A dear friend of mine is very ill. She was in hospital and her blood pressure was very high. She was very afraid. I told her to turn her attention away from her body and meditate and think about God. This is what she wrote back to me:
"Interestingly I took my blood pressure before meditation and it was bad 170. 94. pulse 99. I sat down and thought of you and cried. And then I went into meditation, it took some time with the breathing and the mantra I am using (OM nama Shivaya). I bowed to my inner self, I bowed to the Lord who abides within... and suddenly I was there, deeper, and deeper, even though I am so tormented. I was in a split second in touch with God, or my inner adviser, or whoever it is. For me it is God, or the inner self, and I got the message: This will pass. And then after 20 minutes, I felt my blood pressure was lowering. I took a pause and measured my blood pressure and now it was 140, 80 and my pulse was 76."
And I wrote back to her: " This is fantastic news. I am so proud of you! This means you really and truly know what to do. It means you know how to take care of yourself. You have proved that by going into the silence and focusing on God – you can find peace and that then your body reflects back this peace. This is wonderful, wonderful news. You MUST do this regularly – 2 or 3 times a day… even when you start to feel better. Nothing is more important than this! You must turn your focus away from your body, away from the pain, away from your fears – and rest in the Love of God… meditate and breathe and say your mantra and rest in the peace…"
This story shows that even though we cannot change our bodies directly - we cannot say - "blood pressure go down" and make our blood pressure go down. But we can influence our bodies indirectly by working with our thinking. In other words by turning our focus to God and to the things that give us peace and comfort. And then the body reflects back our change to us. This is a very important secret to understand.
Bad thing is we realize how much we love life and cry realife stress, let go when we no longer have no choise if we want to live. Im not going to do this right now. :D
Posted by: Mihkel | May 17, 2009 at 12:36 PM