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About the Methods of Healing



As a preface let me outline some aspects of bioenergetic interactions that occur every day regardless of whether people are aware of them or not.

Relationships between parents and children, teachers and students, su-pervisors and subordinates, spouses, as well as our sympathies and antipa-thies in any group of people etc. — all of them to a large extent are determined by the bioenergetic characteristics of the participants of those situations: the distinctive features of the energies that each organism emanates and the ways other organisms react to these emanations.

People differ from the bioenergetic standpoint on the series of criteria, the most significant of which are the following: a) excess or shortage of bioenergy in the organism, b) bioenergetic coarseness or subtlety, c) purity of the bio-energy or its contamination due to various diseases, incorrect lifestyle or unfa-vorable external influences, d) the level of development of the bioenergetic centers of the organism (chakras) and domination of specific centers at a given moment of time.

Excess of bioenergy is not necessarily an indication of good health of the particular person, like some people think. For example, intensive emanation of pathogenic energies is a typical phenomenon that occurs during acute stages of many diseases. Harmful energies can get emanated when a person experi-ences aggressive emotions, as well as emotions of despondency or those of inner weeping. The only way to distinguish bioenergies by the qualitative crite-ria is their assessment by extrasensory individuals who developed an ability to perceive a wide range of such emanations. For example, some of them can valuate the state of another person (up to making a precise diagnosis of dis-eases, assessment of the condition of chakras and meridians etc.) just by his clothes or by any object that this person used and which has traces of his bio-energy.

Bioenergetic shortage is mostly observed in patients who have been weakened by their disease, as well as in people with consumeristic attitude to-wards others, be it a specific person or the society as a whole. Such incorrect ethic orientation forces those who possess them to constantly feel unhappy. Communicating with them is often onerous for other people, since the person who always wants something from someone demonstrate a so called bioener-getic vampirism, which can be exercised even at a large distance. The only way one can help those ever-miserable “vampires” is by reorienting them from the consumeristic attitude towards everybody and everything — to an active and creative position in life, in other words by changing their vicious orientation towards demanding love for themselves into desire to give their love to other people and to the world as whole.

It is emotions that represent the most important mechanism of setting bioenergies in motion. This is why ethic self-correction and mastering the abil-ity to control one’s emotions by using psychic self-regulation methods allow one to learn to never harm other people with one’s disharmonious bioenergetic emissions or with stripping them of their energy.

When talking about bioenergetic interactions between people we cannot disregard the sphere of sexual relationships. An intensive energy exchange be-tween partners takes place during a sexual intercourse. This implies the ex-change of both pure, healing and coarse, pathogenic, harmful energies. The readers can make their own conclusions from this.

Bioenergetic factors are the causes of many sexual disharmonies: such as impotency and quick ejaculation in men and frigidity and anorgasmia in women. Among the specific causes can be undeveloped or contaminated chak-ras (primarily svadhisthana), vampirism from the side of a partner as a conse-quence of his or her perverted concept of love, i.e. “love” for him- or herself, desire to receive for him- or herself as opposed to willingness to give his or her love to the partner. Incompatibility of partners by the level of refinement of their bioenergies can also play a significant role here. This can be the cause of various derangements in the energy system of the partner, whose energetics is more refined (more perfect). Apart from health disorders contacts with partner who possesses more coarse bioenergy can lead to sexual indifference up to the development of an aversion to the given partner or even to sex in general.

Regarding incompatibility of svadhisthanic energies I should mention that if a woman’s bioenergy is coarser than her partners’, this may be the cause of his quick ejaculation due to irritating influence of such energy on the man’s svadhisthana. This is to say that one should look for the reasons of this type of sexual disharmony not only in men (as it is popular), but also in women. The reasons of sexual disharmonies that have been discussed can be eliminated with the help of the methods of raja yoga (See the book of V.Antonov Spiritual Practices. Training Aid).

All examples that were given above were supposed to demonstrate the variety and complexity of the so to say “everyday” issues of bioenergetic in-teractions between people as well as the importance of taking them into ac-count. In most cases such contacts occur without control from the side of their participants, and they are not aware of the causes of their consequences.

