Cosmic Troll has requested samyama healing from our group.
He was very sick and is recovering now. He would like healing for his health and recovery from side effects of medications.
So in addition to Babaly, please include Cosmic Troll in your Sunday Group Samyama healing.
Thanks All. 
HI everyone,
What an intense day! My meditation was lovely this morning and then I went to teach my first yoga class. I felt very supported throughout. Thanks for all your blessings.
Babaly
Shweta, thank you so much for requesting this on my behalf. You’re an angel
Thank you everyone who included me in the healing samyama.
Just to report my experience: I felt really good today. I’ve been suffering with cold symptoms for the last few days. Today felt like a turning point, like I’m now recovering instead of going deeper into sickness. My meditation practices today were super-charged. They took me higher and deeper than they have been recently.
Thank you everyone 
Thank you Shweta for organizing this, looking forward to the healing meditation tomorrow!
all the best,
Anthem11
Hi all samyama participants,
Since the indiv. healing samyama is on a roll, I wonder whether we could add one issue that we keep at for four (or more)consecutive Sundays. (since we comfortably have added multiple recipients at one go) If it is a well-defined one, we might be able to observe the effect of this (our experiences and experiments with what all we can do for everyone), and if everyone finds it working well, we could make our practices reach out to the world at large… which is one of the purposes of yoga, right? How do you all feel about this?
People here will have practical suggestions about what issues they could be. Maybe a ‘yoga boom’ (with AYP as catalyst?), may be sudden breakthrough in bio-fuels, maybe peace in Iraq, maybe environmental or spiritual issues. The clear-thinking people need to step forward on this, if this is a do-able proposition.
Hi sadhak
I see the samyama healing/prayer, and also the group practice as an experiemnt in distant group meditation and healing.
In this regard it must be something measurable, and while the measurement here is not well defined and quite loose, it does provide some loose scientific data on whether it works or not. Perhaps this aspect could be tightened up a bit.
With regard to whether we should “indulge” in providing healing for our own little circle or go further afield to issues like peace in Iraq etc… I would see no difference in the effect between local healing and global healing - it’s all going into the one universal bucket.
Having said that my heart does go out to the children of Iraq and other places, and maybe it would provide some usefull feedback on the effect of this samyama also.
Some 2 cent thoughts
Louis
As it is very difficult for anyone of us to decide
what is best for the world, I think and feel that
our samyama should be directed with no specific intent,
the only intent should be: “Use this samyama wherever
it is needed most, send Light and Love to the earth
and to humanity wherever and for whatever is needed most.”
I believe in a divine consciousness
and the will of that consciousness shall be done.
Love and Light
Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang
Your probably right [quote]
As it is very difficult for anyone of us to decide
what is best for the world, I think and feel that
our samyama should be directed with no specific intent,
the only intent should be: “Use this samyama wherever
it is needed most, send Light and Love to the earth
and to humanity wherever and for whatever is needed most.”
I believe in a divine consciousness
and the will of that consciousness shall be done.
[/quote]
I would see a difference though when someone asks for healing. Although in both cases the intent is let go into the silence and left to the universal intelligence to do what it will.
The way I see it however is that if one brings attention to a person in samyama and lets this go into the silence it gives the universal intelligence a more specific channel to deal with - so basically love and healing will flow if that is the right thing to happen, but more specific use is made of our ability to connect with the silence for a single person.
I would also see someone asking for help in say crossing the road, to be similar to someone asking for help through samyama healing/prayer. If I can help, I will.
To go around imposing help on people that havn’t asked for it, or don’t want it, however, is not on, it is interference.
my 2 cents
Louis
Just wanted to drop a brief note to thank everyone for the group healing. I really enjoy the group meditations and the energy of these are very different for me than my usual solo sessions. The only way to describe the energy for me today was that it was like being held by a very loving, tender and healing embrace. I feel fortunate and grateful for the experience and hope others are finding it as positive.
thanks to all,
Anthem11
Hi Louis,
I completely agree with you when it concerns a specific person.
I was however responding to Sadhak’s proposal to include
in our samyama purposes for the betterment of earth and humanity.
The proposal of sadhak is still open, and from my side,
the vote would be for it, but not directed for a specific
purpose other than healing for earth and humanity in general.
L&L
Wolfgang
Sadhak wrote:
“Maybe a ‘yoga boom’ (with AYP as catalyst?), may be sudden breakthrough in bio-fuels”
Actually both of these are already happening! It’s exciting if you do a lot of web “research” (in depth clicking). bio-diesel is the most promising, and they are working on processes for reclaiming the chemicals used to make it, different ways of “cracking” the molecules apart ( the main difference between biodiesel and waste vegetable oil is biodiesel is a lighter oil), continuous refining processes, ways to reduce NO2 emissions (the only bad emission from biodiesel)etc. So the science is already do-able, it’s just a matter of time and organization.
