Yes! I have tried many many times during my lifetime to properly learn to meditate. Each time for whatever reason, I have been un-successful. Multitudes of inane thoughts would keep coming at me as if shot through a machine gun – what’s for lunch/dinner? Shopping lists – to-do lists/must call so and so etc etc! And try as I did I was never able to put these critters on leaves or in bubbles, and allow them to float away from my consciousness as suggested. So can you imagine my incredible relief when sitting at my first Matrix Energetics Seminar in Denver, to hear Dr Richard Bartlett, (ME Founder) say in his inimitable way that to do Matrix Energetics, you DID NOT have to know how to meditate, be a vegetarian, or give up coffee. Until that is – I came across a wonderful book called ‘Living from the Heart: Heart Rhythm Meditation’ by Puran Bair. I had found the missing piece to my ‘meditation puzzle’. The spinal cord acts as the hard wiring/bio-computer – whilst ‘breath’ was the magical essence connecting us through the spinal cord to Source. Interestingly, the word ‘spiritual’ comes from the Latin words spiritus/spirare, which means to breathe or to blow. Adding the Breath with my heartbeat, to meditating was such a revelation to me, and I have been a meditation ‘convertee’ ever since.
Heart rhythm Practice is a heart-centred meditation in which you become conscious of your heartbeat and your breathing. And I love it when Puran Bair says in Chapter I that our soul already has a sense of familiarity with meditation that does not come from conscious memory – that it already knows what it’s about and why it’s valuable – once you get the hang of this way of meditating it’s as if your soul recognises this state as it’s own natural condition.
This book is packed full of useful information and different ways of breathing for different purposes – even one assisting weight-loss by speeding up your metabolism. A client who feels anxious when having to have her blood pressure checked, therefore sending it way up high, now does this whilst sitting in the waiting room prior to seeing her Doctor and now achieves normal results. Yes – we do have power once we know how to harness it for the positive as opposed to the negative.
However the main benfits personally for me has been: -
- My ability to slip so easily into this particular type of meditation which at once seemed so ‘familiar’
- A wonderful and expanded sense of relaxation
- A heightened sense of awareness
- A sense of alertness that has the ability to spark off great ideas and creativity as parts of my unconsciousness are freed up
- My heart experiences a tremendous sense of power - a sense of a widening of my scope and influence, having a great influence on my over-all self-confidence and self-image
- Breath and healing are interconnected and when we breathe we connect to Source from where all things come – from where we can access answers to all knowledge.
The book delivers a host of further benefits contributing to our peace, healing and serenity as well as to our own empowerment, as it deals with the Four Elements of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. It also has a very useful Chapter addressing the myriad and common problems experienced whilst learning to meditate.
So if you have been a Meditation Dodger too, definitely give this a try – and do let me know how you got on.
