Patience

There is a reason they call people who are sick and have to deal with doctors or hospitals PATIENTS. Patients as far as it comes to sitting in a hospital are one thing I am an expert at, well most of the time, or sometimes. Actually patience is probably one of my biggest faults. I have no wise words to say about being patient or skills to help anyone achieve it. Patience is just not my thing. I have started many things over my life and never finished them and the reason was probably I didn’t have the patience to wait to see the outcome.
Today my goals are to gain 13 pounds to the 15 pounds that I have already gained back since January. I see it as a possibility only if I can control one thing, and that is my patience. Part of me wants to gain it all in one week, while the other part of me is feeling the pain of my Crohn’s disease acting up and saying, slow down and do it the right way. I have learned over the last 5 years one thing that I think can help me get the patience that I need, and that is make myself meditate twice a day. Finding the stillness of meditation is my reset button to keep on track. We’ll see how it goes…

Finding the right incentive

I’ve been looking at personally using the power of finding the right incentive to help me reach my goals. Finding the perfect incentive can be like flicking a light switch on when it comes to creating change and transformation in my mind and body. When my daughter Lily was younger I felt how much she needed her dad around, and no matter how sick I got, I was able to pull it back together because of how much I thought she needed me. Once I find the incentive that is right for me, things that were too tough to accomplish the day before seem easy all of a sudden. The incentive I find might be different a day from now or a year from now, but letting myself be aware that I need this incentive to change and transform will help make things a lot easier for me.

Recently I was emailing my doctor and the medical director of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing Dr David Simon one of my health updates. He thinks I am ready to reach for a goal of what I weighed when I was a gymnast many years ago. This instantly seemed impossible to me, there is no way I could see myself at a weight I haven’t even thought about in over a decade. As our conversation continued Dr Simon helped me try to find what might be a good incentive for me. He offered the type of incentive I can only dream about one day, "being happy and in the light" was something that he thought could keep me moving forward, but it is just not the right incentive for me at this moment in time. I see different goals that I want to reach in life before I can think about being at that level of happiness. As our emails continued I asked Dr Simon if I reached the weight goal he suggests if he would consider helping me reach my goals. He said "yes," and like a flick of a light switch, the thought of reaching the impossible weight now seems like no big deal, patience is a whole other story... One day being happy and enjoying the spiritual light will be something I aim for, and thanks to Dr Simon I know it is something that will always be in my reach.

Awareness and Meditation to help control your health.

I am reading Deepak Chopra’s new book and find myself reading more then one page sometimes before realizing I didn’t pay attention and catch a word I read. I’ve also done the same thing watching TV and even driving my car. Part of me is paying attention, but most of my awareness is somewhere else. Just about every part of my lessons in complimentary medicine and keeping control of my health has had to do with that word, awareness. Its been explained to me in many different ways but always seemed to come down to needing to be presently aware of what is going on and then making the choices that seem the best for myself. Meditation has been studied and proven to work amazing miracles on people, but no one has looked at the practice a person gets every time they meditate in awareness. After five years I still have trouble getting past 4 breathes in my meditation before my active mind starts to wonder off. Thanks to Deepak Chopra’s preaching that there is no wrong way to meditate, I never felt like I was doing something wrong, I learned to meditate no matter how things turned out. I work on becoming aware of when I start day dreaming and I bring my focus back to my meditation, then a few breathes later my minds wonders and I bring awareness back in, and do the same thing over and over again. If healing equals awareness and meditation equals practice of present moment awareness, then it only makes sense that meditation is a step we all need to take in gaining control of our health.

Meditations for Intention and Desire

These are my two meditations for the Spiritual Law of Intention and Desire. One is a mantra meditation just for intention and the second meditation is a breath awareness meditation with a focus towards our intentions and desires.

Mantra Least Effort and Help with Lowering Blood Pressure

Today is the Spiritual Law of Least Effort in my seven spiritual laws of healing. This is a mantra meditation, the activating intentions for least effort plus a meditation to help lower blood pressure.

Evening Meditation for Day of Karma

In my seven spiritual laws of healing and the spiritual law of karma, I ended my evening with this healing meditation...

Present Moment Awareness and How to use the Neti Pot

A Good First Night

It turned out to be a real good day. As I am ending my first night of healing with the seven spiritual laws and the Law of Pure Potential. I do a special mantra meditation created just for today. "Om Bhavam Namah" or "I am absolute Existence." I hope you join in for this 8 minutes into the gap of all possibilities.

Meditation for Chronic Pain

My day of Pure potential is going well so far where I have been getting a lot done. I do not want to start to lose weight again and have been nauseous since lunch, but I should be okay. This is a meditation that I like to do to help me get rid of pain I am in. It is something that anyone can try...

Back to health

I know I can't keep going back out to California everytime my health starts to fail again, it makes about as much sense as going to the hospitals does for me. So I hope to use my training in The Seven Spiritual Laws of yoga in helping me get control now. First I am going to focus on Pure Potential and how I need to be able to sit and meditate again before even starting the next step...

Mantra Meditation for Least Effort

Mantra Meditation For Giving and Receiving

Pure Potential Mantra Meditation