"Meeting Asciepius"(my subtle mind) help bring a greater connection of love, joy, peace, and compassion within myself, through realizing these virtues already existed. I repeated this exercise for the past four evenings and chose a different wise person each practice.
Being able to visualize the beam of “white light” helped me focus and feel its warming affects flowed through my whole body. My thoughts wandered a few times back to the person face I chose to use. I felt slight discomfort at certain points of the meditation.
Saturday morning I received a call from a great friend informing me my “mentor” Mark, had died in his sleep today. I immediately felt the same feelings rush through my mind and body I had the night before. I recently completed a forgiveness meditation session with Mark as my center of focus. I needed to do this as part of the healing process which includes unconditional forgiveness.
I was planning to visit Mark this week but now need to visit him on a deeper spiritual level. This man is one who I considered to be a big brother (20 years older than I am), was the best man at my wedding, God-parent to my only daughter, business partner for 19 years and in the past, my best friend. I will use this experience to remind me to always offer forgiveness sooner.
Regarding the phrase "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself”, I see this as; how would any health care provider attempt to lead another, without first engaging in the journey him/her self. Each and every person needs to contribute towards this paradigm shift of consciousness, embracing changes in the way we feel, react, perceive and love others, while experiencing this first ourselves (Schlitz, M., Amorok, T. & Micozzi, M.S. 2005).
Reference
Dacher, E.S. (2006) Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing. Basic Health
Schlitz, M., Amorok, T. & Micozzi, M.S. (2005) Consciousness, Healing; Integral
Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine. ISBN: #9780443068003
Wow, what an exercice this was for you. It's good to hear that you completed a forgiveness exercise as you saw was necessary. Many times in life forgiveness is needed and we choose not to give it which only hurts us in the long run. I'm sure that during your deeper spiritual level with Mark that you will find peace and love together. I wish you all the best.
ReplyDeleteThis was a profound experience for you. How unfortunate for you to have to experience such a loss of an individual that has touched your heart and spirit. It seems that this exercise has and will continue to help you through a time that can be very difficult for most. If you do not mind I would like to send you some Reiki. May I? Do you feel that people on the path of integral health would have a similar outcome or do you think that people will have outcomes that are as unique as we are?
ReplyDeleteOh good idea about choosing someone different each time! I am going to try that because I’ve kept the same wise person each time. I’ll admit I’ve thought about using a different person but it’s hard to think of someone so wise and that would truly fit this category. I find it easier to envision someone I know rather than a celebrity or singer or someone I make up. It sounds like this was a great exercise for you and really helped you out. I’m very sorry for your loss. It sounds like Mark was a big part of your life for many years.
ReplyDeleteThe exercise for asciepius healing is so "on time" for you. I am very sorry to learn about the death of your friend. Just try to cherish the good memories. I also had a strange experience yesterday. I spoke to a patient for two hour while I was doing his study (Nuclear Medicine). He was a very vibrant and uplifting person. Approximately 45 minutes after he went back to his room they had to call a code blue on him. He actually died and was revived by CPR. This just reminds me of how fragile the human is and the importance of taking care of ourselves. Bearing grudges and failing to forgive only erodes a persons progress in life, so you made a good decision in having those sessions with Mark. He has left you with a lot to hold on to.
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