Healing
"True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, 'If you haven’t cried a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.'" Jack Kornfield
In dealing with trauma, and working to heal trauma, we need to discover its roots. This is really important work about inheritance of family trauma. https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-di…/
"To be free of your past, you must recognize what happened and feel its hold on you.It is here, consciously or unconsciously, held in your body, feelings and mind. It is critical to honor the loss before you can take the next step of letting go. Then you can practice forgiveness and with it use meditation, therapy, trauma work, art and intimate support to help touch and heal the betrayal and trauma." Jack Kornfield, “No Time Like the Present.
“Breathe in and bring earth energy up through your root chakra and the bottom of your feet and into your whole body.
Breathe out and bring cosmic energy down through your crown chakra and into your whole body.
Keep repeating.” Margaret Gervais, 5.2.18 pdx
"Learn to trust your body. Begin by mindfully and lovingly feeling what is going on in your body. Sense the state of your body today, its signals and needs. Listen carefully to what your body has to say to you. What healing does it want? What care? What wisdom does it have to offer you? Your body has been waiting for your attention. Trust it. Even if you have been out of touch for a long time, you can regain confidence step-by-step by trusting your bodily experience." Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present
“No matter how hard you try, you can’t please your inner critic. There is an alternative to the critic. It’s found in the movement from judgment to discernment. Discernment makes space, helps is to have perspective, and allows more of our humanity to show up.” Frank Ostaseski, The Five Initiations, pgs. 135,143.
"Pain helps us inhabit our divine nature."
"Ask yourself, how does my pain serve my soul's journey to move from fear to love?"
"Acknowledge pain and look at the higher perspective of how can this possibly serve my journey? And bring love to those painful experiences."
"You are learning that you are stronger than pain and pain empowers you." Tom Jacobs, www.tdjacobs.com
“A body is a field of moving energy and a system of information, as life continues it’s fluctuations, we tend to gather attachments, burdens and sorrows. We hold them so tightly that they become embedded in the body, causing changes and disruptions in the flow of our system while also limiting the access to the best possible versions of ourselves - this sometimes manifests itself as illness or disease as well as lack of belief in our own power and a lack of understanding of the universe.”
“When someone enters a purification process such as meditation, the practice of yoga asanas, or clean healthy eating, among many other things, the body begins releasing these knots of attachment, freeing up the blockages in our system of information, allowing our field of energy to return to balance and move more freely and powerfully. This causes changes in our body, not just physical changes such as the healing of disease or ailments, but immaterial and internal ones as well, such as believing in oneself more, the growth of love, and the aspiration to grow into more wisdom.” Yung Pueblo.