Energy Medicine and Meditation

One of the reasons yoga and meditation have become so popular is that both practices support mindfulness. Mindful attention begets awareness. Awareness brings your attention to your feelings and makes you open to experiencing energy. Deep breathing brings health to the body. Openness is energizing. Life is a constant communication of energy. When we become open we experience Universal love and energy moving through our bodies. Yoga and meditation consciously move energy through our vital organs, circulating the blood so it can purify the organs and purge them of damaged cells. We are constantly healing and regenerating. We are growing like flowering trees. Our veins and arteries are like rivers moving debris. Our intestines are the same. This wonderful fluctuating nature of ours makes healing from damaged intestinal villi (as in the case of Celiac) and healing from cancer possible.

A dedicated meditation practice makes one aware of the chakras, or energy centers in the body. The energy anatomy, medical intuitive Carolyn Myss refers to in her work, is at the core of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. In Ayurveda, energy lines are called nadis. In Chinese Medicine, these are called meridians which are the path through which Qi flows. What's entertaining and enlightening, is that there are energy memories and messages from your body that exist within the energy centers of your body. In fact, the energy field, or aura, which surrounds us is filled with information. Reading your body's messages when you are in a deeply relaxed but aware state, can tell you a lot about how your body is reacting to your thoughts and beliefs, your emotions and how you treat your body.

Energy healing begins with meditation. The altered mental states attained by Reiki practitioners is a kind of walking meditation. In my own meditation practice that I began a decade ago, I started by chanting. I was never a turn your mind off sort of a person. The idea of having a blank mind seemed an impossible proposition. The chanting helped me focus my energy. I began by using colors, visualizing the chakra colors, and chanting each chakra seed sound towards my energy centers. I highly recommend this for anyone who wants to practice meditation, but hasn't found a method that works for them. After I practiced the seed mantras, I began doing the second half of the Gayatri mantra which focuses on the chakras. I became aware of how each chakra was within me. I also became aware of how each chakra corresponded to an aspect of the human experience. I saw the chakras as realms of consciousness: the sexual consciousness, the creation consciousness, the will power consciousness, the heart consciousness, the communication consciousness, the place where souls connect consciousness, and the universal wisdom/god consciousness. The chakras are like miniature living universes within.

Is it any wonder many people experience telepathy and premonitions on a regular basis. Yes. We do. This is evidenced by best friends and partners who finish each others sentences, lovers who lucid dream about one another, and even less intimately, when friends and family know when each other is about to call, or know when they are simultaneously thinking about each other. Is it such a stretch that collectively we are sharing or merging consciousness? Something to ponder.