"Our body has the capacity of healing itself. You know that. When you get a cut in your finger, do you have to do anything? No. You only have to keep it clean and in a few days it will be healed. Your body has a number of problems within because you have not allowed it to rest. If you know the art of total relaxation, the art of allowing your body to rest, most of these troubles will go away after a few weeks.
When an animal is wounded in the woods, it knows how to do this. It seeks a peaceful corner in the forest and it lays down for several days. Several generations of ancestors have transmitted to them the wisdom that this is the only way to restore themselves. They don’t have doctors, they don’t have pharmacists, but they know how to rest. They don’t need to run after their prey, they don’t need to eat—in fact, they fast during these three, four, five days of resting. And one day the animal is healed and it stands up and it goes to look for a source of food.
We don’t know how to do like animals. In order to get well quickly we bring a lot of interventions into our body: we take a lot of drugs, we undergo a lot of treatments. But we don’t know how to allow our body to rest. So learning how to allow your body to rest is a very important practice. Love your body. You learn total relaxation and you can do it several times a day. Five minutes is enough, ten minutes. Even three minutes are already very good if you know how to allow your body to rest completely.
And for your spirit, it is the same. Our consciousness is able to heal itself. It has the power of self healing but you don’t allow it to rest. You continue to feed your consciousness with your anger, your worries, your thinking, and so on. You don’t believe in your consciousness. You are seeking for a means to heal it but you don’t know how to allow yourself to rest. You keep thinking the whole day and you keep worrying the whole day. You never allow yourself to rest. If you know how to practice total relaxation, you’ll know how to smile and how to send your smile to different parts of your body. During that time, you have stopped thinking and worrying because you are focused on your body, your breathing, your walking. When you practice mindful breathing, when you practice “In, out, deep, slow,” not only can you nourish yourself—body and spirit—but you can also stop your thinking. Stopping the thinking, stopping the worries, is very important.
Our mind is like a cassette tape turning nonstop day and night. We have a habit. You are not there, because you are carried away by your thinking, by your worries. You may get lost in the past, regretting the past or being caught in the suffering that you endured during the past. You suffered in the past already but now you want to suffer more by recalling the past. You call your past back in order for you to suffer more. Why do you have to show it several times, your suffering? Cows, when they eat grass, they swallow and then they bring it up again and swallow for a second time. Many of us do the same. We have suffered already in the past. But we want to bring our suffering back to the present moment and suffer more. We like that.
The future is not yet there but we think of it and we worry, and we become scared. We are not capable of dwelling in the present moment where life is. Life and its many wonders are available inside of you and around you and yet you are not able to touch its wonders because you get lost in the past, in the future, and also in your projects, your worries. How can your mind rest and restore itself? Our mind also has the capacity of self healing just as our body."
http://www.acharia.org/downloads/Healing_is_Possible_Through_Resting.pdf"Abundant Spleen energy will tend to generate a deep inner sense of well-being and a wonderful sense of ease and comfort in the body. We feel content, enjoy the pleasures of life, and have a deep relationship with our own sensuality. We feel abundant at all levels, equally able to give and receive generously. Digestion is relaxed and efficient, the body feels supported and toned, the mind is clear and able to concentrate well. We are grounded, as in touch with the earth as we are with our body, and we rest secure in the knowledge that we are safe and deservedly looked after by the divine Mother, Providence or whatever name we give to the provider of our needs.
When the Spleen is in disharmony there is usually a poor ability to digest food. This will often be mirrored by a decreased ability to receive emotional nourishment. Often weak concentration is linked with difficulty in sifting and sorting nutrients in the physical body. Sometimes, when deeply hungry for love, we turn instead to food to bury our pain. When feeling emotionally unnourished the body may contract and impede the flow of nourishment into the soft tissues; or the posture may collapse, especially the middle section of the torso and at the lumbar-sacral joint, giving up in both an emotional and physical sense."
Touch, stretching and physically reconnecting to the earth all direct us to becoming more fully embodied. Being comfortably at home in the body is the natural expression of Spleen energy. In the touch-deprived, over-sedentary and ungrounded lifestyle typical of modern culture, the Spleen has a hard time. Of all the Organs, the Spleen is the most commonly deficient.
As well as finding groundedness in the body, we can create grounding in our daily lives. We can do this by creating structure and routine in the otherwise chaotic nature of daily life. A structured life is a Spleen-supportive life. This may be as simple as creating a daily space to drink tea, meditate, sit with a book, write in a journal, massage the body, anything which nourishes. It may also mean eating regular meals or keeping regular sleeping and waking times. Routine and structure create a constant, safe and dependable place in our lives, an external support for the Spleen.
We can extend this idea of structure to the physical structure we live in, the home. The home is an external mirror of the internal condition of the Spleen. Creating a comfortable and safe home can also be seen as creating an external support for the Spleen. The Spleen longs for a sense of home and it is no coincidence that people who travel a lot find that their Spleen energy is often put under extra strain. Many illnesses actually have their source in a kind of homesickness, a deep need to feel the security and care that belongs, or should have belonged, to one's childhood home. Creating a sense of home, even when moving from one place to another, will support the Spleen.
The sense of home is vital to the Spleen's health. Ideally, through the childhood experience of secure and nourishing home life, we develop an internal sense of home which enables us to be at home anywhere, independent of place and circumstance. In other words, we become at home in ourselves, accepting of ourselves and comfortably relaxed in our own bodies."
