People who start experiencing stillness should know that, when stillness is reached, the attention itself starts to become healing, and with more stillness, more and more healing. A general technique to release stress or problems in the body is simply to let the attention rest where the problem is arising or being experienced.
This practice that Jim is proposing (quoted below) sounds like the result of a spontaneous discovery of the principle. But it can be done for many things once stillness starts to take root – headaches, general aches and pains – almost any symptom you can describe.
When the mind-body gets very refined, I believe it can even be applied to psychological difficulties also, but it can take a lot of sensitivity in the mind-body connection to be able to ‘locate’ these in the mind-body and let the attention rest there.
-David
Jim said: >>> I just noticed something very interesting. Next time you get a yawn in meditation (a relaxed, “opening up” sort of yawn, as opposed to a bored/sleepy yawn"), observe closely where the yawn emits from. And draw your attention immersively there and keep it there.
I agree completely re: healing attention. I’ve been having a good bit of healing insight for some time (coming from a slightly different direction, but the details aren’t all that interesting), and it’s a great topic for discussion (thanks for starting it!) But the yawn thing is something totally different. I’d rather not elaborate, because I don’t want to direct anyone’s experience. In a few weeks or months or years, someone will pipe up, and I want to hear their natural response.
David,
my experience echoes this, though it’s somewhat different. I use it for pain control. I surrender into the source of the pain and it draws me into a place of exquisite stillness. I was feeling bad because I could not keep my practice because of pain and then I realized:“duh, I’m in the same(no)place!” I do like manta better, though…
Ute
Healing of the mind and body is a side effect of the purity of the energy system which you gain spontaneously just as the siddhis are gained.It is all part of the process of meditation.
L&L
dave
‘the mind can see further than the eyes’