I recently heard someone say, “All healing is making friends with the universe.”
That makes complete sense to me. We experience unwellness when we are resisting something in our lives. It’s not always conscious resistance, in fact it rarely is. But it is the resistance that leads to problems in the body.
Take allergies for instance. I often use the metaphor of fearful aggression, when talking to clients about allergies. The body thinks it perceives a dangerous particle and it attacks. if our immune systems could see a benign particle as safe, there would be no allergic reaction.
It is also obvious with stress induced symptoms like headaches. We experience stress when we are not accepting life as it is. We fight our experience, and then our muscles get tense and our blood pressure rises.
I heard a story about a woman who smoked for forty years. Every time she had a cigarette, she said I’m going to have a holy smoke. After forty years her family were worried about the health impact of smoking for so long. They convinced her to have her doctor check her lungs. To everyone’s surprise ( except the woman), her lungs were perfectly healthy.
By changing our attitude we change our experience.
People with chronic pain can have dramatic improvements in their condition by practicing gratitude or forgiveness.
Lots of people have latent viruses in their bodies. Herpes is a great example. The virus is there, why don’t you have herpes right now? Because the body is strong and balanced. Being at odds with your own life is one of the main reasons why our body and mind gets out of balance.
One of my favorite practices for making friends with the universe is inner smile meditation. We practice smiling at ourselves and the world around us. When we smile at the world we bring ourselves into harmony with it, and increase our vitality and well being.
I will be releasing an Inner Smile Meditation Series, shortly. Keep coming back to find out when it’s available. Or subscribe to the newsletter, and you get it at a discounted price.
In the meantime, any meditation practice you choose can help you go with the flow and make friends with the universe.
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Thank you for sharing Ed!
And special thank to all those people who teached me Meditation Techniques. It’s changing my life.
I can share my experience and tell that meditation is the best medicine.
Positive-thinking is great too, but sometimes it’s easier not to think at all and focus on our breathing rather than choosing pure positive thoughts.
Francesco
Thanks for your comment, Francesco. It’s nice to have a direct experience of the world without the thinking mind getting in the way. Sometimes thoughts remind me of watching a sunset through a bunch of power lines. You can see the sunset, but the wires sure are distracting!
Ed,
I love your words.
The title is so beautiful and everything truly beautiful is true.
I resonate with it on all levels.
I love the way of the Universe -
it is always perfect.
I have been talking about smiling at myself and the rest of the world
~ exactly, inner smile. And now you come up with inner smile meditation.
I love the vibration of it.
Thank you for raising the vibration of all with your conscious positive presence!
Infinite love and gratitude to you,
Venus
Excellent post! I read once from Osho, that a man with a 40 year smoking habit was trying to quit and asked for Osho’s help but osho said, there is no need to quit now, just make smoking your meditation, do nothing else except enjoy the inhale, the exhale, the flavour of the moment and you will be joyous! if you love to smoke, smoke! but smoke with you entire attention ..same goes with most things in life i guess
Hello Ed:
Thanks for sharing this profound wisdom. Your words speak deeply to me inner self. I have experienced what you have shared on a personal level and have found meditation to be a great “healing energy”.
Take very good care and remember,
“Who you are DOES make a Difference!”
Mindfully,
Dwight
“Same goes with most things in life.” Absolutely! Also, Osho’s advice is an excellent way to quit smoking, if that’s what a person really wants to do.
Thanks for your thoughts Venus.
Thanks Dwight, And making a difference for yourself, makes a difference for those around you.