If you suffer from home sickness ( lack of fire and warmth in stomach, nose running easily, no appetite, etc. ) become aware of your home and family members during your meditation sessions. "Your true home is with the person or in the place that you love most". It is hard to explain what is meant with awareness, it is not same as if visually imagining something.
When relaxing your body in lying position, feel the strong connection with the earth and stay in touch with reality.
Relax your stomach completely and let your awareness spread out. You can feel the earth's energy in your stomach."Practicing meditation to help digestion by alleviating anxiety and stress is bringing benefits to people worldwide. Techniques for meditation to help digestion are being given serious consideration by many medical professionals globally due to thousands reporting successful results.
The subconscious mind controls the body's automatic responses: Blinking, swallowing, peristalses, breathing and digestion are some of these bodily functions. Accessing the depths of the subconscious mind to activate your body's natural ability to repair and realign itself can only be done through deep hypnosis or meditation. To help digestion, you would be best to either visit a qualified (pricey!) and reputable hypnotherapist, or use a guided meditation specifically designed for healing. When your conscious thought processes step aside and your body relaxes, the suggestions and affirmations used will have greater influence on the part of the mind that controls the body.
A common reason many people experience problems with digestion is because of anxiety and stress. Whether you get an upset stomach when you're nervous or worried, or if you choose to eat and drink things that are bad for you under duress, stress directly and indirectly affects digestive processes. By using a daily meditation to help digestion you will achieve deep rumination, releasing stress and relaxing muscles surrounding your digestive organs.
Visualization and imagery is an important and effective ingredient for meditation to help digestion. Using your imagination, you can picture food following the digestive path with ease, and with great deliberation you can activate each organ through attention energy and the power of the subconscious mind. You can use mental pictures and the power of thought to send white and golden healing light to your organs, which will also encourage your body to give itself a kick start. Absorption is such an important factor to the whole digestive process, so any good meditation to help digestion should include imagery relating to food assimilation as well.
Rushing in and buying the first meditation or hypnosis for healing you come across is probably not the best idea. Spend some time testing samples and give contemplation to how the sound of the voice makes you feel, do you like the background music and sounds, and does it cover all areas of the digestive processes? When you find one that is right for you, you will know, and you can always use a few different ones if you prefer too.
Other issues facing those with digestive problems that are certainly worth reflection are the types of food you choose to eat and how you eat it. Using meditation to help digestion will also give you the power to get control over your eating habits and begin to choose healthier options. You will be able to remind yourself to slow down while you consume food, chew properly and pause between mouthfuls, which are all very important for healthy food digestion.
On another level all together you can also include eating meditation as part of your solution. Sit in a quiet and comfortable position, and much like walking meditation, focus on every fine detail of eating: This can include the way you sit, how you hold utensils, lifting your arm and hand to your mouth, chewing and moving the food around your mouth, swallowing, then sitting in silence and visualizing the food traveling perfectly through to your stomach. For those who have a problem with heart burn or acid reflux, include imagery of the lid closing to your stomach, or the sphincter at the base of the esophagus closing tight and opening only to let food pass through. Repeat the process for the entire meal for every mouthful you eat or drink, and when your digestive problems repair themselves you can let go of the details but continue to eat consciously.
Your body wants to work flawlessly, and the absorption and digestion of food is paramount to your physical and mental health. Using meditation to help digestion will result in less stress and calmer, more harmonious bodily functions. If you have ever thought your digestive system could work more effectively, find a good guided audio meditation that suits your needs, or alternatively write your own and record it for replay.
By Joyce Bingham"
http://www.project-meditation.org/a_bom1/meditation_to_help_digestion.htmlMuscles are important part of your body and are connected to the spleen meridian according to tradional chinese medicine. They must be used regularly or the body may become weak. Mild exercise also stimulates the body in a good way to stimulate the bloodflow thus helping healing. If you have desktop job or lead a lifestyle where you do not exercise your muscles at all naturally, you have to consciously train them. This does not mean heavy muscle training but use your muscles in some way regularly. Heavy muscle training is not recommended since it can stress your nervous system too much causing various nervous and energy weakness disorders.
Push-ups are practical exercises to strengthen the lungs and overall core strength. They also remove stagnations from the upper body and hands. Don't overdo them though. Pull-ups on the other are effective for lifting your energy in the case of depression.
If you are advanced in your meditation skills, you can produce the benefits of these practices without actually performing any physical exercise.When we have exhausted the life-force from our organs with porn, excessive sexual practices, fantasizing, excessive exercise, drugs, poor diet or with excessive stimulation of the senses, we will have to face the negative consequences of such behaviour. There will be no longer much energy for the person to use in his daily life. There has been a huge rise in the use of anti-depressants and various drugs because we live in energy deficient society. Unfortunately, most people, even doctors and specialists have no tools or info of how to correct such problems and help people to become healthy again.
Watching too much movies and tv shows ( or video games ) can be harmful to your health, since they often drain chi through the eyes and cause the person to become apathetic and nervous. Especially those films or shows which nature is depressive or violent can cause a serious setback on your health if watched too frequently.
Eyes are a relatively big cause of energy drainage.
It is very important to ensure that there is enough warmth in our bodies. It is our life-force or energy ( chi, qi ) which in the end keeps us warm, but when we are under energy weakness or imbalance, our energy levels may not be enough to sustain healthy warmness in every part of our bodies. When parts of the body gets cold, it will create what tcm understands as 'cold patterns' which cause wide variety of different symptoms, especially lung problems and dampness. Always keep warm clothes and never expose your back to the cold environment! And special attention should be given to the legs.