But there exist spheres in which people apply their knowledge in bioener-getics consciously and in a controlled way. One of them is healing.

Healing consists of bioenergetic diagnostics and bioenergetic therapy. Let us discuss their major forms.

The simplest method of bioenergetic diagnostics, which extrasensory in-dividuals usually start studying first, is diagnostics using the palm of hand. This method is based on the fact that the body of every living being, including human being, is surrounded with energy field called a cocoon. This energy field is created by vital activity of all body cells, the configuration of the boundaries of the cocoon and the density of the energy inside it reflect the health state of the organism.

The boundary of a human body’s cocoon is usually located at about 50 centimeters from the body. But if a patient is weakened, the boundary of the cocoon may be closer to the patient’s body and be difficult to identify. And on the contrary — boundaries of the cocoons of people with high bioenergetic ac-tivity may be located at 2 meters or farther from their bodies.

Almost everyone can learn how to feel the boundary of the cocoon with the hand. One should first practice feeling one’s palm in a more dense envi-ronment, i.e. as if it is in the air that turned into a thick transparent liquid that impedes its movement.

Then one starts move one’s palm towards the partner’s body from a dis-tance, making smooth palpating movements. At some moment the hand bumps into an invisible barrier — a boundary of a more dense space. This is the co-coon. Moving the hand within the cocoon causes in the palm pricking sensa-tion and a feeling of something like an energy “wind” that is blowing through it.

Upon learning how to locate the boundary of the cocoon we may proceed to the next stage of study. Now we will palpate the boundary around the entire body of our partner. If the partner is healthy, the boundary will be at the same distance from the body. But if the partner is sick, then saliencies or depres-sions will be observed against the affected areas. The former correspond with zones with pathologically increased bioenergetic activity, while the latter indi-cate zones, which bioenergetic activity is decreased.

This method allows identifying also the latent (hidden) stages of diseases, as well as the nidi of the sluggish diseases that the person may not even be aware of.

Having trained ourselves like this we may learn to identify so small prob-lem areas as dental caries or a common pustule covered by clothes.

This method just like all the others can also be applied when examining animals and even plants.

In some cases (when the cocoon is too large, for example) it may be more convenient to set perform the diagnostics not by studying the boundary of the cocoon but changes in the density and other characteristics of the energy field inside the cocoon. The palm of the healer should be moving parallel to the pa-tient’s body. Many extrasensory healers use the latter variant only. But if the patient’s chakras are developed, their fields will create interference, which will render this method inapplicable to them.

By the way, it is very difficult or even impossible to make any kind of di-agnostics through synthetic or sometimes wool clothes.

Another bioenergetic diagnostics technique relates to so called clairvoy-ance, i.e. seeing the energies that cannot be perceived with regular vision, in this case. Some people have an inborn clairvoyance abilities (i.e. from their previous incarnation), but virtually anyone can develop them as a result of sys-tematic raja yoga practice.

In order to make it easier to master this technique one may place the part of the body being under examination in the energy field of one’s hands (be-tween one’s palms). Let us keep in mind that this kind of clairvoyance is per-formed not with the eyes, but with the consciousness, which for best results one should concentrate in one’s own cocoon behind the anahata chakra or in the chitrini meridian.

The scientific understanding of this phenomenon is possible only through acceptance of the following three postulates:

The first of them is the fact of a multidimensional nature of the whole uni-verse, and also of a particular living organism.

The second — that the human consciousness is capable to penetrate — thanks to special methods of training — into the depths of the multidimen-sional universe and cognize directly various spatial dimensions.

The third postulate defines that the consciousness if of the energy nature; an individual consciousness is a bearer of self-perception and self-awareness; it evolves changing both qualitatively and quantitatively (i.e. by its “mass”).

The primitive materialistic thinking that was dominating in our country re-sulted in an actual identification in the layman and pseudoscientific lexicons of two completely different concepts: mind and consciousness; this impeded the development of psychology and the sciences related to it.

In the given chapter I will not describe the methods of development of consciousness and clairvoyance. Let me just note, that this development pro-ceeds through refinement of the emotional sphere, work with the chakras and main meridians.

