are useful and helpful. You are
welcome to use the ideas, forward the letters to others, and pass them
along to others with attribution for the ideas to either me or the
mentioned authors.
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