DISSOLVE PAIN
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ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
What is pain? Pain is nothing but unawareness. When 'you' are absent from a certain part of your body, your absence is experienced as pain, that's all. Whenever you don't pay attention to some part of your body, automatically your body demands your attention. The solution for pain is simply giving your presence, your attention to that part of the body. Understand, attention is energy. When you turn your attention on the pain, you are sending healing energies to that spot. Even the pain you experience when you have an accident or hurt yourself is part of the healing process. When some part of your body is hurt, energy gushes from the nearest chakra - energy center) to the part that is hurt, and all other energy centers are disconnected. There is a sudden surge in the energy of that area. This sudden imbalance in energy is experienced as pain. It is nothing but the process of reconstruction - but you don't have the patience to let the healing happen. The moment you resist the process, you hinder it. Please do not interfere in the natural healing process of the body. All you need to do is to give your awareness to that part of your body.
INSTRUCTIONS
DURATION: As long as necessary
Lie down if possible, else sit in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and keenly observe the part of the body where you are experiencing pain. Even if you don't have any specific pain, you will be carrying some tension in the stomach. We usually carry a tense feeling in the manipuraka chakra, the navel region. Work on that.
In the beginning you will experience the pain as if spread over a large area (e.g. whole back, whole arm). With awareness, try to locate the center of the pain. As you focus, the area of pain will slowly reduce. Because you are putting your awareness on that area, you will be sending energy also. Because of the energy surge, it will first seem as if the pain is intensified. The area is reduced to a point, but the intensity increases. Don't stop at this point! Even if the pain becomes unbearable, keep focusing on it. When the body part has absorbed enough energy, the pain will start reducing. As you keep your awareness on the part, the pain will gradually dissolve and disappear. In its place, you will experience a deep easeness, a completely relaxed feeling.
PAIN IS BLISS!
ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
In the earlier technique, you saw how pain can be dissolved simply by focusing your attention on it. Here we go a step further. In this technique, you understand experientially that there is no such thing as pain! Actually, there is no definite sensation called pain! It is our mind that labels one sensation as pain and another as pleasure. Just try this experiment. Close your eyes and concentrate on your tongue. Visualize yourself walking on your tongue! As you walk, take a chili in one hand, a candy in the other. With total awareness, apply the chili to one side of your tongue and the candy to the other side. You will see, your tongue will register both the sensations as the same! Both chili and candy create the same sensation on your tongue. It is only you who labels one as hot and the other as sweet. Before you name it, the experience itself is the same. It becomes pain or bliss only after you name it. When you don't label the experience, it is called life. After you label it, it becomes pain or bliss. Let us drop our labels of pain or bliss and experience life as it is.
INSTRUCTIONS
DURATION: 21 min
Close your eyes and sit comfortably. If possible, sit in a dark room or blindfold yourself. Focus intensely on the part of the body that has pain. As you focus, deliberately drop the word ‘pain’ from your mind. Do not repeat the word pain, pain, pain in your mind as you usually do! Do not allow the word pain in your mind. Your mental chatter will continue to tell you that you have pain. Turn it off. Feel the area of pain deeply. Just look into it with an open mind, with the curiosity of a child. Look at your pain without any idea about it, as if it were a sensation you are encountering for the first time in your life! Completely turn off any word that is arising in your mind. Understand, without using words, you will be unable to label the sensation in that area as ‘pain’. Suddenly, you will find that the very same sensation is now being experienced as bliss! When you infuse consciousness, the pain becomes a flood of bliss. Only then do you understand that pain and bliss are one and the same – the difference is only in your perception.
With just a simple shift in perception, you can heal yourself of even chronic pains. The moment you understand that you are creating the pain, you can liberate yourself from it.
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ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE
This simple technique can revolutionize the way you feel about your body. Many of us carry an unconscious, deep dislike of our body. When you carry violence against your body, you unconsciously invite disease. You may not realize it, but many of your psychosomatic diseases like skin diseases, asthma, menstrual disorders in women and even chronic fatigue are born of a subtle condemnation of your body. Cancer is a direct result of a deep unconscious hatred of our body. We never feel the sacredness and purity in our body. We never feel that our body is a reflection of our very being – sweet and blissful. When we feel comfortable with our body, when we enjoy and love our body, naturally good health and healing happen to us.