Those extrasensory healers who mastered clairvoyance gain an ability to observe dark (gray or black) energies inside the affected parts of the patients’ bodies, driving out which leads to disappearance of the symptoms of the dis-eases — immediately or after some time.

Apart from the techniques that were described above there are other — more complicated — methods of bioenergetic diagnostics. Among them is, for example, recreation of the patient’s image (the phantom), while the patient can be far away from the healer, and subsequent using this phantom for making the diagnosis. One may transfer the concentration of consciousness close to the patient (regardless of the distance to him) and perform healing procedures there. Healing without making a diagnosis first is also possible, which we will talk about below.

Let us proceed to discussing methods of bioenergetic therapy.

The first and most commonly used one is using the healer’s own bio-energy, which he emits through the palms of his hands (either with imposing the hands accompanied by massage or at some distance from the patient’s body). The distinctive feature of this method is that it uses considerable amounts of energy that has been accumulated in the organism of the healer. The drawback of this method consists in that by giving his energy to the pa-tient the healer’s organism becomes weak and thus vulnerable to damaging factors. In order to alleviate this negative effect the healer should eat and sometimes sleep well right after the difficult healing sessions.

The other therapeutic technique is less fraught with these drawbacks; it also creates more favorable prospects of further progress of the healer. This method implies using not the energy accumulated in the healer’s organism, but external one. The external energy can be channeled through the healer’s chak-ras, which in this case play a role of something like focusing lenses. The stream of healing energy gets channeled through the healer’s body from the behind his back forward. The healer controls the session using clairvoyance. The general task of the healer in this type of therapy is to cleanse the patient’s organism of dark energies in all space dimensions, which he has the access to. Through-the-chakras influence may be accompanied by manipulations by hands and sending energy through them as well. I should remind that wearing synthetic clothes makes it either impossible or very difficult.

The last method contributes to development of the energy systems of the healer, as well as teaches him to interact with various manifestations of the multidimensional space. The healers that practice this method usually arrive at expediency of preliminary attunement with help of proper kinds of meditation. As a result of this during the healing sessions they may achieve sensation that their organisms are simply being used by the Power of the Universal Love; at such moments the healers feel themselves rather witnesses of a sacrament that takes place.

As the healer acquires experience he finds out that not all patients can be healed just by “washing” their bodies with flows of energy. It makes him look for more complicated methods of healing, for example, using images for per-forming various “surgeries” in the depths of the multidimensional organism of man. There — in those space dimensions — images that he creates by means of using his personal power turn out to be possessing real effectiveness, which is confirmed by facts of instantaneous changes of the patient’s condi-tion after being influenced in such a way.

Another example of an effective application of energy images in healing is use of special medical yantras (graphic pictures), which produce three-dimensional healing energy structures.

One of the ways of treating patients that suffer from serious illnesses is combining efforts of two or more healers. One of them may supervise the pro-cess using clairvoyance, while others play roles of “surgeons”.

Healers who acquired mastery are capable of conducting energy-anesthesia during complex physical (and not with imaginary instruments) sur-geries. And some Philippine surgeons perform painless surgeries inserting their physical hands into bodies of their patients, without using any cutting in-struments .

It is also important to understand that infectious diseases (unlike those that are caused by energetic or mechanical damages) may not necessarily get cured completely as a result of healer’s influence. Since bacteria, viruses, fungi and other parasites do not die because of this. But in these cases bioenergetic therapy allows: a) cleanse the organism of the patient of the energetic conse-quences of the inflammation, b) temporarily eliminate or alleviate the symp-toms of the disease, c) increase resistance of the organism. The rational way of treating inflectional diseases will be combination of bioenergetic and drug therapies.

A beginning healer must also know that it would be dangerous for him to take up healing certain diseases, such as flu or cancer.

Here we will also list rules of healing that allow avoiding causing uninten-tional harm to the patients:

First — a healer must not use alcoholic beverages: the healer’s bioenergy acquires pathogenic qualities as a result of his taking alcohol (it can be ob-served as a grayish coloring of the energy flows that he emanates).

Second — a healer who is sick himself must not attempt to heal other people, since in this case he will share the energetic information of his disease with the patient.

Third — a healer must not influence those patients whose energy is sig-nificantly more subtle compared to his own so that he does not damage their energy system.

