Time heals all wounds…this is true. Meditation & time heals the brain, body, emotions, mind and spirit. It effects the size of the hippocampus and gray matter. For those of you not into brain chemistry this is a good thing. When things happen how do we heal? How do we integrate an experience into our learning? Is it a place from which strength and resilience arise? When triggers, reminders of people places or things come into our lives, what happens? Do we go down a rabbit hole? Is it like the old bullwinkle cartoon(dating myself) where we reach into the hat to pull out a rabbit and lion comes out? Do we reach for food, work, arguments, business, alcohol, drugs, adrenaline rushes to take our mind elsewhere? Are the choices we make good for us and bring us health, abundance and resiliency? All are choices. Some choices are like a rip current where initially it looks pretty good and seems to help however if it is not sustaining for your health it becomes like a currrent pulling you out to sea. We all have different genetics, evolution based on our experiences and brain chemistry. For some, a substance gets in our system and it pulls us out in a rip current to where we are drowning. This is where developing other coping skills is critical for health. Be it 12-step recovery, community, spiritual community or family of choice &. loved ones come in and provide a life preserver.
Think about the bodies amazing ability to heal a area of damage in someone who has had a stroke or a heart attack. The body has the knowledge of science intuitively to circumvent the damaged area and create alternate pathways bringing back function. This is good. What would be great is to actually reperfuse the area. This reperfusion brings back blood and oxygen, healing the tissue. It is that way with trauma and life events. Do we embrace the learnings from our experiences to becomes stronger and more resilient? It is real healing or avoidance. What are our coping skills?…..
For me meditation practices brings me to a place of reliencey and inner reflection. It is about finding resilience and knowing who you are really. Not that person that is being tugged about by that which always changes. The changing events, thoughts, emotions, happenings, energy etc. One type of meditation practice I really enjoy and have benefited from is Yoga nidra (iRest). The essence of the practice is to feel both extremes of experience based on the Kosha model. Physical, energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual and that which transcends all..or connection with the soul. Moving back and forth during the meditation between extremes of experiences. This movement allows an objectivity and an identification of what does not change. The creation of myself as witness, a place of safety, a place that does not change. In this place of safety, I’m able to explore my life and it’s shifts. The creating of a place of steady in which life flows around, in and through me. Pure awareness, purely alive. It is profoundly healing and used by the department of defense when dealing with post traumatic stress disorder.
It is like the person who has a stroke or a blockage in the coronary arteries. Instead of a path around, you create a path through for healing. This healing allows one to be in the present moment, restoration of possibility and resilience. Energy is just energy it is not good or bad, it is what we make of it-conformational changes with interactions both with our lives and in our brains. The power lies where the energy is placed in the moment.