Love may be the missing factor in the treatment of many diseases. With cancer, for instance, psychological therapy has been shown to have a far greater success rate than any other properly evaluated therapy. Fear has a major negative impact on cancer patients. There is also a close relationship between fears often present subconsciously and breathing problems as well as heart disease. Love is the opposite of fear.
Emotional and psychological factors may well be the main reason why various therapies work with some patients but not with others. Releasing past emotional hurts and resentments is definitely good and helpful with any kind of healing, but it may not be enough if positive feelings remain missing. Therefore, the ideal is a holistic combination of appropriate therapies on other levels with additional comprehensive emotional therapy.
After many years of working and experimenting with a wide range of therapies, I have come to the conclusion that some of the most important factors in restoring health and wellbeing are the twins of love and joy. For our emotional body, regular doses of these as well as other positive feelings, are as essential as vitamins are for the physical body, otherwise we develop emotional deficiency symptoms which can eventually disable physical functions. Most of us can remember a time when we were madly in love. Love, then, was not just a mental concept, but also an actual bodily sensation and it made us feel invincible. I believe that we really can become invincible in regard to disease by learning to feel this way again and this time on a regular basis as a way of life.
Obviously it is not possible to fall in love with someone on a regular basis, but it is possible learning to experience the feeling of love as a conscious exercise. Love has traditionally been associated with the heart. Of course, it is not really the heart muscle itself that makes us feel love but rather an energy vortex or chakra in our aura that is centred at the middle of the breastbone. In order to feel love and increase our capacity to love we need to stimulate this heart centre by focusing our attention on it. Because of the specific location of the heart centre, diseases in the chest area should respond most readily to this therapy. This applies especially to breast cancer, which has a strong emotional and relationship component.
Feeling is an energy, and energy follows thought or consciousness. This means the most basic requirement for activating our heart centre is to keep our attention focused on it. Later, when it is easy for us to feel, we can just keep a small part of our attention there while going about our daily business. You may find that it is very difficult to feel anything when you are tired or otherwise low in energy.
If it helps you to focus, you may also imagine your incoming breath being rose coloured or bright green and you may see this colour intensify in the chest area with each successive breath. Another possibility is to put one hand on the chest to feel a light pressure or to press lightly with one or several fingers at the middle of the breastbone. You may also experiment with a different breath imagination. Imagine your breath moving through the middle of the breastbone. Again, feel the slight pressure and then the developing warmth. For some, this exercise produces stronger sensations. When you are somewhat tired it will be better to do these exercises with your eyes open and possibly even while slowly moving or walking.
It will be easier to feel a love sensation if one already is in a loving relationship, or as a mother with a baby or as an animal lover with some puppies to care for. In this case you may just look lovingly at the chosen object while doing the breathing exercise and you may find it quite easy to convert the warmth in your chest into a feeling sensation of love. If you are not so lucky, you may recall in your memory a time or incident when you actually felt love. Vividly imagine this time and then intensify a sensation of love when it arises. Then forget the actual incident and only hold fast to that feeling inside your chest.
A further possibility is to look lovingly at something grand or beautiful. This may be a tree, a flower, a picture, clouds, the sky or a person. Soak in the beauty and really appreciate it. Then send that feeling of appreciation back to the adored object. All the time keep focusing your attention on the breath in the chest centre and intensify any arising positive feeling. You may do the same by listening to some soul-stirring music. Eventually you can start feeling and sending a silent appreciation of love to anyone you come in contact with and over a distance also to someone with whom you have a disagreement or a past problem. When you tend to plants, watering, transplanting or sowing, project onto them your feeling of love or appreciation. You can really do that anytime at any activity. Your main problem will be to remind yourself again and again to do it.
The sacral energy centre is located between the navel and the pubic bone. It is weak or distorted with all diseases of the lower abdomen or of the pelvic organs, mainly involved with reproductive functions and elimination. You will be able to heal diseases of these organs much better when activating and balancing this centre by sending it energy and love. As for the solar plexus, you may do this by directly breathing into the lower abdomen.
The typical feeling sensation of the sexual energy may be described as melting orgasmic streamings in the lower abdomen. After you have activated the sacral centre with the accumulating breath energy, you may be able to generate these orgasmic streamings by gently and rhythmically squeezing your buttocks or better, contracting the perineum. Try also to walk slowly with a relaxed, contemplative mind. With all of these methods, focus your attention on any arising sensations in the sacral area and intensify whatever you feel. Lead any sensations in the sexual organs into the lower abdomen. The energy colour related to this area is orange.
If you have a sexual partner you may be able to generate these feelings by being sexually connected for a long time but with only minimal activity, mainly of a caressing nature. It is fine to remain connected with a soft penis. If the orgasmic feelings become stronger, try to lead them upwards, spreading through the upper abdomen into the heart area where you may feel them as love, which you may then beam back onto your partner. For further information on sexual problems and sexual therapy see Sexuality as well as Spiritual Sex.
― and what, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)