Fourth — a healer who uses meat or fish for food should not influence the people who adhere to the killing-free diet, since their energy is incomparably purer and subtler.

Fifth — during the sessions a healer must not allow himself any coarse negative emotions or bustling, as well as to get distracted in his thoughts from the only admissible subject: compassion to the patient and trying to find pos-sibilities to help him. Any other thoughts or emotions distort and contaminate the energy flows that he emanates.

Deviation from the rules listed can lead to causing harm to the patient’s health, even if the main symptom is eliminated as a result.

We should also mention that arrogance and desire of fame and personal enrichment do not embellish the image of a healer. Although there is no doubt that he may accept — if he wants to — a material remuneration for his hard work. And this kind of work is connected not only with significant energy losses but also with bioenergetic contamination from the patients, which often leads to development of diseases in the healer’s own organism.

If a healer who strives for perfection in his art endures ethic tests that he encounters on this path, in particular, if he always unsatisfied with his level of development, then healing becomes a wonderful means of spiritual self-perfection for him. By helping others he develops unselfish self-sacrificial love, increases his knowledge of the multidimensional world, including knowledge of man’s nature and of methods of helping people in various ways, as well as increases his personal power through active service.

Use of the methods of raja yoga and later of buddhi yoga for more effi-cient healing, mastering the ethical steps of karma yoga and bhakti yoga, ac-cumulating knowledge (jnani yoga) allow him to approach the highest methods of healing, such as those that Jesus Christ was demonstrating. Such a Healer would not even need to know the diagnosis, send energy flows or create im-ages of surgical instruments… He would only need to know with absolute cer-tainty that the patient deserves to be healed and touch him with his Perfect Di-vine Consciousness.

But to be able to heal like this one should go through stages of Samadhi, crystallization, and Nirvana. We will discuss them in details in the next chap-ters; here I will only shortly clarify the meanings of these terms. The word Samadhi denotes emotional state of bliss of the highest order, which a person usually experiences when he enters in meditations the highest spatial dimen-sions for the first time. Crystallization is a process of increasing a quantity of individual consciousness. Nirvana — is the state of Mergence of an individual consciousness with the Consciousness abiding in the highest spatial dimen-sions; it is accompanied by the ability to direct the attention into the multidi-mensional world from within its primordial depth.

One should understand that crystallization can be either true or false. The true crystallization is that which is performed in the highest spatial dimen-sions; the false one — in more dense layers of the universe. The latter may en-able one to work “nice” wonders and to suppress other people’s will. But the state of the one who possesses it cannot be called close to the Perfection.

The last question to dwell on in this chapter may sound paradoxically to someone: should one heal at all? And if one should then in what cases?

We discussed already that the healing practice is beneficial for the healer. But is it beneficial for the one being healed?

You see, if to understand, any disease is a result of a person falling out of ecological harmony, in most cases it is a consequence of his violations of cer-tain ethic principles, of which the most fundamental is Love for all people, all living beings, all multidimensional macrosystem, including the highest forms of its consciousness, the Creator.

In other words, a disease, as a rule, is an indication for man that he has to improve something in himself.

And thoughtless (from the healer’s side) healing often deprives the sick person of urgent need to think and to change himself.

So, by healing the body we may do harm to the soul. Therefore, it would be more appropriate to help a person to understand the cause of his disease and to direct his efforts towards self-healing and only after that to help him heal his body, if necessary.

Of course, in this multi-aspect and complex issue there cannot be any “prescription” fit for all cases. And the truth, as a rule, lies in the middle be-tween two extremes. For example, purely corporal healings (i.e. those that go without any explanations and recommendations) are sometimes regarded by the patients and the witnesses as an impulse that awakens them from a dull sleep of ignorance, which stimulates their efforts on searching spiritual truths and acquiring healing skills — in order to develop through it their potential of Love.
About the Author

Dr Vladimir Antonov is a Russian scientist who is known for dozens of articles and more than 30 books dedicated to the methodology and methods of spiritual development. He started his scientific career working in the field of biology (ecology),then worked also in medicine and physiology. For the past decades, he was a monk of God, a philosopher, and a religious practitioner, who chose God to be his Teacher about 30 years ago and who walked under His guidance the Path of personal spiritual development up to the direct cognition of God in His various aspects and manifestations. Now he is the founder of a new branch of science — Methodology of Spiritual Development. http://www.swami-center.org


 

Tags: Spirituality · Bioenergetics

Putting the Sacred Back Into Mealtime



Remember your childhood when your family gathered together to eat a home cooked dinner? As a kid, I loved dinnertime. I could count on an abundance of good food and conversation. This was a time we talked about our day and shared what was on our mind.