But back on topic, why don’t we leave the group meditation just as it is, and add Sadhak’s suggestion afterhealing people. Sadhak could make the call as to what it’s for and when it is, and have people answer to join that part, maybe at 45 minutes after the hour or something.
Hi Wolfgang, Sparkle, Etherfish,
There is no 'best’of course. But your intent with the statement is a good one. Though I think we achieve that in doing a general Samyama. My point was, if we are yogis and looking to understand the effects of our practices, and try to include the largest number of people in our positive intent, we could include specific issues, just as we include specific persons for a sharper beam of samyama effects on this issue. I think it doesn’t really matter what the issue is as long as it is positive and benefits a large group somehow.
What you say is true Louis… healing should be asked for, or it could be construed as interference. However, many need it, but are not in a position to ask for help. They don’t know who can help, or how to reach them. If a small child, a blind person, an infirm person, or an animal was blundering along on the road looking confused, I’m sure you’d help without being asked. I think Shweta said somewhere in this thread… who can’t use healing for the lifetimes of hurt and suffering we’ve had…or something to that effect. Healing, as I see it, only moves the subject towards balance from an imbalanced state. And when everything is softly nudged towards balance, won’t the large picture (truth?) begin emerging faster, for everyone?
We could say that our practices and Samyama in general are enough to reach out. But it must also be part of our karma as students of yoga to make an effort to reach out. And the more we do it, the more will the light spread.
Etherfish, thank you, but you know it isn’t for me or anyone alone to decide upon a subject. First of all, the idea must grab us all as a group. Then we can agree on how to approach this. For the ‘when’ part of it, why not right after the person who has been ‘samyamed’ for the session? Will it be too heavy?
And yes, if it isn’t grabbing the group, maybe the time is not ripe for this, or the idea isn’t right for us.
I feel a bit in contradiction myself here.
On one side I do not wish to focus our samyama
to a specific world goal, on the other hand
I wish of course the betterment of earth and humanity.
To focus on a specific purpose includes the
danger of “we know best what is good for humanity”
An extreme example of knowing best what is good would be
a fanatic christian in the medivial age who is convinced
that his task is to bring christianity to the muslim world.
He was convinced that his crusade was best for the world.
I know this is an extreme example but may be it shows our
own situation: we are trying to decide on something which
is good for the world. And didn’t we have lots of discussions
about karma and what is good and bad ?
I personally have found a good meditation strategy on this
website: http://www.odysseyofthesoul.org/lightenup.htm
On the individual level we are trying to heal ourselves or
a specific person and for this other person we do not actually
specify what to heal (even for ourselves we are not always
sure what is needed). So if we do not even specify the “what”
for a single person, how can we specify for the world ?
Love and Light
Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang,
One possibility could be to go countrywise. Even if we take an issue, we needn’t specify anything. If we say ‘orphans’ and leave it at that, the best need would be met as it does in a person. If we say ‘clean energy’, or say, ‘enlightenment’ release… we aren’t really specifying what needs to be done.
Wolfgang wrote:
"To focus on a specific purpose includes the
danger of “we know best what is good for humanity” "
For people to understand each other better and co-exist peacefully is the only major problem we have in the world. that doesn’t impose any kind of unwanted doctrine on anybody.
Katrine’s reply moved here for better placement, with her permission…
Thanks to all of you who were involved in the healing samyama.
To be honest it felt through most of the meditation that I was actually on my own, no one else around.
The samyama was deeper than normal and I did get some insights into an issue I have been working on. So thank you all for this help.
Thanks again
Louis
Well you were not alone Louis…
Samyama with your name was strange today… I generally repeat the name and let go… 4 or 6 times… but today I lost count… I was repeating your name for almost 5 mins… and after a while I realized I was saying “Akasha, Loius”… I hope it did not send you off flying… 
Thanks Shweta
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Samyama with your name was strange today… I generally repeat the name and let go… 4 or 6 times… but today I lost count… I was repeating your name for almost 5 mins… and after a while I realized I was saying “Akasha, Loius”… I hope it did not send you off flying…
[/quote]On the contrary, the insight I was gettiing was all about grounding energy in the lower parts of the body and merging these in the heart with energies from above.
I realised that when I did samyama with love, for instance, I would automatically have the experience of feeling love descend into me from above and be in the upper part of the body.
I have been having a lot of trouble in my legs recently, focused mainly in my knees, this has prevented me from working, which is giving a well needed rest, but is starting to concern me for the long term. So this insight may help things.
Apart from my knees I am feeling great, meditations are deep and nice, and relationships are good, so can’t complain really.
Louis 
Please add me as a recipient of healing. Thanks.