It seems that in recent years we eat on the run. Few of us actually sit down together as a family to enjoy nutritious food, lovingly prepared. At the same time we have also lost our sacred connection to the food that sustains us.

Food has always been linked to the Divine. Eating can be a spiritual as well as physical experience. Religions across the globe teach that food is a gift from the Divine, to be treated with respect and gratitude. They recognize that food is more than fuel for the body. They believe in mindful planning and preparation and consumption of food, insist on the necessity to show gratitude for the food and sanctify the ritual of eating with loved ones. The African American culture has a tradition of “soul food” (food cooked with love, intent, intention and a sense of history). Researchers have shown that how food is prepared affects not only the taste but also the nutritional value of the food. Thus some foods are called “mood foods” since they enhance a sense of well-being. Food prepared fresh, with love, has more vital energy than hastily prepared and processed foods. Don’t believe it? Well see the movie “Simply Irresistible.” The movie does a delightful and entertaining job of demonstrating how the emotions of the chef were communicated through the food to the patrons who ate the food.

Most of us are time starved. We work, shuttle kids, and have many demands on our time and energy. How do we make mealtimes special again?

Here are some simple and inexpensive suggestions for creating a “soulful meal.”

* Plan your menu in advance.
* Choose the freshest ingredients.
* Say a prayer or blessing before your begin. Hold your hands over the ingredients and offer thanks for them for giving their life for you and your family. Visualize their giving, how they grew, who tended them, the harvest and ask them to nourish you are your family.
* Prepare the meal with love and attentiveness.
* Think of cooking as alchemy; remember you are using each of the four elements as you prepare the meal.
o Earth – Raw ingredients
o Air – As you beat, stir or cut
o Water – To cook
o Fire – Heat from the stove or oven
* Add a blessing for all who will eat your food.
* Use fresh herbs when you can – remember that herbs have a myriad of healing properties. For example, rosemary is used for protection and ; dill for prosperity and sage for wisdom.
* Set the table with care. This is a great place to involve the kids. Let them be creative. Add candles, flowers or any other decorations that you or the kids come up with.
* Play gentle music in the background (no TV!)
* Hold hands around the table and offer thanks for the abundance of the food and for the good things in your life.
* Eat mindfully, linger, smell the fragrances, savor the flavors, appreciate the textures. Slowing down also helps the body catch up and creates a feeling of fullness sooner which helps minimize overeating.
* Linger over conversation. Sit and connect with your family. One thing we do that I have really enjoyed is to ask each person to share a really good thing that happened that day.
* Clean up as a family – with mindfulness and gratitude. Add a few drops of mandarin oil in your dishwater. It will cheer the senses.

If you live alone or have the occasion to dine alone, pamper your soul and honor sacred mealtime in your own good company.
Bon Appetite!
About the Author

Mr. Krajovic earned his BS from Bucknell University and MBA from The Pennsylvania State University. As a CPA, he offers financial consulting services and has worked extensively in the corporate world including most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of an automotive supplier. A nationally certified massage therapist with advanced training in many alternative healing techniques, he is available for speaking engagements on a variety of health and wellness subjects, including energy healing therapy especially as they relate to the corporate world. Currently he works with clients, conducts seminars and teaches classes at his clinic, BodyWorks Healing Center in Plymouth, Michigan with his wife Pat.


 

Tags: Spirituality · Healthy Eating

Conscious Meditation



To live consciously in the here and now is fundamental to
many Eastern cultures and philosophies. And, I have come to
realise that it is an essential part of each of our lives if
we wish to attain optimum health.

The reason for this is simple. In order to be able to
balance all the aspects of a full and fruitful life, we need
to be able to appreciate exactly where we are right this
very moment.

The essence of this is acceptance. Acceptance of ourselves
as we are at this present point, acceptance of the world
that we have been born on, acceptance of our place in this
world. Acceptance is more like a absolute force of physics
than a fundamental truth, although I have found that
acceptance and truth are so entwined that they are
inseparable.

I have found that I, personally, can make no real forward
progress without truly accepting all the circumstances where
I find myself and also accepting the person I am right now -
with all my foibles, prejudices, fear, skills, experience
and potential. It is only when I have a clear sense of this
moment in my life, that I am able to truly transform. I
believe this is because when we let go of our expectations,
our worries and our fears, we naturally enter the movement
of life that is the flow of nature and the universe around
us. You do not have to think big, you simply have to turn
down the mental processes and still yourself enough to be in
touch with your intuitive or essential self.

Okay, I hear you say, that sounds like just what I want to
do, but where will I get the time, how can I release the
responsibilities of everything else I must do. And, if I
stop worrying all the time, I will stop being me, because
everyone in my family worries and I am a worrier. Right?

Perhaps not. Consider the possibility that several of the
most potent and I believe long term destructive things we do
are simply bad habits. Habits that we do not recognise as
habits only because so many people fall into the patterns
that they seem an inevitable part of life.

I KNOW that it is possible to reduce the time and energy we
waste on worrying. And I know that by doing so we can
instantly find ourselves in a less negative mind set.

I KNOW that we can care deeply and passionately about many
things, and still realise the habits of worry and anger.

I KNOW that fear need not stop us in our tracks, but that it
can be both a useful tool in growth and it can be
drastically reduced.

Best of all, I KNOW a simple way to prove this to you. All
you need to do is to be aware that this is possible, and
that you wish to progress beyond the place where you seem to
be trapped by old mind patterns and negative attitudes, and
the obsession to get everything done as quickly as possible.

Here we go:-

Whenever you have a moment to yourself - perhaps on the
train into work, whilst you are waiting for something to
happen, during a tea or coffee break (simply any time when
you are alone or when you are in a place where you are not
expected to interact with those around you e.g. in front of
a boring television programme will work for some people) -
try this:-

Focus your complete concentration on your breathing. Allow
your breathing to slow down and to become easy and calm.

Once you are in tune with the rhythm of your own breath,
then very slowly expand your awareness to the rest of your
body. Be aware of any tension, and let go it - sometimes you
will find it useful to tense a muscle or give it a we shake
or stretch to help you release the tension - great, do it.

Once you are feeling very clearly aware of your body,
slowing reach out your senses to the place you find
yourself. Allow your sense of judgement to be still. Just
look out, listen, smell, feel what is around you, as if you
had found yourself waking up in a book or movie. Simply be
aware of what your senses take in.

Then step back into the moment.

This wee exercise takes only a few minutes of time. It need
never prevent you from doing anything pressing in your life.
But I can guarantee that if you repeat it when you have a
few moments, when you think of it, preferably a couple of
times a day, but whenever - then you will be accepting this
moment more fully, you will be living in the here and now.

Because of that, you will be able to engage with your own
potential self. Try it. You have nothing to lose!

Some early reflections of the process

It is an art to learn to let time pass, to feel the flow of
it, quick and rippling, gentle eddying.

To push acceptance of self outward to the physical here. To
this place of comfort and rest and out - to the dear planet
on which we rest.

To unfold and to become part of the universe at this
instant.

And the next many moments. Allowing thoughts and feelings to
flash across the inner canvas of self, or lurk in the waters
of the lower conscious. To feel . To know. To be.

Still. Like a conscious meditation, a spiritual recharging.

And later sharing with a dear friend some aspect of the
inner picture, or capturing it gently in words, movement or
colour. Or not.

I am. And later, when I am ready, I will do.

Derby Stewart-Amsden runs her own business, Ashwhin, where she offers complementary therapies, holistic retreats, training and resources for individuals, groups and for the workplace. http://www.ashwhin.com. Derby also works with her partner, Peter Amsden, to bring this holistic and people centred approach into small business support. ASAT Productions - http://www.asat.biz.


 

Tags: Meditation · Spirituality